Overview
Bible Study is a Joomla!® 1.5 and 2.5 component written by a team of webservants to further the teaching of God's Word. The component displays information about your church's Bible Studies or sermons in a wide variety of ways. JBS is flexible, customizable, and powerful. Easy to configure templates give you the maximum amount of choices. Show only what you want in whatever way you want.
Embed YouTube videos, play audio, show study notes - even create your own html display pages. You can have multiple locations, series, podcasting, and sharing with social media sites. Please see the example pages for just some of what Bible Study can do for your church - and the best part is the component is completely free. Support is top notch, and also free. Bottom line: we want to help you spread the gospel.
Want to help out developing Joomla Bible Study? Just request to join the project.
How to Upgrade JBS to Joomla 1.7
So you've finally decided to upgrade your website from Joomla! 1.5 to 1.7 and you want to know the best way to get Joomla! Bible Study working? Here's your answer - and it's not really that hard!
You have a couple of options. First, download the JBS migration component for Joomla! 1.5. Find it here: http://www.joomlabiblestudy.org/downloads/joomla-bible-study-migration-for-15.html. Install it and go to the administration screen:
Click Export to download your database. Then go to your Joomla! 1.6 or higher website and install the Joomla! Bible Study component or package. Go to the Administration Tab and look for the "Show Migration Tab" choice:
Click "Yes" and Save. You will see the tab appear. It looks something like below:
From here you can browse to your downloaded database, or if you have problems uploading you can put it in the tmp folder and type in the name of the file. What happens is that we go through and copy the structure and data of your JBS tables from the 1.5 prefix to the 1.7 or higher prefix. Then we run the migration function when brings your database up to latest version of JBS. You can do this with Joomla! Bible Study versions all the way back to 6.0.11a.
You will want to look at the Template settings as not all of them may come across in the migration. Also look Administrator Settings.
If you run into problems, don't forget to visit our forum and submit a support ticket. But read the forum first - please!
