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March.25.2013
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 News Scrollbar module
REQUIREMENTS
Joomla! v1.7.x, Joomla! v2.5.x and Joomla! 3.0.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
1. This module with sample layout is below:
- Title of Article: Title of the article showing
- Article Description: This is the intro text in the description of Article
2. The parameters are divided up into the following areas - sample in Joomla 2.5.x package:
- Basic 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 6 themes available
- Category - Choose the source of category that is used with this module
- Sort Order By - Allow to choose the criterion for order:
- Recently Added
- Most Views
- Recently Modified
- Title
- Ordering
- Random
- Source Filter - Allow you to filter articles with 3 options:
- All item: Show all article
- Only frontpage: Show frontpage articles only
- None frontpage: Hide articles which are frontpage article
- Items per page - Allow to set number of items which you want to show in a page on the module
- Total Columns - Allow to show total columns of item in the module
- Total Rows - Allow to show total row of item in the module
- Item width - Allow to set width of items. This param is used for only theme 4
CONTENT OPTIONS
- Show Title - Show/hide the title of article
- Title Link - Enable/Disable link for title of article
- Title max characters - Allow to set the number of characters in article title.
- Title color - Allow to set color for article title
- Title Tooltip Color - Allow to set color in tooltip title
- Show Desc - Show/hide article description
- Description Max Characters - Allow to set the number of characters in article description.
- Description Color - Allow to set color for article description
- Keep HTML - Strip html tag in description or keep them
- Show Read More - Show/hide Read More
- Read More Text - Allow you to alter the text for 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
- Link for Image - Enable/Disable link of image
- Image width - Allow you to set the width of the image
- Image height - Allow you to set the height of the 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
