# Help: News

#### Description

The module can:
. Manage topics and sub-topics
. Create strict permissions (who can read, who can publish, who can approve)
. Possibility to validate articles by some users groups
. You can emphasize you content with some blocks
. Possibility to read articles in RSS feeds
. Use automated articles and expired articles
. Integrated search
. Various statistics for the module's administrator
. Option to add advertising to your articles
. Documentation (in French for this moment)
. Multi pages articles with a personalized title for each page
. Possibility to use Dublin Core Metadata
. Possibility to use FireFox 2 micro summaries
. Social bookmarking on Web 2 sites like del.icio.us, newsvine.com, yahoo search
. Link to the previous and next article (and a summary table)
. Use an integrated alert system (for example when an article is published)
. Several blocks
. etc
The module will also help you to have search engines friendly pages by using significative pages titles (created from your content) and to have meta keywords and meta descriptions also created from your content. The module can also be used, as it's the case on some sites, to create a blog

#### How to install News

News is installed as a regular XOOPS module, which means you should copy the complete /news folder into the /modules directory of your website. Then log in to your site as administrator, go to System Admin > Modules, look for the News icon in the list of uninstalled modules and click in the install icon. Follow the directions in the screen and you'll be ready to go.
Detailed instructions on installing modules are available in the XOOPS Operations Manual
Please verify that the modules\news\images\topics directory is writable on the server (read+write e.g. chmod=777).
After having created your first topic (category), and before creating your first article/news, you need to click on Permission Tab to set groups permissions.

#### Tutorial

Not available at the moment.