Features management

Features are items lists which corresponds to :

Property types
Departments
Towns
Areas
Amenities
Properties conditions
Heating types
Hot water types
Slogans

It's highly recommended to populate these lists before to manage properties.

To manage features, go to Components > Joomla Estate Agency > Manage features in the administrator area.

Departments, towns and areas

By default in JEA, there is a relationship between departments, towns and areas. It means that area is a part of a town and town is part of a department.

For some reasons, if you don't need this behaviour, it can be deactivated in JEA options > General > Relationship between departments, towns, areas.

Import features

If you have a lot of features, fill them by hand is a bit fastidious. So, you can import them in CSV to save time.

The CSV format used is semi-colon (;) to separate items and double quotes (") to wrap text. Columns are : ID;Value;Order;Language.

ID (integer) is the database primary key. It must be unique.
Value (text) is the feature value.
Order (integer) is the feature order in the list.
language (text) is the language code xx-XX corresponding to the feature language. To target all language, use the wilcard character (*).

CSV example to import amenities :

14;Elevator;14;en-GB
15;Terrace;15;en-GB
16;Cheminey;16;en-GB
17;Balcony;17;en-GB
18;Garden;18;en-GB
19;Dependency;19;en-GB
20;"Equipped Kitchen";20;en-GB
21;Furnished;21;en-GB

Departments, towns and areas exceptions

Departments, towns, areas features don't have the column language.

Towns CSV columns are : ID;Value;department_id;Order where department_id corresponds to the primary key of the department feature.

Aeas CSV columns are : ID;Value;town_id;Order where town_id corresponds to the primary key of the town feature.

Departments and towns CSV examples :

departments.csv :

100;Texas;1
102;California;2

towns.csv :

70;Houston;100;1
71;"San Antonio";100;2
72;Dallas;100;3
73;"Los Angeles";102;4
74;"San Francisco";102;5

Export features

To export features in CSV files with the format described above, go to Components > Joomla Estate Agency > Manage features in the administrator area, and select all the features lists then click on the Export button. You'll get an archive in zip format with all CSV files.