This Macrotone Consulting Kbase component is a Knowledge Base component intended to present 'support' information to site visitors in a convenient and friendly manner.
The Kbase component uses the basic Joomla categories/Articles models reworked to meet our specific requirements. It also adds an attachments feature. It runs only on Joomla 3.4 and above.
Release Versions
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This is the initial release of the component.
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The documentation is accessible from the 'Joomla menu'.
Modules
There is an included module named mod_rialto_latest incorporated within the main component release package. The documentation is included as part of the main Rialto Tracker documentation.
Kbase Overview
The documentation in PDF format and also as web pages is available upon the site. [Please see links under 'Joomla Extensions' on the site.] This document only presents a brief overview of the functionality.
There are three main parts to the component, categories, articles and attachments.
Categories: These are distinct 'category like' items, which may or may not consists of separate sub-categories. i.e. If we have a main category named 'Motors', we may have sub-projects named 'General Motors', Vauxhall', 'Honda' etc. As many levels of sub category can be created as desired but usually two or three is sufficient for most categories. Categories have a short description.
Articles: Labels are user to differentiate between the various items (entries) within a category. Typically Labels are things such as 'For Sale', 'Wanted', 'For Hire' etc. An entry items is assigned at least one label.
Attachments: An entry is a specific item being advertised. An entry will have assigned one (or more) labels and be part of a specified category. An entry will have several attributes, some derived from the entry owner, such as a location address. Other attributes such as 'condition', 'price', etc, are specific to the individual item. An entry item have have up to ten images associated with it.
Most of the activities performed by the component take place in the front end, with the registered user creating their item, updating it and ultimately removing it when the item has expired or otherwise been disposed of. The back end administrator can also perform any required activity upon the entries as well, but primarily defines the required settings for the individual site.
We trust this brief overview is sufficient to cover the main features of the components and you are requested to look at the latest PDF documentation for more information.
If you find this component useful, you are requested to raise a review on the Joomla Extensions Directory, and possibly consider making a donation to assist in providing support and future enhancements.
Translation Credits
We would like to thank all the people who have donated their time and effort in providing translations for our extensions, either individually or as part of a translation team, so that they may be used by the wider community.