Advice Section - Eli-Par/comp3340-project GitHub Wiki

Advice articles are a curated set of tips to help you get the most out of traveling. They can only be written by Travel Tipia staff so you can trust what they tell you.

View All Advice

To view all advice first hover over the Advice section at the top of the screen on desktop or press the Advice section on mobile. Then press the All Advice option. You will be presented with a grid of all the advice articles from most recent to least recent.

To view a piece of advice in full click inside the white box of the advice you want to read.

View Recent Advice

To view recent advice first hover over the Advice section at the top of the screen on desktop or press the Advice section on mobile. Then press the All Advice option. You will be presented with a grid of the advice articles posted within the last 7 days from most recent to least recent.

View Popular Advice

To view popular advice first hover over the Advice section at the top of the screen on desktop or press the Advice section on mobile. Then press the All Advice option. You will be presented with a grid of the most popular articles (most likes compared to dislikes), up to a max of 12 entries.

View Advice Liked by You

To view your liked advice articles you have liked you will need to be signed in. To do this follow the information in the Profile section of this wiki. First hover over the Advice section at the top of the screen on desktop or press the Advice section on mobile. Then press the All Advice option. You will be presented with a grid of the advice articles that you have liked from most recently posted to oldest.

View Unread Advice

To view unread advice articles you have liked you will need to be signed in. To do this follow the information in the Profile section of this wiki. First hover over the Advice section at the top of the screen on desktop or press the Advice section on mobile. Then press the All Advice option. You will be presented with a grid of the advice articles that you have never read. Reading an advice article is counted when you open the advice to see the full content.

Reading an Advice Article

In any of the places where there is a grid of advice articles (either the home screen or any of the pages reachable from the advice dropdown) press one of the advice articles. It will open a new screen where you can see the full details.

At the top there will be the title and below that will be the author. In the top right corner on desktop and near the title on mobile will be a selection box with the options "Full Advice" and "Summary". You can select which option you want to see. "Full Advice" is the default and will show you the entire article along with its picture. "Summary" will give you a brief synopsis of the article but will skip many details. It can be used to get a quick idea of what the article is about. Under the like and dislike button (explained in the next section) will potentially be a picture and below this is the advice articles contents.

Under the entire advice article section you will find a small about the author section which will tell you a little more about the person who wrote the article.

Liking and Disliking Advice

First note that to like and dislike advice you have to be logged in. To figure out how to do this look at the Profile page of this wiki.

If you are looking at a grid of advice you can press the thumbs up icon to like the advice or the thumbs down icon to dislike it. If one of them is highlighted (not in black) and is underlined then you have already selected that option. Selecting a different option will change to what you selected instead. Pressing it a second time will remove the like or dislike depending on which one you had and pressed again.

If you are inside the full view of a single article you can also like and dislike with the buttons near the top of the article. It works the same way as it did with the other method.