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-Welcome to the List view of Preachers
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-Here as in all Joomla backend list views you can perform all the common tasks, and more.
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-### Create
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-You can create a preacher by clicking on the <button>New</button> button in the toolbar, this will open a window where you can add all the needed values to create a new preacher.
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-### Edit
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-You can edit preachers in two ways.
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-- You can click on the box next to the preacher name and then click on the <button>Edit</button> button in the toolbar; this will open the preacher and if you have permission it will give you access to edit the values of a preacher.
-- You can simply click on the preacher name; this will open the preacher and if you have permission it will give you access to edit the values of a preacher.
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-### Edit State
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-You can publish, unpublish, archive, and trash any preacher by clicking in the boxes next the preacher names and then click on the corresponding button of the task you want to perform. This will change the state of all the preachers you’ve selected.
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-If you have trashed a preacher it is in the trash and can still be found in the database. To view items that are still in the trash change the “- Select Status –“ filter to Trashed. Here you will see the list of trashed preachers. To completely remove these preachers from your system do the following: first select all the preachers you want to permanently delete by clicking in the boxes next to the preacher names and then click on the <button>Empty trash</button> button in the toolbar. This will permanently delete the preachers from the database. On the other hand if you would like to change the status of the preacher to publish, unpublish or archive, click in the boxes next to the preacher names and then click on the corresponding button of the task you want to perform. This will change the state of all the preachers you’ve selected.
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-### Check-in
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-When another user on your Joomla website opens a preacher the system checks the preacher out to that user. A little lock will show up next to the preacher name. When you hover over the lock it will show to you who checked it out and when.
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-Component builder adds a nice feature to all its components that is called the auto check-in feature. This feature has a time setting that you can update in the component's global settings.
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-If this feature has not yet checked-in any of the preachers that you as the administrator wants to open you can force a check-in by clicking in the boxes next to the preacher names and then click on the <button>Check-in</button> button in the toolbar, or simply click on the little lock. This will then check in the preacher, which will mean that it removes the preacher from the user who checked it out before you. Remember that they will lose all changes they have made if they have not yet clicked save. This can cause very unpleasant circumstances, so only use this feature if you are absolutely sure you know what you are doing.
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-### Batch Feature
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-You can use the Batch feature to update or copy many preachers at once by clicking in the boxes next the preacher names and then click on the <button>Batch</button> button in the toolbar. This will open a popup window with multiple dropdown options of fields you can change with the batch feature. You can then select update or copy depending of your desired task and finally click on the <button>Process</button> button. Once completed this batch feature will have either copied or updated all the preachers according to the task you selected.
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-### Export & Import
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-The export and import feature is some of the most exciting features to the list view of preachers. With them you can update and create many preachers at once.
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-### Export
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-The export option only exports the preachers selected. So to export all preachers you must change the limited number of preachers that are being loaded to "All". The box that limits the number of preachers being loaded is found on the right top corner of the page. Simply change it from the number to “All” and the page should now reload with all the preacher records from the database, excluding those in trash. If you want those also to load you must change the “- Select Status –“ filter to “All” as well. Now you can click on the tick box at the very top of the table. This should select all the preachers. Next click on the <button>Export Date</button> button in the toolbar. This should open a download window and you can select to save the excel file to your computer.
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-### Import
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-The import option can be used to create preachers or update existing preachers. The way to update existing preachers is to use the same id as the preacher you want to update. Best way to do this is to first export the preachers you want to update and then make the changes you have in mind in the excel document without removing or changing the id. To instead create new preachers via an import, simple leave the id field empty.
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-So once you have your excel document ready you will again open the list view of preachers and click on the <button>Import Data</button> button in the toolbar. This will open a page where you can select the excel file on your computer as an upload, or on the server in a directory, or at any direct url to the excel document.
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-Once you have the file selected you can click on the <button>Upload File</button> or <button>Get File</button> button depending on the method you have chosen. When file has successfully been uploaded or retrieved a new window will open where you can map the excel document headers of each column to the field names used in the database. Usually if you’re using an exported version of the excel document this mapping will be done for you, yet if you have changed any of the header names you may need to set these field relationships manually. There is an option to ignore a column in the case when you want to leave a field totally unchanged.
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-When the field to column relationship has correctly been mapped you can click on the <button>continue</button> button at the bottom of the page. This should return you to the list view of preachers with a success message.
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-### Debug
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-In the event that any of the above features did not work as expected, please read the error message carefully since it should usually give you enough information to why your request could not be processed. Subsequently if you are still not able to perform the request after making all needed corrections according to the error messages, then please contact your system administrator.