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| ====== Extra Fields ====== | ====== Extra Fields ====== | ||
| - | When you want to gather more information about a customer's listing, you create an 'Extra Field' and relate it to a category. For example, if you have a "Houses for Sale" category and a "Land for Sale" category, you could create extra fields named "Acreage", "Bedrooms" and "Bathrooms". The "Acreage" extra field would probably be a single-line text field so that a decimal number could be input by the lister. The "Bedrooms" text field could be a drop-down list because houses have a "whole number" quantity of Bedrooms (1, 2, 3, etc.). The "Bathrooms" extra field could be a drop-down list as well. However, it's possible for a home to have a "half-bath" (without a shower) so the choices should be 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, etc. | + | ===== Overview ==== |
| + | By default, all listings have the following main fields that show when a listing is shown: | ||
| + | * Title | ||
| + | * Price | ||
| + | * Date Added | ||
| + | * Expiration Date | ||
| + | * Description | ||
| + | * URL | ||
| + | (Note: There are some other fields that each listing contains as well, but are not relevent to this topic) | ||
| - | The "Acreage" extra field would apply to both the "Land for Sale" category and the "Houses for Sale" category and you would assign each field to the appropriate category. | + | Extra Fields allow the site owner (administration) to add additional fields to their sellers listings, beyond the standard main fields. These extra fields have several different options to give you complete control over the use and availability of them to the sellers. The most important aspect and option of an extra field is the ability to select which category(ies) that you wish to allow access of the field. |
| - | A large variety of extra fields can be created based on your categories or your website's target market.... Automobiles, Boats, Airplanes, Job Listings, etc. | + | As an example: if you have a "Houses for Sale" category and a "Land for Sale" category, you could create extra fields named "Acreage", "Bedrooms" and "Bathrooms". You could then assign the "Acreage" extra field to both the "Houses for Sale" and the "Land for Sale" categories. The "Bedrooms" and the "Bathrooms" extra fields could be assigned only to the "Houses for Sale" category. |
| - | ===== Drop-Down List Or Checkbox List ===== | + | Now when a seller chooses to place an ad in the "Houses for Sale" category, in addition to all of the standard fields, they would also have the "Acreage", "Bedrooms" and "Bathrooms" extra fields as well, but a listing in the "Land for Sale" category would only have the one extra field, "Acreage" available. All other categories would just have the standard listing fields. |
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| + | ===== Create (or modify) An Extra Field ==== | ||
| + | To create or modify extra fields, login as an administrator to your site. Select the "Categories" main tab, then select the "Extra Fields" from the sub menu. There are no extra fields created with a default installation, so nothing will show in the table list of extra fields until you have created and saved one or more extra fields. | ||
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| + | To create a new extra field, you need to click on one of the four types of extra fields shown under the Extra Fields table list. Your options are: | ||
| + | * New fields | ||
| + | * New Option (For a Drop-Down List or a Checkbox List) | ||
| + | * New Text Option (For a Text Single Line, Text Multi Line, File Upload or a Date Field) | ||
| + | * Advanced Parent or Child fields | ||
| + | * Parent Drop-Down List | ||
| + | * Child Drop-Down List | ||
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| + | Select one of these and then just fill out the form which may be different depending upon the type of field that you selected. Continue reading for more in-depth explainations for each type of field. | ||
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| + | ===== Drop-Down List Or Checkbox List (New Option) ===== | ||
| This section covers instructions for creating a new drop-down list or check-box list. | This section covers instructions for creating a new drop-down list or check-box list. | ||
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| = Please select which categories use this field : When you create a field, you may want to associate the field with a few of your categories. Select which categories this field will be assigned to here. Hold down your "Ctrl" key to select multiple categories. | = Please select which categories use this field : When you create a field, you may want to associate the field with a few of your categories. Select which categories this field will be assigned to here. Hold down your "Ctrl" key to select multiple categories. | ||
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| + | <html> | ||
| + | <!-- | ||
| + | ===== How to allow your customers to add video to a listing ===== | ||
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| + | It's possible for your customers to add a video to their listing by using the Extra Field system. The first step in allowing customers to add video to their listings is to create an Extra Field as outlined elsewhere on the page. | ||
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| + | It would probably be best to create a 'multi-line text field' so that the entire "embed" code from a video hosting site (like YouTube and Vimeo) can be seen by the customer when it's pasted to the field. | ||
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| + | The next step is to make sure that you include the html tags used in the "embed" code in the "Allowed Tags" field within administration. This is done by: | ||
| + | * logging into administration | ||
| + | * navigate to "Settings >> Settings >> Checkout Settings" | ||
| + | * at the bottom of the page, add the html tags you want to allow. For example, YouTube's embed code uses: object, param and embed tags. | ||
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| + | Once you have successfully created the extra field and added the allowed tags, your customers will be able to paste the "embed" code from a video hosting site. | ||
| + | --> | ||
| + | </html> | ||
| ===== Advanced Parent/Child Select List ===== | ===== Advanced Parent/Child Select List ===== | ||
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| <embed src="http://blip.tv/play/AebgUgA" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="640" height="510" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed> | <embed src="http://blip.tv/play/AebgUgA" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="640" height="510" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed> | ||
| </html> | </html> | ||
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