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Trombinoscope view: grid layout

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Trombinoscope Contacts
Pro
Category With Children When on a specific category, the output also shows the sub-categories. For instance, when set to yes, selecting a category in the categories selection box will show the category and include its sub-categories. This will work everywhere a category is picked inside the view.
Renaming
Cards spacing
The kind of spacing between the contact cards
start Alignment start
end Alignment end
center Alignment center
space between Alignment space between
space around Alignment space around
space evenly Alignment space evenly
Items alignment The alignment of the items
start Alignment start
center Alignment center
end Alignment end

Card

Card width The width of the card
Card width unit The width unit (pixels or percentage).
Use percentages to have the cards resize with the browser.
Min card width The minimum width in pixels where the card stops shrinking (when width is in percentages).
If the picture is on the side of the text (landscape mode), it will turn into portrait mode (text under the picture).
Perfect for responsive environments 
Max card width The maximum width in pixels where the card stops growing inside its container (when width is in percentages)
Space between cards The space between the cards by default. Use an even value (divided by 2 internally).
If the card width is set in percentages, the margins left and right will be calculated automatically. The space between cards will only apply to the margins top and bottom in this case.
Card height The height of the card. Omitted, it will resize itself from its content (recommended)
Category
  • Show shows the category the contact is a member of
  • Show and link shows the category the contact is a member of and adds a link to the Joomla contact category view
  • Show and link view shows the category the contact is a member of and adds a link to a trombinoscope view
Link to view The view selected for the category link.
'Self' will filter the current view by that category 
Tags
  • Show shows the tags the contact is a member of
  • Show and link shows the tags the contact is a member of and adds a link to the Joomla tags view
  • Show and link view shows the tags the contact is a member of and adds a link to a trombinoscope view
Note Tags use the tcptag.php layout and can be overridden (more layout information in the Common information section)
Link to view The view selected for the tag link. 
Vcard Show the vcard link for vcard download
New
Vcard icon
Use the default icon or select your own icon to represent the vcard
Vcard type Detailed contact information can be exported as personal (home fields) or business related (work fields).
Featured Add a visual cue if the contact is featured
Featured icon Use the default icon or select your own icon to represent the featured contact
Linking
Link to
  • Contact (Trombinoscope Contacts Pro) The contact card links to a Trombinoscope Contacts Pro component's Contact view
  • Contact in modal (Trombinoscope Contacts Pro) The contact card links to a Trombinoscope Contacts Pro component's Contact view opening into a modal window
  • Contact (Joomla) the contact card links to the Joomla contact view
  • Contact (no form) in modal (Joomla) the contact card links to the Joomla contact view opening into a modal (the view cannot have a form or internal links)
  • Contact picture in modal the contact card links to the picture of the contact (opening into a modal window)
  • Link A, B, C, D or E (same window) The contact card links to any of the contact links A through E, opening in the same window
  • Link A, B, C, D or E (new window) The contact card links to any of the contact links A through E, opening in a new window
  • Same link for all (same window) All contacts link to the same internal page
  • Same link for all (new window) All contacts link to the same external page
Popup width The popup width when using a popup window to open the contact
Popup height The popup height when using a popup window to open the contact
Link label A label for the link to the contact (left blank, the contact links through its name)
behavior change v4.4 The name has its own 'link name' option. Leaving the field 'link label' empty will no longer force a link on the name.
Link for all The link to use for all contacts when they all open in the same page
Access The access level group that is authorized to use the link. Unauthorized users won't have a link available to them
Editing
Allow editing Adds a link to edit contacts (only visible to the logged user that is associated with a contact).
  • No
  • User profile edit the contact in the user profile (the ‘Edit contact in profile’ plugin must be enabled)
  • v3.0 View edit the contact in its own view
Note The edition in the user profile only works if the user is linked to one and only one contact.
The edition in the view will work if the user has the right access permissions (see the Permissions section) and a User contacts view exists
Edit link label The label to use for the edit link

Headings

It is possible to group contact cards into category sections with headings, when categories are ordered.

Headings
  • Show shows the category as a heading. All contacts, members of that category, will show under that heading
  • Show and link shows the category as a heading and adds a link to the Joomla contact category view
  • Show and link view shows the category as a heading and adds a link to a trombinoscope view
Link to view The view selected for the category link. 'Auto' will find the first view where the category is featured in.
Heading tag The HTML heading to use (h1 through h6)
Description Option to show the description of the heading
Image Option to show the image of the heading
Alphabet Option to show sub-headings made of all elements of the alphabet

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