Site Config tabs

Site Config tabs - Misc

License key - This is where your license key is edited. If you have recently purchased a new license key for Jomres you would enter it here.

Use global currency? Force all properties to use the same currency code. The following options Global currency symbol and Currency code are used if this option is to to Yes.

Show Managers's options as images? The receptionist and manager's menus are normally displayed as images. Switching this to No changes the ouput of the menubar to text instead.

Google maps API key. Jomres includes code to integrate with the Google Maps API. "'Geocoding' is the process of converting an address into a set of latitude/longitude coordinates, making it possible to indicate addresses on a map." and Jomres makes use of this functionality to generate a Google Map to your property in the View Property page. It does this by passing the address details stored for your property, so if the map is not generated check that Google is able to locate that address. The frontend property administration page also allows for input of Latitude and Longditude settings, so if the manager's property cannot be located via geocoding then you can enter those settigs instead, but in my person experience I've found the geocoding to be more accurate so if you can use that, do so.

Jomres Itemid - Jomres has a lot of different ways that you can 'come into' the component. Sometimes this can lead to confusion as to which template to show so it's best to set the Jomres Itemid (check out the forums at Mambo.org if you don't know what I mean) here.

Minimise configuration options. New for 2.7. This option allows you to reduce the number of options available in the General Configuration options. You may want to use this if your Property Managers are inclined to feel overwhelmed by too many options, or the General Configuration page loads too slowly for you.

Use SSL in booking form? New for 2.7. You need to ensure that you have a valid SSL certificate for your website. Note, this option is currently only valid for Mambo as Joomla 1.0.x is less competant in handling this. Joomla 1.5.x may handle this better and you may want to consider changing the default setting in the site_config.php option $jrConfig['useSSLinBookingform'] to "1".

Default Commission rate. The rate that's automatically applied to a new property on property creation.

Global editing mode? - Default No. Until you understand how the Editing Mode works I recommend that you leave this switched off. Property Managers can use the editing mode to modify text of their current, active property. This allows every property to have specific custom text, if required. By switching this to on, when a Super Property Manager uses the Editing Mode on a property the text for that field for ALL properties will be changed to whatever they rename it to. More informaton on editing mode can be found here and here.

Allow users to edit using html editors? This option allows managers to input some of their data using html editors. You can choose to allow these editors to display or not, and in 2.7 you have the option of using a flash html editor which, whilst it has less features than the Joomla/Mambo javascript editors is much more rubust and less likely to result in javascript errors.

Users can register their properties? - It is possible to install a module that allows users to register their own properties on the server. This switch enables or disables the associated functionality.

Calendar output format - If it is required that the system output a date but a property isn't actually being viewed (e.g. your are not on the view property/booking form for a given property) then this variable is available to enable the output configuration of a date. It isn't currently used by Jomres but the option is available to modules if they require it.

Calendar input format - Like the Calendar Output format this is for scenarios when a property is not being viewed, therefore Jomres cannot pull the relevant input date format from that properties settings. It is used by the Search Modules when they construct the input date used when doing availability searches.

Use Jomres email address checker? Enforces a stricter check on emails sent. Some secure web servers will throw a 500 internal error if you try to send an email to a non-existant email address. Switching this on allows us to use checkdnsrr features of php before attempting to send an email, preventing these 500 errors.

Component wrapped - Sets the index.php file to index2.php instead.

List minicomponent calls - Switch this to Yes to see a log of the minicomponents called at the bottom of the page after Jomres has completed running. It also disables the internal redirect function. This is useful if you are trying to identify which minicomponents are performing certain services.

Dump template vars? This setting used to be available to property managers but has now been moved to be under the control of Site Admin instead (as of 2.7). Set this to enable a DHTML dump of template variables for each FRONTEND template file as that page is viewed. Useful if you want to see if a certain element is available to be used in a given template.