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This form allows you to default options for most menu parameters and other parameters.
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Component Generation

Component Architect Options - Component Generation

Deafult Author

Enter a default author to be used when creating a Component/Extension.
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Default Stat Version

Enter a default start version to be used when creating a Component/Extension.
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Enter a default web address to be used when creating a Component/Extension.
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Default Email

Enter a default email address to be used when creating a Component/Extension.
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Default Copyright

Enter a default copyright statement to be used when creating a Component/Extension.
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Output Path Default

Enter the default location (relative to the root Joomla! folder) to which you want the generated component files to be output to.
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Zip Format Default

Select whether by default a zip file will be created and if so what format will it be.
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Logging Default

Select whether by default logging will be set to 'Yes' or 'No' in the Generate Dialog.
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Default Logging Folder

Enter the folder (relative to the root Joomla! folder) to be set as the default for storage of Component Architect Logs.
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Global Preferences

Component Architect Options - Global

Help Url

This directs the Joomla help system to the help pages for Component Architect. On install this will default to our remote online help system at help.componentarchitect.com because these will be updated with corrections and improvements before new releases of Component Architect.

So once installed this will be set to:
help.componentarchitect.com/componentarchitect/v_1_1/en-GB/j{major}x/{keyref}.html

To change this to use help files from your local system - which were installed with the Component Architect component - then just delete the value in this field.
This will set the field to the local path for help files which is:
components/com_componentarchitect/help/en-GB/j{major}x/{keyref}.html this is in the administrator section of the Joomla site but you most not include 'admnistrator' in the path.

You can switch back to the remote files by re-setting the help url to:
help.componentarchitect.com/componentarchitect/v_1_1/en-GB/j{major}x/{keyref}.html

it is important to match the path's given above exactly including the automatic substitution values: {major} and {keyref}.

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Default Max Upload Size

Enter the maximum file size allowed for uploads in the Component Architect component. The value can be either a number of bytes or, if followed by k, kb, m, mb, g, gb a number of kilobytes, megabytes or gigabytes. e.g. 2048 is equal to 2k, 2097152 is equal to 2048k or 2m. NB. The k, mb etc can be upper case, mixed case or lower case.
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Allowed File Mime Types

Enter the mime types of files (i.e. the international code such as text/plain, image/jpeg, image/gif) that can be uploaded in the Component Architect component. If set to '*' then no mime type checking will be performed but the file type endings for files, images and media will be checked.
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Allowed Image Types

Enter the types of image files (e.g. png, gif, jpg) that can be uploaded in the Component Architect component. If set to '*' then no check of the file type ending will be performed for images.
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Default Image File Path

Enter the folder location (relative to the root Joomla! folder) where, by default, image uploads will be stored.
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