Create Job Board Administrator

Any Joomla's administrator/super administrator can be Job Board administrator. After installing Job Board, Joomla's super administrator Admin will become Job Board super administrator by default. Job Board super administrator has the highest privileges of Job Board administration & management, including the whole rights to assign certain permissions to secondary admin to effectively co-administrate or co-manage the Job board. As a Super administrator, you can add & assign associated permissions to a new Job Board administrator/super administrator by following the below steps.

Create Joomla administrator

First log in Joomla! backend as super administrator, then browse to User Management:

Now create a new Joomla! administrator or super administrator and make sure that user is not blocked. You can also change an existing user's permissions to become an administrator or super administrator. Let's say we want to change permissions for an existing user to make him an administrator, so let's see how to do it:

• Step 1 - select the user you want to change his permissions;
• Step 2 - click the Edit button;

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• Step 3 - click the Administrator user group;
• Step 4 - click the Save button.

Grant Job Board Permissions

To manage Job Board administration permissions, first you have to navigate to User Permissions panel:

• Step 1 - click the Subscription and Permissions menu item;
• Step 2 - click the User Permissions submenu.

To edit a user's permissions, click any of the name of the user that you want to be Job Board administrator or super administrator. Usually a Job Board administrator is given specific permissions, but super administrators are given all permissions.

Below you can see the Job Board User Permissions panel. This is the list of Joomla! administrators and super administrators that the Job Board component recognize them as having administration rights. See the new administrator we have setup up earlier?

Please note: that a new Joomla! administrator has no administration rights in Job Board component but Joomla! super-administrators have full permissions. In the image below you can see backend permissions list for the Job Board administration.

To add permissions to the new Job Board administrator we have setup earlier, select the administration sections according to his/her expertise or qualification.

Customize displaying forms

Displaying forms are used to collect data, Job Board uses four forms to collect data:

• Jobs form: Used to collect job information.
  
• Profile: Used to collect front-end user information.
  
• Resumes: Used to collect job seeker resume information.
  
• Applications: Used to collect job seeker's applications information.
  

Forms are composed of many fields. Thus, any modifications to fields will affect the above mentioned four forms. If you have enough permissions to customize fields, it is quite easy to edit these fields up to your expectation by changing html control that displays form's fields. By following the below steps and screenshots, you can easily change field value type, validate fields input, add a new field, remove one field or select to display a certain field or not in a few minute.

Filter the form that you want to customize

After login backend, go to JA Job Board component. Please navigate to Fields Form Management:

• Step 1 - click the Design and Customization menu item;
• Step 2 - click the Form Customization submenu.

Next we can use the drop down box right above the list to select the form you want to edit it's fields. See image below how to:

Customize form

Customizing forms and their corresponding fields is a task preferably for the development stage. On a production website, changing field types will produce loss of data and will require website administrators to request employers to update their active jobs according to the new job related field structure, and this task will be very difficult in large websites, so it is a reason just enough to consider building the right field structure from the start.
All forms hold both system fields and non-system fields. The non-system fields are form specific, but the system fields are hold in almost all of the forms as primary keys that connect database tables.
It is recommended to back-up your website's database before changing anything in the Job Board field structure.

Editing a field

Except for system fields, you can edit any of the non-system fields properties for all forms, but for system fields you cannot change field name, field type and table name.
Please note: For Job Board starting version 1.4.X and above changing field name, field type and table name for system fields has been locked to avoid database malfunctions because they are primary keys in specific tables.

Each form holds specific fields and each field has specific properties. For instance, you want to edit the Job code field from the Job form. In the left side of the image below you can see the field highlighted in red background.

If you change field type to single select, radio or multiple select, then you should click the Apply button to save the new property, then you will see an Edit option link next to this property. Click that link to add options for the new field type if it does not have any selectable option. If you change form name of one field, then that field will disappear on fields list of old form and appear on fields list of new form, so you have to filter fields of new form to rebuild database.

Please note that if you change field name, field type or table name, then you have to rebuild database. To rollback changes that require rebuild database, click undo link of the field that you want to reverse.

As we said above, the new field type single select, radio or multiple select will need selectable options, so click "Edit option"" and follow instructions in the image bellow:

Adding a new field

To add a new field, click the New button in the Fields Form Manager panel. See image below:

In this section we will go deeper into the Job Board field properties and explain each property's functions. While editing a new field, the form preview in the left side will show no for preview, but after finalizing editing the new field by clicking the Save button and come back to edit the same field, the form preview will show the new field at the bottom, highlighted in red background.
Please note that the new field will not show in frontend or backend forms until the database is rebuilt.
Also note that you can undo adding the field to the associated form by using the Undo link of each newly-added field. We will explain below just how to do that.

Let's explore now the field properties. They are grouped in several sections so you can easily follow:

Field properties explain:
Database Information

• ID - is a read-only system field property, an integer number associated to the field;
• Field Label - is the label shown in the form, this property cannot be empty;
• Field Name - is the text shown in the header of the table in the database, this property cannot be empty;
• Field Type - describes the behavior of the field, please refer to Field types reference section for more information;
• Init Value - is a default value you can set for the field;
• Form Name - connects the field to a specific form to become one of the form's field set. The options are:
  • Job Form;
  • Profile Form;
  • Resume form;
  • Application Form;
• Table Name - makes the field to show up in a specific table, and this property is related to the Form Name property. The options are:
  • Jobs Table;
  • Profiles Table;
  • Resumes Table;
  • Applications Table.

Published - describes the state of the field, with other words show or not show the field in the frontend tables or forms:

• Yes - the field will be displayed in frontend;
• No - the field will not be displayed in frontend, but the field will always be visible in backend.

Validation rules

• Is required? - select whether the field is required or not:
  • Yes - the field is required, will need a validation rule (configured just below) and will display an error message if the user inputs incorrect information;
  • No - the field is not required, will not need a validation rule and will not display an error message;
• Type of check - describes how the field must be validated for the user input:
  • Must not be empty - a simple condition so the user is forced to fill the field;
  • Must be number - limits the input values to numeric values;
  • Must be a valid e-mail - checks if the user input is a valid e-mail address;
  • Must be date format - checks if the user input is a valid date format, this is related to backend general settings and the error message should inform the date format;
  • Must be time format - checks if the user input is a valid time format;
  • Must be date time format - checks if the user input is a valid date and time format;
• Error message - is shown in a pop-up window to instruct the user with examples on how to input a valid value into the field: "ERROR: You should type a number!", "TIP: the date is not valid, please try YYYY-MM-DD HH:II:SS" (according to your general settings for date and time), etc.

Display settings

• Field order - sets the order of the field in forms and frontend tables, property can be changed after saving the field;
• Field is on filter - marks the field as a part of the backend filter:
  • Yes - the field is displayed in admin filters;
  • No - the field is not a filter.

Frontend Parameters

• Display mode - describes the display behavior of the field. Options are:
  • Show all in frontend;
  • Hide on new form and view only on edit form;
  • Show on new form and hide on view;
  • Show on new form and view only on edit form;
  • Hide all on Front-end;
  • Admin only;
• Width - set a specific width for the field;
• Height - set a specific height for the field, useful for text-areas and multiselect boxes;
• Class name - used to highlight a field by calling a styling class;
• Readonly/disabled - marks the field is read only or can be modified;
  • Yes - the filed cannot be modified in frontend;
  • No - the field is writable in frontend;
• Mouse event - can be used to declare a mouse event for a specific action. Options are:
  • onClick;
  • onChange;
  • onBlur;
  • onFocus;
• Function javascript - is used with Mouse event to show a small pop-up message on a specific mouse event;
• Field example - is the pop-up message shown by the javascript, on a specific mouse event, to instruct frontend users on how to fill the field;
• Comment - a simple description added next to the field to instruct the user how to fill up the field.

Database Reference

• Is referred?
  • Yes - enables referencing the field to another field, database table or value;
  • No - means that the field is not referred;
• Referred key - links the field to a specific key field, usually ID;
• Referred value - links the field to a specific value in the database;
• Referred table - links the field to a specific table, according to the key referrence.

Removing a field

On the fields list page, select the fields that you want to remove, then click the Delete button, click ok button on the confirmation dialog box.
Be careful when you decide to remove a certain field as you can not rollback the fields that have been deleted.

Rebuild database

On the fields list page, you could easily recognize all newly added/edited fields that are highlighted in red background that means these modifications have not been applied to the site yet until database has been rebuilt.

In order to make changes affect one field, click on click rebuild DB link of that field, a review changes screen will appear, after review field's change, click continue button and click ok button on the confirmation dialogbox. The modified field will be now available at front end as you wish.

Review modified field require rebuild database.

Field types reference

• Blank Space = this field type creates a blank space to separate groups of fields;
• Boolean = this field type can describe a database entry as having one of two values: yes or no, true or false, male or female, married or not married, etc;
• Date = used to reference an event (create date, expiry date) at a certain moment in time;
• Date - Calendar = same as the one, but using all date and time information;
• File = used in Review form for job seekers' attached CVs;
• Image = used for job seeker photos and company logos;
• Integer = an integer number related to an entry, for instance: views, age, years of experience, etc;
• HTML Editor = used to call an editor you have set as default in Joomla! configuration: TinyMCE, JCE or any other editor you have installed and set as default;
• Multiple Select - selectbox used in all forms for Location of Employers and Job Seekers, and this field allows multiple select just like a company would have open centers in multiple locations;
• Numeric = any kind of number related to an entry;
• Radio Buttons = similar to Single Select field type below, but this uses rounded check boxes for selecting one option/value;
• Separator = used to set a title for a group of fields, for instance: "Job Information", "Education Information", etc;
• Single Select = selectbox with a single selection, used for "Business Type", "Salary Type", etc;
• Text Area = a simple text area for Job Seekers/Employers to add notes or other information to their jobs/reviews;
• Text Field = a simple text field for users to type in several types of information: name, surname, zip code, phone number, etc;
• Password = a simple password in case you want your employers to protect their job postings with a password;
• URL = a URL field type can be used for company website link or job seeker portofolio/blog.

Customize displaying tables

There are four displaying tables used on JA Jobboard for showing summary of a user peer'information collected from displaying forms as mentioned above. They are Jobs, Profile, Resumes, Applications table.

• Jobs table: used to display list of jobs. This table appears on front-end pages and on the administrator's job manager page.
  
• Profiles table: used to display employer information for job seeker or all other user's view depending on admin's configuration.
  
• Resumes table: used to display resumes information for employer or all other users'view depending on admin's configuration.
  
• Applications table: used to display information of applications for employer's review.
  
  

Filter the displaying table that you want to customize.

You can customize these tables by adding new column, removing column or changing column properties.

Each cloumn has settings like the following.

Customize interface

It is more difficult and requires web designing excellence to customize the look & feel of your Job Board site. Thus, this section is recommended to administator who is an expert in web designing skill.

Customize page layout

To customize the look and feel of the Job Board is very easy by using the built in code editor, and the procedures are very similar to language customization.
First you have to navigate to layout customization panel:

• Step 1 - click the Design and Customization menu;
• Step 2 - click the CSS & Templates submenu.

This is the Layout customization panel:

As you can see these are the layout files, grouped in folders:

• Applications;
• Employers;
• Jobalerts;
• Jobs;
• Payment;
• Posts;
• Profiles;
• Resumes;
• Usergroup;
• Userregister.

For instance we would like to customize the application list in the employer's page:

As you can see the message above the editor, it informs that changing the file will automatically create a template override for the view and will not affect the original code. To learn more about template overrides, please visit our designated documentation section.
What is important for you to remember here is that you can change the class names, div IDs, or arrangement as you like, and use the new class names into your default Joomla! template, and style these classes and IDs both in Job Board CSS and the default Joomla! template CSS file.

Customizing css

To customize the stylesheets for Job Board, you can click the CSS link in the same panel. See images below:

Clicking the Edit link will open the code editor:

Here you can customize default Job Board HTML tags or your own tags. When you update Job Board, remember to back-up this file.

Customize date format

To customize date format, go to general section of system config category, enter the format that you want to display on the display date format textbox. Job board will translate the format as the following: %y to year's four digits, %m to month in number, %d to day in number, %h to hour in 24, %i to minute, %s to second.

Customize email templates

Visit manage email templates for more information.

Customize Job List Themes

Starting version 1.4.3, JA Job Board support multiple themes for jobs listing. There are 3 standard themes:

• default - displays the jobs list in a table format;
• inline - displays the jobs listings using li (list items) and AJAX implementations and provides sorting options;
• inline-light - similar to the second but this theme uses less coloring.

The default theme

We are going to insist on inline themes and explain how to modify the look for normal job posting, featured, hover state and rows, but also show you how to style, move, hide specific parts of the job posting.

The inline theme

List item space
is the wrapper of all job posting information, and uses several colors and styles:

• normal styling is used for non-premium jobs, and makes use of these code pieces:

Noticed the row1 background color? You can change it with your desired color to match your website design.

• hover styling applies to all jobs, no matter if they are premium or not;

• premium styling applies to jobs that are marked as premium, and use this code:

Job selector is a checkbox connected to the scripts of the theme. This element can be styled in code:

TIPYou can change the position from left to right for RTL websites.

Job title styling uses this code:

You may want to delete the color line, to make it use your template color for a items.

Salary information styling uses this code:

Employer name can be customized in this code:

Employer logo uses this styling:

Job short description uses no specific styling, as it is a simple text that inherits styling from the template for paragraph.

Job Category uses this styling:

You can delete the color styling for links to match your template styling.

Job Location uses some common styling like Job Category for links, and also specific styling such as:

Time stamp or Creation date uses this styling:

Job order number uses this styling:

Featured job Highlight and New job Highlight styling uses this code:

Add a new language

For older versions of JA Job Board component, you have to create the language files for your new language, using the original ones:

• en-GB.com_jajobboard.ini site language file located in your_site_root\languages\en-GB\
  
• en-GB.com_jajobboard.ini admin language file located in your_site_root\administrator\languages\en-GB\
  

To add a new language to JA Job Board, first you have to check if your language pack for Joomla! CMS is installed, if not, please do so. Then check the language customization menu, and you will notice JA Job Board automatically created the language files for your language in this Languages Manager page. If you have your own translations, please overwrite these files, and if not, please select weather you want to edit site or admin language file, and then click on language name of your new language to proceed with editing.
The language file editor will help you easily edit your language but you have to know this file contains key-value pairs. The strings from the left side of the equal mark " = " are the keys that must not be modified and the strings from the right side of the equal mark are the English language strings you have to edit and translate to your new language.

Language manager screen.

Edit language file.

Please note that you have to check your language files on every JA Job Board update. To make it easier to find new language strings, we recommend using WinMerge, BeyondCompare, or any other file/folder compare solution.
Please also remember to back-up your langauge files on every update of the JA Job component.

Make your site multiple languages

To make your site multiple languages you have to add your desired languages, please refer to add another language to add your desired languages.
Jobboard can be integrated with JoomFish to make your site multiples languages. Please refer to step #9 and step #10 to integrate JobBoard with JoomFish. Before using JoomFish with your site, you have to install your desired languages and activate your desired languages JoomFish.
To translate JobBoard's component and modules, go to translation section of JoomFish component, then filter content element, select content element that you want to translate to open translation page, then translate it. The content elements that you may need to translate are "ja jobboard Applications", "ja jobboard Categories", "ja jobboard Codes", "ja jobboard Jobs", "ja jobboard Locations", "ja jobboard Profiles", "ja jobboard Resumes", "modules"

Go to translation section of JoomFish component.

Filter your language and content element to translate.

Translate content element.

Add another payment method

For now, Job Board has only one payment method, that is Paypal, if you want to implement another payment method, then you have to write it. To write it, your file should be similar to Paypal.php under components\com_jajobbord\asset\payments folder.

Configure file uploading

On Job Board, front-end user can upload cv, profile image, you can configure which file type is allowed to upload, and limit size of file uploading from general section of system config category.

Manage email templates

Configure email settings

Email settings section of system config category determines whether Job Board can send email to front-end user automatically after some events occur or not, this section also sets email information on sent emails.

Email settings.

Manage email templates

Email templates are used for sending mails to users or admin to notify of an event or to confirm a payment/an action on the site by users or admin. Currently, a list of English email templates for general & major events on a Jobboard site has been included on JA Jobboard by default. Webmaster can find it very easily and conveniently to duplicate these email templates into the language he wants at anytime and the system itself will do the rest when the content has been changed into associated language while variables/params are kept unchanged.

List of email templates.

Job Board maps the event that need to send email with the template name. If Job Board is enabled to send email automatically and if Job Board can not find out email template in language that it will send. Job Board will use the template in English and if the template in English does not exist or is not published then a notification will display on user screen.

Each template has properties like the following.

You can do the following steps to customize email templates:

• Copy templates from your existing language to another language:
• Edit template: You can edit any email properties except the template name. Note you cannot edit the event that the template attach to, because Job Board maps the event with template name.
• Create new template: You can create a new template, but you can not set its name with one of system templates' name. Job Board allows create template here so that developer does not have to create it in database.
• Export templates: You can export your template into text file, edit it, then import to Job Board.
• Import template: You can import template into Job Board from ini file.

Send email manually

To send email to employers/ job seekers manually, on the employers manager/ job seekers manager page, select employers/ job seeker that you want to send email to, then click send mail button, a compose screen will appear, compose your email then click send button to send.

Effectively managing and monitoring all user registration, permission and performances on Job Board is of great importance to the success of your Job Board. As a webmaster, you will find hereof detailed guidelines how to set system configuration, how to manage transactions, users of different types on the site as well as how to charge them for performing a certain kind of activities in an appropriate manner and purpose.

Manage transactions

On JA Job Board, only employers will be charged for a certain activities/permissions should these are configured payable by admin. Thus, all associated transactions by employers will be displayed on transactions manager page for day-to-day monitoring. Webmaster can edit transactions, reverse completed transactions, view customer invoice, view customer details, delete transactions. Each transaction is displayed on administrator page, and on employer page. You can use transactions manager or go to employer's transactions section to manage transactions.

Transactions manager.

Each transaction invoice has information like the following.

Charge employers

The typical performances of employers on Job Board are inclusive of posting jobs and browsing resumes. Should you want to charge employers a certain fee for performing one of the above mentioned activies, kindly go to Global config section and select system config.

Billing System settings

At system configuration window, you could configure the billing settings to determine whether employer is charged on resumes browsing and jobs posting jobs or not.

Billing system settings.

Accounts & Permissions settings

If employers are set to be not charged on posting job, then employers can post a number of jobs as specified on accounts & permissions section of system config category for free.

Accounts & Permissions settings.

Posting plan

Posting plan offers various options of price & associated previlidges for employer to post jobs or search resumes database. There are three types of posting plan: standard job, premium job, and search resumes. The standard job and premium job allow the employer post more a number of jobs as specified on posting plan, the difference between these plans are that the premium job will be highlighted on jobs list screens. The search resume plan allows employer to search resumes more a number of days as specified on the posting plan. As a Webmaster, you can easily create, edit, delete posting plans as you want.

Posting plan manager.

Account details

You can view the number of remaining jobs that employer can post and the time that employer can browse resumes from employer account details.

Payment

There are two types of currency on Job Board, real currency and special currency. Job Board can use one type of currency at a time, this setting is on currency section of system config category. If this setting is set to real currency, then when employer buy somethings employer will pay the money directly through paypal, if this setting is set to special currency, employer has to buy credit package, and Job Board uses the money available of the employer credit package for payment, if the remaining money of employer is insufficient to post job, then that employer can not post job. Employer can now buy credit package by using paypal.

Curency settings.

Set up payment information

To use paypal you have to set up payment information, this payment contact information will be display on the "Ship to" section in the transactions invoice. For now there is only one payment method, but you can install a new payment method, please visit add another payment method for more information about install new payment method.

Payment information.

Create credit packages

If currency settings set Job Board uses special currency, then employers have to buy credit package to buy posting plan. The credit manager allows you to create, edit, delete, publish, unpublish credit packages.

Credit packages manager.

Each credit has information like the folowing.

View employer account

You can view the number of premium and the number of standard jobs that employer remains, the amount of Job Board currency that employer remains on employer account section. On this section you also can view the time that employer can search resumes.

Manage jobs

One of important administrative task is jobs management, on Job Board you can do it easily, just go to job manager page, and you can do what you want.

Jobs manager.

Each job has properties like the following.

You can change job lifetime, default job status and other settings from job posting section of system config category. The How many hours Expired jobs will be automatically checked and archived setting sets the time interval that Job Board checks expired jobs and mark them as expired.

Job post settings.

Job is displayed on jobs screen only if the employer of that job is approved and is not blocked, that job is approved, the effected date property of that job is less than the current date time and that job is not expired. Jobs table displays jobs on front-end user pages, you can easily customize this table by using customize job/ profile/ resume/ application table. You can filter jobs by job title, work locations, job category, jobs status, post type. You can add other filter by customize Job form, set field is on filter property of the field that you want to be filterable to yes.

Manage applications

Applications is sent to employers by job seeker users or guest users. You can edit, create new, delete sent applications from applications manager.

Applications manager.

If you delete one sent application then that application will disappear on applications list of receiver and applications list of sender. You can create application as guest but not as job seeker, if you create application then on new application screen, you have to enter the correct user id for application receiver and title id for job post id. After created, the new create application will appear on application's receiver.

Each application has information like the following.

Manage front end users

Job Board Users are those who use Job Board's front end. There are three types of job board's front end users as belows:

• Job seeker: those who look for jobs
• Employer: Those who is looking for employees
• Guest users: Non-registrered users
  

Job Seeker and Employer have their own subscription, the subscription regulates which permissions the corresponding type of user has by default. After signing up, these users must update their information and to become Job Board seeker or Job Board employer. After information is updated, depend on your settings on Accounts & Permissions section of System config category the user may need to be approved by Job Board administrator.

Account & Permissions.

Job Seeker

Job Seeker can search jobs, view jobs, post their resumes, upload their CV, send application and CV to employers, save their favorite jobs.

Job Seeker Default subscription

The default permissions and lifetime of job seeker are set by Job Seeker Default subscription.

Job Seeker permissions

After created you can change job seeker permissions for each job seeker.

Approve Job Seeker resume

Click on the job seekers category, on the row of job seeker that you want to approve, select checkbox, then click approve, or you can click the unapproved icon to approve or click the view resume link, then set approved property of the resume to yes.

Employer

Employers can search, view resumes, post their jobs, view applications that job seekers sent, save their favorite resumes. What employers can do on Job Board is limited not only by permissions settings, but also by accounts & permissions settings, billing system settings. Billing system settings sets whether to charge employer fee on browse resumes or post job, the accounts & permissions settings sets the number of free jobs employer can post.

Employer Default subscription

The Employer Default subscription set default permissions and lifetime of job seeker.

Employer Permissions

You can change permissions of each employer.

Approve employer profile

Click on the employers category, on the row of employer that you want to approve, select checkbox, then click approve, or you can click the unapproved icon to approve or click the view profile link, then set approved property of the profile to yes.

Guest

Guest users can search jobs, view jobs, send application and cv to employers. You can change Guest users permissions.