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General / Re: CSS

« on: March 15, 2012, 08:22:56 PM »

This is exactly what we would hope to accomplish with the current way we are doing things. If all extensions grabbed template information from joomla they would not only all look alike - but they would match the site.

This is one of the biggest complaints to some large extensions such as Virtuemart which often does not blend in well with a joomla template, especially if it has customized vertical menu attributes.

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Customization / Re: Simple Review and ImageSizer

« on: March 02, 2012, 03:44:47 PM »

FYI Simple Review should be loading the plugins from joomla and applying them to your template. I have done a similar thing to you using the built in lightbox from JCE.

I am glad you were able to finally discover the reason behind your issue.

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Bugs / Re: Wrong avatar pulled from JomSocial profile provider

« on: March 02, 2012, 03:41:32 PM »

Hello,

Can you please confirm that you have selected your custom template in the configuration page under the tab labeled "Reviews" where it specifies which template to use for comments and which template to use for comment form? This is separate from the default template selection for categories and reviews.

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Customization / Re: Seeking Paid assistance!

« on: February 25, 2012, 10:35:49 PM »

Hello,

The design should be easy enough with some elbow grease. The problem you will run into will be with the category score. If you would like the category score to be automatically calculated by the component based upon the sub category scores then I am sorry to say this feature is on the request list but not yet implemented. Meaning that to get it working would require more than just a template.

If you wish to input the category score manually - perhaps the score is not comprised evenly of the sub categories giving more weight to one and less to another, or the feature is simply not that important then I think we could get something going fairly quickly.

However, if the auto calculation feature is an important part of this then we will have to talk with the developer Row1. Sometimes he is willing to push through requests when the time (his time), interest,  and (your) contribution is right.

Send me a PM and let me know what you were thinking for this project and we can see which direction to take.

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Customization / Re: Is what I want to do achievable using the Custom Fields?

« on: February 14, 2012, 09:16:14 PM »

http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/communities-&-groupware/ratings-&-reviews/4725/details

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Customization / Re: Is what I want to do achievable using the Custom Fields?

« on: February 14, 2012, 09:14:39 PM »

Please consider leaving positive feedback on our page in the joomla extension directory. It seems people leave positive feedback here but only unhappy people leave ratings there. We could use the help if you deem us worthy!

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Customization / Re: Custom Fields for User Reviews

« on: February 13, 2012, 06:36:24 PM »

The functionality you are seeking in not in this current version of the software. With our small group (two) and limited time and resources to put toward a free and not for profit component such as this, we have to focus our energy.

Thus far the largest driving factor for Simple Review has been to create a review component.... which is NOT the same as a rating component. Our initial niche market was for users and sites who wanted to create an online catalog of products, items, places, etc by rank. Much like Consumer Reports (for almost anything), PC Gamer Magazine (Game reviews), or Sardless.com (Music). Sites with one person, one group, one team, or just one site creating the reviews for all users to see. Allowing user comments and ratings was thrown in as a useful addition but was not the main focus as many components existed for that type of feature.

As we continue down this path we are expanding our ideas and discovering what people desire. You should see big and exciting changes in the next big release which will include a great deal of requests made by users including the features you are asking about. Check our the request list in the request forum.

I hope you can find Simple Review suitable for your needs and that we can introduce new features to help your site be perfect.

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Customization / Re: Is what I want to do achievable using the Custom Fields?

« on: February 13, 2012, 06:25:18 PM »

What you want to do is open your category for editing and create a new custom field. For the type select "link". When you place that custom field into your template or review it will generate the code necessary for the link. When you create a new review there will be a new box which will ask you to enter the full URL for that item you are reviewing.

Be sure to add the new custom field to your template following the guide found on our homepage in the help menu.

Your opinion may be different but I find it easiest to add the logos to my review body manually because you cannot control other companies logos and the circumstances such as size, shape, and thus layout design will or could be different for each. However, if you really wanted to you could manage this with a custom field in a similar way and pre-built it into your template.

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Customization / Re: Custom Fields for User Reviews

« on: February 12, 2012, 08:42:26 PM »

This functionality is built in to the component. Custom fields can be set to ratings, or text, or links, or list. Many of our users make similar websites with exactly the same types of fields. Just note that the master overall rating is not tied to your custom fields. So if you require users to enter a rating for graphics and a rating for plot the overall rating will NOT be an average but a separate number. This may change in the next big release but for now these fields are treated separate.

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Customization / Re: Review title as Fieldname

« on: February 11, 2012, 11:13:48 AM »

So, what I have suggested should work but you have done something different. I have tested my solution on my own site temporarily and the link went to www.test2.com but the text read TitleOf MyReview.

So, like I said, edit your category and change field 1 to type link with the name {Review:Title}. Next, just use {Review:Field:1} in your template with no other html.

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Customization / Re: Review title as Fieldname

« on: February 11, 2012, 07:47:58 AM »

Also, try this:

Edit your category. Change the type of field 1 to link. Change the name of the field to {Review:Title}. Save. Edit your template to just use {Review:Field:1} with no other html.

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Customization / Re: Review title as Fieldname

« on: February 11, 2012, 07:44:18 AM »

The custom field "link" will automatically add the HTML to create a link with href = 'what you typed in the review' and with the title of the custom field name given in the category configuration.

The custom field "text" will automatically add the HTML to add css to your item in a span tag.

For what you are doing I do not believe either option above will work. Can you please explain exactly where you are trying to put these links? I do not quite understand what you are trying to accomplish. Are you putting a link to the review in the review? Is the link to your home page or to the homepage of the item you are reviewing? Are you putting these links in a review? Review list?

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Bugs / Re: Template View Categories

« on: February 10, 2012, 06:06:29 PM »

This may sound silly but on my site which uses a custom template I do not use the category list because I have only one category - and so I have missed this issue in the past. We have a setting to select the template for the Top Reviews which is shown above the category list, but do not have a specific setting to select the template for the category list. Unless I am missing something this may be a legitimate oversight.

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Bugs / Re: Template View Categories

« on: February 10, 2012, 06:02:57 PM »

Hello, Your last post made it very clear to me what you are now asking.
When you click on a category and view the list of reviews you can see the changes made by your custom template.

However, when you view the list of categories it is still using the default template for the category list. Am I understanding correctly?

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General / Re: [SOLVED] Reviews looks great. Submit Reviews seems to invert my site template

« on: February 10, 2012, 05:57:00 PM »

I am very pleased. It's a great component. I hope you continue to develop it as it is much easier to set up and use than JReviews and much better value! ;-)

Please consider leaving this or another positive review on our page in the Joomla Extension Directory.


Row1: I can see what you did which worked in this case but we should figure out how to stop this from happening in the future.