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Hi to the group from not only a new user of jcollection, but also new to joomla. I make no excuses for the title to this thread but thats how i feel .

Now to the problems.

First i printed of the basic tutorial, then istalled everything...so far so good.

Followed the instuctions, hit the link in thye main menu, went to the catorgory, clicked on the item, but no review. Maybe not a bug but a buggy user.

Now the second problem i think i have is this.
Above the item i have links that say

New info set
New info set (wizard)
Trackback link

But these links open up a page that does not function.

I would like to get jcollection working as i really think it would suit the purpose i have in mind, which is to be able to review amateur radio hardware and to allow members to post there own comments.
Many thanks for reading this and thanks in advance to anyone that can help.

OK...Please disregard the above problems.
It would seem that they are caused by the main site template. Now i have changed the template, things seem to be working. I will post again when i get my head around things.

What can i say apart from fantastic. I still have no brains, but under a different site template all is working ok.
Just a couple of questions if you do not mind.

1) How do i remove the following text:

JCollection

A native Joomla! 1.5 component to organise a collection of books, movies, music, recipes,... pretty much everything!
JCollection utilizes webservices to fetch additional information, such as images, maps and customer reviews. Currently, Amazon, eBay, Google, Yahoo, ISBNdb and imdb (using imdbphp) are supported.

from the first page.

2) Under the review there is a + sign to add a comment, can i change the + to read post comment.

Many thanks
Paul

Hi,
glad to hear it is working now! Just out of curiosity: what template did you use?
To your questions:
1) The standard text for the root category can be changed in the language file (this should be found in the joomla-directory language/en-GB/en-GB.com_jcollection.ini. However, I'd recommend to simply create a category, say "base", and use this as the entry point for your menu, thus you have full control over what is displayed (plus, you can have items in that category as well).
2) The plus sign is hardcoded in (at least) 2 places in the php file, so you's have to change /views/item/tmpl/default.php. I'll probably do that anyway. Just remind me in case I forget
Best,
Thorsten.

Hi Thorsten
Thanks for your quick reply.
The template i started with is this one
cosmic

However i have not decided which template i will finally use ( i may pay to get a custom template made for me when i have everything working).
Not being very good with code i will wait for you to alter the + sign issue .
One other question.
When you release new versions, will they be just upgrades and keep all the existing content or will i have to re-enter data.
Many regards
Paul

Hi Paul,
to update simply install the new version on top of the old one (i.e. do not uninstall), this way everything will be conserved!
For the curious: In fact, there is a hidden option in the file administrator/components/com_jcollection/config.jcollection.php which allows to configure if the database entries of JCollection will be deleted or kept upon uninstalling the component. Its default value is set to "delete", so if you uninstall, everything will be lost.
Regards,
Thorsten.