Joomla! Documentation™

Toolbar

At the top of the page you will see the toolbar shown in the Screenshot above. The functions are:

• New. Opens the editing screen to create a new category.
• Actions: Reveals a list of actions for selected Items. Check one or more Item checkboxes to activate the list.

• Publish. Makes the selected category available to visitors to your website.
• Unpublish. Makes the selected category unavailable to visitors to your website.
• Archive. Changes the status of the selected category to indicate that they are archived.
  Archived category can be moved back to the published or unpublished state by selecting 'Archived' in the 'Select Status' filter and changing the status of the category.
• Check-In. Checks-in the selected category. Works with one or multiple category selected.
• Trash. Changes the status of the selected category to indicate that they are trashed.
  Trashed category can still be recovered by selecting 'Trashed' in the 'Select Status' filter and changing the status of the articles to Published or Unpublished as preferred.
  To permanently delete trashed category, select 'Trashed' in the 'Select Status' filter, select the category to be permanently deleted, then click the 'Empty Trash' toolbar icon.
• Batch. Batch processes the selected category. Works with one or multiple items selected.

• Rebuild. Reconstructs and refreshes the category table. Normally, you do not need to rebuild this table. This function is provided in case the data in the table becomes corrupted.
• Options. Opens the Options window where settings such as default parameters can be edited. See Contact Manager Options for more information.
• Help. Opens this help screen.