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[woluweb Friend woluwebJoin date: October 2012Posts: 196Downloads:18Uploads:69 Thanks: 68 Thanked: 31 times in 3 posts]

#1039078

Hi,

4questions :

• by default, MegaFilter shows "reviews" and "hits" on the filtered articles. I don’t want that. Where is the parameter to switch that off ?
• also, I would need to override the layout of each article shown on the Megafilter page (no third-party extensions, only native Joomla article and Custom Fields)
• how to launch automatic Indexation ? I see how to do it manually, but not how to automate it or what is the logic of Indexation (happens on each save ?)
• also the Documentation is very (very) short in my opinion for such an extension. Or do you have serveral Documentations ?

Txs,

Marc

[Mo0nlight Moderator Mo0nlightJoin date: September 2014Posts: 707Downloads:38Uploads:107 Thanked: 99 times in 97 posts]

#1039516

Hi.

If you want to override

You can copy the folder
/plugins/jamegafilter/content/layouts/default/

To
/templates/ {your template} /html/layouts/jamegafilter/content/default/

And edit files as you want. In you case here is : product-item.php

If you want to remove the Hit and Review.
Edit
/plugins/jamegafilter/content/layouts/default/product-item.php Or Override File.
and delete these lines

<div class="product-reviews-summary short">
                <div class="rating-summary">
                    {?rating}
                    <div title="{rating} out of 5" class="rating-result">
                        <span style="width:{width_rating}%"></span>
                    </div>
                    {:else}
                    <div title="0%" class="rating-result">
                        <span style="width:0%"></span>
                    </div>
                    {/rating}
                </div>
            </div>
            <div class="product-reviews-summary short">
                <div class="hits-summary">
                    {?hit}
                        <span class="file-downloads"><?php echo JText::_('COM_JAMEGAFILTER_HIT');?> : {hit}</span>
                    {:else}
                        <span class="file-downloads"><?php echo JText::_('COM_JAMEGAFILTER_HITS');?> : {hits}</span>
                    {/hit}
                </div>
            </div>

About automatic Indexation. we don’t have plan to do that.

[woluweb Friend woluwebJoin date: October 2012Posts: 196Downloads:18Uploads:69 Thanks: 68 Thanked: 31 times in 3 posts]

#1040019

Hi,
Thank you very much for your quick answer about the override.

Indeed, with that override, I can delete the Rating and Hit.
But which file do I edit if I want to edit the {desc}, namely if I want to override the article view in order to customize where/how the Custom Fields should appear for example ?

About the Indexation : if it can not be launched automatically, how does it work then ?
Does the end user have to click manually on that Index button everytime he adds/edit an article ?

Txs

[Mo0nlight Moderator Mo0nlightJoin date: September 2014Posts: 707Downloads:38Uploads:107 Thanked: 99 times in 97 posts]

#1040165

Hi,

If you want to override article view, you need to override com_content not megafilter.

For the content of {desc} just go to article in administrator and edit introtext or description text.

About index, if you have about 10 megafilter ID. then you edit 1 article and after save the process need to index all the megafilter profile so that would take a huge processing and time.

[woluweb Friend woluwebJoin date: October 2012Posts: 196Downloads:18Uploads:69 Thanks: 68 Thanked: 31 times in 3 posts]

#1043327

(Sorry MoOnlight, I did not get the notification of your answer. I only discover it now…)

Coming back to your answer :

1. about {desc}
   OK, I do see that these are the first words from my Article, but :

   • how many words/characters are taken and how do I change that number ?
   • how do I insert a Custom Field of that article on YOUR MegaFilter page ? (OK, once I click on "view detail", com_content will show my article. But here, my question is really about what appears on the MegaFilter page…)
2. Index
   Your phrase is not clear, sorry.
   Let’s rephrase my question : how does indexing take place ?
   • automatically ? (if yes what does trigger ? Saving an article ? …)
   • manually ? (how then ? Everytime people change an article, they have to go to MegaFilter and click on the Index button ?? If so, how can we setup a Cron Job which can do that trigger that automatically ?)

NB : I am writing an article for the Community about the Custom Fields, so your answers are important as I try to list all the interesting extensions with their advantages and drawbacks

Txs !

Marc

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[Luna Garden Moderator Luna GardenJoin date: July 2011Posts: 2617Downloads:80Uploads:96 Thanks: 78 Thanked: 453 times in 425 posts]

#1043819

Hi,

For question 1, you can follow this topic: https://www.joomlart.com/forums/topic/ja-megafilter-frontend-results-edit-display/

About Indexing, it works Manually, this means each time you change Item, you must Re-index yourself. As we use filter by JSON, so automatically will make your site slowdown speed loading.

[woluweb Friend woluwebJoin date: October 2012Posts: 196Downloads:18Uploads:69 Thanks: 68 Thanked: 31 times in 3 posts]

#1043823

Hi,

So, let me summarize.

Question 1a : edit the number of caracters.

Procedure is in 3 steps

1. edit /plugins/jamegafilter/content/helper.php and change value of 100

   $item->desc = !empty($baseItem->introtext) ? strip_tags(substr($baseItem->introtext,0,100)).'...' : '';

2. reindex manually
3. clear browser cache (otherwise, you still don’t see the change…)

Question 1b : you have not answered… Can you please answer that ?

• one little subquestion : how to show also the Label of the Custom Field ?

Question 2b : OK, reindexing is manual (and not automatic upon article saving for example). But how to configure a CRON task in order to trigger that "manual indexing" (let’s make a comparison : with Akeeba Backup, backups happen "manually" : you have to click manually on the Button in the backend of Joomla. But you can also take regular backups by setting up a CRON job…)

Txs for answering the questions 🙂 If possible in one round (it will take you less time, same for me and the other users 😉

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[woluweb Friend woluwebJoin date: October 2012Posts: 196Downloads:18Uploads:69 Thanks: 68 Thanked: 31 times in 3 posts]

#1046528

Hi,
My last post was about two weeks ago.
Would you mind answering the questions which are still open, namely

• question 1b
• question 2b
  Txs

[Mo0nlight Moderator Mo0nlightJoin date: September 2014Posts: 707Downloads:38Uploads:107 Thanked: 99 times in 97 posts]

#1047126

Hi.

For 1b.
edit the file : plugins/plg_megafilter/content/layouts/default/product-item.php

And place the code anywhere you like.

{attr.ct1.value}

change the number by your custom field ID in administrator.
Or you can wait for the new release.

for 2b.
You can add this link:
yourhost.com/administrator/index.php?option=com_jamegafilter&task=defaults.export_all

To create cronjob.

[woluweb Friend woluwebJoin date: October 2012Posts: 196Downloads:18Uploads:69 Thanks: 68 Thanked: 31 times in 3 posts]

#1048869

Txs a lot for your interesting answers !

May I make a suggestion ? Why not improving your Documentation on all those matters ?
You would spend less time on the forum and users would immediately be in state to use your extensions to their full potential.

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[ecommerz Friend ecommerzJoin date: April 2016Posts: 3Downloads:6Uploads:0 Thanks: 1 Thanked: 1 times in 1 posts]

#1060373

With regards to this subject, when adding custom field data into the product-item.php to show in the filtered results, I have used the suggested {attr.ct1.value} and this works. You fill in the corresponding ID of the custom field and it appears.

Now, if you have a pulldown custom field, it presents the ID of the selected pulldown-item when using {attr.ct1.value}. What are the definitions of this shortcode? How do I present the selected option with a name in the pulldown?

I have searched the forum and documentation, but can’t seem to find usefull information.
Anyone that has more information?
Thanks in advance.

[ecommerz Friend ecommerzJoin date: April 2016Posts: 3Downloads:6Uploads:0 Thanks: 1 Thanked: 1 times in 1 posts]

#1060418

In addition to previous: I have solved the issue myself with another search on various topics in this forum. I accidentally came across the answer.

When using {attr.ct1.frontend_value} the text of the dropdown-item is presented in the template, as requested. The various parameters are in helper-files, not documented. This would be helpfull though for creating overrides. Joomlart please document more, as requested above.

Thanks for a great filtering system!

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