MODULES

Common Modules for the extensions

Live Search Maps Module

Overview

This is an extra paid module available for Business Package, can be also purchased separately. 

This module helps you view all the listings under full view or windowed map To view all the available modules, click Extension > Module Manager

To create a new module, click New. Select the EXTENSION_NAME Maps module. Provide the information as given in the following sections. Click Save to save the module.

Editing the Maps Module

To edit the module, click on the module link or select the checkbox next to the module name, and then click Edit.

The following image shows the module edit screen.

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Screen 2: Module tab

Module tab

This tab controls the layout where the search panel is to be displayed on the screen.

Screen 3: Module tab

Provide the options as per the following table.

Layout

Select the required layout in the Layout field. The available options are:

Maps Wide – layout with the search module on the left side and big map area on the right side, as seen in the following image:

 

Maps – layout showing items on a map as seen in the following image:

 

Display limit Limit number of items shown on the map
Map width Set width of the map
Map height Set height of the map

Top margin

Set top margin of the map

Display category selection on the left of the wide map layout
Display address selection on the left of the wide map layout
Display keywords selection on the left of the wide map layout

Position

Select the position based on your Joomla Template.

Start Publishing

Provide a date when the search panel should be published.

Finish Publishing

Provide a date when the search panel should be unpublished.

Access

Provide access level for the panel.

  • Guest
  • Public
  • Registered
  • Special

Ordering

Provide the order in which the side panel should appear. If more than one module is positioned at the same location, you can set the order of appearance in this field.

Language

Select the language for which you want to display this panel. For each language, you must create a new JomDirectory Search module.

Note

Provide additional information.

Menu Assignment tab

This tab controls where the module should be displayed. You can decide if it should be displayed on all pages for the site or just selective pages.

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Screen 4: Menu Assignment tab

Select the required menu for module assignment. The available options are:

Creating custom category markers

When any listing is displayed on the map, it is shown as a pin. This pin icon is as in the default template. To modify this pinned icon as per your category, marker image needs to be placed under module images directory:

modules/mod_EXTENSION-NAME_maps/images/markers/...
The file name should be same as the category. The spaces need to be replaced with dashes " - " and the "marker" prefix. So, suppose category name is Auto Parts, then the file name for the marker should be marker_auto-parts.png.

Slideshow PRO Module

Overview

This is an extra paid module available for Business Package, can be also purchased separately. 

This module showcases the listings in a slideshow format. Users can see the image along with the title of the listing.

Slideshow PRO Module upon activation is seen as follows on the pages:

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Screen 1: Slideshow Module on front page

Editing Slideshow Module

To edit the module, click on the module link or select the check box next to the module name, and then click Edit.

The following image shows the module edit screen.

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Screen 2: Module tab

Provide the options as per the following table.

Count

Number of listings for which images need to be shown in the slideshow

Number of characters

Number of characters from the description that will be shown in the slideshow.

Image Format

The format for the thumbnail listing image. 
1:1 = Image will be unchanged. 
4:3 = image will be resized to 4:3 format. 
10:9 = Image will be resized to 10:9 format.

Featured

Enable to show only featured listings.

Show Address

Enable to show the address of the listing.

Show Description

Enable to show the description up to the character limit set.

Category

Select either of the following options.

  • Current Browse (auto) – Automatically displayed based on the category.
  • Selected Below – Listings belonging to only these categories are shown.

Choose Category

If Selected Below is selected for the above field, select the required category.

Sort Options

Select how the displayed listings should be sorted by.

  • Latest
  • Most Viewed
  • Alphabetically
  • Updated
  • Most Rated DESC
  • Most Rated ASC

Use Listings IDs

Enable to make the next set of settings work.

IDs CSS Item Styling

Provide comma separated IDs in this field. Such as, 21, 22 and so on.

Use IDs for the CSS Classes

If set to yes, to each Caption, CSS Class ID will be added e.g. .jd-slide-title21 where 21 is ID of the listing.

Listing ID can be found under JomEvents Listing View in Table - Column ID. It works best with Use Listings ID's setting

You can select individual listings and promote them with different captions.


If set to No, the default CSS will be used for all captions.

Slider Module Tab

This tab controls the layout where the map panel is to be displayed on the screen.

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Screen 3: Slider Module tab

Slider Width

Slider width in pixels

Slider Height

Slider height in pixels

Slide Delay (seconds)

Slideshow delay in seconds

Full Width

Enable to cover the entire width of the slideshow image.

Slide Transition

Select from the following options.

  • Random
  • Fade
  • Boxslide
  • Slotzoom-horizontal
  • Slotzoom-vertical
  • Curtain-1
  • Curtain-2
  • slideup

Slide Navigation

Select from the following options.

  • Bullet
  • Thumb
  • None

Autoplay

Start slider when page loaded 

Menu Assignment tab

This tab controls where the module should be displayed. You can decide if it should be displayed on all pages for the site or just selective pages.

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Screen 4: Menu Assignment tab

Select the required menu for module assignment. The available options are: