Adding our Catalogue

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Composr has a huge number of possibilities available via its impressive choice of built-in features. On top of the inbuilt features there is also a great range of additional optional features created by both the Composr team and other community members. One of these is DataMappr which makes adding a store locator to your website a simple process. A store locator is very useful for any retail business.

Setting up the catalogue of stores

The first part of this is to set up a catalogue within your install which will include all of the information relating to your stores and the positioning data for each store. To be able to fill in the data you will need to know both the longitude and latitude coordinates of each store. To find this you can use this free website. https://itouchmap.com/latlong.html.

I will go through the minimum for creating a new catalogue for your store locator. You can add as many fields to the information as you like but there are too many field option types to cover in this tutorial!

Creating your catalogue

Adding your Store information (filling in a catalogue entry)

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1. Go to the Admin Zone
2. Navigate to the Content section of the Admin Zone menu
3. Choose the Catalogues icon
4. Choose the Add catalogue icon
5. Give the catalogue a name – for this version I have called it "stores" and used the same for the catalogue codename.
6. In the name box for field 1 call it "Store name"
7. Leave the setting as a brief line of text and to display in category views
8. On field 2 give it the title "Store information"
9. Set field 2 as multiple lines of text either with or without Comcode support. This is so you can fill in the information for the store
10. Leave the settings for field 2 as a brief line of text and to display in category views
11. For fields 3 and 4 these are the latitude and longitude fields for your stores. They should have one field for "Latitude" and one for "Longitude" and you probably want to untick (uncheck) the options to show on the category-views and also for in search.
12. Click the Add catalogue button once you are happy with all of the fields you have added.

You now need to add entries for all of your stores including the Latitude and Longitude fields

Adding the module to your install and placing the store locator on a page

The next part of the process is installing the addon and placing the block on the relevant page. To do this you need to:

1. Go to the Admin Zone
2. Navigate to the Structure section of the Admin Zone menu
3. Choose the Addons icon
4. Scroll down and choose "Import non-bundled addon(s)"
5. Click Download and choose the Information display category
6. Choose DataMappr
7. Scroll down and click the "Import non-bundled addon(s)" button
8. Click Proceed etc until it is installed

Navigate to the page where you want the store locator to appear.