For a while now, a new extension was available for download in the member section of this website. A lot of you, my visitors, didn't download it not knowing what it is used for. I found today a 15 minutes interval that allows me to shine some light upon this new component.

JuliaLocations is this new and awesome component that will allow you to define some locations types and add locations to these types. To be more specific, the location types can be any type from hotels, restaurants, clubs to stores, public institutions and so on.

By defining these types, you allow your visitors to add locations to these categories and to manage them. They can upload unlimited number of photos, they can point on a map the exact location of the entry, they can write down the opening hours for each entry.

You can display these locations by linking to the default layout from a menu element. The entries are displayed in a nice pagination output. You can filter the entries to display only locations of a certain type linked to the specific men element.

You can click on "View details" to view all the data on a specific location in a nice tabbed interface, with location photos, reviews, location on map and opening hours.

The component allows users to review the location, with only one review per account and per ip address. This will ensure the quality of your reviews. You can publish and unpublish reviews from the backend, as well as locations.

To allow your visitors to post locations, you must link a menu item (called "My locations" or whatever you want) to the Userpage layout. This will display a control panel for your users. Locations will be added as unpublished and they will also be unpublished automatically after each modification.

The component is a 1.0 version and new versions will come soon.

Thank you for using JuliaLocations and enjoy it.