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== Creating JReviews Menu Items ==
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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.
#To create a JReviews menu item, go to one of your Menus and click on a 'New' button.  
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#Under Internal link click on '''jReviews'''
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[[File:JReviewsMenuItem.png]]
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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:creating-menu-items.png]]
  
== JReviews Menu Item Parameters ==
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On the next page, click the '''Select''' button to select the type of menu item:
  
[[File:MenuItemParameters1.png]]
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[[File:creating-menu-items2.png]]
  
*'''Type of Menu''' - choose a menu type, you can see examples of menu types at the bottom of this article
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A popup with all menu item types will appear:
*'''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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*'''Criteria  ID''' - for Advanced Search, use it to display the form directly for a  particular criteria, 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 it filter (i.e. com_content, com_virtuemart, com_sobi2)
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[[File:creating-menu-items3.png]]
  
[[File:MenuItemParameters2.png]]
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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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*'''Page Total''' - total number of entries shown for tasks marked as (Special)
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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''' - of you enter something here, it will be used as page title instead of the menu name or directory title in the configuration. This setting will not work with JReviews section and category menus where the section and category titles are used and it will not work on advanced search menu items.
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[[File:MenuItemParameters3.png]]
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*'''List view template''' -  overrides the section and category setting of the template 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 coping 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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== Examples of JReviews pages & menu items ==
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*[[Directory Page Layout]]
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*[[List Page Layouts]]
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*[[Submit Listing Layout]]
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*[[Advanced Search Page Layout]]
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*[[Review Layout]]
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*[[Reviewers Page Layout]]
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The first paremeter that you need to select when creating new JReviews Menu Item is '''Type of Menu'''
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=== Directory Page ===
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*'''Directory''' - this is a "Yahoo style" directory page.
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*example of the [[Directory Page Layout]]
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=== List Pages ===
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*List Page Displays the list of listings based on the parameters
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*example of the [[List Page Layouts]]
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*available types of menus:
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**'''Section List''' - displays all listings belonging to specified section(s)
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**'''Category List''' - displays all listings belonging to specified category
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**'''Top User Rated''' - displays all listings sorted by highest user rating on top
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**'''Top Editor Rated''' - displays all listings sorted by highest editor rating on top
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**'''Most Recent''' - displays all listings sorted by latest submitted
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**'''Most Popular''' - displays all listings sorted by the number of views
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**'''Most Reviews''' - displays all listings sorted by number of user and editor reviews
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**'''Featured''' - displays all listings sorted by featured on top
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=== New Listing Page ===
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*'''Submit New Listing''' - listing submit form
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*example of the [[Submit Listing Layout]]
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=== Search Page ===
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*'''Advanced Search''' - search by any custom field (alternative is [[Advanced Search Module]])
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*example of the [[Advanced Search Page Layout]]
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=== Pages for User Menus ===
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*'''My Reviews''' - logged in user will see all reviews he submitted, [[Review Layout]] is used
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*'''My Listings''' - logged in user will see all listings he submitted, [[List Page Layouts|List Page Layout]] is used
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*'''My Favorites''' - logged in user will see all listings he added to favorites, [[List Page Layouts|List Page Layout]] is used
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=== User/Editor Reviews Pages ===
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*'''Reviews - Latest reviews (all)'''
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*'''Reviews - Latest user reviews'''
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*'''Reviews - Latest editor reviews'''
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*'''Discussion - Latest comments'''
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=== List of Reviewers ===
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*'''Reviewers''' - list of top 10 users based on the number of reviews and review helpfulness
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*example of the [[How do I display the list of users with the most reviews|Reviewers Page Layout]]
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*[[Advanced Search]]
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*[[Catch-all options]]
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*[[List Pages]]
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*[[Comparison Page]]
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*[[Directory]]
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*[[Discussions]]
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*[[Media Pages]]
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*[[Submit New Listing]]
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*[[Reviewer Rank]]
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*[[Reviews Pages]]
  
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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.
  
  

Latest revision as of 14:49, 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.