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Articles

The Articles screen works on the site you chose with Set as active site on the Sites screen. Until one is chosen it says so and offers to take you there.

It has two tabs: Local articles and Remote articles.

Local articles

Everything you have written on this machine for this site. An article appears here from the moment you save a new one, or the moment you save a copy of one you opened from the site. Nothing changes on the site until you publish.

Each row shows the title, the alias, when it was last changed, its status, and — once it has been published — the article's own id on the site. Press a row to open it in the editor.

There is no delete button on the list. Deleting is done from inside the editor, with Delete Local Article, so that it is never one mis-tap away from opening something.

Remote articles

The articles as they exist on the site right now, fetched a page at a time. This tab is read-only: pressing a row opens the article for editing, which either opens the local copy you already have or downloads a fresh one. A row whose article you already hold locally is marked, and stays visible — an article you can see in Joomla's own administrator interface should not silently vanish here.

Because the site does the work, every change of filter, sort or page on this tab is a fresh request to the site. Page 3 of an unfiltered list is not page 3 of a filtered one.

Search, filters and sorting

The search box looks at titles; on the Remote tab it is your site's own search, so it may cover more. The filters cover category, tag, language and status, and the Remote tab adds Featured and Checked out, which have no local equivalent — a local article is not yet an article on the site. Clear filters resets everything at once.

The two tabs sort by different things, and that is deliberate rather than an oversight:

Tab Sorted by
Local Date modified, date created, title, category, language, status
Remote The same columns Joomla's own article manager offers — id, title, category, access, author, date created, status, featured, language, hits, ordering, start and finish publishing

Sorting a local list by "date modified" uses the moment you last saved it here. The Remote tab has no such option, because Joomla's article API refuses to sort by that column and would quietly hand back its own default order instead.

Note

If a filter refers to something the site no longer has — a category you deleted, a tag you renamed — Grafida clears that filter and tells you it has done so, rather than showing you an empty list with no explanation.

The toolbar

  • Refresh re-reads the list you are looking at.
  • Reload metadata re-fetches this site's categories, tags, access levels, languages and custom fields. Grafida keeps a local copy of all of it so that opening an article is fast and works offline; use this after changing something on the site itself that you want to see straight away.
  • Import from file… reads a .grafida file as a new local article — see Drafts and Files.
  • New article starts a blank one.

Getting articles onto this screen

There are three routes and no others:

  1. New article.
  2. Opening a row on the Remote articles tab.
  3. Import from file…, or opening a .grafida file shared or opened from elsewhere on your device.

None of them writes anything to your site.