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Selecting “Add Partner” opens a submission form (shown below) where you can enter the details of a new partner. The fields are largely self-explanatory.
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| Weight: | Determines the order in which the partner will be displayed - but only if you set weight as the sort preference for the index page and/or partners block (these are set independently; see Section 4.3, “Preferences” and Section 6, “Blocks”) |
| Image: | Enter the URL for your partner’s logo |
| URL: | Enter the URL for your partner’s website. Note that an error will show if you link to an image that is greater than 110 x 50 pixels. You might need to make your own cut down versions of your partners logos. |
| Title: | The name of your partner |
| Description: | Enter a short paragraph about the partner here. Note that this field has a 255 character limit – if you type anything more it will be cut off ! |
| Status: | This drop down box allows you to toggle the partner on or off. If you set a partner as inactive (“no”) it will not be displayed on the user side. |
This section of the administration menu displays a list of all partners in the database and their details. You can add new partners, edit or delete them from here. The “active” drop down box performs the same function as “Status” (see Section 4.1, “Adding a partner”). If you change the active status or weight of a partner from this screen you must select “sort” or “automatic sort” to save the revised order. You can also change the active status or weight of a partner via the “Edit” link. “Hits” records the number of times a partner link has been clicked on by a visitor.
The “automatic sort” button resets the weighting sequence beginning from 1, while retaining the existing order. For example, the partners shown below are weighted 10, 20, 30. After automatic sorting they would still be listed in the same order but their weight would be shown as 1, 2, 3.
The following configuration options are available for the index (main) page of the Partners module. Note that the Partners block is configured separately (see Section 6, “Blocks”):
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| Reclick time: | This sets the period of time during which repeated clicks on a partner from the same browser will not increment the hit counter (it is based on a cookie). The default is one day. |
| Limit main page to xx entries | You can control how many partners you want to appear in the Partners index page. The default is five. Set it at ‘0’ to display all available partners (0 = no limit). |
| On main page show | Choose how you want to display partners on the index page for this module. You have a choice of displaying your partner’s logos, text links to their site, or both. |
| Order main page content by: | Controls how the Partners index page contents are sorted. The choices are to sort by ID, number of hits, title (alphabetical) or weight. The default is to sort by hits. |
| Order main page content by: | Ascending or descending order (default is descending). |
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