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March.23.2013
First of all, make sure you always download the newest version. When you buy the module, you already have the last version.
The following documentation is applied for packages from version 1.0 of
SJ Category Summary (for Content component),
SJ VM Category Summary (for Virtuemart Component) and
SJ K2 Category Summary (for K2 Component) and module.
Refer guide for Joomla! 1.5 packages
here
REQUIREMENTS
Joomla! v1.7.x and Joomla! v2.5.x latest stable versions are highly recommended.
INSTALLATION
1. Prepare your module package (zip file; please UNZIP first if it is indicated in the file name)
2. All steps are in administrator of Joomla!:
- In your Administrator page, go to Extensions -> Extension Manager
In this page, click Browse, select module package.
- Then click Upload & Install
- Please wait for module being installed, usually within several seconds
- Now go to Extensions -> Module Manager, click Select Type box and choose the module you have installed
- Then click the module listed below to configure it as SETTINGS part hereafter
SETTINGS
Let's examine all the detail settings of SJ Category Summary on Joomla! v2.5.x package
1. This module with sample layout is below:
- Image of Article: This is the first image in the description of Article
- Description of Article: This is the text of article's content
2. The parameters are divided up into the following areas:
- Basic Options
- Source Options
- Content Options
- Image Options
- Advanced Options
BASIC OPTIONS
- Module Class Suffix - Allow you to choose another CSS class that suits your template. Please refer here
- Select a theme - Allow you to choose one of 3 themes available
- Module Width - Allow to set width of module
SOURCE OPTIONS
- Category - Choose categories that you want to show in this module
- Include Subcategories - Choose article in subcategories OR not
- Sort Order By - Allow to sort article by one of these that are included:
- Recently Added
- Most View
- Recently Modified
- Ordering
- Title
- Random
- Source Filter - Allow to filter article with:
- All article
- None Frontpage
- Only Frontpage
- Item Count - Allow to set number of items visible
- Item Order (Apply for Theme 1) - Allow to show order of one item when showing module
CONTENT OPTIONS
- Show Category Title - Show/hide title of category
- Category Title Link - Enable/Disable link for Title of category
- Category Title Max Chars - Allow to set the number of characters in category title. Choosing -1 if you want to show full title.
- Show Category Description - Show/hide description of category
- Category Des Max Chars - Allow to set the number of characters in category description. Choosing -1 if you want to show full title.
- Category Keeping HTML - Strip html tag in description of category
- Show Item Tilte - Show/hide title of item
- Item Title Link - Enable/Disable link for Title of item
- Title Max Chars - Allow to set the number of characters in article title. Choosing -1 if you want to show full title.
- Show Product Description - Show/hide description of item
- Desc Max Chars - Allow to set the number of characters in item description. Choosing -1 if you want to show full description.
- Item Keeping HTML - Strip html tag in description of category
- Show Read More - Show/hide Read More
- Read More Text - Allow you to alter the text for Read more...
- Show all items - Show/hide all items
- View all - Select option of view all items
- Category Title Color - Allow to set color for category title
- Category Des Color - Allow to change color of category description
- Description Color - Allow to change color of description
- Item Background - Allow to change color of item
- Read More Color - Allow to change color of Read More
- Link Target - Set target for links clicked:
- Custom URL - This param allows you to customize the link of each article. If you do not want to go to the detail page of article, you can change the link to another. In the textarea of Custom HTML, please use the following syntax::
- ArticleID_1:New_URL_1
- ArticleID_2:New_URL_2
- ...
With:
- ArticleID_1, ArticleID_2,... are ids of articles. You can see the Id column in Article Manager page
- New_URL_1, New_URL_2, New_URL_3 are links which you want to replace the orginal links. Format: http://www.newlink.com
IMAGE OPTIONS
- Show image - Show/hide image of article
- Link for Image - Enable/Disable link of image
- Small Image Width - Allow you to set the width of the small image
- Small Image Height - Allow you to set the height of the small image
- Image Width - Allow you to set the width of the main image
- Image Height - Allow you to set the height of the main image
- Image Background - Allow to set the color of image background
- Image mode - Allow you to choose the mode of image resizing
- None
- Center
- Fill
- Fit
- Stretch
ADVANCED OPTIONS
- Include Jquery - Allow to include jQuery lib OR not
- Pre-text - The content to show at the top of module
- Post-text - The content to show at the end of module
- Caching
- Use Global: Turn on caching
- No Caching: Turn off caching
- Cache Times - The time to cache
