Overview
Bible Study is a Joomla!® 1.5 and 1.7 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.
Studies Guide
The Studies Tab allows the user to enter information about an individual Bible study.
Add a new "BIBLE STUDY"
- Go to the pull-down menu COMPONENTS, Choose BIBLE STUDY and STUDIES.
- Choose NEW from the icon toolbar.
- Enter the details for the Bible Study.
Submitted by: Your name will appear here automatically.
Published: Choose "YES" if you are ready for the Bible Study to be published on your website. If "NO" is chosen, this Bible Study will not appear in the list of studies which are viewable by the public.
Study Date: the date will appear automatically.
- You may enter a different date if you choose
- You may click on the calendar to choose a date
- Entering the hours, minutes and seconds are optional.
- Dates must appear in the format YYYY-MM-DD so a date such as May 30, 2010 should be entered as 2010-05-30.
Study Number: Optional.
Title: Enter the study title. You must enter a title here.
Description: Optional. Enter a short description or teaser about this Bible Study.
Scripture: Optional. Choose the book of the Bible used in this study. -- You may choose to only enter the book or you may also enter chapters and verses as desired.
Scripture 2: Optional See Scripture description above
Secondary References: Optional. List any other references for this study here.
Note: For information about adding book reference names, see the Books Guide.
Teacher: Optional. Choose the teacher/speaker from the drop-down list for this study. If you have not yet entered any teachers into the component, please see the TEACHERS GUIDE.
Location: Optional. Choose the location from the drop-down list for this study. If you have not yet entered any locations into the component, please see the LOCATION GUIDE.
Series: Optional. Choose the appropriate series from the drop-down list if this study is part of a series. If you have not yet entered any series into the component, please see the SERIES GUIDE.
Topic: Optional. Choose the appropriate topic from the drop-down list for this study. If you have not yet entered any topics into the component, please see the TOPIC GUIDE.
Message Type: Optional. Choose the appropriate type from the drop-down list for this study. If you have not yet entered any types into the component, please see the MESSAGE TYPE GUIDE.
Duration: Optional except for podcast. This is optional unless the media associated with this study will be a podcast format.
note: these are options that allow your user to filter the studies on the front end.
Allow comments: Choose Yes to allow entry of comments. Global settings for comments can be found in the tab TEMPLATE DISPLAY SETTINGS under the DETAILS VIEW setting. Choosing NO means comments won't show for this study, but will still be allowed for other studies if comments are allowed in the global settings.
User level to show: Choose the type of user who will be allowed to view this study. Note: this is a setting for this study only.
- Everyone - anyone who looks at the website will be able to see this study
- Registered Users - only those registered on your site will be able to see this study
- Other options: authors, editors, publishers, managers, administrators
Thumbnail: Optional. Choose an image that will be associated with this study.
@TODO: NEED INFO HERE ON WHERE TO CHANGE DEFAULT TEMPATE SO THAT IMAGE APPEARS - or just post this documentation and make note to add-to later.
Study Image: the image chosen under #18 Thumbnail will appear here.
Study Notes: Enter study notes or more detailed information about your message. These can be formatted, then copied and pasted from Word or another program. It can include pictures, tables or anything else the Joomla text editor of your choice allows.
Media Files: If this is a new study, there will not be any media files associated, yet, with this study. After adding a media file under the MEDIA tab, and associating that media file with this study, then those media files will be listed here at the bottom of the study.
