Dear Daniel,

I'm searching for a way to leave my users the choice of filling the description field or not. But as I understand the description is a mandatory field needed for creating the detail page.

Is it possible to create a workaround for this, maybe add an function like if description is empty set description = HotSpot name?
This would be great for me and my project

Many thanks in advance

Torsten

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Description field 12 years 3 months ago #17026

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Hey Torsten,
Well, try that. Go to components/com_hotspots/models/forms/marker.xml and find this code:

<field name="hotspotText" type="editor" class="inputbox required"
               label="COM_HOTSPOTS_FIELD_DESCRIPTION" description="COM_HOTSPOTS_FIELD_DESCRIPTION_DESC"
               filter="JComponentHelper::filterText" buttons="article,image,pagebreak" required="true"/>

Try to remove the required="true". Let me know if this works then. I think it should, but I haven't tested it.

cheers,
Daniel

P.S. This is for the frontend only - in the backend you have another .xml form to modify.

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Description field 12 years 3 months ago #17028

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Dear Daniel,

many thank for the quick response!
I've change the mentioned code to required="false" and it's working, also the HotSpot detail site seems to run without problems

Do you also know the backend file I have to change and do you think I'll get problems with the empty description field?

Kind regards Torsten

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Description field 12 years 3 months ago #17029

Daniel Dimitrov Offline Administrator Posts: 9618 Karma: 155 Thank you received: 1081	the backend file is located in administrator/components/com_hotspots/models/form/marker.xml You should not get into problems with the missing description, but it is not nice to not have one Cheers, Daniel Check this box to be notified of replies to this topic. Note: BBcode and smileys are still usable.

Description field 12 years 3 months ago #17032

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Now I'm definitely sure, Compojoom has the best support I've seen since a long time

MANY THANKS to you!

Your right it's not nice, but around 60% of the locations users add are there own location and they'll add nickname = hotspot name without details.
For the others it's important to have this details

Best regards Torsten

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Description field 11 years 6 months ago #20749

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Hi,

I've changed the description to non-mandatory using the instructions in this thread. It works fine, however there is just one slight issue.

When the side tab is opened, hotspots with no descriptions display the word "false" instead of just being empty. How do you get rid of the word "false"? I believe it's a javascript related issue.

Thanks for your time.

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Description field 11 years 6 months ago #20777

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\media\com_hotspots\js\modules\menu.js around line 675:

        var template = '<span class="hotspots-title">{{{title}}}</span>'
                + '<div>{{#thumb}}<img src="{{thumb}}" alt="{{title}}" class="hotspots-thumb"/>{{/thumb}}{{{description}}}</div>'
                + '<div class="clear-both"></div>';

change it to

        var template = '<span class="hotspots-title">{{{title}}}</span>'
                + '<div>{{#thumb}}<img src="{{thumb}}" alt="{{title}}" class="hotspots-thumb"/>{{/thumb}}</div>'
                + '<div class="clear-both"></div>';

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Description field 11 years 6 months ago #20782

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Thanks for your reply. This removes the description for every hotspot in the side tab, which is not what I want. I would like the descriptions for those hotspots which have descriptions to remain, and for those hotspots which do not have descriptions to be blank rather than displaying the word "false".

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Description field 11 years 6 months ago #20786

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try:

        var template = '<span class="hotspots-title">{{{title}}}</span>'
                + '<div>{{#thumb}}<img src="{{thumb}}" alt="{{title}}" class="hotspots-thumb"/>{{/thumb}}{{#description}}{{{description}}}{{/description}}</div>'
                + '<div class="clear-both"></div>';

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Description field 11 years 6 months ago #20787

Imtiaz Noor Offline Fresh Boarder Posts: 7 Thank you received: 0	Awesome, works well, thanks very much. Check this box to be notified of replies to this topic. Note: BBcode and smileys are still usable.

Description field 11 years 6 months ago #20791

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