JOMESTATE Real Estate Extension & Plugins  Quick Start - JomEstate Overview This guide will help you get started with using the JomEstate extension quickly. It highlights preliminary steps that are a must for JomEstate configurations. After you are done with them, you can go ahead and create the listings on your site. Creating Administration Menu Links This step is not needed if new installation being made. Go to the System -> Administrator modules and insert new. Than choose Administrator Menu. From the presets, select Comdev and place it under menu position. Do the same for the JomEstate: Creating Menu Links Menus are used to control website navigation. A menu contains one or more menu items which provides your users with a navigational experience. The menu items in our case must point to the JomEstate. It is mandatory that you create menu links such that Items menu and the Front Admin access is created. Get started with creating menu links using the information given in the Menu Items documentation in the Administrative Guide. Creating Groups In order to add users to groups for membership plans, you must create a super group named JomEstate, then create groups for each of your membership plans underneath your super group. These groups are used to provide Group ID when creating a membership plan. Users created using User Manager can be linked to each of these membership plan groups. To begin creating groups for membership plans, follow the Creating a Group documentation in the Administrative Guide. Creating Membership Plans and Memberships Memberships in JomEstate are required to set user group level based on the monthly/Yearly pay plan the user selects. Using membership plans, you can decide how much to charge a user and how many listings a user can make a particular membership plan. Before you can create a membership plan, you must create Joomla groups using the above section information. Read more about creating membership plans for your site using the Memberships section in the Administrative Guide. Adding a New Address The Address feature lets you provide the country, region and city for the associated product listing. The advantage with the Address field in JomEstate is that after you configure a particular address, it is shared across various components in the Comdev extension. Get started with creating addresses that will be used in your listings by referring to the Address documentation in the Administrative Guide. Adding a New Category Categories allow the site owner to categorise listings into appropriate sections. JomEstate categories are independent of the Joomla category system. Nested categories (sub-categories) are supported in JomEstate. The component comes with a default category named "UNCATEGORIZED", which holds listing items that are not attached to any category (same function as the default Joomla system). To start creating categories, follow the Categories documentation in the Administrative Guide. Adding Custom Fields Custom fields are a powerful tool to build content. We provide a variety of field types with the ability to outline into groups. Each field can be assigned to a single category or all categories. Custom fields in JomEstate provide multiple options such as dropdowns, text area, radio buttons, and so on. Based on your requirement create a custom field and make it searchable for better user experience. Read more about how to create custom fields in the Custom Fields section from the Administrative Guide. Creating a New Listing Listings are nothing but the product listings that you want to create in the directory. Each listing is attached to a category. They are created in the same manner as Joomla articles but are not related to Joomla articles in the definition. Get started with creating listings for each category by referring to the Listings section in the Administrative Guide. Configuration Steps Overview These configuration steps need to be done in order for the component to work correctly Create Menu links More about menu links can be found here. Items menu link needs to be created. Items Link Link which does not point to any category or address Latest Link which displays latest added listings Listing details may not be accessible This link is being used to display search results, so if the alias is latest than site URL for the search results will be http://domain.com/latest Items Link - Category Links for each of the category. A separate menu can be created with all the categories created. Menu with all categories Listing details may not be accessible Individual menu settings can't be applied Joomla / Groups Membership Plans are based on the Joomla Groups therefore before creating any of the Membership plans - corresponding Joomla groups needs to be created. The main group for the component needs to be called JomEstate. Each of the plans needs to be placed under that JomEstate parent group e.g.  JomEstate Free Basic Silver Gold Permissions It is important to set the right permissions for the components: Comdev and Directory, in order for the users to access the Front Admin. Otherwise, Users won't be able to access the Front Admin (Permissions Denied) or get 500 Error when trying to upload the images. An example below shows access for the Registered Group. Same settings should be applied for each group that should have access to the Front Admin.  Setting permissions for the Comdev Extension Setting permissions for the JomEstate Extension Menu Items Overview In this section, we will learn how to create menu items to access JomEstate.  Menus are used to control website navigation and are a set of menu items. Menu items provide the navigational experience to your users. The menu items in our case must point to the JomEstate.  Creating Administration Menu Links This step is not needed if new installation being made. Go to the System -> Administrator modules and insert new. Than choose Administrator Menu. From the presets, select Comdev and place it under menu position. Do the same for the JomEstate Creating Menu Items to access JomEstate Creating an Items menu link is mandatory. If you have a multilingual site, ensure that you create an Items menu link for each language. You can hide this menu link, but it needs to be create nonetheless. Though you are creating an Items link that does not point to any category or address, you can create other links with Items menu type that can point to an address or a category once main Items link has been created. To create menu items with Items menu item type, do the following: Click  Menus  >   >  Add New Menu Items . Provide a title in our case is  Latest Listings  in the  Menu Title  field. Now, since the Latest Listings menu item provides a list of all the latest postings on the site, we have selected the menu type as Items. The Alias field will build URL for the site. When search is done this will be the landing page for the search results as well.  Provide the options as seen in the following image: Screen 3:  Items menu item screen Provide the values based on the following table. Menu Item Type Click Select . A pop up is displayed. In this case, since we are creating the Items menu item, click JomEstate > Items from the list. Category Select the appropriate category, if creating direct category link. Address Select the appropriate address if, creating direct address link. Link This field is auto populated based on the menu item type selected. Target Window Select the parent for this menu item. Template Style Select the template style you want for this menu. Click  Save . Ensure that you see a green tick next to this menu item. The green tick indicates that the item is published. To publish an item, select the checkbox next to the item and click Publish .  To view the created menu item, go the front end of your site. The new menu item is displayed. Creating Menu to access JomEstate Front Admin To create menu items with Front Admin menu item type, do the following: Click  Menus  >   >  Add New Menu Items . Provide a title as  Front Admin  and the alias as  front-admin  in the Menu Title field. Provide the options as seen in the following image: Screen4:  JomEstate Front Admin menu item screen Click  Save . Front Admin Options For the Menu to be able to access the JomEstate Front Admin, certain settings need to be made. The following table shows the three menu links that need to be made and linked with JomEstate Options. You can create these 3 menu items anywhere on the site e.g. link them under User Menu. Profile Edit Menu Link This link should point to Edit profile menu item created using Edit User Profile menu item type. Click Menu > > Add New Menu Item . Provide the Title as Edit Profile and the menu item type as Edit User Profile . Click Save . Admin Menu Link This link should point to the login form menu item created using Login Form menu item type. Click Menu > > Add New Menu Item . Provide the Title as Login Form and the menu item type as Login Form . Click Save . The following image shows how the Login Form menu item is used When user is not logged into the front page, he will be redirected to the built-in Joomla login form. After successful login, he will be redirected to the JomEstate Front Admin. The following image shows the redirect URL that needs to be provided. The value you provide in the Login Redirect field depends on the following: http://domain.com/index.php/front-admin - Use if URL rewriting is not applicable. http://domain.com/front-admin - Use if URL rewriting is applicable. In our example, we are using the http://domain.com/front-admin URL as shown in the following image where front-admin is the alias of the JomEstate Front Admin Menu Link : Profile View Menu Link This link should point to the user profile created using User Profile menu item type. Click Menu > > Add New Menu Item . Provide the Title as User Profile and the menu item type as User Profile . Click Save . Now link menus with JomEstate Options : Make the following settings for the Front Admin are made in the JomEstate options for the user to be redirected correctly to the Front Admin, when he is not logged in. Click  System  >  Control Panel . Under  Extensions , click  JomEstate . Click  Options  in the top right-hand corner of the screen. Click the  Front Admin  tab.  Change the  Profile Menu Link ,  Login Menu Link , and  View Profile Menu Link  field as per the following image. Screen5:  JomEstate Front Admin options  Click  Save . The Front Admin lets users add listings in the front of the site. For more information about how to add listings, see  Front Admin . The following image shows the Front Admin. Screen 6:  Front Admin screen Administrator's Guide Dashboard Overview Administration dashboard gives you an overview of all the activities you can do using the JomEstate extension. It provides you a view of all the menu items, system configuration checks, license information, and links to the documentation. Screen 1: Dashboard screen Menu Items The following table provides an explanation about different menu items available: Dashboard Home or dashboard for the JomEstate extension Address Shows the Address administration screen Custom Fields Shows the Custom Fields administration screen Categories Shows the Categories administration screen Price Types Shows the Price Types administration screen Property Types Shows the Property Types administration screen Companies Shows the Companies administration screen Agents Shows the Agents administration screen Membership Plans Shows the Membership Plans administration screen Messages Shows the messages received Add New Click to quickly add a listing to the site Documentation Access the JomEstate documentation. System Configuration Checks Any configuration problems or current configuration status is displayed in this area as shown in the following screen: Screen 3: System configuration checks area Address Overview The Address feature, as the name suggests, lets you provide the country, region and city for the respective product listing. The advantage with the Address field in Extensions is that after you configure a particular address, it is shared across various components in the Comdev extension. Based on the depth of levels you want, such as the continent as Europe, country as the UK and region as Wales, you can configure the Address tree to have unlimited levels. The Address feature provides multilingual support. This means you can specify different names based on your language preference. For more information, see Languages . Creating A New Address The following image shows the Address Feature screen. To add an address, click Components > Comdev > Address . Click New to create a new address.  Screen 1: New Address screen Let us understand each of the buttons seen on the screen using the following table. New Creates a new Address entry. You must create separate entries for each level of depth that you need. Edit Provides the edit mode to make changes to the existing level or titles created. Publish Publishes the created address entry. Unpublish Removes the entry from the list of published address entries Archive Archives address entries that are not used anymore. Trash Deletes the address entry that is not required anymore. Rebuild Refreshes to incorporate the changes made to the entries in the Address feature. Address Structure The structure of the Address tree is maintained as follows in our example. You can create any structure as per your requirement.   -- -- –  -- – --   Editing address entries If you want to edit existing entries, you can either click the entry from the Address screen or select the check box next to the entry, and then click Edit . After you click the required entry that you need to edit, you can change the configurations based on the options as seen in the following table. Title Custom Address Field Alias URL alias for “SEF/SEO” URL Parent Select the parent address entry Text box Provide a description about the entry. You can format the text using the formatting options in the text box. You can also insert images or links to URLs for more information. Category Image Upload an address image Publishing tab After you have provided the above information, you can provide the publishing information in the Publishing tab as seen in the following image. You can change the values for the given options using the following table. Status Based on the status seen here, the visibility changes as follows: Published - Entries are visible on the front-end.  Unpublished – Entries are invisible in the front-end, but can be published later.  Archived – Older entries that are not ready for deletion yet.  Trashed – Older entries that should be removed. Access Access level for site users is as follows: Public access grant access to everybody. Registered access grants access only to registered and logged in users. Special access only grants access to users specified as “Special”. Language Select the language for the address entry. ID Address ID, which can be used in modules, plugins and menus. Created by User name who created the entry. Created Date Date when the entry was created. Modified by User name who modified the entry. Modified Date Date when the entry was modified. Metadata tab The metadata tab is used to provide metadata information for a particular address entry. The options for this tab can be seen as shown in the following image. You can change the values for the given options using the following table. Meta Description Meta-description for search-engine listings. Meta Keywords Meta Keywords for the search-engine Author Content author metadata. Robots Robots instructions: Use Global Index, Follow No Index, Follow Index, No Follow No Index, No Follow Categories Overview Categories allow the site owner to categorize listings into appropriate sections. Extension categories are independent from the Joomla category system. Nested categories (sub-categories) are supported in Extension. Component comes with a category named "UNCATEGORIZED", which is the default setting. This category holds listing items that are not attached to any category (same function as the default Joomla system). You can create a categories menu link under Menus using information provided here . Ensure that for creating this link you use the Item menu type as Categories . Creating A New Category The following image shows the Category Feature screen.  Screen 1: Adding a new category Let us understand each of the buttons seen on the screen using the following table. New Creates a new Category entry. You must create separate entries for each level of depth that you need. Edit Provides the edit mode to make changes to the existing level or titles created. Publish Publishes the created category entry. Unpublish Removes the entry from the list of published category entries Archive Archives category entries that are not used anymore. Trash Deletes the category entry that is not required anymore. Rebuild Refreshes to incorporate the changes made to the entries in the Category feature. Editing category entries If you want to edit existing entries, you can either click the entry from the Category screen or select the check box next to the entry, and then click  Edit . New Category tab The New Category tab is seen as shown in the following image: Screen 2: New Category tab After you click the required entry that you need to edit, you can change the configurations based on the options as seen in the following table. Title Custom Category Field Alias URL alias for “SEF/SEO” URL Parent Select the parent category entry Text box Provide a description about the entry. You can format the text using the formatting options in the text box. You can also insert images or links to URLs for more information. Toggle editor Toggle between a rich text box with formatting options and plain text box. Category Image Upload a category image Publishing tab After you have provided the above information, you can provide the publishing information in the Publishing as seen in the following image. You can change the values for the given options using the following table.  Status Based on the status seen here, the visibility changes as follows: Published - Entries are visible on the front-end.  Unpublished – Entries are invisible in the front-end, but can be published later.  Archived – Older entries that are not ready for deletion yet.  Trashed – Older entries that should be removed. Access Access level for site users is as follows: Public access grant access to everybody. Registered access grants access only to registered and logged in users. Special access only grants access to users specified as “Special”. Language Select the language for the category entry. ID Category ID, which can be used in modules, plugins and menus. Created by User name who created the entry. Created Date Date when the entry was created. Modified by User name who modified the entry. Modified Date Date when the entry was modified. Metadata tab The metadata tab is used to provide metadata information for a particular category entry. The options for this tab can be seen as shown in the following image. You can change the values for the given options using the following table.  Meta Description Meta-description for search-engine listings. Meta Keywords Meta Keywords for the search-engine Author Content author metadata. Robots Robots instructions: Use Global Index, Follow No Index, Follow Index, No Follow No Index, No Follow Custom Fields Overview Custom fields are a powerful tool to build content. We provide a variety of field types with the ability to outline into groups. Each field can be assigned into a single category or all categories. Creating a Custom Field Creating a custom field involves setting certain options. To create a custom field, click New as shown in the following image. Screen 1: Custom Field screen The following table explains the different options available on the screen. New Creates a new Custom Field. Edit Provides the edit mode to make changes to the existing level or titles created. Publish Publishes the created custom field. Unpublish Removes the entry from the list of published custom fields. Archive Archives custom fields that are not used anymore. Trash Deletes the custom fields that are not required anymore. Options Navigates to the Extension options screen. Editing Custom Fields If you want to edit existing entries, you can either click the entry from the Custom Fields screen or select the checkbox next to the entry, and then click Edit . Custom Field Edit After you click the required entry that you need to edit, you can change the configurations for the fields as shown in the following image. Screen 2: Custom Field Edit tab The following table explains the different options seen on the screen: Custom Field Edit Title Title for the Custom Field.   Alias URL alias for “SEF/SEO” URL.   Order Provide a value from 1 onwards. The lowest value will appear on the top.   Field Required? Enable whether to make the field required.   Category Category where the Custom Field will be published. When you select a custom field for a particular category, it is visible only for that category. While creating a listing if you select the said category and save, the custom field is available only then.   Field Type Set the Field Type for the Custom Field. For more information, see the Field Type Table .   Field Database Type Set the field type, needed for database settings. String - Used for text Decimal - Decimal number e.g. 10.060 Integer - Number e.g. 1232   Field Group There are 5 custom field groups. Custom fields are grouped into groups. It has many advantages, one of them is display purposes. There are few groups available: Items - group displayed on the listings page under the description Item - group displayed on the left-hand side of the slideshow under detailed view. Tabs - special group to create own Tabs in detailed view. Features - special group for featured listings. Paid Items - Paid group displayed on the listings page under the description. Paid Item - Paid group displayed on the left-hand side of the slideshow under detailed view. JomEstate, JomEvents only Location - group displayed under the Location Tab in listing details. Groups are static and cannot be created. Paid groups are related to the membership plans that are applied to custom fields. Paid Items are displayed in the Items list, while the Paid Item is displayed in an Item (detailed) view.   Field Can Be Searched Enable to make the field values searchable. This setting applies only for the Search Module -> Layout Filter.   Field Search Type Provide the type of search option to include: Single Input Field Type Range Input Field Type Range Dropdown Field Type Range Slider Depending on the Field search type you select, the search criteria field will be displayed in the search module – layout side search. This field is functional when the Field Type is selected as Input and Field can be searched set to Yes   Minimum Value When, as an example, the Range Dropdown option is selected, you can select the range between which the options can be selected. For example, for Price range between X and Y, with incremental steps of 2, you can set x value in this field.     Maximum Value Set the Y value for the range in this field.   Steps Define the incremental steps. For example, for increments of x+2, provide the value as 2.   Custom Field Template Custom fields have own templates that can be used and customized. There are 3 templates available: default horizontal horizontal float  horizontal float + icon horizontal no label default no label If you would like to create and customize your own templates, see the Developer Guide .   ID This field is auto - generated. Custom fields values area Add new If the field type is selected to hold multiple values , this button lets you create the multiple values.   Delete Delete the value. Custom Field Values This area lets you create values when the field type requires multiple options to be provided.  For custom fields that can have values, to add multiple values, navigate to the custom fields listing screen. Click the  icon next to the field where you want to add values as shown in the following image. Screen 3: Adding values to custom fields area Here, the Field Type is selected as Checkbox and the Field Database Type has been stated as String. This means the Custom fields value area should provide options that can be seen when editing listing and displayed on the component front page. Hence, the Sample Values are provided in this area as Street, Garage, Underground. The following screen shows the values added at the back end. Click Delete  to delete the entry. Screen 4: Values added to custom field area The following image shows how the field looks on the add listings page. Screen 5: Custom Field as seen on new listing page The custom field is seen on the listings page as shown in the following image: Screen 6: Custom Field as seen on published listing page Field Types With Extension extension, you get several field types that you can create based on your requirement. The following image shows the available field types. Screen 7: Field Types The following table explains the different options seen on the screen. Type Multiple select Multiple Values Description Radio button No Yes Standard radio button with multiple values Checkbox Yes Yes Standard check boxes with multiple values Dropdown No Yes Dropdown (select) field with multiple values Multiple Select Yes Yes Select box with multiple values Input No No Single text box Web Address No No Single text box for URL, it will display as the link in the front page Email No No Single text box for email Text No No Text area Date Time No No Select a date and time from the Calendar icon on screen. Date No No Select a date from the Calendar icon on screen. Editor textarea No No Creates a rich text editor box, it can be combined with Tabs group. Publishing tab After you have provided the above information, you can provide the publishing information in the Publishing tab. You can change the values for the given options using the following table. Status Based on the status seen here, the visibility changes as follows: Published - Entries are visible on the front-end.  Unpublished – Entries are invisible in the front-end, but can be published later.  Archived – Older entries that are not ready for deletion yet.  Trashed – Older entries that should be removed. Language Select the language for the address entry. To create a custom field that applies to a particular language, you need to select the appropriate language from the drop down. For each language that you want it to appear for, create a separate entry. Created Date Date when the entry was created. Start Publishing Date when publishing needs to start in case of limited viewing of the field. Finish Publishing Date when publishing needs to stop in case of limited viewing of the field. Modified Date Date when the entry was modified. JomEstate custom fields: Beds, Baths, Garage For custom fields such as Bed, Bath, and Garage, icons are displayed alongside. To change the style css for these icons, edit the jomestate.css file located in the components/com_jomestate/assets/css folder. These icons are only available for the single language. If the site is multilingual than additional suffixes are added, therefore additional styles needs to be created. .beds .jd-lab-horizontal-float-icon {background: url("../images/beds.png") 0 50% no-repeat;} .baths .jd-lab-horizontal-float-icon {background: url("../images/baths.png") 0 50% no-repeat;} .garage .jd-lab-horizontal-float-icon {background: url("../images/car.png") 0 50% no-repeat;} Property Types Overview Property types allow the site owner to categorize property types into appropriate sections. Nested property types (sub-property types) are supported in JomEstate. JomEstate comes with a property type named " UNCATEGORISED " which is the default setting. This property type will list properties which are not attached to any property type (same function as the default Joomla categories system). Screen 1: Property type listing Creating A New Property Type To add a Property type to JomEstate, click New.  Screen 2: Create a new property New Category tab Provide the values as given in the following table. Title Title for the Property Type. Alias URL alias for “SEF/SEO” URL. Parent Choose the parent category item. Text area Provide a description in the text area. Toggle editor Button Click to toggle between rich text and plain text editor. Article Button Click to select a relevant article. If an article is provided, it can be seen under the Details tab in the listing. Image Button Click to select an image you want to add to the listing. Category Image Currently not being used. Publishing tab After you have provided the above information, you can provide the publishing information in the Publishing tab. You can change the values for the given options using the following table. Status Based on the status seen here, the visibility changes as follows: Published - Entries are visible on the front-end.  Unpublished – Entries are invisible in the front-end, but can be published later.  Archived – Older entries that are not ready for deletion yet.  Trashed – Older entries that should be removed. Access Access level for site users is as follows: Public access grant access to everybody. Registered access grants access only to registered and logged in users. Special access only grants access to users specified as “Special”. Language Select the language for the property type. ID Address ID, which can be used in modules, plugins and menus. Created by User name who created the entry. Created Date Date when the entry was created. Metadata tab The metadata tab is used to provide metadata information for a particular address entry.  You can change the values for the given options using the following table. Meta Description Meta-description for search-engine listings. Meta Keywords Meta Keywords for the search-engine Author Content author metadata. Robots Robots instructions: Use Global Index, Follow No Index, Follow Index, No Follow No Index, No Follow Listings Overview Properties are nothing but the product listings that you want to create in the JomEstate. Each listing is attached to a category. They are created in the same manner as Joomla articles, but are not related to Joomla articles in definition. Creating A New Listing The following image shows the Listings screen. Screen 1: Properties screen The following table explains the different options seen on the screen. New Creates a new Address entry. You must create separate entries for each level of depth that you need. Edit Provides the edit mode to make changes to the existing level or titles created. Publish Publishes the created address entry. Unpublish Removes the entry from the list of published address entries Archive Archives address entries that are not used anymore. Trash Deletes the address entry that is not required anymore. Edit Listing If you want to edit existing entries, you can either click the entry from the Listings screen or select the checkbox next to the entry, and then click Edit. This tab provides options to add title, description, select category, and other options for the Listing as seen in the following image: Screen 2: Edit Listing screen The following table shows the options available: Edit Listing area Title Title for the Listing.   Alias URL alias for “SEF/SEO” URL.   Category Category where the listing will be published. Property Type Select the property type from the drop down.   Text Area Provide a description for the listing. You can create a short description as well a long description. In the above image, the red dotted line appears when you click Read More . Any content above the red line is the short description , while the entire content is the long description . Also, note that if there is no content after the Read More tag, the event description will be blank when users view the listing. Ensure that you have content after the Read More tag.   Article Button Click to select a relevant article. If an article is provided, it can be seen under the Details tab in the listing.   Page Break Button Insert a page break in the displayed text.   Toggle editor Button Toggle between plain text and rich text editor Address area Address Address of the listing   Street, House No. Street and house number of the listing - If both Address and Full Address specified, map location will position automatically. Location area Maps latitude It utilizes the GEO-location based on Google Maps. Provide the latitude information for the location mapping.   Maps longitude The information provided in this field is used to map the exact location. It utilizes the GEO-location based on Google Maps. Provide the longitude information for the location mapping.   Maps Search Search for a specific location. Type in the location and press Enter to go to the exact location. Sidebar Featured Enable to make the listing appear as featured listing.   Approved Enable to approve the listing. Listing will not be published.   Language Select the language for which the listing needs to appear for. For multiple languages , you must create separate entries for each language.   Status Select the required status. Published Unpublished Trashed Archived   Created by Select the user who created the listing.   Access Provide the access level for the listing. Guest Public Registered Special   Date created Select the date when the listing was created. You can select a future date for publishing the listing as well.   Publish Up Select a date when you want to publish the listing. Here too, you can schedule to post the listing at a future date.   Publish down Select a date when the listing should stop being published.   Modified Date Select a date when the listing was modified.   ID This is an auto-generated field. Understanding the Location area in Edit listing tab Let us understand how to provide the address and Street/House No for providing the exact locations on the map. When you provide the address, street and House No. in the backend when creating listings, the location position automatically. If the House No. is not provided, additional location fields needs to be used. Mapping using longitudes and latitudes If you provide the latitudes and longitudes, and the Maps Search setting is left blank, the location mapping is done based on these parameters as shown in the following image. Screen 3: Map using longitudes and latitudes values Mapping with Map Search values  If the Map Search field has a value provided to it, it takes precedence as shown in the following image. If the Map Search field value is given as “New York”, the location will map to this location. Screen 4: Map using Map Search Field values Custom Fields tab This tab includes all the custom fields created for a particular category. If the custom field is not applied to a specific category, it can be seen for all categories when creating a listing. The following image shows the Custom Fields tab screen. Screen 5: Custom Fields tab For more information about creating custom fields, see  Custom Fields . Price tab This tab includes information about the pricing details related to the property listing.  Screen 6: Price tab Provide the information as per the following table. Add New Click to add new pricing category. You can provide weekly, monthly, and other offers per listing. Price Netto Provide the pricing value. Price Group Select from the following options: Price Price per day Price per week Price per month Auction Offers from After installation, the price types are not defined. You should insert your own , they will be populated in this drop-down field. When searching, price type always needs to be provided as part of the search criteria. Images tab This tab includes information about images and videos attached to the listing. Before you can add images to the listing, you must save your listing at least once. This ensure that all the other data you have filled for the listing does not disappear after the images are added. The Images tab can be seen as shown in the following image: Screen 7: Images tab To set the the Order of the images, which one displayed first, drag and drop images to switch positions. The first image in the gallery is used as the image thumbnail for the listing. Provide the options as shown in the following table. Images Add file area Add Files Click to select the image that needs to be uploaded.   Drag & Drop Files Here Drag a bunch of images to this area to upload multiple images.   Upload Into Select which category the image falls under: Slideshow - detailed view main gallery Gallery - in gallery tab Logo - displayed in sidebar under custom fields and over the image with transparency in listings page.   Add available images & attachments Click to add already uploaded images and attachments to this listing. Images area Editing an Image   Click the  Edit icon to edit the image details. The options are as seen in the following image:   Click the Delete icon to delete the image. Attachments area   Click the Edit icon to edit an attachment that is linked to the listing. The screen is as shown here:   Click the Delete icon to delete the attachment. Attachments are detected automatically based on file extension that’s are allowed in Configuration . YouTube Video Provide the YouTube video URL in this field as shown in the following image. Opeh House Calendar tab This tab includes an ajax calendar where you can add the date-wise information related to the listing. Based on the services you offer, you can show the availability for that service. Screen 8: Open House To set the availability for a range of dates, drag and click the required range of dates. Provide the information about availability as shown in the following image. Screen 9: Availability information Click Save to save the availability information. If you want to delete a particular entry, click the colored band of availability and click OK as shown in the following image. Price Types Overview Price types allow the site owner to categorize price types into appropriate sections. Nested price types (sub-price types) are supported in JomEstate. JomEstate comes with a price type named " UNCATEGORISED " which is the default setting. This price type will list properties which are not attached to any price type (same function as the default Joomla categories system). Screen 1: Price type listing Creating A New Price Type To add a Price type to JomEstate, click New.  Provide the values as given in the following table. Title Title for the price type. Alias URL alias for “SEF/SEO” URL. Parent Choose the parent category item. Text area Provide a description in the text area. Toggle editor Button Click to toggle between rich text and plain text editor. Image Button Click to select an image you want to add to the listing. Category Image Currently not being used. Publishing tab After you have provided the above information, you can provide the publishing information in the Publishing tab You can change the values for the given options using the following table. Status Based on the status seen here, the visibility changes as follows: Published - Entries are visible on the front-end.  Unpublished – Entries are invisible in the front-end, but can be published later.  Archived – Older entries that are not ready for deletion yet.  Trashed – Older entries that should be removed. Access Access level for site users is as follows: Public access grant access to everybody. Registered access grants access only to registered and logged in users. Special access only grants access to users specified as “Special”. Language Select the language for the price type. ID Address ID, which can be used in modules, plugins and menus. Created by User name who created the entry. Created Date Date when the entry was created. Metadata tab The metadata tab is used to provide metadata information for a particular address entry. The options for this tab can be seen as shown in the following image. Screen 4: Metadata tab You can change the values for the given options using the following table. Meta Description Meta-description for search-engine listings. Meta Keywords Meta Keywords for the search-engine Author Content author metadata. Robots Robots instructions: Use Global Index, Follow No Index, Follow Index, No Follow No Index, No Follow Companies Overview JomEstate has a built in mechanism to create/control Real Estate Companies and Agents. Each Company can have unlimited Agents, however an Agent can join only one Company. The main difference between Agents and Company is that a Company can control Agents listings and Agents itself by adding or deleting them. Screen 1: Companies listing Company Agents Each Company or Agent needs to have an actual Joomla user-assigned to it: This user needs to be unique for each Company or Agent When adding an Agent from the Front Admin by the Company, Joomla user account needs to be created for that Agent Agent does NOT have any membership.The Agent inherits the membership details of the company he belongs to. There are two user types in JomEstate: Public User who can add listings. Companies that have Agents. Creating a new Company To add a Company to JomEstate, click New. Edit Company tab This tab includes information such as company logo, address information, contact details and so on.  Provide the values using information given in the following table. Options Usage Name Title for the Company. Alias URL alias for “SEF/SEO” URL. Logo Click to upload the company logo. This logo will be seen on the company tab on listings and item view. Phone Provide the phone number for your company. Website Provide the website URL for your company. Background Set desired tab background color to match the Company logo. User Select a Joomla user account that will be assigned to the Company. It has to be unique for each Company . Membership Choose a membership plan assigned for the Company. Address Select the appropriate locations to provide your address. Street, House no. Detailed address like street and house number. Intro text Provide a short description about the company. Text area Provide a description for the listing. You can create a short description as well a long description. Article Button Click to select a relevant article. If an article is provided, it can be seen under the Details tab in the listing. Page Break Button Insert a page break in the displayed text. Toggle editor Button Toggle between plain text and rich text editor Read More Click to separate the short description in the text area. In the above image, the red dotted line appears when you click Read More . Any content above the red line is the short description , while the entire content is the long description . Also, note that if there is no content after the Read More tag, the event description will be blank when users view the listing. Ensure that you have content after the Read More tag. Images tab This tab is used to add images to the company gallery Provide the options as shown in the following table. Add Image Click to upload images to the company gallery. Images area Click the   Edit icon to edit the image details. The options are as seen in the following image: Click the  Delete icon to delete the image. These images will be displayed under Company details page as shown in the following image. Agents Overview Agents can function only if they are assigned to a Company and can have a different phone number, social contact configured, and so on. An agent inherits the membership plans possessed by the company it belongs to. Screen 1: Agents listing Creating a new Agent To add an Agent to JomEstate, click New. Edit Agent area This area includes information such as agent picture, company it belongs to, contact information and so on. Provide the values using the information given in the following table. Options Usage First Name First Name Last Name Last Name Status Select from the following status: Published Unpublished Archived Trashed Alias URL alias for “SEF/SEO” URL. Image Upload a photo of the Agent. Phone Provide the phone number of the agent. Website Provide the website URL of the company or agent's personalized page. Fax Provide the fax number of the agent. User Select a Joomla user account that will be assigned to the Agent. It has to be unique for each Agent. Company Choose a Company that Agent belongs to. Address Select the required address levels to create the address of the agent. Street, House no. Detailed address like street and house number. Text area Provide a description for the listing. You can create a short description as well a long description. In the above image, the red dotted line appears when you click Read More . Any content above the red line is the short description , while the entire content is the long description . Also, note that if there is no content after the Read More tag, the event description will be blank when users view the listing. Ensure that you have content after the Read More tag. Article Button Click to select a relevant article. If an article is provided, it can be seen under the Details tab in the listing. Page Break Button Insert a page break in the displayed text. Toggle editor Button Toggle between plain text and rich text editor Read More Click to separate the short description in the text area. MSN Provide the msn id of the agent. Google Talk Provide the google talk id of the agent. Skype Provide the skype id of the agent Twitter Provide the twitter handle of the agent. ID This field is auto-populated. Sorting Agents To sort Agents, double click on second column and drag/drop to set ordering. Membership Overview Memberships in Extension are required to set user group level based on the monthly/Yearly pay plan the user selects. Using membership plans, you can decide how much to charge a user and how many listings a user can make for a particular membership plan. Membership are well integrated with Joomla groups and have a dependency on each other. Ensure that you have created Joomla groups before creating membership plans. By doing this, you can select groups when creating membership.  Create a new Membership Plan Click Components > Extension > Membership Plans > New to create a new membership plan as shown in the following image: Screen 1: Create new membership plan First membership plan should be a Free (basic plan). When user logs into the Front Admin, he will be assigned to that plan. From that point, User can upgrade his membership to paid plans. Edit Membership Plan If you want to edit existing entries, you can either click the entry from the Membership screen or select the check box next to the entry, and then click  Edit.   The following image shows the Edit Plan screen. Screen 2: Edit Plan screen The following table explains the different options seen. Name Provide a name for the membership plan. Number of Listings Provide the number of listings the users in the plan can create. Group ID Select the Joomla user group ID for the plan. It is recommended that you create your membership under the Registered group. Number of Images Provide the number of images the users in the plan can add. Price Monthly Provide the monthly charge for the plan. Price Annually Provide the annual charge for the plan. Best Value Best value badge, that shows in Front Admin (informative) No of Premium Listings Provide the number of premium listings the users in the plan can create. Attachments Enable to allow users to add attachments to listings. Video Enable to allow users to add Video link to the listings. Custom Fields Enable custom fields for particular plan. Custom field needs to be assign into Paid Groups to be shown here . ID This field is auto generated. Adding paid custom fields to the Membership plans For adding a custom field to the membership plan, the field group needs to be set to Paid item. Click Extension > Custom Fields . Click the field you want to add to the membership plan as a paid item. Change the Field Group to Paid item for the Item view and Paid items for the Items view as shown in the following image: Screen 4: Adding a paid custom field This field needs to be enabled in the membership plan as shown in the following image. Screen 5: Enabling the paid custom field This field can be seen in the front admin under the membership plan as follows: Screen 6: Viewing the paid custom field Membership expiry email configurations Before the membership expires, an email can be sent to a user that informs them about his membership nearing expiration. The setting can be seen in the following image: Screen 3: Configure expiry email field Cron Setting for Membership expiry check Under your hosting panel a link needs to be added that launches a script. This script checks all users’ membership and sends an email if membership is about to expire: curl -sS 'http://yourdomain.com?option=com_jomdirectory&task=expiry.send' or wget -q -O /dev/null 'http://yourdomain.com?option=com_jomdirectory&task=expiry.send' If you are unaware about where the cron setting needs to configured in the hosting panel, contact your hosting support center. Ensure that the script is launched every day at a particular time consistently. Set Single User expiry date and group To set plan expiry and attach a group for each user, do the following: Click Users > User Manager . Click the user for whom you want to set the membership expiry. Click the Additional Options tab. Provide the expiration date in the Plan expiry field. Click the Assigned User Groups tab. Select the check box next to the group you want to attach the user to for a particular membership plan as shown in the following image. Click Save . For more information about membership expiration setting, see Configuration documentation. Creating a new Group for Membership Plans In order to add users to groups for membership plans, you must create a super group named JomEstate. Then, under it you must create groups for each of your membership plan. These groups are used to provide Group ID when creating a membership plan. Users created using User Manager can be linked to each of these membership plan groups. To create the JomEstate group and other groups, do the following: Click  Users  >  Groups  >  Add New Group . Provide a name for the group. We need to create JomEstate group before creating other groups. So, provide the name as  JomEstate . Repeat steps 1 and 2, but select the parent as JomEstate. Click  Save . Name JomEstate for the main group is mandatory, however groups for membership under that group can have any names e.g. Lite, Pro or Free, Basic etc... User Permissions based on groups For the users to access Front Admin certain user permissions need to be granted. These settings need to be done in the JomEstate and Comdev Options. To provide user permissions for JomEstate, do the following: Click  Components  >  JomEstate Click  Options  from the right-hand side of the screen. Click  Permissions . Provide the permissions as shown in the following image. Click  Save . User permissions also need to be set for Comdev extension as explained here. Click  Components  >  Comdev . Click  Options  from the right-hand side of the screen. Click  Comdev . Provide the permissions as shown in the following image. Click  Save . Users, which belongs to Joomla group JomEstate, will now have access to Front Admin. If Permissions for the Comdev component are not set, users would not be able to upload images. A 500 error would show that permissions are denied.  Messages Overview Messages related to the Contact form available on each listing. If the user wants to contact Owner of the listing, a copy of the email will be saved under Messages. Additional send email copy to admin can be set under Configuration The messages are always sent to the owner of the listing. The user email address is taken from the User Account settings. The Contact area on the listing page is as seen in the following image. The options are provided as given here: Screen 1: Sending a message on the site Viewing messages Once the user accepts the Terms and Conditions and the Privacy Policy, he clicks Send Email. The email is now available for the owner of the listing to view as seen in the following image: All the messages that are sent through the site from the Extension listings can be seen on backend Messages section. To view a message, hover the mouse pointer over the message as shown in the following image. Screen 2: View the message If you want to archive older messages or any message, select the checkbox next to the message and click Archive .  Messages sent using the contact form are available on the Messages tab for the owner of the listings. You can view the message or delete it based on your requirement. Front Admin Messages To view messages, from Front Admin, click the  Messages tab to see the following screen. Configuration Overview The JomEstate extension can be configured using the options provided with it. You can control multiple factors such as SEO, Printing, Security, Image widths, and more using the options provided. General tab This tab controls the elements for Layout, SEO, Security, Contact, and Print options. The following image shows the options available on the General tab. Screen 1: General tab The following table explains the different options seen on the screen. Layout Choose Layout Select a layout based on existing components. Global layout is selected by default.   Default Listings Sort Select the Listings from the following options: Latest Updated Alphabetically Rated DESC Rated ASC Most Viewed   Listings Per Page Select 15, 30, or 60 listings per page.   Premium Listings on Top Enable to see premium listings on top. Layout Elements Enable Print Enable the “Print” button on listing pages.   Enable Tell a Friend Enable the “Tell a Friend” button on listing pages.   Enable Save Listings Enable the “Save” button on listing pages.   Enable Social Networking Enable social networking buttons on listing pages.   Enable Address Show the listing address on listing pages.   Enable Short Descr. Enable short description.   Enable Youtube Enable YouTube video embedded on listing pages.   Item Map Enable google map in the detailed view - location tab   Enable Image Enable display of image on listing pages.   Listings Map Enable Google map on the listings (items menu link)   Enable Date Enable date on listings   Enable Energy Class Enable Energy Class for the listing Contact Email Send To Enable Send Email button on listing pages.   Enable Contact Enable the contact function on listing pages.   Send Copy to Agent's Company Enable to send a copy of the email to the agent's company's registered email.   Enable Terms & Privacy Activate a check-button for TOS and Privacy statements on contact requests.   Terms & Condition Provide Terms & Condition statement by category.   Privacy Policy Choose Privacy Policy by category. Security Enable Captcha Enable Captcha for non-registered/logged-in users. Captcha needs to be configured in Plugins -> ReCaptcha and enabled under Joomla Global Configuration   Enable Captcha for Registered Users Enable Captcha for registered users as well. SEO Maximum Characters for Meta Title The maximum amount of characters used in the meta title.   Maximum Characters for Meta Description The maximum amount of characters used in the meta-description. Print Print Location Print the map on print requests. Other Enable Powered By Link Enable the “powered by” link on listing pages. Media tab This tab provides options to control display of media such as images or videos on the listing pages. Screen 2: Media tab The following table explains the options seen on the screen. Default Image Library Select the default image library for the listings component between “GD” and “iMagick”.  For more information see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GD_Graphics_Library http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagick   Max Attachment Size The component wide settings for maximum Attachment size in kilo-byte. (1024 KB = 1 MB) Video Width Embedded Video width in pixels.  (size of the grey-box video player)  Default Youtube.com size is either 480×385 for a 4:3 video, or 640×385 for a 16:9 video. Video Height Embedded Video height in pixels.  (size of the grey-box video player)  Default Youtube.com size is either 480×385 for a 4:3 video, or 640×385 for a 16:9 video. Allowed Files Extensions Comma separated list of allowed attachment file-extensions. Listing Image Width The main listing image width in pixels. Listing Image Format The format for the main 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. Items Logo Image Width Image width in pixels for Items Logo on the listing page. Item Logo Image Width Image width in pixels for Item Logo on the listing page. Main Gallery Image Width Image width in pixels for main gallery image. Ensure that the width value given here is as wide as or more than the slideshow width (generally 800-1200 pixels). If this is not done, the slideshow images will be blurred.   Main Gallery Image Height Image height in pixels for main gallery image. Main Gallery Image Format The format for the main gallery 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. Gallery Image Width Image width in pixels on the photo gallery on the Items view (Gallery tab). Based on the dimension you provide here, the image can be seen as follows:   Gallery Image Format The format for the main 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. After the images width or format are changed in the Media tab, ensure that you clear the cache for JomEstate extension. Click System > Clear Cache -> check com_jomcomdev to clear the Joomla cache for our extension. If possible, image format should be constant for both component and modules. Otherwise, cache issues may appear.  Currency & Price tab This tab provides options to control display of currency formats for listings. Screen 3: Currency & Price tab The following table explains options seen on the screen. Currency Select the currency to use. Additional currencies can be added by editing a config file administrator/components/com_jomestate/config.xml Vat The current vat rate for estates in the operating country. Decimal Digits Select the number of decimal digits required. Number Format Select the number format most suitable for your currency. Display Digits Select the format for the digits. Currency Position Select if your currency sign will appear before or after the price. Integrations tab This tab provides options to control map integration for listings. Screen 4: Integrations tab The following table explains the options seen on the screen. Map Type Select the map type from Google maps. Satellite Hybrid Terrain   Default Zoom Select the default zoom factor for the listing map. Listings (Items) map zoom is calculated automatically based on all listings and can't be adjusted, same apply for the ajax map search module. Map Starting Location Default location or starting point for map search. Front Admin This tab controls how the menu links are seen on the front admin for JomEstate. It also provides other options related to front admin. Screen 5: Front Admin tab The following table explains the options seen on the screen. Default New User Group Set default group (membership) for users which are not assigned into any component group. Usually it is the first free group. Welcome Article-ID Set the component's welcome article from Joomla articles. Help Article-ID Set the component's help article from Joomla articles. Profile Menu Link Set the page for the Profile Menu Link. Login Menu Link Set the page for the Login Menu Link. View Profile Menu Link Set the page for the View Profile Menu Link. Approve Listings When listings are added from the Front Admin, they will not be published unless the site admin approves it. Enable Alias For Non-English Characters Enable to set Non-English titles in other languages automatically Enable Paypal Enable the Paypal facility for user subscriptions. Paypal Email Address Provide the Paypal email that will receive the payments. PDT token Provide your Paypal PDT token for secure payments. Use Paypal Sandbox Enable for testing your configuration with the Paypal sandbox facility. Paypal Sandbox Merchant Email Enable to set your merchant sandbox email address for receiving payments. Paymens success article ID Provide the article from Joomla articles that points to the page that the user will go to after payment is made. Membership expiration reminder Provide the number of days after which a notice will be sent about membership expiry. For this configuration, you need to set the Cron job. See Cron Job Settings for more information. Monthly plan Enable to set monthly payment in membership plans. Permissions This tab provides options to control permissions for different groups. For more information about how to configure permissions, see the Joomla documentation. User Guide Front Admin Overview Overview The dashboard gives a quick snapshot of all the tasks that you can perform using the Front Admin. It also provided multiple menu items that you can use to create listings, view listings, view membership plans, and so on. The other options that you can control are approving reviews, viewing statistics, upgrading membership for a particular user, and so on. For the Menu to be able to access the JomEstate Front Admin, certain settings need to be made. You must create the Profile Edit Menu link, Admin Menu link, and Profile View Menu link in the JomEstate Front Admin configurations to be able to access Front Admin. For more information, see the Front Admin Options section in the  Menu Items  documentation. Accessing the dashboard When you access the home URL for JomEstate extension, do the following: Click  Front Admin . Provide the login details for the required user and click  Submit . You can access Front Admin either as an agent or a company. Based on the login used, the pages displayed change too. The dashboard  as seen by a company with various options can be seen as shown in the following image. Screen 2: Dashboard screen for company login You can click the options as seen in the following table. Report Most Viewed graph View the statistics for the site based on the listings viewership. Membership Upgrade Your Membership NOW! Upgrade to another membership plan. Click Upgrade on the plan tab for the plan you want to upgrade to as shown here.   Profile Profile View the profile details for your profile. Manage Listings Overview You can view all the listings created for your site or create a new listing. The listings created let you add descriptions, images, provide ratings, and much more.  Creating a New Listing The following image shows the Listings screen. Screen 1: Listing screen The following table explains the different options seen on the screen. Button Usage Insert New Creates a new listing entry. You must create separate entries for each level of depth that you need. Publish Publishes the created listing entry. Unpublish Removes the entry from the list of published entries. Delete Deletes the listing entry that is not required anymore. Adding a new listing To create a new listing, click  Add New  from the Dashboard Menu list. The new listing page is displayed. New Listing tab This tab provides options to add title, description, select category, and other options for the Listing as seen in the following image: The following table shows the options available: Area Options Usage Edit Listing area Title Title for the Listing.   Text Area Provide a description for the listing.   Short Description Provide a short description for the listing.   Article Button Click to select a relevant article. If an article is provided, it can be seen under the Details tab in the listing. Buttons for the editor are available when enabled under Site Backadmin -> Plugins and WYSIWYG editor turned On in Joomla Configuration.   Page Break Button Insert a page break in the displayed text.   Toggle editor Button Toggle between plain text and rich text editor   Read More Button Insert a separation for creating short description. Any content above the dotted line is displayed as the short description. In the above image, the red dotted line appears when you click Read More . Any content above the red line is the short description , while the entire content is the long description . Also, note that if there is no content after the Read More tag, the event description will be blank when users view the listing. Ensure that you have content after the Read More tag.   Status Select the required status. Published Unpublished Trashed Archived   Featured Enable to make the listing appear as featured listing. Feature Count is being checked when saving listing for the selected Membership Plan.   Language Select the language for which the listing needs to appear for. For multiple languages , you must create separate entries for each language.   Category Category where the listing will be published. Category Type Category Type such as house, apartment and so on based on the category types for your site. Energy Class Select the energy class for the listing. Address area Address Address of the listing   Full address Street and house number of the listing - If both Address and Full Address specified, map location will position automatically. Location area Maps latitude It utilizes the GEO-location based on Google Maps. Provide the latitude information for the location mapping.   Maps longitude The information provided in this field is used to map the exact location. It utilizes the GEO-location based on Google Maps. Provide the longitude information for the location mapping.   Maps Search Search for a specific location. Type in the location and press Enter to go to the exact location. For more information about how the location mapping is done in the listing, see Listings in the Administrative Guide. Custom Fields area This area includes all the custom fields created for a particular category. If the custom field is not applied to a specific category, it can be seen for all categories when creating a listing. The following image shows the Custom Fields tab screen. For more information about creating custom fields, see  Custom Fields . Price tab This tab includes pricing information for the listing. Screen 4: Price tab Provide the options as given in the following table. Add New Click to add a new pricing item. Price Netto Provide a value. Price Group Select from the Pricing options you have created for the site. Images tab Screen 5: Images tab To add an image, do the following: Click  Add Image . Provide options as seen in the following image. You can provide values using the following table. Title or alias Provide a title for the Image. Categories Select from the following options: Slideshow - detailed view main gallery Gallery - in gallery tab Features- displayed under features. Status Select the required status. Published Unpublished Order Order in which you want the image to appear. File Click Choose File and provide the image. Description Provide a description about the image. Click  Save . For more information about editing images or deleting images, see  Images  in the Administrative Guide. You can also provide YouTube video links for the listing. Provide the link as shown in the above image. Attachments tab Click the  Edit icon to edit an attachment that is linked to the listing. Click the   Delete icon to delete the attachment. Attachments are detected automatically based on file extension that’s are allowed in Configuration. Some features or tabs are enabled based on the user membership. If the user is attached to a membership plan that does not allow adding attachments, he will not be able to see any options under the Attachments tab. These membership limitations are checked for when you save the listing. User Membership Overview You can view the user membership plan details on the Front Admin page. If eligible for, you can also upgrade the user membership plan to a higher plan. User membership plan can be upgraded through the Front Admin. You can perform other membership tasks from the back end using information given in the  Membership section of the Administrator's Guide. The following screen shows the Membership details for the user. Screen 1: Membership details To upgrade the user membership plan you can either click  Upgrade Your Membership NOW  or click the Membership Plans tab on the Front Admin page. The membership plans that are available for upgrade are shown as seen in the following image. The Membership Plans tab on the Front Admin page is available only if you are logged in as a company. Screen 2: Membership plans Click  Upgrade  to upgrade to the higher plan. You can then select an appropriate mode of payments and complete the transaction. To see the Upgrade button for any plan, ensure that you have configured PayPal or other payment gateway details. For more information, see PayPal Configuration . Screen 3: PayPal configurations Listings Messages Overview Messages related to the Contact form available on each listing. If the user wants to contact Owner of the listing, a copy of the email will be saved under Messages. Additional send email copy to admin can be set under Configuration The messages are always sent to the owner of the listing. The user email address is taken from the User Account settings. The Contact area on the listing page is as seen in the following image. The options are provided as given here: Screen 1: Sending a message on the site Viewing messages Once the user accepts the Terms and Conditions and the Privacy Policy, he clicks Send Email. The email is now available for the owner of the listing to view as seen in the following image: All the messages that are sent through the site from the Extension listings can be seen on backend Messages section. To view a message, hover the mouse pointer over the message as shown in the following image. Screen 2: View the message If you want to archive older messages or any message, select the checkbox next to the message and click Archive .  Messages sent using the contact form are available on the Messages tab for the owner of the listings. You can view the message or delete it based on your requirement. Front Admin Messages To view messages, from Front Admin, click the  Messages tab to see the following screen. Adding a new Agent Overview You can add agents that belong to your company and provide them separate access. The agents are listed in the Agents tab under Front Admin as shown in the following image. Screen 1: Agents tab You can select what to do next based on the following table. Insert New Click to add a new agent information. Publish Click to publish the agent information. Unpublish Click to unpublish agent information. Delete Click to delete the agent information from the site. Adding a new Agent To add a new agent to the company, click Insert New from the Agents tab. Screen 2: Adding a new agent For detailed information about information that needs to included in each field, see  Agents in the Administrator's guide. Profile & Settings (User Profile) Overview After creating a user, a user can edit his profile details such as password, email address, language settings, timezone settings, and much more. To edit your profile, from the Front Admin, click  Profile  as shown in the following screen. Screen 1: Profile screen Editing a profile On the Profile screen, click  Edit Profile  as shown in the following screen. Screen 2: Edit Profile screen The following screen shows the different fields you can edit for a profile. Screen 3: Edit profile fields Provide the values as given in the following table. Edit Your Profile Name Provide a name.   Username Cannot be edited.   Password Provide a new password.   Confirm Password Confirm the new password.   Email Address Provide a new email address.   Confirm email Address Confirm the new email address. Basic Settings Editor Select one of the following: Editor – CodeMirror Editor-none Editor-TinyMCE   Timezone Select a timezone.   Frontend language Select the required language for front end.   Backend Template Style Select from the available templates or keep as default.   Backend language Select the required language for back end.   Help Site Select from the available Help site options for your required language. Additional Options Logo Click Choose File to select an image for the user profile picture.   Eventbrite User Key Provide the key for JomEstate extension.   Plan expiry This field is controlled by the site admin. Modules Latest Items Module Overview This module helps you create the panel where latest listings are displayed. You can decide where to position the latest panel on the page and also control on which pages the panel should appear. To view all the available modules, click  Extension  >  Module Manager . The modules available are listed as seen in the following image. Screen 6: Module Manager listing Editing the JomEstate Latest 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. Module tab This tab controls the layout where the latest listings panel is to be displayed on the screen. Screen 8: Module tab Provide the options as per the following table. Layout Select the required layout in the Layout field. The available options are: Slider – Displays the latest listings in the form of a slideshow. Default –Displays the latest listings in default format.   Count Number of listings that should be listed in the panel. Number of Characters Number of characters that will be displayed in the short description for listing thumbnail. Image Width Provide the image width for the thumbnail image. If Slider Layout set, image width must be same size than Slider Width or larger. 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. Custom Fields Enable to show custom fields. Short Description Enable to show short description along with the listing image. Show Category Enable to show category for the listing. Show Price Enable to show the listing price. Category Enable 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 Slider Width Slider width in pixels Slider Height Slider height in pixels Slide Delay (seconds) Slideshow delay in seconds Slider Shadow Enable to provide the shadow effect. Slider Thumbs Enable to show image thumbnails Slider Caption Enable to show the image caption. Show Title Show or hide the title for the search panel. Position Select the position based on your Joomla Template. Status Select from the given options. Published Unpublished Trashed Start Publishing Provide a date when the latest listings panel should be published. Finish Publishing Provide a date when the latest listings 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 JomEstate Latest 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. Screen 9: Menu Assignment tab Select the required menu for module assignment. The available options are: On all pages No pages Only on the pages selected On all pages except those selected Search Module Overview Modules are extensions that assist in creating blocks of information on your site. They aggregate information from components and can be placed in predefined positions on the page based on your Joomla template. JomEstate Search module This module helps you create the search panel with fields that are searchable. All the fields that are defined as searchable during creation can be seen on this panel. You can decide where to position the search panel on the page and also control on which pages the panel should appear. To view all the available modules, click  Extension  >  Module Manager .  To create a new module, click  New . Select the JomEstate Search module. Provide the information as given in the following sections. Click  Save  to save the module. Editing the JomEstate Search 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. 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: Address – Horizontal Keyword field, category and address search field as seen in the following image:   Side Search – Vertical Side panel to filter search results as seen in the following image:   Custom fields that have the Field can be Searched field enabled are seen in this panel. For more information, see Custom Fields in the Administrative Guide. Single Search – Single keyword search field as seen in the following image:   Show Title Show or hide the title for the search panel. Position Select the position based on your Joomla Template. Status Select from the following options. Published Unpublished Trashed 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 JomEstate 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. Screen 4: Menu Assignment tab Select the required menu for module assignment. The available options are: On all pages No pages Only on the pages selected On all pages except those selected   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. 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 Display category selection on the left of the wide map layout Display Address Display address selection on the left of the wide map layout Display Keyword 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. Screen 4: Menu Assignment tab Select the required menu for module assignment. The available options are: On all pages No pages Only on the pages selected On all pages except those selected 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 " marke r" 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: 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. 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. 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. Screen 4: Menu Assignment tab Select the required menu for module assignment. The available options are: On all pages No pages Only on the pages selected On all pages except those selected