Configuration

Beginning

At the beginning, let's take a look at the DJ-Classifieds component configuration. Click the Options button from the control panel, and you will see the popup window:

Here's a short description of all options:

Global

General Settings

Access level – Select group of users allowed to post items/ads.
Auto publish – Define if the items added from frontend should be published automatically.
Durations - Enable this feature to control available durations with "Durations" tab. This will allow you to define different duration possibilities to choose from by advertisers.
Ad expire in (days) – Here you can set when advert will expire. This feature works only if "Durations" is set to "No".
Points - Decide if you want to use point/credit system.
Promotions - Enable this feature to allow users to attach Promotions to their ads. Available promotions can be managed in the admin 'Promotions' page.
Prom. 'move to top' – Promotion 'move to top' allows user to move his advert to the top of the list.
Auctions – Allow users to enable auctions system for advert.
Buy now - This feature allows to publish adverts with Buy Now option.
Paying for chars in description - Enable this option when you want to charge for characters in description.
Favourites - Enable or disable 'favourites' functionality. With that option set to 'yes' users will be able to add adverts to their favourites list.
Favourite profiles - Allow registered users to add profiles to their 'Favourite profiles' list.
Advert preview - Allow registered users to preview their adverts before publishing.
Renew available (days) - Here you can decide how many days before the expiration the "Renew" option is available for advertisers.
Show archived - Decide whether to show archive items on front with system message.
Allow users to archive ads - Allow users to move adverts to archive.
Users can delete archive ads - Allow users to delete archived adverts.
Action on ad delete - Decide what behaviour should be applied when user deletes advert on front.
Allow user to block adverts - User will be able to block adverts from publication.
Allow user to copy advert - User will be able to copy adverts on his adverts list.
Guests can edit ad – When enabled, guests receive a special link for editing their advert. 'Email for guests' parameter must be enabled.
Guests can delete ad – When enabled, guests receive a special link for deleting their advert. 'Email for guests' parameter must be enabled.
Admin can edit/delete ad - Decide if administrator can edit / delete adverts on frontpage.
Search in - Advert core fields to search in, when searching by word using Search module.
Type of searching by word - Define if searching by word should look for the exact entered phrase or any of the entered words (having more than 2 letters).
Search by whole words only - If enabled, when searching for e.g. a 'test' word, items containing words like 'testing' will not be included in search results.
Custom fields values to labels - decide whether to change values of custom fields to joomla labels.
Show tooltips in forms - Show tooltips in forms (Add item, Profile edit, Registration, etc.).
Show empty fields - choose if you want to display empty custom fields in advert details.
Contact only for registered - Set to "Yes" if you want to show contact details of the advertiser only to registered users.
Cache in categories - cache in categories library.
Cache in regions - cache in regions library.
Admin filters limits
Admin support widget - Enable Support widget in DJ-Classifieds admin pages (bottom right corner)

Views

General view

Theme - select theme.
Include default CSS - use your template's default styling for pagination and menu(categories).
Ads per page – number of adverts displayed per page.
Default ordering – default ordering in table/blog view.
Default ordering direction – default ordering direction in the items view.
Table type – choose one of table layout in table view.
Profile items - list type - set the type of layout for displaying adverts in profile page.
"NEW" icon - show/hide new advert indication.
Marked as "NEW" (days) - set how long a new ad will be marked as new (in days).
Go straight to the ad – If enabled, click from table/blog will link directly to the classified ad title. Disabled, will link to the top of the page.
Show results count for - Choose where to show the "found X results" text.

Add item

Title characters limit - maximum number of characters in the title.
Editor in description - select if you want to display editor for the description in the add item view.
Allow HTML tags in desc. - allow users to use html tags in the description
Allowed HTML tags in desc. - enter allowed html tags in the description, separated by semicolon.
Allow HTML tags in fields - Set if allow users to use HTML tags in custom fields.
Auto-select visited category - auto-select last visited category in new advert creation form.
Categories ordering - select categories ordering.
Use "Intro description" - set it to "yes" if you want to display intro descriptions.
Intro desc. characters limit - maximum number of characters in the intro description/
Use "Regions" - Allow users to select a region from the defined regions tree.
Regions ordering - select regions ordering.
Use "Address" - Enable or disable "Address" field in new advert form.
Use "Post code" - Enable or disable post code field. This field will appear during advert submission and in advert details.
Pre-fill location data - Copy logged in user's profile location data into the Add item form.
Use "Contact" - Decide how "Contact" field is used. Yes/No are self descriptive. If you select "Custom field" then you can use this field as an extra field - so you can set it to display for particular categories same way all other extra fields.
Use "Price" - set it to 'yes' if you want to display prices.
Use "Price negotiable" - Allow advertisers to select this as option to price.
Use "Types" - Enable this to use "Types". You can define advert types in "Types" tab.
Use "Video - Allow for videos in adverts. Videos can be inserted from YouTube or Vimeo.
Email for guests - Field with email address of unregistered users posting ads.

Item

Show default image - Display default image when advert doesn't have images.
Allow plugins in desc. - Allow Joomla plugins in description.
Intro desc. in advert - Select if you want to display intro description text in advert view.
Ask seller form - Select if you want to display "Ask seller" form in the single ad view.
Ask seller copy to admin - Decide if you want to reach copy of message sent to seller.
Ask seller copy to sender - Send to sender a copy of the message sent to seller.
Ask seller msg target - Message from ask seller form can be send to advert author email and via DJ-Classifieds plugins or via DJ-Classifieds plugins only.
Ask seller form for - Select if you want to display "ask seller" form for the registred users only or for all users with the security captcha option.
File in ask seller form - Decide if you want to enable files in ask seller form.
Abuse report - Enable or disable users to send abuse reports to you.
Abuse reports for - Select if you want to display "Report abuse" form for the registred users only or for all users with the security captcha option.
Ask seller and abuse position - Select where ask seller form and abuse raport should be shown.
Show additional details - Select if you want to display advert details in the single ad view.
Show added date in details - Show added date in advert page.
Show modified date in details - Show modified date in advert page.
Show author - Show or hide author's name.
Author name – Choose if you want to display author's name or username.
Avatar source – Select component which will be avatar source.
Link to social profile – Decide if you want to add link to social profile in advert details page.
Social buttons position – Set where you want to show the social buttons.
Social buttons code – Paste your social buttons code.
Comments – Disable comments or choose what type of comments to use.
Show print icon - Enabling it displays a link to the page with simplified advert view.

Categories in Table/Blog

Breadcrumbs - Enabling it shows category breadcrumbs.
RSS Feed - Enable/disable RSS feed for categories.
Display number of ads – Display amount of ads in the category list view.
Categories in table/blog view - Select if you want to display categories in table/blog view.
Categories sort direction - Categories sort in table/blog view.
Categories ordering - Select categories ordering.
Hide empty categories - choose if you want to hide empty categories in table/blog view.
Categories columns - Number of columns in subcategories list in table/blog view.
Table/Blog header title – Show/hide header title on Table/Blog view.
Category desc. in header – Show description of category on adverts list of this category.
Category desc. in categories - Decide whether to show descriptions of categories displayed under adverts list.
Show items on root cat. – Show items on root category at Table/Blog view.
Go straight to the category – When set to 'Yes' - click from table/blog view links directly to the category list. When set to 'No' it'll link to the top of the page.

Table

Show image column – Show image column in table view.
Show location column – Select if you want to display "location" column in table view.
Show price column – Select if you want to display "price" column in the items view.
Show description column – Select if you want to display "description" column in the items view.
Show category column – Select if you want to display "category" column in the items view.
Show added date column – Select if you want to display "add date" column in the items view.
Show expire date column – Select if you want to display "expiration date" column in the items view.
Show hits column – Select if you want to display number of ad's hits column in the items view.
Distance column – Distance column shows distance from advert location to user. User location is based on HTML5 Geolocation.
Distance column unit – Choose if distance will be displayed in kilometers or miles.
Table image tooltip – Select if you want to display tooltip with a description on image hover in table view.
Table title tooltip – Select if you want to display tooltip with a description on title hover in table view.
Tooltip number of images – Set how many images should be displayed in tooltip.
Price in tooltip – Set if you want to display price in tooltip.
Contact in tooltip – Show contact in tooltip.
Location in tooltip – Show location in tooltip.

Blog

Columns in blog view – Number of columns in the blog view.
Blog description position – Set where the description in Blog view should be locate.
Show image - Select between: only image from advert, image from advert and default image, or no image.
Show category – Show/hide category name in blog view.
Show region – Show/hide region in blog view.
Show distance - Distance field will show kilometers/miles from advert address be based on HTML5 Location.
Show price – Show/hide price in blog view.
Show "See details" link – Show/hide "See details" blog view.
Show sorting – Decide if users will be able to sort ads in category blog view.
Allowed sorting values – Select on which values users will be able to sort.