Arrange2Drive Documentation and Installation Information
General information - Installation and configuration of the component
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- Last Updated on Tuesday, 25 November 2014 12:01
The carpooling software is very easy to install and to configure. After uploading the zip file you have only to fill in a few values and configure your menu. Thats it!
The configuration is splitted to seven topics like Basic Configuration, User Management, Country Settings, Display Settings, Prices, Places, Ads.
Basic Configuration
- Email admin - Choose the user which should be the admin of the carpooling service
- Notify admin - Choose if the admin should be notified by every entered ride
- Delete past entries - What should happen with expired entries (delete or set to unvisible)
- Sorting - Decides how to sort the overview sites by default
- Captcha settings - reCaptcha, calc-captcha or do not use captcha at all
- Accept the TOS - Choose if the user should accept the TOS while entering a ride
- URL to the TOS - A textfiled to enter the URL to your TOS
- DriveAlert - Enable the automatic entering a user to the notification service
- Bootstrap - Since A2D 3.3.2 Bootstrap must be activated, but uses it's own CSS file
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User Management
- User registration - Choose if the system should run with user registration
- User management - Choose which extended user management you want to use
- Link to user profile - While using the Arrange2Drive Profile, you can set a link in the detail site to the users profile
- Profile image size - The size in KB of the users profile image
- Using Jomsocial - deprecated since 3.3.2
- Community Builder
- Link to the profile - Shows a link to the Community Builder profile page
- Community Builder Telephone - Custom field name for the telephone
- Community Builder Gender - Custom field name for the gender
- How to set up Community Builder fields
- JomSocial
- Link to the profile - Shows a link to the JomSocial profile page
- JomSocial Telephone - Custom field name for the telephone
- JomSocial Gender - Custom field name for the gender
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Country settings
- Country code e.g. DE - Enter the country code of your country - DE, AT, PL...
- Multilingual - Choose if your site is multilingual or not
- System of measurement - Choose your system of measurement, metric or imperial
- Your time zone - Choose your time zone
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Display settings
- Date format - Choose your preferred date format - dd.mm.YYYY or mm.dd.YYYY
- Alt. jQ date - Alternative jQ date format.
- Alt. PHP date - Alternative PHP date format.
- Latitude - Type in the latitude for centering the map above the region you want to
- Longitude - Type in the longitude for centering the map above the region you want to
- Map zoom - Sets the standard map zoom
- Show gender options - Choose if the gender specific options should be displayed
- Show author link - Here a link to the Arrange2Drive project can be enabled / disabled
- Show contact details - Show contact details only to registered users
- Show overlay - Enables / disables the Facebook share overlay after adding a ride
- Show on map button - (Yes / No) - Enables a show on map button and hides the map while loading a detail site. Otherwise the map will directly be shown
- Social networks - Show the social networks buttons on the detail sites
- Calender time range - Choose from 1 to 24 months the calenders time range
- Show ext. search - Show the extended search options (gender, smoker)
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Prices
With the price configurator you can generate a price list for each currency you want. So you can generate a HTML select drop down list for prices like 2,50 EUR or 2000 INR.
- Show price - Choose if the price options should be available in the front-end
- Currency sign z.B. EUR - Here you can add your currency sign
- Start value - Start value to be shown first in the select price list e.g. 0 or 10
- Length of list - Length of the select list for the prices e.g. 25
- Increase of prices - The value to increase the price at each step / iteration
- Separator - Separator for the decimal places
- Intermediate steps - Amount of intermediate steps / decimal places for small prices e.g. 2,50 EUR. If choosen to 0, the steps won´t be shown!
- Decimal places - Decimal places for small values like 4,50 EUR
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Places
Here you can add predefined fixed or variable places. You can do this for departure and for destination. Places are new since Arrange2Drive 3.2!
- Fixed departure - Here you can type in a fixed departure, e.g. ”Alexanderplatz, Berlin, Germany”! This place must be known in Google Maps!
- You can choose also an alternative name for your place, learn more here
- Changeable - (Yes / No) - May the departure be changed by the user?
- Fixed destination - Here you can type in a fixed destination, e.g. ”Alexanderplatz, Berlin, Germany”! This place must be known in Google Maps!
- You can choose also an alternative name for your place, learn more here
- Changeable - (Yes / No) - May the destination be changed by the user?
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Ads
Here you can manage JavaScript code for external ads. So you can place direct in the Arrange2Drive component ads e.g. from Google AdSense or similar.
- Detail site - Field to place your code on the detail sites, will be shown above "Place and time"
- State - locked or published
- Overview sites - Field to place your code on the overview sites, will be shown above "Place and time"
- State - locked or published
- Overlay - Field to place your code on the overlay, which appears after adding an entry
- State - locked or published
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Vehicle Settings
Since Arrange2Drive 3.3.0 the vehicle settings are managed in the Arrange2Drive's separate configuration options.
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Custom Fields
Custom Fields are new since Arrange2Drive 3.3.2. You will find them in the Arrange2Drive back-end under the menu item "Configuration". Here you can manage your own input fields, e.g. for luggage or nationality. The Custom Fields appear in step 5 of the add a trip mask.
A group is described by the group title, the group options and the list with your individual values.
Group title:
- Group title
- Language tag
- Short description
So it is possible to give your input group a name, a language tag and a short description.
Group options:
- Group enabled / Group disabled
- Field required / Field not required
- Field copyable / Field not copyable
- Field countable / Field not countable
Individual value list. Each item is described by:
- Label (required)
- Language tag (optional)
- Value (predefined - not changeable)
Each group can have as much items as you want.
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Layout Settings
Since Arrange2Drive 3.3.0 the layout / colours can be managed easily via an own CSS and colour editor. So the layout and colour scheme can be customized in a few clicks!
You should use nearby the same colour depth / intensity for each colour as it is set in the basic preferences. You can't modify a single colour of a heading with the colour picker. You can only set a general colour scheme for the whole Arrange2Drive CSS file.
If you want to modify e.g. a single heading colour or layout, you should overwrite a CSS rule by using the "Individualized CSS" textarea.
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Layout Bootstrap
Here you can set the colours of the Bootstrap buttons.
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