# 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 provides multiple menu items that you can use to create listings, view listings, viewing offers, and so on. The other options that you can control are viewing statistics, viewing messages, and so on.

For the Menu to be able to access the JomOffers 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 JomOffers Front Admin configurations to be able to access Front Admin. For more information, see the <span style="line-height: 1.4285715; background-color: transparent;">Front Admin Options section in the [Menu Items](http://confluence.comdev.eu/display/JD2/Menu+Items#MenuItems-FrontAdminOptions) documentation.</span>

## Accessing the dashboard

When you access the home URL for JomOffers extension, do the following:

1. Click **Front Admin**.
2. Provide the login details for the required user and click **Submit**.

The dashboard with various options can be seen as shown in the following image.

[![obraz.png](https://wiki.comdev.eu/uploads/images/gallery/2024-03/scaled-1680-/T98obraz.png)](https://wiki.comdev.eu/uploads/images/gallery/2024-03/T98obraz.png)

<span class="confluence-embedded-file-wrapper confluence-embedded-manual-size">![](https://wiki.comdev.eu/download/attachments/8585303/jomoff_adminguide_54.jpg)</span>

**Screen 1: Dashboard screen**

You can click the options as seen in the following table.

<div bis_skin_checked="1" class="table-wrap" id="bkmrk-listing-stats-shows-"><table class="confluenceTable tablesorter tablesorter-default stickyTableHeaders" role="grid" style="padding: 0px; width: 100%;"><tbody aria-live="polite" aria-relevant="all"><tr role="row"><td class="confluenceTd" colspan="1" style="width: 16.5618%;">##### Listing stats

</td><td class="confluenceTd" colspan="1" style="width: 20.6446%;">Shows the general statistics about the listings</td><td class="confluenceTd" colspan="1" style="width: 62.7936%;"><span class="confluence-embedded-file-wrapper confluence-embedded-manual-size">![](https://wiki.comdev.eu/download/attachments/5734996/frontend_listing_stats.png)</span></td></tr><tr role="row"><td class="confluenceTd" style="width: 16.5618%;">##### Report

</td><td class="confluenceTd" style="width: 20.6446%;">Most Viewed graph

</td><td class="confluenceTd" style="width: 62.7936%;">View the statistics for the site based on the listings viewership.

</td></tr><tr role="row"><td class="confluenceTd" style="width: 16.5618%;">##### Membership

</td><td class="confluenceTd" style="width: 20.6446%;">Upgrade Your Membership NOW!

</td><td class="confluenceTd" style="width: 62.7936%;">Upgrade to another membership plan. Click Upgrade on the plan tab for the plan you want to upgrade to as shown here.

<span class="confluence-embedded-file-wrapper confluence-embedded-manual-size">![](https://wiki.comdev.eu/download/attachments/5734996/Dashboard_Membership.jpg)</span>

</td></tr><tr role="row"><td class="confluenceTd" style="width: 16.5618%;">##### Profile

</td><td class="confluenceTd" style="width: 20.6446%;">Profile

</td><td class="confluenceTd" style="width: 62.7936%;">View the profile details for your profile.

</td></tr><tr role="row"><td class="confluenceTd" style="width: 16.5618%;">##### Approve Comments

</td><td class="confluenceTd" style="width: 20.6446%;"></td><td class="confluenceTd" style="width: 62.7936%;">Click the review to see the listing page it applies to. To approve a listing, select the check box next to the review comment and click **Approve**.

If you want to delete the comment, click **Delete**.

<span class="confluence-embedded-file-wrapper confluence-embedded-manual-size">![](https://wiki.comdev.eu/download/attachments/5734996/frontend_comments.png)</span>

<div bis_skin_checked="1" class="confluence-information-macro confluence-information-macro-information conf-macro output-block" data-hasbody="true" data-macro-name="info"><div bis_skin_checked="1" class="confluence-information-macro-body">Approve comments appears only when enabled under JomDirectory Options -&gt; Front Admin settings</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table>

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# Manage Listings

### Overview

You can view all the listings created for your site or create a new listing. The created listings let you add descriptions, images, provide ratings, and much more.

### Creating a New Listing

The following image shows the Listings screen.

[![obraz.png](https://wiki.comdev.eu/uploads/images/gallery/2024-03/scaled-1680-/wQ5obraz.png)](https://wiki.comdev.eu/uploads/images/gallery/2024-03/wQ5obraz.png)**<span class="confluence-embedded-file-wrapper confluence-embedded-manual-size">![](https://wiki.comdev.eu/download/attachments/5735004/frontend_listings.png)</span>**

**Screen 1: Listing screen**

The following table explains the different options seen on the screen.

<div bis_skin_checked="1" class="table-wrap" id="bkmrk-button-usage-insert-"><table class="confluenceTable"><thead><tr><td class="highlight-blue confluenceTd" data-highlight-colour="blue">**Button**

</td><td class="highlight-blue confluenceTd" data-highlight-colour="blue">**Usage**

</td></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td class="confluenceTd">**Insert New**

</td><td class="confluenceTd">Creates a new Address entry. You must create separate entries for each level of depth that you need.

</td></tr><tr><td class="confluenceTd">**Publish**

</td><td class="confluenceTd">Publishes the created address entry.

</td></tr><tr><td class="confluenceTd">**Unpublish**

</td><td class="confluenceTd">Removes the entry from the list of published address entries

</td></tr><tr><td class="confluenceTd">**Delete**

</td><td class="confluenceTd">Deletes the address entry that is not required anymore.

</td></tr></tbody></table>

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# User Membership



# Listing Messages

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# Making an Offer / Bid

## Overview

For every listing made, contractors or companies can provide an offer. This offer includes information such as pricing, time taken to complete the task and description about the services provided.

### Making an Offer

To make an offer, navigate to the listing that you want to make an offer to. The following image shows the offer screen.

[![obraz.png](https://wiki.comdev.eu/uploads/images/gallery/2024-03/scaled-1680-/dzbobraz.png)](https://wiki.comdev.eu/uploads/images/gallery/2024-03/dzbobraz.png)

**Screen 1: Making an offer**

Let us understand each of the buttons seen on the screen using the following table.

<table class="confluenceTable tablesorter tablesorter-default stickyTableHeaders" id="bkmrk-title-title-of-the-o" role="grid" style="padding: 0px;"><tbody aria-live="polite" aria-relevant="all"><tr role="row"><td class="confluenceTd">**Title**

</td><td class="confluenceTd">Title of the offer

</td></tr><tr role="row"><td class="confluenceTd">**Price**

</td><td class="confluenceTd">Price of services

</td></tr><tr role="row"><td class="confluenceTd">**Price Negotiable**

</td><td class="confluenceTd">Slide to select whether price is negotiable

</td></tr><tr role="row"><td class="confluenceTd">**Time to Complete (days)**

</td><td class="confluenceTd">Duration taken to complete the services

</td></tr><tr role="row"><td class="confluenceTd" colspan="1">**Description**</td><td class="confluenceTd" colspan="1">Detailed description of the services offered.</td></tr></tbody></table>

### Make a Bid

To make a bid navigate to the listing that you want to make an offer to. The following image shows the offer screen.

[![obraz.png](https://wiki.comdev.eu/uploads/images/gallery/2024-03/scaled-1680-/m3Wobraz.png)](https://wiki.comdev.eu/uploads/images/gallery/2024-03/m3Wobraz.png)

<p class="callout warning">Please notice that in order to place an offer user would need to be logged in.</p>