New to Joomla(one month).
I'm trying to create a module that will list events(names and times). I want the module to be populated from the admin panel. For example lets say the module lists would list the following on the front end:
breakfast ........ 9:30
lunch .............12:30
dinner ............7:30
In the admin panel there will be input text fields for the admin to add/delete the events and a button(s) that will call a js function execute add/delete.
I am using Joomla4 I'm under the impression that all I need to do is tell the manifest file about my button in the configs sections and then write the javascript in the mod_project.php file that will add/delete a field on press. (Perhaps the js needs to go in the tmpl/default.php I'm not entirely sure where to put it) Unfortunately my attempt to add a button in the config file has failed meaning there is no output in the html:
current config section of manifest file:
<fields name="params">
<fieldset name="basic">
<field
name="event_name_0"
type="text"
label="Event Name"
filter="event"
/>
<field
name="event_time_0"
type="text"
label="Event Time"
filter="event"
/>
<button type="submit" id="testBtn" value="Add">Add</button>
</fieldset>
</fields>
</config>
I have to do that yesterday but I have found a solution more simple : I just added a custom field, for my specific category, with the type repeatable and I have written a module to read this specific field.
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I'm having problems adding custom url parameters to my component menu. My component displays different data on the same view depending on which value from predetermined set is passed via custom GET parameter. For example, let's say these two urls are the only valid variants of the same view:
?option=com_mycomponent&view=myview&option=hello
?option=com_mycomponent&view=myview&option=world
How can I add these two urls as separate menu types to the component?
you need to change your default.xml file in such a way that when you create menu it will ask you for the optional parameter.
The default.xml file located at component/your_component/views/yourview/tmpl/default.xml
The code will look like as below
<fields name="request">
<fieldset name="request">
<field name="option" type="hidden"
label=""
required=""
description=""
default="default-value"
/>
</fieldset>
</fields>
For reference check components/com_content/views/article/tmpl/default.xml file
You can use External URL.
Create a new menu and select External URL from Menu Item Type > System Links. Add your urls in the Link field.
I hope I was of any help.
Following is my code.
<fields name="request">
<fieldset name="request">
<field name="format" type="list" label="COM_CPS_FIELD_FORMAT"
description="COM_CPS_FIELD_FORMAT_DESC" class="small"
default="raw"
>
<option value="">COM_CPS_FORMAT_HTML</option>
<option value="raw">COM_CPS_FORMAT_RAW</option>
</field>
</fieldset>
</fields>
When I save the menu with 2nd option it save the url like this index.php?option=com_cps&view=webservice&format=raw but when I save the menu with first option it does not remove the &format=raw If any one can help me out It would be great.
Default is defined as what to save if nothing is posted. It works like a Joomla input filter in that it changes what is actually saved as opposed to validation which stops the process and never posts. Therefore you cannot save nothing, since it will always be replaced by the default. Therefore if you want to be able to save blank you must not have a default.
What you may be looking for is a preset, which is a preselected value that can be unselected. Presets and defaults are totally different things although on the surface they appear similar.
I just followed the joomla tutorials on how to create the "perfect" MVC joomla component. However, my problem is that I don't know yet how to assign it to a menu. I thought that my component would then just show up when I select a "menu item type", but my component is not on this list. I've made some research on Google, but I cannot find the answer... Do I have to create a metadata.xml file or something similar ?
Thanks in advance for your answers !!
To create "views" for your component, you have to create some xml files.
Inside the templates folder in the frontend part of your component (usually something like /components/com_yourcomponent/views/someview/tmpl), if you had a template named default.php and form.php, you can create a default.xml file and a form.xml file to make these menu items available from the administrator.
You can take a look at other components to see the structure of these xml files, but what you should put inside is:
1) A name and a description for four view
2) The params the user will be able to change from the administrator (it works like module/plugin params)
3) You can also set "hidden" request variables for that menu item. It means that those vars will be added to the request in that particular menu item, but the user won't be able to change its value.
Here's a complete example for a component (Joomla 1.7):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<metadata>
<layout title="COM_AGMTAGS_TAG_VIEW_DEFAULT_TITLE">
<message>COM_AGMTAGS_TAG_VIEW_DEFAULT_DESC</message>
</layout>
<fields name="request" addfieldpath="/administrator/components/com_agmtags/models/fields">
<fieldset name="request">
<field name="tag_id" type="agmtag"
label="COM_AGMTAGS_TAG_FIELD_NAME_LABEL"
description="COM_AGMTAGS_TAG_FIELD_NAME_DESC"
/>
</fieldset>
</fields>
<fields name="params">
<fieldset name="basic" label="COM_AGMTAGS_TAG_OPTIONS">
<field name="layout_type" type="hidden" default="blog" />
<field name="show_tag_name" type="list"
label="COM_AGMTAGS_SHOW_TAG_NAME"
description="COM_AGMTAGS_SHOW_TAG_NAME_DESC"
>
<option value="">JGLOBAL_USE_GLOBAL</option>
<option value="0">JHIDE</option>
<option value="1">JSHOW</option>
</field>
<field name="show_tag_description" type="list"
description="COM_AGMTAGS_SHOW_TAG_DESCRIPTION_DESC"
label="COM_AGMTAGS_SHOW_TAG_DESCRIPTION_LABEL"
>
<option value="">JGLOBAL_USE_GLOBAL</option>
<option value="0">JHIDE</option>
<option value="1">JSHOW</option>
</field>
<field name="items_per_page" type="text" default="" />
<field name="container_class" type="text" default="agmtags-list" />
</fieldset>
</fields>
</metadata>
I hope it helped!
If you simply want to add the view link to the list create a xml file called default.xml inside the com_yourcomponent/views/yourviewname/tmpl/
The xml code below takes two language strings used to display your menu item link in the list
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<metadata>
<layout title="COM_YOURCOMPONENT_FRONPAGE_TITLE">
<message>COM_YOURCOMPONENT_FRONPAGE_MSG</message>
</layout>
</metadata>
save the file and the link should appear in the list of menu items
Apparently, you also need the administration menu tags in your installation XML file.
http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?p=706714
This worked for me
<administration>
<menu>COM_COMPONET</menu>
<submenu>
etc...
</submenu>
Think this is what Panayiotis was trying to say
Additionally there is also another catch.
In the installation XML file of the component,
in the section, the tags must
be present, even if you do not need the menu.
If these are missing, then you'll never be given
the option to add this component to a menu item,
because the type wont be there :-)
In additional, your alternative view file names MUST NOT be written with underscores.
table_catalog.xml
table_catalog.php
table_catalog_item.php
didn't work - there wasn't new option in "menu item type" list. But
tablecatalog.xml
tablecatalog.php
tablecatalog_item.php
file names work perfectly. I've lost an hour revealing a problem.
Since 1.6, I believe, there's a generic way to use 'categories' in your own created components. The default Joomla components also use this. For example: the contacts, newsfeeds and weblinks components all use the generic com_categories functionality to achieve categorized content.
Currently I'm creating a component which also has categories so I'd like to use the generic Joomla category functions to achieve this.
The status: Currently I've got the following:
I've got a submenu 'categories' in my component which links to the generic categories component which some extra options. The options are there so the page will be redirected back to my component on save. This was pretty easy! But..
My problem: Now I'd like to add specific fields to my category, let's say: 'Category Moderator'.
So I've walked to the code of com_categories and in the following file 'administrator\components\com_categories\models\category.php' there is code (line 270) to look for specific component code, like the following:
// Looking first in the component models/forms folder
$path = JPath::clean(JPATH_ADMINISTRATOR."/components/$component/models/forms/$name.xml");
So the components looks (in my case) in the folder: administrator/components/mycomponent/models/forms/category.xml for specific component info.
Now, in the default category.xml of com_categories there's information about the edit screen, like the following:
<field
name="title"
type="text"
label="JGLOBAL_TITLE"
description="JFIELD_TITLE_DESC"
class="inputbox"
size="40"
required="true"/>
So the title of the category is apparantly required..
So I thought I add a line to this file:
<field
name="moderator"
type="text"
label="JGLOBAL_MODERATOR"
description="JFIELD_MODERATOR_DESC"
class="inputbox"
size="40"
required="true"/>
Except that's not enough to add the input..
So I've looked in the administrator/components/com_categories/views/category/edit.php template for hints, how to achieve this. But there's no code to add specific inputs for my component (or I'm wrong ;))..
Fields are added pretty specific like:
<li><?php echo $this->form->getLabel('title'); ?>
<?php echo $this->form->getInput('title'); ?></li>
I've also looked if I can overide the edit.php somehow, but unfortunately I haven't found it..
Short: Anyone knows how to add generic fields to the category edit page?
You can do it by using plugins ( you can take a look at the built-in user profile plugin for an example: /plugins/user/profile ). But if you want to add a "Category Moderator", I think you could achieve it using ACL.
This feels like a newbie question but:
I am trying to create a new page from the drop-down display menu so that I can supply a background color to the page (so end user doesn't have to go into the html and add a div). I tried adding a new (empty) div to the template but it's not working. Is this even possible?
Here is my code (my div is called "s_holder"):
<metal:field use-macro="python:here.widget('text', mode='view')">
Body text
</metal:field>
<div metal:use-macro="here/document_relateditems/macros/relatedItems">
show related items if they exist
</div>
<div tal:replace="structure provider:plone.belowcontentbody" />
</tal:main-macro>
</metal:main>
<div id="s_holder"></div><!--end s holder-->
</body>
</html>
For the part of creating the new display view: as #Auspex said, you should put the div inside the macro.
To add your display view to the drop down menu you need to edit every content type. There are two ways of doing this:
1- manually add a "types" folder in the genericsetup profile of your product and put inside one xml file per content type. Ex:
File.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<object name="File"
meta_type="Factory-based Type Information with dynamic views"
i18n:domain="plone" xmlns:i18n="http://xml.zope.org/namespaces/i18n">
<property name="view_methods">
<element value="file_view"/>
<element value="myniewfantastic_view"/>
</property>
</object>
2- in the ZMI -> portal_types edit every content type to add your display view and then in the portal_setup tool export the step for types. Extract the xml definitions from the downloaded archive to your genericsetup profile (in the "types" folder) and then edit them to remove unuseful parts as above.
Sure you can do it. I'm not convinced it's a good idea :-), but you need the <div> to be inside the main_macro (your example HTML is invalid - you have a </tal:main-macro> and no start tag, but I'm assuming you just cut and pasted the last part of the template here, because that template would never display, if it was written that way.
That said, how exactly are you adding it to "the drop-down display menu"?