Category: GXSA Site Administration

These are the short form instructions about how to embed a PDF document on a Joomla document We’re using: https://techjoomla.com/free-downloads/pdf-embed Embed – PDF Steps – 1.Enable content- PDF Embed. 2. Enable Button – Embed PDF 3. Go to the article and click EMBED – PDF button 4. Add fields in pop-up box. Save the article. Syntax…

Because we operate two discrete membership lists The official list on Excel The Email distribution list on Joomla ..sometimes they get out of sunc, because we’re only human, and they aren’t sync’d automatically. This is the process for synchronising them…. Open the AcyMailing list: Start the Joomla Administrator Open Components –> Acymailing –> Users Click Export…

GXSA Email Accounts The GXSA website is hosted by www.uk2.net The CPanel Administration interface is accessible at http://cpanel.gxsa.org.uk   GXSA email is acccessible via the Webmail interface at: https://mail.hostedemail.com/mail.  You will need the usernames and passwords to access the inboxes. The following email inboxes are currently set up (….these may have changed since the article was…

Article Adminisrtration Website Home Page To put articles on the Home page, they mus have the following attributes: 1) Be published 2) Be Featured 3) Be in Category News (first) About GXSA (second) Lecture Summary (third)  

AcyMailing: How to ensure email gets delivered The Sender Policy Framework allows an email recipient to check if the email originated from an approved source. At GXSA, we assert that all our emails from gxsa.org.uk actually come from the gxsa.org.uk web servers (i.e. the email address is not being spoofed by a spammer). This is how it works:…

Technical Details on How Joomla Fits Together Specifica coverage of Profiler (no longer used) and AcyMailing (an essential tool) The article describes how Profiler us updated if AcyMailing database is changed. This article may be obsolete – needs checking….

Joomla Configuration On the GXSA Website, we use Joomla Content Management System Joomla comprises: The Core functionality Additional Components that increase functionality Sometimes, the view displayed be default configuration is not what the administrator wants to show on the website.  In this case, we use “Layout overrides” for the components that we need a different…

Protostar Position Map: http://www.cloudaccess.net/joomla-3-0/113-protostar-responsive-template/596-protostar-module-map-joomla-3-0.html  

Here are some notes on the User Profile system that we are using, have investigated, and are not using:   The User Profiles on this site user the Joomla Profiler extension (at least they will do when it’s enabled.   Standard Joomla Approach Standard Joomla has very few data fields to play with Probably has sufficient for the…