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

Screenshot:

basic

 

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

Screenshot:

user

 

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

Screenshot:

country

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) 

Screenshot:

display

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

Screenshot:

prices

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!
  • 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!
  • Changeable - (Yes / No) - May the destination be changed by the user?

Screenshot:

places

 

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

Screenshot:

ads

 

 

Vehicle Settings

Since Arrange2Drive 3.3.0 the vehicle settings are managed in the Arrange2Drive's separate configuration options.

Screenshot:

vehicles

 

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.

 

Back-end screenshot:

custom-fields

 

Front-end screenshot:

custom-fields-front

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.

Screenshot:

layout

 

Layout Bootstrap

Here you can set the colours of the Bootstrap buttons.

Screenshot back-end:

bootstrap-layout