Here is a video showing how to add "Email Me" to an individual location and have that link to a mailto: email link so that the end user can contact the location.
The tite of the locator page is determined by the title of the Menu Item
This locator:
http://screencast.com/t/rQqCt30n0
Has the title set by the Menu Item shown here:
http://screencast.com/t/e7Md07Wj
You can override that value by updating this setting on the Menu Item configuration.
http://screencast.com/t/8eHgMXee
Still not showing up? Ensure you havent made any customizations to your template that may interfere.
Also, Joomla 1.7 changed this setting to "Page Heading", and we have updated our software to reflect that change. So ensure you're running the latest version.
If the combined width of the results and the map are too wide for your layout, the map can push below the results as shown here:
http://screencast.com/t/UJbzeUOBs7o
Adjust the map width parameter and ensure you have enough space to display both the results and the map side-by-side.
Joomla templates need to have a properly formatting head section to allow components like Locator to add javascript libraries to the page. Ensure your template has a
<jdoc:include type="head" />
in the head section of the template HTML.
As a workaround, you can include the javascript in the page manually by adding our javascript to the template
<script type="text/javascript" src=/components/com_locator/assets/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/components/com_locator/assets/jquery.noconflict.js"></script>
Use the Search Form Format setting to arrange fields as needed
All locator front-end templates files are located in
components/com_locator/views/
For the search screens, you can manage files located under
components/com_locator/views/directory/tmpl
There you'll find template files that correspond to the available views and also individual files for each type of search control.
The three available views (Combined, Directory Search and Google Map) files are highlighted here:
http://screencast.com/t/pzsJk1BqNpe
Those highlighted view files incorporate the other files based on your settings.
If you are making changes to these files, be sure to follow the Template Override guidlines by making copies first.
The Locator doesn't provide for translation of the location data (E.g. the address, description etc) through Joomfish or similar language plugin.
To provide your locations in multiple languages, use the Tag feature to create locations by language.
For example, create a Tag called "German" and tag all locations with German translations with the German Tag. You can then create a new locator, and select German under the "Tags" option. This creates a locator with only German tags.
If you need to change default language in the component e.g. "No results found. Please widen your search area or choose a different zip code.". You can update the language file provided using your FTP client.
Locator stores all language strings in the Joomla language file. These files are stored by Joomla according to the language. For English, see
languages/en-GB/en-GB.com_locator.ini
The TAGs field is so-often renamed that we created a menu item configuration option to change it's value here:
http://screencast.com/t/0NIiGcrq
You can also update the language settings in
languages/en-GB/en-GB.com_locator.ini
Change en-GB to whatever language you're using.
The address templates are set on a per-menu item basis and allow for the control of the formatting of each directory entry and map-marker popup window.
The default format is as follows:
{title}{distance}{address}[br]{address2}[br] {city}, {state} {postalcode}[br]{phone}[br]{link}[br]{description}[br]{taglist}
Each field is defined as follows:
The Map Address template works just as any other address template, and allows for the control of item format in the marker popup window.
Also, under the Parameters icon (or Configuration in Joomla 1.6) is an Admin Item Template setting that allows for the control of the formatting in the administrator list.