Chapter 3. Configuring and customisation.

The component options are specified over a number of different tabs as shown in this section. The first is the 'general' settings which specify the more common settings.

General Settings

Figure 3.1. Component Settings - General.

Component Settings - General.

When a (registered) user on the front end wishes to contact the entry vendor (or advertiser) a contact form is generated which they fill in and the message is submitted. The settings in the 'message' section control the various required elements to enable the email message to be sent. The site administrator will usually opt to fill in the 'message prefix' and 'message suffix' settings to control the 'look' of the message. Typically some 'HTML' strings are used.

Message Settings

Figure 3.2. Component Settings - Message Settings.

Component Settings - Message Settings.

We ourselves have a preferred format for automatically sent messages from our website and thus we use the Message prefix and suffix fields to ensure that the outgoing message is visually pleasing. These fields serve as an alternative to a special email template, especially as the component only sends out email messages, and wraps these field settings around the message text supplied by the sender.

Category Subscription Settings

Figure 3.3. Component Settings - Category Subscriptions

Component Settings - Category Subscriptions.

These setting impact the ability for users to subscribe to selected Rialto categories to receive email notifications upon new and/or updated Rialto entries. This feature was introduced with release 1.3.0. The site administrator defines which if any subscription options are available upon the site. One feature that is of use for multilingual sites in to be able to control whether subscriptions are possible against languages other than that in which the site is currently being viewed by the used.

One security feature is to be able to control how the outgoing address list is used. When an email message is constricted, there are three possible fields that can be used for the outgoing message recipients. The 'To' field is often used to contain the email address, and the contains of this field are viable when the message is received. If the number of recipients for a message is large, or if the there is a preference for the recipients listed to be contained within in the 'CC' (Carbon Copy) list, this is also another option. One can send multiple messages, to different individuals, but this is an inefficient way to send multiple messages, not only in terms of the construction of the messages will be identical, but also in terms of how the messages are handled by the Email server. The component instead will create a single message with all recipients email addressed appended one after another. This does or may present a small difficulty for some sites where it is not desirable that all recipients of a message can see all the other recipient addresses. For that reason it is possible to hold the recipient list in the 'BCC' (Blind Carbon Copy) list which is not presented to the message recipient.

It is possible to configure the style of the outgoing message by the specification of CSS rules that are placed before and after the created outgoing message.

The release also introduced a couple of new text strings that can be specified on the site via the 'language overrides' for more precise language criteria. See below for more details.

SPAM Settings

The SPAM security settings are not fully implemented in the this release as they are intended to be for checking of any submitted message by 'unregistered' users. This feature is not yet fully implemented and is thus not available in the current releasee. They are included ready for a future enhancement.

Figure 3.4. Component Settings - Spam Security.

Component Settings - Spam Security.

RSS Settings

The RSS settings, as expected control the RSS feeds available.

Figure 3.5. Component Settings - RSS Settings.

Component Settings - RSS Settings.

Global Field Settings

The global field settings are used to set the defaults for which 'additional' fields are possible for an entry (or advertisement). It does not specify that they are 'mandatory', just that they are available to be populated by the entry vendor.

Figure 3.6. Component Settings - Global Field Settings.

Component Settings - Global Field Settings.

Image Settings

The image setting control how many images are acceptable for each item, their sizes, how they are displayed, etc. Two additional images are created from each image submitted by the vendor. The original image is retained and a 'small' image used for the displays is created as is also a 'larger' image which is displayed when the visitor clicks upon the image in the entry.

Figure 3.7. Component Settings - Image Settings.

Component Settings - Image Settings.

Video Settings

These settings control the display of videos, from either Vimeo or Utube, whether that are available at all and if so how many are possible. A maximum of 3 videos can be specified for each entry.

Figure 3.8. Component Settings - Video.

Component Settings - Video.

HTML Box Settings

The HTML boxes are provided for the entry of any additional required site display options that may or may not be required. Typically these may be used to display advertising or other useful general information to the user.

Figure 3.9. Component Settings - HTML Boxes.

Component Settings - HTML Boxes.

Log Settings

The 'log' setting currently just specifies whether component logging is required. The most use of this is for tracking of any messages that may (or may not) be send to the vendors (or owners) or the entries. Otherwise the log is mainly using in debugging or providing informative messages abut how the component is running.

Figure 3.10. Component Settings - Logs.

Component Settings - Logs.

Component Permissions (ACL)

The standard permissions tab is only (currently) supported in a few places. As the component develops more and more use will be made of these permissions.

Figure 3.11. Component Settings - Permissions.

Component Settings - Permissions.

That completes the description of the various component options. The next section will detail the various plugin and module settings available.

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