Help310:Components Banners Banners

Description

Provides an overview of the Banners available on a Joomla site. The screen is used to find, add, edit and delete Banners.

There must be at least one Banner Category before a Banner can be created.

How to Access

• Select Components → Banners from the dropdown menu of the Administrator Panel.

Screenshot

Column Headers

In the table containing Banners these are the different columns as shown below. Click on the column heading to sort the list by that column's value.

• Ordering. Up-Down Arrows. User specified ordering, default is order of banners creation. When active, drag and drop ordering by 'click and hold' on the bars icon then 'release' in desired position.

• Checkbox. Check this box to select one or more banners. To select all banners, check the box in the column heading.
  Note: Many toolbar actions can work with multiple banners.

• Status. Published or Unpublished banners are shown. Click on the green check mark or the red circle in the Status column to toggle between Published and Unpublished.

• Name. The name of the banner. You can open the banner for editing by clicking on the Name.

• Pinned. Whether or not the banner is "pinned". Quick Tips: Pinned banners.

• Client. The Client for this banner. Clients are entered using Banner Client.

• Impressions. The Impression count is the number of times the banner has been displayed on a page. The first number in this column is the actual number of Impressions so far, and the second number is how many Impressions were purchased by the client.

• Clicks. The first number is the total number of clicks that have been made on the banner since the counter was reset. The second number is what percentage of the time user clicked on the banner when it was displayed.
• Language. Banners's language. If you are not using the multi-language feature of Joomla, default is 'All'.

• ID. This is a unique identification number for this banner assigned automatically by Joomla. It is used to identify the banner internally, and you cannot change this number.

Column Filters

Above the column headers on the right, there are 2 dropdown input fields, Sort Table By: (preset to 'Name ascending') and a number (preset to '20') to display.

These column sorting input fields shows the current method of sorting applied to the table. Use the dropdown field choices and click the column heading name. Alternatively, click on the column heading to sort the list by that column's value.

This will also change the value in the drop field to correspond with the column header name. The list will then be sorted in order by that column and a sort icon (up or down arrow) will show next to the column name. Click a second time to reverse the sort, which will change the corresponding drop field.

• Name ascending (default). Shows ordering of selected column, ascending or descending.

• Number of banners to display. Shows the number of banners to display on one page, default is 20 banners. If there are more banners than this number, you can use the page navigation buttons to navigate between pages.

List Filters

The List Filters are a series of controls that let you limit what categories show in the screen. More than one filter may be entered. In this case, only categories that meet all of the filter conditions will show on the list.

Filter by Partial Title or ID

In the upper left is a search field and 2 buttons.

• To filter by partial title, enter part of the title and click 'Search'
• To filter by ID number, enter "id:xx", where "xx" is the ID number (for example, "id:29").
• Click 'Clear' to clear the Filter field and restore the list to its unfiltered state.

Search Tools

Above the column headings, there are 5 dropdown list boxes.

Filter by Status

Lets you show only banners with the selected published status.

• - Select Status -: Show only banners that are Published and Unpublished.
• Trashed: Show only banners that are Trashed. Quick Tip: Permanently delete banners
• Unpublished: Show only banners that are Unpublished.
• Published: Show only banners that are Published.
• Archived: Show only banners that are Archived.
• All: Show all banners regardless of published status.

Filter by Category

Lets you show only banners assigned to a specific category. The list box will show the categories defined for your site.

• - Select Category -: Show banners assigned to any category.
• Uncategorised: Show only banners assigned to this category.

Filter by Client

Lets you show only banners that have a specific client assigned. The list box will show the clients defined for your site.

• - Select Client -: Show banners for any client.
• [client name]: Show banners only for this client.

Filter by Language

Lets you show only banners that have a specific language assigned. The list box will show the languages defined for your site.

• - Select Language -: Show banners for any language.
• All: Show banners set for 'All' languages.
• English (en-GB): Show banners only for this language.

Filter by Max Levels (Banners Level)

Lets you show only banners at or above the specified level in the hierarchy.

• - Select Max Levels -: Show all banners.
• 1: Show only banners at the top level in the hierarchy (in other words, whose parent is '- No Parent -').
• 2: Show only banners in the top and 2nd levels in the hierarchy.
• 3: Show only banners in the top, 2nd and 3rd levels in the hierarchy.
• 4 … 8
• 9: Show only banners in the top, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 levels in the hierarchy.
• 10: Show only banners in 10 levels in the hierarchy.

Automatic Pagination

Page Controls. When the number of banners is more than one page, you will see a page control bar as shown below. The current page number being viewed is shaded.

• Start: Click to go to the first page.
• Prev: Click to go to the previous page.
• Page numbers: Click to go to the desired page.
• Next: Click to go to the next page.
• End: Click to go to the last page.

Toolbar

At the top left you will see the toolbar.

The functions are:

• New. Opens the editing screen to create a new banner.

• Edit. Opens the editing screen for the selected banner. If more than one banner is selected (where applicable), only the first banner will be opened. The editing screen can also be opened by clicking on the Name of the banner.

• Publish. Makes the selected banner available to visitors to your website.

• Unpublish. Makes the selected banner unavailable to visitors to your website.

• Archive. Changes the status of the selected banner to indicate that they are archived. Archived banner 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 to Published or Unpublished as preferred.

• Check-in. Checks-in the selected banner. Works with one or multiple banner selected.

• Batch. Batch processes the selected banner. Works with one or multiple items selected.

• Trash. Changes the status of the selected banner to indicate that they are trashed. Trashed banner can still be recovered by selecting 'Trashed' in the 'Select Status' filter and changing the status of the banner to Published or Unpublished as preferred. To permanently delete trashed banner, select 'Trashed' in the 'Select Status' filter, select the banner to be permanently deleted, then click the 'Empty Trash' toolbar icon.

• Help. Opens this help screen.

• Options. Opens the Options window where settings such as default parameters can be edited.

Batch Process

The Batch Process allows a change in settings for a group of selected banners marked with a check-mark in the corresponding check-mark boxes. To use: select one or more banners form the table of banners being viewed and click on the 'Batch' Toolbar button. This will open a pop up window as shown below.

You can change one value or all values at one time.

How to Batch Process a group of banners:

1. Select one or more banners on the list by selecting the desired checkbox(es).
2. Click the 'Batch' Toolbar button.
3. Set one or more of the following values:

• To change the Language, select the desired language from the Set Language list box.

• To change the Client, select the desired new client from the Set Client list box.

• To change the Category, select a category.
  • To copy the banners to a different category, select the desired category from the category list box and check the Copy option.
    In this case, the original banners are unchanged and the copies are assigned to the new category and, if selected, the new language and client.
    Note: Changes you have selected from language and client will be applied to the copies, not the original.
  • To move the banners to a different category, select the desired category from the category list box and check the Move option.
    In this case, the original banners will be moved to a new category and, if selected, be assigned the new language and client.

When all of the settings are entered, click on Process to perform the changes. A message "Batch process completed successfully." will show. Note: Nothing will happen if you don't have any banner selected.

If you wish to clear your entered selections, click on the 'Cancel' button. Note: This does not uncheck the check boxes for the banner.

Quick Tips

• To permanently delete banner:
  1. Change the status of the banner to Trashed.
  2. Change the Status filter to Trashed. At this point the trashed banner will show and the Empty trash button will show in the toolbar.
  3. Select the desired trashed banner and click on Empty trash in the toolbar. The banner will be permanently deleted.

• If one or more Banners in a Category are designated pinned, they will take priority over Banners that are not pinned.
  • For example, if two Banners in a Category are pinned and a third Banner is not pinned, the third Banner will not display if the Banner display module setting is "Pinned, Randomise" or "Pinned, Ordering." Only the two pinned Banners will display.
  • If the pinned banners have a fixed number of impressions, once those impressions are used up, the pinned banners will no longer display, and the non-pinned banners will begin displaying automatically.

Related Information

Help Screens

Component	Description
Banners (this screen)	Provides an overview of the Banners available on a Joomla site. The screen is used to find, add, edit and delete Banners.
Banners Edit	This is where you can Add a new Banner. Edit an existing Banner.
Categories	Provides an overview of the Banner Categories available on a Joomla site. The screen is used to find, add, edit and delete Banner Categories.
Categories Edit	This is where you can Add a new Banner Category. Edit an existing Banner Category.
Clients	Provides an overview of the Banner Clients available on a Joomla site. The screen is used to find, add, edit and delete Banner Clients.
Clients Edit	This is where you can Add a new Banner Client. Edit an existing Banner Client.
Tracks	Provides an overview of the Banner Tracking information available on a Joomla site.
Options	Banner Options configuration allows setting of parameters used globally for all banners.

Module	Description
Banners	The Banner Module displays the active Banners from the Component.