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  • Extending Community Surveys using plugin events

    Community Surveys is not just full featured but also extendable. There are many plugin events the component triggers which you can use to extend the functionality provided by the component. Plugin events are supported in CS v4 and above only. Creating a plugin Please read the following documentation to know about creating a Joomla! plugin.…

  • Enabling and showing consolidated report

    Consolidated report shows the summary of responses using bar/pie charts and tables. The report can also be used as an overview of your survey responses. The report can be accessible both to the survey respondent and survey author, however can be restricted to show only to the survey author. Enabling access to view consolidated report…

  • Display surveys in Joomla! articles

    Community Surveys v4 comes with a content plugin which can be used to embed public survey on your Joomla! article. Content Plugin This plugin is designed specifically to add a survey inside any Joomla article. Joomla content component (Articles) triggers all content plugins automatically. So when you publish this plugin from plugin manager, Joomla will…

  • Custom module positions in Community Surveys

    Here are the custom module positions available in survey pages to publish your modules where your template cannot reach. surveys-list-above-toolbar surveys-list-above-content surveys-list-below-pagination surveys-category-above-toolbar surveys-category-above-categories surveys-category-above-content surveys-individual-above-toolbar surveys-individual-above-content

  • Creating Map Location question

    Map Location question type will allow you to capture the coordinates (latitude and longitude) of the user location or the location entered by the user. To use this question type, an additional setup is required. Following are the typical steps, the first two steps are a one-time process. Create the Google Maps API Key Setup…

  • Conditional Rules Explained

    Introduction Community Surveys has a powerful feature to alter the flow of the survey based on many factors using conditional rules. Conditional rules can be created at each question. Conditional rules can be setup on choice and grid type questions. Actions to Trigger Conditional Rules The following actions can trigger a conditional rule User select…

  • Community Surveys FAQs

    How do I create surveys? Community Surveys comes with an easy to use Ajax powered web form for creating survey questions. You can create the surveys from available set of question types, just click or drag them onto the form and add necessary information to the question. Please make sure that your Joomla user group…

  • Community Surveys End-User Documentation

    Get started with Community Surveys quickly Please refer quick get started guide before reading:https://docs.shondalai.com/community_surveys/quick_get_started_guide_for_community_surveys/ Setting up the component Options: The first part of setting up the application is to configure the component options which will define how the component needs to work. Go to Components->Community Surveys->Click on the Options button on the toolbar. This will…

  • Get started guide for Community Quotes

    Installation Installing the component is nothing different from standard Joomla component which is explained here: http://docs.joomla.org/Installing_an_extension Setup The setup of component involves the following steps: Author Categories A quote is said by an author, be it yourself or someone else. So you can add Author Profile during quote creation process which includes entering Author details…

  • Custom module positions in Community Quotes

    Community Quotes support built in module positions to which you can assign your modules like Adsense ads or any custom module. Below are the module position supported. quotes-common-above-navbar – On all pages, above the toolbar quotes-common-below-navbar – On all pages, below the toolbar quotes-list-above-categories – On list pages, above the categories listing block quotes-list-below-categories – On list pages, below…

  • Community Quotes Changelog

    v5.0.0 (2023-09-24) + Breaking Change: Added support for Joomla 5 ^ Breaking Change: Removed legacy layer for Joomla 3 v4.2.2 (2023-02-05) + PHP 8.1 support added * Form layout menu shows erorr when SEF is disabled * Fixed PHP deprecation notices * Removed unsued language strings v4.2.1 (2022-08-04) * Fixed issue with installer v4.2.0 (2022-07-30)…

  • Question types supported by Community Quiz

    Community Quiz supports following question types Single Selection Radio Buttons This question type is useful in seeking feedback on only one answer from a list of options. Additionally you can ask custom answer if the user feels none of the answers match from the list. Multiple Selection Checkboxes This question type is useful in seeking…

  • Installing and configuring Community Quiz

    This guide will help you quickly get started with the extension without any advanced details. We try to make Community Quiz fairly simple component which can be setup and understood by least experienced users. However few things that you may need to set up to make it fully functional are explained here, so please read…

  • Extending Community Quiz using plugin events

    Community Quiz is not just full featured but also extendable. There are many plugin events the component triggers which you can use to extend the functionality provided by the component. Plugin events are supported in CQ v4 and above only. Creating a plugin Please read the following documentation to know about creating a Joomla! plugin.…

  • Display quiz in Joomla! article

    There are two ways to display a quiz in Joomla! articles. Using Quiz Form module Open your quiz form module Enter your quiz id in the field provided Add a custom position name such as “quiz_position_1” in module position Load the custom module position entered above using Joomla! short code syntax. See below url for…

  • Community Quiz changelog

    v7.3.0 (20-Dec-2024) + Added question customize option to show/hide results/correct answers+ Added integration with Joomla reCaptcha v3 plugin* No certificate download button shown when using percentage scores* Fixed issue with showing quizzes when MySQL uses null dates v7.2.9 (16-Dec-2024) * Component permissions are not inherited to quiz v7.2.8 (20-Nov-2024) + Update ChartJS library to latest…

  • Community Quiz built-in module positions

    Following module positions can be used to display your modules in custom defined locations. quiz-view-above-quiz-details: Above the quiz details when responding to the quizquiz-view-below-quiz-details: Above the quiz details when responding to the quizquiz-view-above-response-form: Above pagination/quiz timer in response formquiz-view-above-questions-list: Above questions listquiz-view-below-navigation: Below the question list and navigation buttons

  • Adding mathematical formulas in quizzes

    Starting v5.0.3, you can add mathematical formulas inside the quiz description, question description, and answers. Community Quiz uses KaTex library to display mathematical formulas and it ships with a copy of it. How to enable formulas? Make sure you have v5.0.3 or later version installed Enabled “Load Maths/Tex Library” option either in the component options…

  • Troubleshooting tips for Community Polls

    Embed poll in an article using CONTENTPOLL shortcode does not work, I use JCE editor to insert the code. In JCK Editor there is an option called “Process HTML Entities”. This option must be disabled. Otherwise the double quotes in {CONTENTPOLL [“id”: 1]} changed in html entities and your code cannot deal with this. The…

  • Quick get started guide for Community Polls

    Installing Community Polls Please check the documentation here: http://docs.joomla.org/Installing_an_extension What are the ways to create polls? Basic checklist before creating a new poll Quick steps to setup polls Creating your first poll From backend From frontend New version available, how to update? Good luck.

  • Polls Anywhere Advanced Concepts

    Community Polls now takes Joomla CMS to a new level by introducting Poll Sharing feature for the first time. It not only allow you to share the polls on your website but also let your users share the polls on your website on any website which need not be a Joomla website. So next time…

  • Extend Community Polls using plugin events

    Community Polls triggers following events on different actions. You can use these events to do additional tasks by developing your own plugins. You need to have basic idea of creating Joomla plugins. Please see Joomla plugins developer documentation of Joomla docs website before proceeding further. Creating a plugin Please read the following documentation to know…

  • Display polls in Joomla! articles

    Community Polls comes with multiple modules and plugins which can be used to embed a poll on your site anywhere. Here is the brief list. Random Poll module You can display chosen poll or randomly selected poll in any module position of your site. You can display this module inside a Joomla article using loadmodule…

  • Custom module positions in Community Polls

    Community polls support built in module positions to which you can assign your modules like Adsense ads or any custom module. Below are the module position supported. jcp-above-toolbar: Above toolbar on each page jcp-below-toolbar: Below toolbar on each page jcp-below-content: Below the content of each page jcp-below-poll-details: Below the poll details but above voting form/charts…

  • Community Polls changelog

    v6.1.5 (2024-08-04) + Added new permission to allow a user group to exclude from multiple vote restrictions* Fixed issue with random poll module when a poll is unpublished* Added CSS classname votecount to the anywhere* Google charts library loaded on a poll with simple bar chart v6.1.5 (2024-06-07) * Fixed JavaScript error in Random Poll…

  • Troubleshooting guide for Community Answers

    My urls are not showing alias instead having “component/communityanswers” in their urls even through I have created the menu item It is recommended to create “Community Answers Category Layout” menu item for each of the top level category. This way the alias will be inherited to all questions under the category and its subcategories questions.…

  • Setting up the Community Answers bounty system

    Introduction Community Answers bounty system allows your users to use thier points to trade for best answers. Users can create bounties on thier questions with any amount of points. The points will be deducted immediately from the user account. The points will be awarded to the user who submitted the best answer. Users can setup…

  • Installing and configuring Community Answers

    This guide will help you quickly get started with the extension without any advanced details. We try to make Community Answers a fairly simple component that can be set up and understood by the least experienced users. However few things that you may need to set up to make CA fully functional are explained here,…

  • Extending Community Answers using plugin events

    Community Answers is not just full featured but also extendible. There are many plugin events the component triggers which you can use to extend the functionality provided by the component. Creating a plugin Please read the following documentation to know about creating a Joomla! plugin. The process is same for any plugin.https://docs.joomla.org/J2.5:Creating_a_Plugin_for_Joomla The best way…

  • Community Answers changelog

    v6.1.5 (2024-09-11) * Fixed issue with indexing question in smart search plugin v6.1.3/4 (2024-07-26) * Fixed issue with finder plugin v6.1.2 (2024-07-07) * Fixed issue with smart search plugin not showing results v6.1.1 (2024-04-16) * Fixed issue with installing finder plugin v6.1.0 (2024-04-14) + Added support for Rewardify Points+ Added option to sort by trending…