What do you need to use the integration?
For the proper course of integration, it is required to have the DJ-MediaTools and j2Store extensions installed at Joomla website.
DJ-MediaTools package contains an integration plugin allowing to use of J2Store Products as a source of DJ-MediaTools Albums.
It’s named DJ-MediaTools Source - J2Store, and it’s available along with other plugins in your Joomla backend after DJ-MediaTools extension installation. The plugin needs to be enabled.
If you want to use j2Store as a source of your Media Tools album go to Extensions -> DJ-MediaTools and then to Albums and choose New.
Choose J2Store Products as the album source.
J2Store album options
You can display items from J2Store categories or j2Store individual items. Display price, cart, quantity box or /and add to cart button. Product image can be used from j2Store or article image. The image can link to j2Store product or Joomla article view.
There are also some filtering options to choose from. You can set categories, define category filtering type (inclusive, exclusive), include or exclude articles from child categories, display featured articles (show, hide) and more.
Results can be displayed by title, hits, date, ID, publishing date, and other criteria. You can also set the ordering direction.
DJ-MediaTools allows to choose among nine different layouts and show J2Store products using one of them.
Let's see the plugin source settings:
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Category Filtering Type - Select inclusive to include the selected categories, exclusive to exclude the selected categories
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Category - please select one or more categories
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Child Category Articles - include or exclude articles from Child Categories
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Category Depth - A number of child category levels to return
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Featured Articles - Select to show, hide, or only display Featured Articles
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Article Field to Order By - select which field you would like articles to be ordered by. Featured ordering should only be used when filtering option for featured articles is set to only.
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Ordering Direction - select the direction you would like Articles to be ordered by
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Items List - enter a comma-separated Article IDS
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Show price - Show / Hide
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Show cart - Show / Hide
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Show quantity box - Show / Hide
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Add to cart (Note: you can see the options for products having simple types only)
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Choose product image from - this will set where to get the images to display for the product based on the selection of article image / j2Store thumbnail image
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Link to - this will set the link to the single product based on the selection of Article view / j2Store Product view
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Select a menu - choose a menu from the list
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Default image - select default image to display if the product does not contain any images. If you leave this empty then products without images won't be displayed
