In the integrations of jCommunity with components which are not from Joobi, basically you need to download and upload it to your site. One thing that we need to set up first so that it can be viewed at the front end is to Create a Menu for each applications integrated with jCommunity.
Here are the following steps to follow:
1. Menus -> Menu Manager
2. Click  to create a new menu.
3. After filling up the right informations, click  .
- But most of the webmasters used the Top Menu which would be advisable if it's not yet crowded.
- So it's up to you where to put that specific component which makes you more comfortable.
7.1 Photo Gallery
It is the web based photo album organizer in which we can create albums as many as we want. It gives you an intuitive way to blend photo management seamlessly into your own website whether you're running a small personal site or a large community site.
7.1.a RSGallery2
RSGallery and jCommunity integration will display the user's list of galleries on his profile.
Requirements:
1. If you still don't have RSGallery 2.00.0, upload it first.
2. Publish RSGallery widget.
7.2 Contents
It refers to the information made available electronically. These are the various issues, topics, or questions taken cared of in a particular piece of writing.
7.2.a Joomla Articles
Seeing that jCommunity is created through the use of the Joomla! CMS as platform, the incorporation of Joomla! articles to jCommunity is very important to keep us posted on the information that is published on a regular basis and updated as Joomla! progresses. The articles or blogs include programming techniques used in Joomla!, Security, Events and other necessary information. Members on the site who had the access rights (Author up to Super Administrator) to write an article will be able to contribute on a site.
Requirement:
1. Publish the Joomla Article widget
-Just go to the list of widgets:
Components -> jCommunity -> click Tools and publish Joomla Article
Article Writing
1. Go to the Article Manager's page: Content -> Article Manager.
2. Click button. Before you start with the article be sure to choose which section and category it belongs; and the author of the article. The above information would help for an easy retrieval through filtering.
3. After making your article click .
7.2.b Acajoom
Acajoom is integrated with jCommunity to show a user's newsletter subscription on his profile.He can also subscribe from various available newsletters by editing his profile. However, newslettes shown on the Profile Edit will be filtered by the ACL (Access Control Level) set by the Admin. It means that the newsletter is not shown if your ACL is lower than the ACL set by the Admin in the newsletter.Subscription is also possible in the "Registration Form." First time registrant can also subscribe while filling up the registration form. Filtering newsletters also works the same as in the "Edit Profile." Only the newsletters set as available to the public (set as public front end) will be shown.
To know more about Acajoom just click this link: Acajoom Documentation
7.3 Forum
Forum is an online discussion site. It is composed of group of people which forms around a topic's discussion, subjects dealt with in or around sections in the forum. This group includes community members, Joomla! Core members, and of course Working Group members as the problem gets more technical and complicated. For now we don't have forum application, so we'll be integrating agora and fireboard in order to have a post for each profile or member to be able to send queries to a forum within your site, and to display the list of user post. Agora and Kunena (formerly named fireboard) forums are native Joomla component. For this reason it is much easier to integrate and no bridge required for these two components.
7.3.a Agora
Agora is the first forum to natively support Joomla 1.5+. It is integrated to provide means for useful information for both new and well-experienced users. The integration of Agora forum and jCommunity users will enable the user's list of submitted post shown on his profile.
Requirement:
1. Download Agora at their site.
7.3.b Kunena
Kunena is formerly known as the Fireboard. Kunena, translated from Swahili meaning "to speak", arose out of a fork of the former Fireboard forum with a new team and some of the previous developers, including several Joomla core developers. http://www.kunena.com/The synchronization of Kunena Forum and jCommunity users let a user's submitted post shown on his profile.
Downloading Kunena (formerly Fireboard):
As long as the Kunena application is not installed it's impossible to publish its widget on your site. For this reason we need to download Kunena first and these are the steps:
A. At Kunena's site
1. Go to Kunena to view its own site.
2. Click the top menu: "Download Kunena 1.0.9 &1.5.1b" .
3. On the table of the package release for Kunena, select the file you want to download and click it.
The Kunena file has been saved at the desktop.
B. At Joomla
It is also included in joomla.org wherein we can also do our downloading for Kunena but it's more laborious than going directly to its site.
1. On Joomla site, click Extensions to view the extensions listed by categories.
2. Look for the category "Communication" and click Forum under it. You'll be redirected to the page listing the available forums.
3. Find the component Kunena Forum and click Download button. Then you'll see the table of package release for kunena.
4. At that table you can pick out which file you want to download and click it to complete the process.
Uploading and Installing Kunena:
After downloading Kunena, you are now ready to upload and install it on your site.
First, go to the back end and do the following:
1. Hover Extensions => click Install/Uninstall
2. On the Extension Manager's page, click the sub-menu Install.
3. Click Browse button under the text field "Upload Package File."
4. On the File Upload screen, choose Desktop to find the file you want to upload and click it to insert it on the file name's box.
5. Click the Open button to go back to the Extension Manager's page.
6. Click Upload & Install button. As the process is completed, a success message will be displayed.
7.4 eCommerce
Electronic Commerce or eCommerce is an electronic marketing which consist of the buying and selling of products or services over electronic systems such us the Internet and other computer networks. It includes electronic funds transfer, supply chain management, Internet marketing, online transaction processing, electronic data interchange (EDI), inventory management systems, and automated data collection systems. It is considered to be the sales aspects of e-business.
7.4.a jStore - jMarket
7.4.a jStore - jMarket
jStore is a web shop or an online electronics store. When jStore is combined with jCommunity, the members can purchase any products available on the site; needless to register to any other site for that particular purpose. It is secure because it's only them can see their own orders and subscriptions. The user's orders list will be shown on his profile.
Requirements:
1. Publish "jStore Placed Order" widget
-Go to the widgets list: Components -> jCommunity -> click Tools.
2. Products List at jStore
Just go to jStore - jMarket documentation to learn more about it.
7.5 jTickets
The integration between jCommunity and jTickets works by showing the tickets submitted by a user on his profile.
For this reason, every members can make a ticket directly without logging in once more.
Ticket title, status, type, and the date submitted are the information shown on the list.
Requirement:
To learn more how to set up jTickets just go to its documentation.
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