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This is where you can add a Component Architect Category or edit an existing Component Architect Category. Component Architect Categories allow you to organize records in the Component Architect component. Component Architect Categories are separate from other types of Categories, such as those for Articles, Banners, News Feeds, and so on.
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Because the free version of Component Architect does not use the Joomla! ACL but does have categories then the Joomla! Categories Manager does not allow records to be edited or deleted. This is a Joomla! problem not one with Component Architect.

Close

Close the edit form without saving and return to the list.

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Link to display the Help system.
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Headline Details

Category - Headline Details

Title

Enter a title for the category. This will be used as the main title in the categories menu.
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Alias

You can enter here an alias. Leave this blank and a default value will be automatically generated from the Title. The alias must have no spaces and punctuation marks except '-' which is used to replace spaces and punctuation marks.
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Basic Details

Category - Basic Details

Description

Enter a description for the category.
Editor

Parent

Select the category that is the parent of the category being edited.
Tags

Tags

Select the tags assigned to this item.
Tags

Status

Defines the status of the category. The status may be one of the following:
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Access

The access level group that is allowed to view an item.
Access Level

Language

The language that the category is assigned to.
Language List

Note

This is normally for the site administrator's use (for example, to document information about this category) and does not show in the front end of the site
Numeric - protected

Version Note

If you wish to add a comment to a saved version then enter your text here.
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ID

The ID of the displayed category.
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Publishing

Category - Publishing

Created By

Select the user that is to be shown as creating the category. If none selected on create then the current logged in user will be used.
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Created By Alias

Enter an alias for the user that is to be shown as creating the category.
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Created Date

[%%Compobject_name%%] created date. This can be changed if required.
Calendar

Modified Date

[%%Compobject_name%%] last modified date. This cannot be changed.
Text - protected

Modified By

The user that last modifed the [%%Compobject_name%%] record. This cannot be changed.
Text - protected

Hits

The number of times this category has been viewed is displayed.
Mixed - read only

Meta Description

An optional paragraph to be used as the description of the page in the HTML output. This will generally display in the results of search engines.
Text Box

Keywords

An optional comma-separated list of keywords and/or phrases to be used in the HTML output.
Text Box

Author

The author of this content.
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Robots

Robots instructions.
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Options

Category - Options

Alternative layout

Default layout to use for Component Architect records.
Component Layout

Image

Select an image for this category.
Media
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