Article Factory Manager is a very useful tool for any article driven sites. As the title inspires its an article manager with various features, like management of the articles, edit, delete, publish, etc. It also providing a new Approval System, much more simplified then the one present in the Joomla core. Read more...

article Factory Manager 1.7.9 released on April 9, 2010. 

  • Fixed several issues including unpublishing articles on frontpage, date in sent mails was not time-offset aware, CB detection.

article Factory Manager 1.7.8 released on August 6, 2009. 

  • Several code improvements.
  • Backend Restrictions section was redeveloped.
  • Frontend XAJAX for categories according to the restrictions, on edit and approve.
  • Fixed several issues including ACL, preview, calender, JS, newlines if no html editor, save article verifications, "Users may choose approver" (on/off), calendar with non-english sites, cancel buttons on edit and approve, keep alive session on edit, front end approval, with deactivated approval-system (on edit/sav "pending" email was issued instead of "published"), on save article use of GMT time instead of server time, publish to frontpage, etc.

article Factory Manager 1.7.7 released on July 31, 2009. 

  • Fixed several issues including preview and approve buttons on approve article, calender on edit article, save article on frontpage, savearticle for J1.5 edit style, CB.

article Factory Manager 1.7.6 released on March 11, 2009. 

  • New feature: enable/disable Article pre-approval; pending publishers select approver.
  • New feature: enabled/disable Approver as super admin rights; choose if an approver user can view, edit others articles or just approve pending.
  • improved ACL class with tab in admin.
  • Fixed issue regarding international caracters in the title edit form, restrictions on categories, ACL with J!1.5.11.

article Factory Manager 1.7.5 released on February 27, 2009.

  • New feature: edit create, start/end publishing date from backend.
  • Fixed several issues including mail notification when published, reject reasons with slashes, etc.

article Factory Manager 1.7.4 released on February 4, 2009.

  • New feature: configurable checkin system (articles will be checked out and users can be see if articles are checked out).
  • New feature: enable/disable aliases (users can set aliases for their articles).
  • New feature: modal preview display.
  • Default filter Pending for Approval groups and Super Admin.
  • Approval groups and Super Admin can see article authors on listings.
  • Display creation date on listing.
  • Fixed several issues including html entities, display issue in edit page (quotes were not displayed).