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Getting started with jReviews

Basic setup

5. Setup jReviews categories - [required].

Everything we have done so far -creating the fields, rating criteria and directories- is to be able to customize each category that will be used for jReviews. We need to tell jReviews the directory to which each category belongs and the rating criteria that the reviews in each category will use.

[CATEGORIES MANAGER]

Click on the Categories Manager link in the setup menu and press new to setup the jReviews categories. First we setup the Hotels categories. We select the hotel criteria, choose the only directory we created and then select all the hotel categories. Save, and then go over the same process with the restaurants.

jReviews categories setup for Hotels

jReviews categories setup for Restaurants

jReviews categories manager list

Once you assign a criteria to a category(ies) you cannot change it. This is on purpose to prevent errors because your new criteria might have a different number of ratings and it would create errors in all of your existing reviews. If you want to change the criteria, you first need to make sure that you don't have any reviews for content within that category, then delete the category and set it up again.

At this point jReviews should be fully functional on your site if you have any content in your categories. The next step is to create a few menu options to allow user navigation and submission of new items.