Difference between revisions of "Fields Module"

Revision as of 22:46, 23 August 2010

Fields Module shows a clickable list of options for the chosen field.

When visitor clicks on a certain link, he will get a search results page with a list of listings that have that field value.

Example of the module layout

• when someone clicks on 'Sony' link, he will get a list page with all Sony product listings.

• to change the layout of the module, edit this theme file
  • \com_jreviews\jreviews\views\themes\default\modules\fields.thtml

Module's Parameters

• Module Class Suffix - a suffix will be applied to the CSS class of the module. This allows individual module styling
• jReviews Template Suffix - suffix to be applied to the global search results theme file
• Itemid selection
  • you can controll the itemid used for the field option links so that modules on the current page are seen on the result list or not
  • (None | Current page | Use Itemid below )

• Display mode - (Links horizontal | Links vertical | Dropdown list )
• Field name (i.e. jr_fieldname) - you should use a single select or radio button field here
• Before text - this text will appear before the list. You can use html tags

• Category Auto Detect - if a category is found for the page, the results will be limited to that category. If it is a section list, then the results will be limited to categories for that section
• CriteriaID - limit results to all categories with the same criteria (listing type)
• CategoryID - limit results to specified categories
• Custom URL parameters - add any other custom search parameters you want. This could be custom field filters (i.e. jr_brand:sony) or custom ordering (order:jr_price)