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== Creating JReviews Menu Items ==
 
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#To create a JReviews menu item, go to one of your Menus and click on the 'New' button.
 
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#Under Internal link click on '''JReviews'''.
 
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#Under '''Type of Menu''' parameter, choose a menu type.
 
  
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[[File:JReviewsMenuItem.png]]
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For users to be able to submit and access content, it is required to create some of the many menu items that JReviews provides.
  
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== JReviews Menu Item Parameters ==
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To create a menu item, go to one of your Menus in the Joomla Menu Manager and click the '''New''' button:
  
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[[File:MenuItemParameters1.png]]
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[[File:creating-menu-items.png]]
  
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*'''Type of Menu''' - choose a menu type
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On the next page, click the '''Select''' button to select the type of menu item:
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*'''Directory ID''' - use to limit results to the specified directory
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*'''Section ID''' - use to limit results to the specified section, not used in the directory option
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*'''Category ID''' - use to limit results to the specified category, not used in the directory option
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*'''Listing Type ID''' - for Advanced Search, use it to display the form directly for a  particular listing type; otherwise a dropdown list with different options will be shown
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*'''Extension''' - use to filter by component when selecting the latest user reviews menu, and can be combined with the cat id filter (i.e. com_content, com_virtuemart, com_sobi2)
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When setting up section and category menus, it is not necessary to enter the directory id. For category menus it is not necessary to enter the section id.
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[[File:creating-menu-items2.png]]
  
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A popup with all menu item types will appear:
  
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[[File:MenuItemParameters2.png]]
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[[File:creating-menu-items3.png]]
  
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*'''Page Total''' - total number of entries shown for tasks marked as (Special)
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Click on a link to create a specific type of a menu item. Each menu type is explained below.
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*'''Limit per page''' - number of entries per page
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*'''Show Menu name/Title''' - show/hide the title at the top of the page
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*'''Page Title''' - overrides the page title
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Whenever you edit an existing JReviews menu item and adjust its parameters, you need to go to the JReviews administration and click the "Clear Cache & File Registry" link for the changes to be applied.
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[[File:MenuItemParameters3.png]]
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*'''List view template''' -  overrides the section and category setting of the theme manager (Tableview, Blogview or Thumbview).
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*'''Template suffix''' - only necessary if you want to use a different theme file for this menu item by copying the original file and adding a suffix.
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*'''SEF Menu Name''' - if  filled in, this is the text that will be used for the SEF urls for menu types other than section and category lists. It's especially useful for  languages with special characters.
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Revision as of 14:41, 7 January 2014

For users to be able to submit and access content, it is required to create some of the many menu items that JReviews provides.

To create a menu item, go to one of your Menus in the Joomla Menu Manager and click the New button:

Creating-menu-items.png

On the next page, click the Select button to select the type of menu item:

Creating-menu-items2.png

A popup with all menu item types will appear:

Creating-menu-items3.png

Click on a link to create a specific type of a menu item. Each menu type is explained below.

Whenever you edit an existing JReviews menu item and adjust its parameters, you need to go to the JReviews administration and click the "Clear Cache & File Registry" link for the changes to be applied.

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