How to Display the Infobox Popup for a Map in Shack Locations

In Shack Locations you can display the infobox popup for a map:

demo of an infobox of a map in shack locations

Displaying your Shack Locations infobox popup is a two-step process:

  1. Create information for your infobox popup to display.
  2. Select one of the four options to display your infobox popup.

Let's take a look at these steps in more detail.


Step #1. Create information for your infobox popup to display

  • In your Joomla administrator panel, go to "Components" > "Shack Locations Free/Pro" > "Locations". For this tutorial, I will use Shack Locations Pro:

go to components then shack locations pro then locations

  • You will see the "Locations" screen, as shown in the next image. Click on the title of your chosen location. For this demo, I will click "Stature of Liberty":

click on the title of your chosen location

  • This will bring you to the "Location: Edit" screen, as you can see in the next image. Enter required text into the "Description" box:

enter required text into the description box

  • Click "Save & Close".

Excellent! You just created text to display in the infobox popup of the chosen location of the chosen map.

In the next step, you will set how to display it.


Step #2. Select one of the four options to display your infobox popup

You have for following options to display it:

the four options

  1. Always: Always display the infobox popups for all maps when the maps are being viewed.
  2. Click: Display the infobox popup of a map when the map viewer clicked on the map's marker.
  3. Mouse Hover: Display the infobox popup of a map when the map viewer's mouse hovered over on the map's marker.
  4. No Popup: Never display the infobox popups.

Here is how you can set them in your Shack Locations Joomla extension.

  • In the top right corner of the screen, click "Options":

click options

  • This will bring you to the "Shack Locations Configuration" screen, as you can see in the next image. Click the "Infobox Content" tab:

click the infobox content tab

  • Set the "Popup Event" parameter to one of the four options:

set one of the four options

  • Click "Save" or "Save & Close".