This section has for purpose to present the features of Melon News Component.

• Rich content news

  The content of the news is editable with Rich Text Editor thus providing easy formatting of the text and inserting of photos related with the news.

• News content approval

  News should be approved before going alive on the web site.

• Grouping of news in categories

  News can be organized and classified in categories. There is no restriction for the number of categories.

• Commenting of news

  The component can be configured to allow commenting of the news. In case comments are allowed there are more settings for the comments management:
  - Whether comments need to be approved
  - Only registered or anonymous users could post comments.

• Linked news

  News could be linked to other news and thus making very easy accessible the related news when you read a specific news.

• Featured news

  Some of the news are more important. They can be marked as featured and then they will be listed at the top at the screen with the news listing with a different styling.

• Roles and permissions

  There are two roles: Administrator and Writer.
  
  Administrators
  
  The Administrators are the users with full permissions. The specific actions for that role (not allowed for Writers) are:
  • Create, edit and delete News Categories
  • Assign/Un-assign news permission roles (Administrator and Writer) to web site users
  • Approve News
  • Edit, approve, delete Comments
  
  Writers
  
  Writers can create news. They can also edit and delete news their own news if the news are not already approved. Writers are working only over the draft versions of the news so the changes they are doing will not be displayed directly on the web site, but only after Administrator approved them.

• Multilanguage

  The News Component provides multilanguage implementation of the news and categories.

• RSS

  RSS feed for the news managed from News Component.

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