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How to Send Shack Forms Entries to Google Sheets
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 05 May 2020 05 May 2020
Shack Forms Pro is the easiest and most powerful way to add forms to your Joomla site.
With Shack Forms, you can integrate your Joomla forms with Google Sheets. If you enable this integration, every time someone submits a Shack Form, their data will automatically be sent to your Google Sheet.
This integration can be incredibly useful if you need to share or analyze the data sent via your forms. Google Sheets has all the power of a spreadsheet, and can also make your data pop with colorful charts and graphs.
This guide will show you how to send Shack Forms entries to Google Sheets.
Displaying Different Shack Forms for Different Pages
- Written by Alex Kiash Alex Kiash
- Published: 27 April 2020 27 April 2020
One of the questions we had from a customer last week was how to display different Shack Forms on different pages. Shack Forms is a very popular Joomla extension for building forms. Once you install it on your Joomla site, you will have a default Shack Forms module. But what if you would like to have different forms for different pages?
This can be easily achieved by duplicating the default module. You then customize each of the duplicated modules as you see fit to meet your Joomla site requirements. In this blog post, I will show you how to do that.
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Customizing the Date Format in Shack Article Manager
- Written by Alex Kiash Alex Kiash
- Published: 20 April 2020 20 April 2020
Among other useful data, Shack Article Manager displays the dates of Joomla's articles. One of our customers recently asked us how to customize the dates format.
By default, Shack Article Manager displays dates in the format of "Year-Month-Day". With Joomla's brilliant "Language Overrides" tool, you can easily change this format to, for example, "Day-Month-Year". Let's take a look at how to do just that.
Read more: Customizing the Date Format in Shack Article Manager
Displaying Checkboxes in Shack Forms Horizontally
- Written by Alex Kiash Alex Kiash
- Published: 14 April 2020 14 April 2020
Shack Forms in one of the best form building extensions for Joomla. By default, your Shack Forms module will display checkboxes of the "Checkboxes group" field vertically.
If your checkbox group field has more than four or five checkboxes, your Shack Form may look a bit overstretched vertically.
To make it look tidier and more compact, you may want to display checkboxes horizontally. In this blog post, I'll show you how to do that by splitting the checkboxes into a few columns.
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Creating Multiple Private Calendars with JCal Pro
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 31 March 2020 31 March 2020
One of our customers asked how to give each Joomla user a JCal Pro calendar only with events they created themselves from the frontend. JCal Pro calls such events private events.
In this blog post, I will walk you step by step through creating multiple private calendars with JCal Pro.
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Dealing with the "Call to undefined method" Error in OSMap
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 23 March 2020 23 March 2020
One of OSMap users faced the "Call to undefined method Joomla\CMS\Document\XmlDocument::addCustomTag()" error. You may see it trying to view either the "XML" or "Images" sitemaps.
The most likely reason for this error may be one of the 3-rd party system plugins you installed. In this blog post, I'll show you how to find which one of them is the source of the error.
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Say Hello to Shack Error Notify
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 18 March 2020 18 March 2020
Shack Error Notify is the 29th extension available at Joomlashack.
Yes, you read that correctly. Joomlashack Everything Club members now get access to 29 extensions. And we've got an additional extension to be released next week!
Shack Error Notify will rescue you from serious site problems. This plugin will send automatic notifications if anything goes wrong with your Joomla site.
We have used this plugin at Joomlashack for years, and it has saved us on many occasions. It is easy to miss site errors, but Shack Error Notify catches them all! You will get an email describing what went wrong on your site, and showing you where to fix it.
Click here to get Shack Error Notify, or click here to join the Everything Club.
How We Are NOT Responding to COVID-19
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 18 March 2020 18 March 2020
In the last couple of weeks, my inbox has been over-flowing with COVID-19 emails:
- "Hey, it's the hotel you visited five years ago. This is how we are responding to the virus."
- "We sold you some software in 2012. Here is some bland work-at-home advice."
- "We have no idea why we're emailing you. But our boss told us to send out a virus update."
To be honest, I don't have any great advice at all. We're trying to navigate day-to-day, just like you are. Events are moving so fast that even good advice today is likely to be out-of-date tomorrow.
Listen to the Joomla Podcasts from Watchful and JoomCast
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 09 March 2020 09 March 2020
If you are a podcast fan, you can find three active Joomla podcasts at the moment.
I'll start with a little self-promotion. One of the three is the Watchful podcast that features myself and Vic from Watchful. Our interviews focus on Joomla agencies: how they manage products, find customers, manage their cashflow and so on.
Another is JoomCast and it's a collaboration between Naveen from Joomdev and Tim from Basic Joomla. They interview people from around the Joomla world.
Also, if you speak Spanish, there's also Mastermind Joomla from Carlos Camara, who gave a great session at last year's Joomlashack Conference.
Read more: Listen to the Joomla Podcasts from Watchful and JoomCast
What Analytics Tools Do You Use With Joomla?
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 17 January 2020 17 January 2020
This week, we've been working on improvements to Shack Analytics.
Joomla site owners often have scripts such as Google Analytics, Adwords, Clicky, Facebook, MailChimp and other sites. But those scripts are hidden away inside random modules, plugins or template files. Shack Analytics can help!
Shack Analytics is a single extension to manage all the analytics code on your sites. Here are guides for using some popular analytics scripts with Joomla:
After installing Shack Analytics, you'll see a single dashboard with room to add the analytics for your site.