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| ====== Configuration ====== | ====== Configuration ====== | ||
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| - | **Swap Factory** offers an easy to use and easy to manage exchange system of the goods added by users as classified ads. It gives you, as administrator, access to many settings and features that are configurable from the backend. While the component is installed with default settings allowing it to be up and running almost instantly, it still needs some certain settings in order to be used at its full potential.\\ | + | **Swap Factory** offers an easy to use and easy to manage exchange system of the goods added by users as classified ads. It gives you, as administrator, access to many settings and features that are configurable from the backend. While the component is installed with default settings allowing your site to be up and running almost instantly, it still needs some certain settings in order to be used at its full potential.\\ |
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| To access most of the **Swap Factory** backend options go to Swap Factory's Control Panel and click on **General Settings**.\\ | To access most of the **Swap Factory** backend options go to Swap Factory's Control Panel and click on **General Settings**.\\ | ||
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| ===== General Settings ===== | ===== General Settings ===== | ||
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| - | Choose the desired **Date and Time format** for your ads. On the right side of the drop-down menu, you can see how the selected format is displayed on the front end after saving the changes. "d" stand for Day, "m" for Month and "Y" for Year. “H:i” is for a 24 hour representation of time while “h:iA” is for a 12 hour. You can allow users to edit the date of their already published ads.\\ | + | Choose the desired **Date and Time format** for your ads. On the right side of the drop-down menu, you can see how the selected format is displayed on the front end after saving the changes. "d" stand for Day, "m" for Month and "Y" for Year. “H:i” is for a 24-hour representation of time while “h:iA” is for a 12-hour. You can allow users to edit the date of their already published ads.\\ |
| **Set expiration hour** allows users to specify an expiration hour for ads (if disabled, the ads expire at midnight).\\ | **Set expiration hour** allows users to specify an expiration hour for ads (if disabled, the ads expire at midnight).\\ | ||
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| - | Enable **Show Contact information** to display users address or emails from details page or listings.\\ | + | Enable **Show Contact information** to display users addresses or emails from the details page or listings.\\ |
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| {{gallery> joomla30:swapfactory:general_settings.png }}\\ | {{gallery> joomla30:swapfactory:general_settings.png }}\\ | ||
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| - | **Messaging on ads** will enable a tab on every ad where users can interact with the sellers for information regarding the items by sending messages. Enable **Allow Guest messaging** so that guests can also use the messaging system. This will require **Messaging on ads** to be enabled.\\ | + | **Messaging on ads** will enable a tab on every ad where users can interact with the sellers for the exchange of information regarding the items by sending messages. Enable **Allow Guest messaging** so that guests can also use the messaging system. This will require **Messaging on ads** to be enabled.\\ |
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| With the messaging system enabled, it is recommended that you also enable **reCaptcha** to protect your website against unwanted bot spam. This will require the user to enter certain letters or numbers that a computer can not read, thus preventing automated spam messages. Further configuration for reCaptcha will be needed on the **[[#spam_protection|Spam Protection]]** tab.\\ | With the messaging system enabled, it is recommended that you also enable **reCaptcha** to protect your website against unwanted bot spam. This will require the user to enter certain letters or numbers that a computer can not read, thus preventing automated spam messages. Further configuration for reCaptcha will be needed on the **[[#spam_protection|Spam Protection]]** tab.\\ | ||
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| - | Enable **Price Field** in order to display an asking price field on every ad. You can make this field mandatory by setting to "Yes" the **Require Price** option found below.\\ | + | Enable the **Price Field** in order to display an asking price field on every ad. You can make this field mandatory by setting to "Yes" the **Require Price** option found below.\\ |
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| - | You can choose the **Decimal symbol** between a dot and a comma. This will be used before the fractional part of a number written in decimal form. The unchosen symbol will be used for digital grouping.\\ | + | You can choose the **Decimal symbol** between a dot and a comma. This will be used before the fractional part of a number, which is written in decimal form. The unchosen symbol will be used for digital grouping.\\ |
| - | Choose how many decimals to be displayed by setting up the **Decimals number** field.\\ | + | Choose how many decimals will be displayed by setting up the **Decimals number** field.\\ |
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| The symbol of the currencies can be displayed before or after the actual prices by setting up the **Currency position** option.\\ | The symbol of the currencies can be displayed before or after the actual prices by setting up the **Currency position** option.\\ | ||
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| Set a **Password** which will be used to safely call the CRON script.\\ | Set a **Password** which will be used to safely call the CRON script.\\ | ||
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| - | Add the number of ads displayed on each page with the **Items per page** field. In case there are more to be displayed than the set value, pagination will be created.\\ | + | Add the number of ads displayed on each page with the **Items per page** field. In case this value is exceeded, pagination will be created.\\ |
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| **Filter includes Subcategories** will display ads from subcategories along with its parent category in the category listing.\\ | **Filter includes Subcategories** will display ads from subcategories along with its parent category in the category listing.\\ | ||
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| - | Enable **Show Countdown** in order to display how much time of availability there is left for every ad by using a Javascript countdown.\\ | + | Enable the **Show Countdown** option in order to display how much time of availability there is left for every ad by using a Javascript countdown.\\ |
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| Choose the **Order** of the ads displayed on listings, by starting or ending date.\\ | Choose the **Order** of the ads displayed on listings, by starting or ending date.\\ | ||
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| {{gallery> joomla30:swapfactory:cron_listing_settings.png }}\\ | {{gallery> joomla30:swapfactory:cron_listing_settings.png }}\\ | ||
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| - | A useful feature offered by our component is that, with the **Enable guest posting** option, visitors will be able to post ads without being logged in. They will just need to insert the name and an email address and then edit the ad with the key received on the email entered. In case the "Pay Per Listing" or "Pay Per Image" items are enabled, the ad will not be published.\\ | + | A useful feature offered by our component is the **Enable guest posting** option. Visitors will be able to post ads without being logged-in. They will just need to insert the name and an email address and then edit the ad with the key received on the entered email. In case the "Pay Per Listing" or "Pay Per Image" items are enabled, the ad will not be published.\\ |
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| - | **Enable Attachment Files** will allow users to attach files to their ads while the **Require Attachment** option will make the files mandatory for each new ad.\\ | + | **Enable Attachment Files** will allow users to attach files to their ads, while the **Require Attachment** option will make the files mandatory for each new ad.\\ |
| - | In case you enabled this feature, you can define the list of **Allowed Attachment extensions** such as zip, rar, txt, etc.\\ | + | In case you enabled this feature, you can define the list of **Allowed Attachment extensions** such as .zip, .rar, .txt, etc.\\ |
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| {{gallery> joomla30:swapfactory:attachments_settings.png }}\\ | {{gallery> joomla30:swapfactory:attachments_settings.png }}\\ | ||
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| ===== Ad Settings ===== | ===== Ad Settings ===== | ||
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| - | **New Ad posting steps** allows you to choose from 2 ways on how the new ads will be created, either a one step posting process, where all the listing information is entered on one page, or another, that will require users to set the category first before completing the rest of the details.\\ | + | **New Ad posting steps** allows you to choose from 2 ways in which the new ads will be created, either a one-step posting process, where all the listing information is entered on one page, or a two-step posting, that will require users to set the category first before completing the rest of the details.\\ |
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| Besides **[[joomla30:swapfactory:config.display#access_control_list|ACL]]**, ads can also be actively moderated. By enabling the **Admin Approval** option, all ads will need to be manually approved by an admin in the backend in order to become published on frontend.\\ | Besides **[[joomla30:swapfactory:config.display#access_control_list|ACL]]**, ads can also be actively moderated. By enabling the **Admin Approval** option, all ads will need to be manually approved by an admin in the backend in order to become published on frontend.\\ | ||
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| - | The availability of ads can be defined by setting up how many days the users can extend their ad for, for how many months it can be published for or for how many months the expired/closed ads will be kept in archive.\\ Adding "0" for the later two means unlimited time. Users can extend ads when expired from "My Ads" page.\\ | + | The availability of ads can be defined by setting up how many days the users can extend their ad for, for how many months it can be published for or for how many months the expired/closed ads will be kept in archive.\\ Adding "0" for the later two means unlimited time. Users can extend ads when expired from the "My Ads" page.\\ |
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| {{gallery> joomla30:swapfactory:swap_adsettingz.png }}\\ | {{gallery> joomla30:swapfactory:swap_adsettingz.png }}\\ | ||
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| - | Enabling the **Wishlist** allows users to set a list of desired items they wish to trade with.\\ | + | Enabling the **Wishlist** allows users to set a list of desired items they wish to trade.\\ |
| - | You can also make the field mandatory for every new ad by enabling **Wishlist Required**, as well as setting a maximum number of items allowed.\\ | + | You can also make this field mandatory for every new ad by enabling **Wishlist Required**, as well as setting a maximum number of items allowed.\\ |
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| Set the **Short description limit** as the maximum number of characters allowed in the short description field.\\ | Set the **Short description limit** as the maximum number of characters allowed in the short description field.\\ | ||
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| There are 2 different ad types that are available for posters:\\ | There are 2 different ad types that are available for posters:\\ | ||
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| - | * **Public Ads** - Regular ads, where all the information can be seen by all users and messages are seen by everyone, unless the admin overrides it and messages can be seen only by logged-in users. | + | * **Public Ads** - Regular ads, where all the information can be seen by all users and messages are seen by everyone, unless the admin overrides it and messages can only be seen by the logged-in users. |
| * **Private Ads** - The owner of the ad and his address is hidden to users. Messages can only be seen by the owner and the user that sent/received the message. | * **Private Ads** - The owner of the ad and his address is hidden to users. Messages can only be seen by the owner and the user that sent/received the message. | ||
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| - | From this area, you can enable/disable these 2 types and also the option to allow users to **Set the ad Type** by themselves, if both auction types are enabled. In case you won't allow them to choose the type, you must choose one of them as default from the **Default ad type** option available below.\\ | + | From this area, you can enable/disable these 2 types and also the option to allow users to **Set the ad Type** by themselves, if both auction types are enabled. In case you won't allow them to choose the type, you must choose one of them as the default one from the **Default ad type** option available below.\\ |
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| - | **Set the ad State** will let posters to set the status of their ads. In case this option is disabled, you will have to choose the default value of the ads' status to either Published or Unpublished upon creating them.\\ | + | **Set the ad State** will let posters set the status of their ads. In case this option is disabled, you will have to choose the default value of the ads' status to either Published or Unpublished upon creating them.\\ |
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| {{gallery> joomla30:swapfactory:listings_settings.png }}\\ | {{gallery> joomla30:swapfactory:listings_settings.png }}\\ | ||
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| On the **Image Settings** tab you can view the current version of the graphic library and to **Enable Images** for listings. In case this feature is disabled, the image gallery on the listings will be unavailable and there will be no option to upload images.\\ | On the **Image Settings** tab you can view the current version of the graphic library and to **Enable Images** for listings. In case this feature is disabled, the image gallery on the listings will be unavailable and there will be no option to upload images.\\ | ||
| - | **Gallery Type** option will allow you to select from 3 different gallery types that are available and selectable from the scrolldown menu: Scroll Gallery, Lytebox, and Picture Slider.\\ | + | The **Gallery Type** option will allow you to select from 3 different gallery types that are available and selectable from the scrolldown menu: Scroll Gallery, Lytebox, and Picture Slider.\\ |
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| - | If the images are enabled, you can define them on the **Size and Limits** area.\\ | + | If images are enabled, you can define them on the **Size and Limits** area.\\ |
| You can add a value for **Maximum picture size**, and also set a limit for the **Maximum number of images per listing**.\\ | You can add a value for **Maximum picture size**, and also set a limit for the **Maximum number of images per listing**.\\ | ||
| The main image of every new ad can be made mandatory by setting the **Require Main Picture for listing** to "Yes".\\ | The main image of every new ad can be made mandatory by setting the **Require Main Picture for listing** to "Yes".\\ | ||
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| There are two image sizes that can be set on this page. These are not for the full-sized versions, but for their thumbnails displayed on the listings and ads details pages.\\ | There are two image sizes that can be set on this page. These are not for the full-sized versions, but for their thumbnails displayed on the listings and ads details pages.\\ | ||
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| - | The **Listing Thumbnails** settings allow you to change the width and height of the images found on the listing pages such as **Ads list** and **My ads**. The **Ad Details Images** settings have assigned the images found in the detailed view of ads.\\ | + | The **Listing Thumbnails** settings allow you to change the width and height of the images found on the listing pages such as **Ads list** and **My ads**. The **Ad Details Images** settings have assigned the images found in the detailed view of the ads.\\ |
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| - | **(!)** The full-size modal, box which appears when clicking on the image, is resized dynamically in Javascript according to the clients' resolution.\\ | + | **(!)** The full-size modal box, which appears when clicking on the image, is resized dynamically in Javascript according to the clients' resolution.\\ |
| That means that for any resolution the browser has, the image is always centered and about 90% of the height or width available on screen.\\ | That means that for any resolution the browser has, the image is always centered and about 90% of the height or width available on screen.\\ | ||
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