Joomla layout.

When the edit link does not lead to the menu item with the profile, as with the edit button of YOOtheme, the profile of the Category List or Category Blog menu item of the article's category is used.

Tabs with columns (PRO)

Give every tab its own layout: one column, a main and a side column, a side and a main column, or two equal columns. Within a column a field can take the full width, three quarters, half or a quarter, so two dates fit next to each other. On a narrow screen the fields fall back to a width that stays usable.

Hidden fields (PRO)

Hide a field from the author and give it a value. New articles and copies get that value on the server, before Joomla checks the permissions of the category. Existing articles keep their own value.

A news form with the category hidden and set to News always creates news items, whatever the author does.

More in PRO


- Custom fields. Place the published custom fields of your articles in the form, in any tab and column.
- Own labels and help texts. Call the title "Headline" and the intro image "Photo", and tell the author what you expect below the field.
- Free texts. A block of text between the fields, with an optional CSS class: an instruction, a warning or a heading. Its HTML is cleaned when you save the profile and again when the form is shown.
- Default values for every field, not only for category, status, access, language and featured.
- Editor options. Hide the buttons under the editor, and the editor tabs of JCE.
- More buttons. Save as Copy and Move to Trash under the form.


Good to know


- The extension shapes the article form on the site. The article form in the administrator is not changed.
- A profile works on Category List, Category Blog and Create Article menu items of Joomla articles.
- Authors need the usual Joomla permissions to create or edit articles. A profile never gives a user more rights.
- A menu item has one profile. A profile can be used by any number of menu items.


Technical details


- Package with an administrator component, a system plugin and, in PRO, a plugin that adds the custom fields
- Joomla 5.4 or newer and Joomla 6, PHP 8.1 or higher
- One database table, for the form profiles; removed again on uninstall
- No core changes. The form is a plugin layout that a template can override
- Interface in English and Dutch
- Updates through the Joomla update system. An update request to the Joomill update server carries diagnostic headers with site and environment information; the extension installs the shared "Joomill - Update Logging" plugin for this


License

Article Form Builder comes in a FREE and a PRO edition, both licensed under the GNU GPL version 3 or later.

FREE has the builder with tabs, every core field, required fields, fields shown only when creating an article, default values for category, status, access, language and featured, the choice of the Save, Save & Close and Versions buttons, the menu assignment and the enforcement on the server.

PRO adds tabs with two columns, fields at three quarters, half or a quarter of the width, hidden fields with a value, custom fields, your own labels and help texts, free texts, default values for every field, the editor options and the Save as Copy and Move to Trash buttons. A PRO license includes updates and support, and installing PRO over FREE keeps your profiles.


- Documentation: https://www.joomill-extensions.com/documentation/article-form-builder
- Support: https://www.joomill-extensions.com/contact

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