• Hello Fabrik Community

    Fabrik is now in the hands of the development team that brought you Fabrik for Joomla 4. We have recently transitioned the Fabrik site over to a new server and are busy trying to clean it up. We have upgraded the site to Joomla 4 and are running the latest version of Fabrik 4. We have also upgraded the Xenforo forum software to the latest version. Many of the widgets you might have been used to on the forum are no longer operational, many abandoned by the developers. We hope to bring back some of the important ones as we have time.

    Exciting times to be sure.

    The Fabrik 4.0 Official release is now available. In addition, the Fabrik codebase is now available in a public repository. See the notices about these in the announcements section

    We wish to shout out a very big Thank You to all of you who have made donations. They have really helped. But we can always use more...wink..wink..

    Also a big Thank You to those of you who have been assisting others in the forum. This takes a very big burden off of us as we work on bugs, the website and the future of Fabrik.

Getting started

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  • Please take your time to read through each of these links, they will greatly help you understand some of the principals behind Fabrik

    Getting Started, Example List​

    After Fabrik Installation you can
    Create your first list​
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    Add a label, "Save"
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    Add a Content type (a sample of predefined Elements), "Save &Close"
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    That's it, your first list with Fabrik default settings.
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    Fabrik has created
    • a database table `list_one` with columns `id` and `date_time`
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    • a Fabrik form
    • a Fabrik group
    • two Fabrik Elements
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    Set list access levels​
    List and record access are defined by Joomla Access levels, default list access is
    Public: view list, view records, add records, edit records
    Registered: delete records
    Spezial: empty (= truncate the list)

    You can set the access levels as you need in your list "Access" .
    Add more Elements
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    • Add a Label
    • Fabrik will create the Name (= database column name) from the label automatically, you can change it
    • Select a Plug-in (the type of your element)
    • Select a Group the element should belong to
    • In List view settings set "Show in list"=YES
    • Save&Close
    Add/modify data​
    In Fabrik Lists click "View Data" and add some records.
    Existing records can be modified by clicking the pencil icon.

    Frontend Access​
    Create a Joomla menu item type "Fabrik list"

    Learn about modifying the default list/form/group/element settings​
    Open the list/form/group/element form by clicking on the name (or open a new one).
    • Open all tabs, Options etc to see the possibilities
    • Mouse-hover all labels, most of them will show additional informations
    • Use the "Help" buttons which will link you to the WIKI
    • Poke around the WIKI to detect additional list/form/element/Validation/visualization/scheduled task/content plugins, for custom output design, for adding custom php and JS code, fine tuned data access, Fabrik Options, youtube videos etc.

    Additional Help​


    Whist this document covers the functionality of each part of Fabrik we also have additional learning material, details of which are listed below:

    A comprehensive series of tutorials can be found here:
    https://fabrikar.com/forums/index.php?wiki/fabrik-tutorials

    And finally of course we have our forums:
    https://fabrikar.com/forums

    To get the best response please post in the most appropriate board for your subscription level and please provide as much information as possible about what you are doing.

    We LIKE screenshots we LOVE links to the pages in question and we will practically MARRY YOU if you attach a video!
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