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The Group Filter Consumer plugin will filter the consumption and not perform an action like most of other consumer plugins.
You can select packs and groups ; When a user want to consume a serial from the selected packs, the plugin will check that the user is right in one of the selected groups.
If not, the consumption will be aborded.
That plugin is useful if you generate Gift Certificates because you will be sure that only your managers will be able to consume the serial (the coupon).
The customer could try to scan the QRCode from the attach serial plugin but the serial will stay untouched.
Parameters of the plugin
Name - The name for the consumer. This name is only display in the backend and users won't see it.
Published - Does the plugin instance could be use, or not.
Packs - The packs that you want to filter.
Groups - The authorized groups for the selected packs.
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The Group Assignation Consumer plugin is a very simple plugin.
His goal is to add the user would is consuming a serial (from the selected pack) to a specific Joomla user group.
Parameters of the plugin
Name - The name for the consumer. This name is only display in the backend and users won't see it.
Published - Does the consumer could be use, or not.
Pack - You have to select the pack which will contains the serial that the configuration will accept.
When a serial from this pack will be consume, this configuration will be triggered and the logged user will receive a new group.
Group ID - You have to specified the Joomla group ID where you want to add the user.
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The EAN generator plugin is a simple serial generator.
It will create serial for a specific EAN format.
Parameters of the plugin
Name - The name for the generator. This name is only display in the backend and users won't see it.
Published - Does the generator could be use, or not.
EAN Type - The EAN format for the serial generation. EAN13 and EAN8 are currently supported.
Serial Examples - HikaSerial would display some serial examples for the last saved configuration.
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The points consumer is the second consuming plugin in HikaSerial.
His goal is to give "user points" to the user when consuming a serial (which embed a number of points in his "extra-data").
The points consumer plugin works with the points generator plugin.
When the points generator plugin create a serial with a number of points attached, the consumer accept to consume the serial and give the predefined number of points to the user.
The plugin is compatible with the HikaShop "user points" and with "AlphaUserPoints".
Parameters of the plugin
The configuration of the plugin is really simple and have two options
Pack - You have to select the pack which will contains the serial that the configuration will accept.
When a serial from this pack will be consume, this configuration will be triggered and the logged user will receive a the points
Points mode - You can select "HikaShop user points" or "AlphaUserPoints" depending if the component is installed or not
Points value - You can define a fixed number of points that the user will gain while consuming a serial from the selected pack.
Dynamic value - You can say that the pack contains serial with points (generated by the "points generator").
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The points generator plugin is a basic serial generator.
It main goal is to include a number of points in his "extra-data". Thanks to it, the "points consumer" will be able to give a predefined number points to the end-user.
Parameters of the plugin
Name - The name for the generator. This name is only display in the backend and users won't see it.
Published - Does the generator could be use, or not.
Points value - The number of points which will be attached to the serial.
Rate - The conversion rate. This rate will be used when a serial is generated when a product is bought. The number of points in the serial will be processed using this rate (and the product price).
Serial Size - This is a value which could be used in the serial format.
Serial Format - The format for the serial (see the serial format syntax)
Serial Examples - HikaSerial would display some serial examples for the last saved format.
Serial format syntax
The default format is [a-zA-Z0-9]{size}.
The format is composed of defined characters, random characters and variables.
For the moment, there is not a lot of variables which could be used but with the time, some parameters would appear.
When you can to have random characters, you have to use brackets []
- [a-z] would display one character between "a" (lowercase) and "z" (lowercase).
- [a-e] would display one character between "a" (lowercase) and "e" (lowercase).
- [0-9] would display one digit (number).
- [a-zA-Z] would display one character between "a" and "z" (lowercase or upercase).
- [0-9]{3} would display three digits (number).
- [aeiouy@#] would display one character from the list: a, e, i , o, u, y , "@", "#".
- [a-z]{size} would display several characters depending the value of the "serial size".
Some serial format examples:
- [a-z]{size}-[0-9]{size}-[a-z]{size}
- [A-Z]{2}[ABCDEFGHKLMNPQRSTUVXYZ0-9]{size}