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    How do I configure a module?

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    • cowboysdudeC Offline
      cowboysdude Module Developer @ArcherProject
      last edited by

      @ArcherProject before you know it you’ll be an old pro at this!! It does get easier hang in there and if you run into trouble just ask! :)

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      • Mykle1M Offline
        Mykle1 Project Sponsor Module Developer @ArcherProject
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        @ArcherProject

        Again, you sound just like I did. I took the time to help you because a few weeks ago I was in exactly the same place as you are now and someone here stepped in and answered my questions and was very explicit in their directions. It got my MM up and running, gave me some confidence and taught me something. I still ask questions but I’m not afraid to experiment beforehand.

        Another piece of advice:

        Make a copy of any files you are going to edit (e.g. your config file, your css files, etc…) and work on those. If you mess anything up, you go back to the original. In my config folder I have my working config.js file and I have backups named configV2.js, configV3.js, configV4.js (etc) for each time I edited the config.js file. More than a few times I messed up something but I had the backups as a safety net. I trash the one I messed up and renamed the last working backup to config.js and continued the process.

        Create a working config
        How to add modules

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        • cowboysdudeC Offline
          cowboysdude Module Developer @Mykle1
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          @Mykle1 Oh good lord… I can’t count how many I messed up LOL

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          • Mykle1M Offline
            Mykle1 Project Sponsor Module Developer @cowboysdude
            last edited by

            @cowboysdude My point exactly

            Create a working config
            How to add modules

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            • cowboysdudeC Offline
              cowboysdude Module Developer @ArcherProject
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              @ArcherProject said in How do I configure a module?:

              @Mykle1 thanks miate exactly what I have ended up doing and now I’m feeling a lot more confident! attempting to add a few extra modules too and so far so good! hope to make another one of these for myself in the future (this one is a gift). feel like I’ve still got a lot to learn though!

              HEY do yourself a HUGE favor… when you have a working config.js just copy it to config.bak for a backup!! That way you can always look at it and see perhaps where you went wrong… trust me it’s a HUGE time saver!! :)

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