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Yes, sorry, the field name is the short name.  Field label would be a descriptive label - whatever you want.  Sorry about that, I’m going to edit the article to make that clearer.

Field instructions are just for instructions on the publish form and SAEF.  You can fill that in if you like - I gave only the minimum needed to get going.

As for customizing, you should be able to take this idea and run with it for other uses, or use parts for other ideas.  You’ll see as the series grows. =)

Thanks Lisa, the screengrab leaves no doubt, I guessed wrong and will have to redo them.
No biggie thanks.
I edited my post with all the questions to include a few others, mainly for statuses is having open and closed in there something that always exists, or can/should open and closed be removed then somehow?

After figuring out how to create the Custom Entry Statuses, now I can’t find how to assign it to the weblog or category group whatever it was it needed assigning to?
Unclear there also thanks.

Open and Closed are always there. =)

Ok I found how to attach the Status group now that I have it created…
It was at:
CP Home ›  Admin ›  Weblog Administration ›  Weblog Management ›  Edit Weblog
I love bread crumbs for posting help stuff 😊

Don’t get me wrong Lisa your brief toDo list format worked out great then!
Moving on…

A neat trick, also, is that if you create the groups, then create the weblog - it’ll ask for group assignments during the weblog creation.  Everyone has their own workflow, so whatever works for you. =)

Hi Lisa,
Thanks a lot for this tutorial. Very useful especially for users
who aren’t using ee on a daily basis. That’s what we need:
Easy to set up real world applications.

I second ignite on this:

... I like that you guys are seeking to educate folks on how to use your tools.

...though less on this…

So why not use ... a screencast.

In this tutorial the text format is for me the better choice.

Lisa go on with your great work. 😊

Thank you for the kind words, qlas. =)

Hello Lisa,
On your first lesson you explained everything nice however i cant understand where i should create “Custom Entry Statuses” and “Custom Categories” could you please explain it a bit?

THanks in advance (:

Oooops, forget it Lisa,
should read it more carefully next time lol

Hi, felos - glad you got it figured out!

I hate to resurrect an old thread, but I noticed that these blog entries are now gone after the site refresh. Is there any way that we could get this tutorial back? I’d really like to use the structure you guys do to create a bug tracking system.