Creating JReviews Menu Items

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Creating JReviews Menu Items

  1. To create a JReviews menu item, go to one of your Menus and click on a 'New' button.
  2. Under Internal link click on jReviews

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JReviews Menu Item Parameters

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  • Type of Menu - choose a menu type
  • Directory ID - use to limit results to the specified directory
  • Section ID - use to limit results to the specified section, not used in the directory option
  • Category ID - use to limit results to the specified category, not used in the directory option
  • 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
  • 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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  • Page Total - total number of entries shown for tasks marked as (Special)
  • Limit per page - number of entries per page
  • Show Menu name/Title - show/hide the title at the top of the page.
  • 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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  • List view template - overrides the section and category setting of the template manager (Tableview, Blogview or Thumbview)
  • 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
  • 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.


Examples of JReviews pages & menu items


Pages for User Menus

  • My Reviews - logged in user will see all reviews he submitted, Review Layout is used
  • My Listings - logged in user will see all listings he submitted, List Page Layout is used
  • My Favorites - logged in user will see all listings he added to favorites, List Page Layout is used


User/Editor Reviews Pages

  • Reviews - Latest reviews (all)
  • Reviews - Latest user reviews
  • Reviews - Latest editor reviews
  • Discussion - Latest comments