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Events Listings

Overview

Properties are nothing but the product listings that you want to create in the JomEvents. 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.

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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:

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Screen 2: Edit Listing screen

The following table shows the options available:

Title

Title for the Listing.

Alias

URL alias for “SEF/SEO” URL.

Text Area

Provide a description for the listing.

You can create a short description as well a long description.

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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.

Image Click to add an image for the listing.
Read More Click to separate the short description from the long description.

Toggle editor Button

Toggle between plain text and rich text editor

Category Select the category for the listing.
Venue Select the venue for the listing.
Event Start Date Provide the start date for the listing.
Event Finish Date Provide the finish date for the listing.

EventBrite Event ID

Provide the EventBrite event id for integration with the event listing.

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
Published By Select the user who published 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.

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.

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Screen 5: Custom Fields tab

For more information about creating custom fields, see Custom Fields.

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

 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

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 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 .

Video
YouTube

Provide the YouTube video URL in this field as shown in the following image.

Vimeo Provide the Vimeo video URL in this field.

Metadata tab

This tab includes the Meta title and Meta description for the listing as shown in the following image:

Screen 8: Metadata tab