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• Components Banners Banners
• Components Banners Banners Edit
• Components Banners Categories
• Components Banners Categories Edit
• Components Banners Clients Edit
• Components Banners Tracks
• Components Contacts Categories
• Components Contacts Categories Edit
• Components Contacts Contacts
• Components Contacts Contacts Edit
• Components Finder Manage Content Maps
• Components Finder Manage Indexed Content
• Components Finder Manage Search Filters
• Components Finder Manage Search Filters Edit
• Components Joomla Update
• Components Messaging Inbox
• Components Messaging Read
• Components Messaging Write
• Components Newsfeeds Categories
• Components Newsfeeds Categories Edit
• Components Newsfeeds Feeds
• Components Newsfeeds Feeds Edit
• Components Redirect Manager
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• Components Search
• Components Weblinks Categories
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• Components Weblinks Links
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This screen is accessed from the back-end Joomla! administrator panel. It is used to add or edit banner clients.

How to Access

• Select Components → Banners → Clients from the drop-down menu of the Joomla! Administrator Panel. You can also select the 'Clients' menu link from the Banner Categories Manager, Banner Manager or the Banner Tracks Manager.

Description

The Banner Client Manager is where you can edit existing Banner Clients or create new ones. Note that you must have at least one Banner Client and one Banner Category defined before you can add your first Banner.

Screenshot

Column Headers

Click on the column heading to sort the list by that column's value.

• Checkbox. Check this box to select one or more items. To select all items, check the box in the column heading. After one or more boxes are checked, click a toolbar button to take an action on the selected item or items. Many toolbar actions, such as Publish and Unpublish, can work with multiple items. Others, such as Edit, only work on one item at a time. If multiple items are checked and you press Edit, the first item will be opened for editing.
• Client. The name of the Banner Client. You may click on the name to open the Client for editing.

• Contact. The Contact for this Client.

• Status. (Published/Unpublished/Archived/Trashed) The published status of the item.
• Active. The number of Banners defined for this Client.
• Meta Keywords. Meta keywords to be used for this client's banners.
• Purchase Type. The banner purchase type of the client. This is used to indicate how the client purchased the display time for their banners - monthly, yearly, etc...

• ID. This is a unique identification number for this item assigned automatically by Joomla!. It is used to identify the item internally, and you cannot change this number. When creating a new item, this field displays 0 until you save the new entry, at which point a new ID is assigned to it.

List Filters

Filter by Partial Title

You can filter the list of items by typing part of the banner's name or the ID number of the banner.

Filter by Published State

In the upper right area, above the column headings, there is a drop-down list box as shown below:

• Filter by Published Status. Lets you show only items with the selected published status.
  
  • - Select Status -: Shows items that are Published and Unpublished. Does not show items that are Trashed or Archived.
  • Published: Shows only items that are Published.
  • Unpublished: Shows only items that are Unpublished.
  • Archived: Shows only items that are Archived.
  • Trashed: Shows only items that are Trashed. Important Note: To permanently delete items:
    1. Change the status of the items to Trashed.
    2. Change the Status filter to Trashed. At this point the trashed items will show and an icon called "Empty trash" will show in the toolbar.
    3. Select the desired trashed items and click on "Empty Trash" in the toolbar. The items will be permanently deleted.
  • All: Shows all items regardless of published status.

Toolbar

At the top right you will see the toolbar:

The functions are:

• New. Opens the editing screen to create a new banner client.
• Edit. Opens the editing screen for the selected banner client. If more than one banner client is selected (where applicable), only the first banner client will be opened. The editing screen can also be opened by clicking on the Title or Name of the banner client.
• Publish. Makes the selected banner clients available to visitors to your website.
• Unpublish. Makes the selected banner clients unavailable to visitors to your website.
• Archive. Changes the status of the selected banner clients to indicate that they are archived. Archived banner clients can be moved back to the published or unpublished state by selecting "Archived" in the Select Status filter and changing the status of the banner clients to Published or Unpublished as preferred.
• Check In. Checks-in the selected banner clients. Works with one or multiple banner clients selected.
• Trash. Changes the status of the selected banner clients to indicate that they are trashed. Trashed banner clients can still be recovered by selecting "Trashed" in the Select Status filter and changing the status of the banner clients to Published or Unpublished as preferred. To permanently delete trashed banner clients, select "Trashed" in the Select Status filter, select the banner clients to be permanently deleted, then click the Empty Trash toolbar icon.
• Options. Opens the Options window where settings such as default parameters or permissions can be edited.
• Help. Opens this help screen.

Options

Click the Options button to open the Banner Manager Options window which lets you configure this component.

Buttons Common to All Tabs

• Save. Saves the banner options and stays in the current screen.
• Save & Close. Saves the banner options and closes the current screen.
• Cancel/Close. Closes the current screen and returns to the previous screen without saving any modifications you may have made.

Client Options Tab

• Purchase Type. (Unlimited/Yearly/Monthly/Weekly/Daily) This is used to indicate how the banner client purchased the display time for the banner
• Track Impressions. (Yes/No) Whether or not to count how many times a Banner is displayed.
• Track Clicks. (Yes/No) Whether or not to count how many times a Banner is clicked.
• Meta Keyword Prefix. When matching keywords (for matching Banners to Articles based on Keywords), only search for keywords with this prefix. This can improve performance.

Permissions Tab

This screen allows you to set the component permissions in Joomla. This is important to consider if you have sites with many different user categories all of whom need to have different accessibilities to the component. The screenshot below describes what you should see and the text below that describes what each permission level gives the user access to:

You work on one Group at a time by opening the slider for that group. You change the permissions in the Select New Settings drop-down list boxes. The options for each value are Inherited, Allowed, or Denied. The Calculated Setting column shows you the setting in effect. It is either Not Allowed (the default), Allowed, or Denied. Note that the Calculated Setting column is not updated until you press the Save button in the toolbar. To check that the settings are what you want, press the Save button and check the Calculated Settings column.

The default values used here are the ones set in the Global Configuration Permissions Tab

Configure

Open the banners component option screens (the modal window these options are in)

Access Administration Interface

Open the banners component manger screens

Create

Create new banners in the component

Delete

Delete existing banners in the component

Edit

Edit existing banners in the component

Edit State

Change an banners state (Publish, Unpublish, Archive, and Trash) in the component.

There are two very important points to understand from this screen. The first is to see how the permissions can be inherited from the parent Group. The second is to see how you can control the default permissions by Group and by Action. This provides a lot of flexibility. For example, if you wanted Shop Suppliers to be able to have the ability to create an article about their product, you could just change their Create value to "Allowed". If you wanted to not allow members of Administrator group to delete objects or change their state, you would change their permissions in these columns to Inherited (or Denied). It is also important to understand that the ability to have child groups is completely optional. It allows you to save some time when setting up new groups. However, if you like, you can set up all groups to have Public as the parent and not inherit any permissions from a parent group.

Toolbar Links

At the top left, above the Filter, you will see the following four links:

• Banners. Click this link to go to the Banners Manager page.
• Categories. Click this link to go to the Banner Category Manager page.
• Clients. This link is disabled, since you are already in the Clients page.
• Tracks. Click this link to go to the Banner Tracks Manager page.

Related Information

• To create or edit Banners: Banner - New/Edit
• To work with Banner Categories: Banner Category Manager