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Hi I just bought your jchat extension last night and i was hoping that i could incorporate it as its own page on my joomla. In other words, instead of having the sidebar feature, is it possible to have a link in my menu titled CHAT ROOM and then when people click on it, it would take them to a different page in my joomla where the chat room would be 'embedded'?

If that is not possible, then would it be possible to set it up as a module on the homepage of the website?

If either of these options are possible, can someone please explain to me how?

Thanks in advance for helping me.
Don
 
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John Dagelmore
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Hi Don,

having it as a component linked to a menu is possible only for certain views, for example the private messaging view, you find the available component views when you create a new menu item.

Although the main purpouse of the app is to have a sidebar rendering, it's also possible to manage it as a module. There are detailed explanations about this in the PDF docs at the paragraph 'Chat rendering'

I've written a very detailed PDF docs so that referring to that you will find almost everything you need to know on this app.

Best regards
John
 
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Thanks for the quick reply John. I tried following the docs but couldn't seem to get it to work that way. Having said that, i am using a theme from rockettheme under the gantry 5 framework they have. I'm wondering if that may have something to do with it
 
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I don't think that Gantry 5 makes any difference in the Joomla modules management. However try to perform some tests using even the default standard template.
 
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i feel kinda stupid for not thinking of that before. I'll be sure to give you the feedback as to whether it worked in the default template or not. Thanks
 
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Try this:

- Change JChat mode to operate as a module instead of in the footer
- Edit your JChat module and change the module position name to "livechat"
- In your "Live Chat" article, embed the module using {loadposition livechat}
 
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