Help

Community Support Forum

If you cannot find the help you need on this page, please use the free support forums on the OpenQuote Community website. These forums cover all aspects of OpenQuote and include a specific forum for this plugin.

Commercial Support

Alternatively, commercial support options are available from Applied Industrial Logic - the creators of OpenQuote.

Installation

The standard WordPress procedure for installing plugins should be followed, simply upload the OpenQuote plugin to your blog, activate it, then add it to the page you want and specify the insurance product required.

Using the Plugin

Once the Joomla OpenQuote component is installed, it allows OpenQuote configured insurance products to be selected as Joomla! menu items.

The administration area of the component consists of the following tabs:

OpenQuote: An overview of OpenQuote and Applied Industrial Logic
Products: OpenQuote products being made available to this site
Servers: OpenQuote servers available to provide products
Message Templates: Format of messages being used to communicate with the servers
Display Text: Text and format of messages to be displayed to users when errors occur
Log: Details of any issues or errors that occur when using the component
Styling Help: CSS hints and tips for component styling
Component Help: This page, how to configure and use the component

The two key areas involved in configuring this component can be found on the Products tab and the Servers tab. Servers determine what OpenQuote servers are available for this component to access, and Products determine which products on those servers are available for inclusion on this website. All the other configuration tabs can be left as default if required.

Once your servers and products are configured, the products can be added to the website as Joomla! menu items by adding a new menu of type OpenQuote > Quote > Standard Product Layout, then selecting the required product on the menu's administration page

OpenQuote Tab

A simple high level overview of OpenQuote, and its creators Applied Industrial Logic.

Products Tab

The items listed on the products tab define what OpenQuote insurance products are available to use. Products can be added to and removed from the list as required by specifiying the server they are distributed from and their id on that server, these can then be selected when configuring a menu item for this component.

This administration page allows you to edit the details of an OpenQuote product that you want to make available for use on this website.

Name: A unique name for this product, designed to help make website administration easier.

Published: Controls the availability of this product on the website.

Server: The URL for the OpenQuote server hosting this product. This list is configured using the Servers administration page.

Product Name: This is the id used as a reference to the product by the OpenQuote server, for example the id for the motor product example on the OpenQuote demo server is 'AIL.Demo.MotorPlus'.

Servers Tab

This administration tab allows you to edit the details of an OpenQuote server containing products that you want to make available for use on this website.

Server: The URL for the OpenQuote server hosting this product, for example the OpenQuote demonstration server URL is 'http://ec2-174-129-148-98.compute-1.amazonaws.com:8080'.

Registration Service URL: The relative URL of the WSRP registration service on the OpenQuote server. Typically this will be '/portal-wsrp/RegistrationService'.

Markup Service URL: The relative URL of the WSRP registration service on the OpenQuote server. Typically this will be '/portal-wsrp/MarkupService'.

Consumer Name: A unique name that you must specify so the OpenQuote server can uniquely identify this website.

WSRP ID: This value is automatically supplied by the OpenQuote server on first connection. You should not change this value unless you have a technical understanding of the OpenQuote WSRP server you are accessing.

Message Templates: WSRP SOAP message XML templates used when creating messages to communicate with the OpenQuote Server, the 'Default' list should work with any OpenQuote server. This list is configured using the Message Templates administration page.

Message Templates Tab

The message templates tab allows you to edit the WSRP SOAP XML message templates used for communicating with OpenQuote servers.

Reference: A unique name to identify this set of templates.

Submit WSRP Form XML: SOAP message XML template used as a basis for 'Submit Form' messages that are sent to the OpenQuote server.

Request WSRP Form XML: SOAP message XML template used as a basis for 'Request Form' messages that are sent to the OpenQuote server.

Register WSRP Consumer XML: SOAP message XML template used as a basis for 'Regisgter WSRP Consumer' messages that are sent to the OpenQuote server.

Deregister WSRP Consumer XML: SOAP message XML template used as a basis for 'Deregister WSRP Consumer' messages that are sent to the OpenQuote server.

Display Text Tab

The display text page allows you to edit the messages displayed to users when problems occur.

Subject: The name of the issue being reported.

Text to display to user: The message that should be displayed to users when this issue occurs.

Report as http 404 error: How the issue should be reported to users, either via a http 404 web page, or by displaying the text directly on the selected web page.

Email error to site admin: Indicates if the error should be emailed to the site administrator.

Log Tab

Details of any issues that occur during the use of the OpenQuote component, including a time-stamp. These are not user issues (i.e. referred or declined quotes), but issues that relate to problems getting the component to function correctly such as server connectivity issues. Log entries can be deleted when no longer required.

Styling Help Tab

Details of the HTML classes used by elements output by OpenQuote, with suggested CSS to help style OpenQuote pages being presented within Joomla!

Component Help Tab

Contains all the documentation on this page.

Joomla!

OpenQuote extension directory entry at Joomla.org.

Download

The OpenQuote for Joomla component can be downloaded from here.

Support

Free support can be found on the OpenQuote community support forums.

Commercial support can be obtained from Applied Industrial Logic, the creators of OpenQuote.

Contact

Contact details for the OpenQuote team can be found on the OpenQuote contact page.

OpenQuote

Find out more about OpenQuote by visiting the OpenQuote community website.

AIL

Find out more about the creators of OpenQuote by visiting the Applied Industrial Logic website.

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