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Written by Joomlapolis - Community Builder news
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Saturday, 06 December 2008 |
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As announced in the 'Work in Progress' article (here (http://www.joomlapolis.com/content/view/6523/37/)), the CB Team has released CB 1.2 RC4 to the general public. This release has fixed all identified issues reported during the previous closed-group RC phases and should be considered by most as stable quality and is already in use in many production sites.
As already stated, CB 1.2 RC4 works natively on all Joomla 1.0, Joomla 1.5 and Mambo codebases.
We would like to thank the CB Test team, the CB documentation subscribers, the forum contributors and the translation team for their contributions - without your help this would not be possible.
Please note that the detailed CB documentation (offered to CB doc subscribers) has been updated and that the CB Team is in the process of extending the current doc subscriber offerings, once again in order to thank this group for its continuous financial support.
All registered members (free registration) can download CB 1.2 RC4 from the CB Team releases download area of this site (or just click the appropriate link on the front page of this site - left column).
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Written by Joomlapolis - Community Builder news
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Sunday, 23 November 2008 |
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Continuing the more detailed description of items mentioned in the Work in progress article (content/view/6523/1/), one of the items mentioned is the CB Rating Field Plugin. This is another item that demonstrates the power of the CB 1.2 API. This field-type plugin adds another CB field type to the existing list of available field types.
This plugin is installed just like any other CB plugin via the CB Plugin Management backend. Once installed and published, website administrators will see an extra field type available when creating a new CB field in the CB Field Management backend - a Rating field.
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Written by Joomlapolis - Community Builder news
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Friday, 21 November 2008 |
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As mentioned in the Work in progress (http://www.joomlapolis.com/content/view/6523/1/) article, one of the items the CB Team has been working on is the CB Privacy plugin. This piece of work illustrates the power of the CB 1.2 API. The plugin basically extends all CB fields and provides them with an extra layer of interaction that will enable CB members to specify (if the proper parameter is set) the viewability of a CB profile field.
Also, as extra functionality, this plugin allows website administrators to specify if a field can be edited by the user from front-end or not by the user or by a CB moderator.
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Written by Joomlapolis - Community Builder news
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Tuesday, 18 November 2008 |
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Some important announcements were made during the Joomladay in Switzerland event held on November 15th, 2008 in Luzern. On behalf of the CB Team, Beat (/component/option,com_comprofiler/task,userProfile/user,63/Itemid,39/) gave an hour long presentation (initially planned for 45 minutes) revolving around many behind the scenes activities that have been taking place during the past months.
This article will serve as an introduction to a series of preview articles that will present in depth the various new "work-in-progress" items announced by Beat.
In parallel to getting CB 1.2 RC3 bugs (/component/option,com_joomlaboard/Itemid,38/func,showcat/catid,65/) ironed out, the CB Team has been preparing a number of very cool plugins. Many of these have been requested before by the community and others were created to serve a real need and test various CB API enhancements.
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Written by Joomlapolis - Community Builder news
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Sunday, 09 November 2008 |
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The CB Team will be represented by Beat in the first ever Joomladay in Switzerland (http://community.joomla.org/events/joomladays/496-first-ever-joomla-day-in-switzerland.html). Beat will be giving a 45 minute presentation regarding CB and things in progress.
For those fortunate Joomlapolitans in the Luzern area on November 15th, 2008, it will be a rare treat to meet the CB core developer and get first hand insight about CB 1.2, in progress work and future plans.
Beat will also be making a number of important and exciting announcements and will also be giving live demos about CB and other CB related work in progress.
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Written by Joomlapolis - Community Builder news
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Wednesday, 01 October 2008 |
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Community Builder 1.2 Release Candidate 3 has been completed by the CB Team. RC3 addresses all the issues identified in the RC2 forum area (24 issues) and also a dozen more found by the test team and the CB development team. CB 1.2 RC3 has been running on Joomlapolis for a few days now and we believe that it is a very close to stability release ... but this remains to be seen .
RC3 is available - once again - to our supporters (doc subscribers, language translators, testers, etc) as a thank you for there efforts and continued support.
RC3 also contains a number of very nice last minute features:
custom field input validation
integer field type
image field type
new CB Tool to check on fix integrity of user database
more extensive layout facilities and substitutions (a professional template is in the making to take advantage of these new facilities)
Lets pound away and get Community Builder 1.2 stable out as soon as possible!
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Written by Joomlapolis - Community Builder news
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Saturday, 27 September 2008 |
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It's time again for a short update and progress report regarding Community Builder 1.2 Stable process !
We have now fixed all of the reported and identified issues (/component/option,com_joomlaboard/Itemid,38/func,showcat/catid,59/) of CB 1.2 RC 2, as well as about as much small issues that we found during tests. We have been testing the results in a first circle of alpha testers, and have just submitted to CB Testteam an internal beta 1 version of last CB 1.2 Release Candidate (internally named 1.2 RC 3 beta 1).
Following that beta, and depending on test-results, we will be issuing a last CB 1.2 RC 3 to doc subscribers here for a last and short tests-round. Our current goal is to have RC 3 ready in stable-quality by begin of October (but once again no promises - to many factors), and CB 1.2 Stable released free 1-2 weeks after.
CB 1.2 RC3 will have a few new features and improvements which will greatly improve the flexibility for user profiles, users-lists, and custom fields input validation. Also a new integer field-type has been added, with corresponding sorting and range-searching facilities. There is another exciting new feature in RC 3 that we will present when RC 3 is available.
At...
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Written by Joomlapolis - Community Builder news
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Thursday, 18 September 2008 |
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We are updating GroupJive (http://www.groupjive.org/)!
About the new version of the component:
Because it is difficult to make a component J1.0 and J1.5 compatible without legacy mode, we decided to port GroupJive onto the Community Builder framework, which Beat, the lead CB developer introduced in the latest Community Builder release version 1.2.
We talked a lot about that and had discussions regarding the pros and cons of dependency on Community Builder. Since GroupJive was already Community Builder dependent, this might not affect many of our users. For others who may desire to install GroupJive without the CB Component: you only need the framework files of CB. We will guide you through how to accomplish this and demonstrate how to install.
Using the CB framework also opens up the possibility for 3rd party developers to write GroupJive plugins just like the plugins for CB.
The current state of the project is:
We have ported the last GroupJive version onto the CB-framework
GroupJive works with J1.0 and J1.5 native and should also work with Mambo (as does the CB Framework)
A private test group is testing the component with J1.0 and J1.5 to find bugs associated with porting to the new Framework
When we are ready, we will release the new...
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Written by Rob de Cleen
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Thursday, 10 July 2008 |
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BookLibrary provides you with a full-featured book library or book collection management environment on a Joomla-based website. BookLibrary Pro adds new features for the professional librarian on top of the original features of the BookLibrary Free edition.
The component can also be used to easily set up a book selling shop using Amazon if you want. With an Amazon Associates ID you can earn credits with book sales from your site through Amazon, while Amazon takes care of the handling and shipping. BookLibrary contains a lend/return management, as well as an interface for book suggestions and book reviews by users and email notifications for admins.
BookLibrary Pro is available in a native Joomla 1.0.x and a native Joomla 1.5.x version.
BookLibrary Pro requires:
Joomla 1.5.x, PHP5 with SOAP, CURL, XSL, GD and MB_STRING
BookLibrary Pro offers the following additional options on top of the features in the Free version:
- Hides book affiliate links (shows internal Joomla URL)
- Hides book affiliate links from download managers
- Hides direct link to eBook download (shows internal Joomla URL)
- Hides eBook download from download managers
- Optional button [Suggest Book] with AJAX show-hide form
- CAPTCHA for Guest [Book Reviews] & [Book Suggestions]
- Typed [Book Reviews] kept on screen when wrong CAPTCHA is entered
- Code to allow use of external plugins in book descriptions
- Pulls in Editorial Reviews (book descriptions)(only from amazon.com)
- [Print Report] option with fields choice in [Book Manager]
- [Review Manager] for user submitted book reviews (all on 1 page)
- Email notification to admin when [User Review] added
- [Suggestion Manager] for user suggested books (all on 1 page)
- Rights setting who is allowed to suggest books
- Email notification to admin when [Book Suggestion] added
- Email notification to admin when [Lend Request] is submitted
- Optional [Suggest a Book] button with rights settings
- Show-hide [Buy Now] button with Category selection
- Rights settings for showing [Book Price]
- Option [Show eBook Download License] (license before download)
- Option [Set Review Notification] email addresses
- Option [Set Suggestion Notification] email addresses
- Option [Set Lend Request Notification] email addresses
- Option [BookID Auto-Increment] or [BookID Manual Entry]
- Option [Show Subcategories] show/hide subcategories in frontend
- English, Dutch, German, French, Italian, Russian and Spanish included
You can see a full overview of all feature differences between the FREE and PRO edition of BookLibrary on the JoomlaWebServer website in the article: Feature comparison BookLibrary Free and Pro.
Preserving your books when updating from previous versions
Updates from the previous editions can be done using XML exports of your book categories. The procedure is described on the JoomlaWebServer website in the article: BookLibrary upgrade instructions.
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Written by fre
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Thursday, 10 July 2008 |
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JS PayPal is a module for your Joomla! for publishing a Buy Now Button (PayPal).
With JS PayPal you can publish a buy now button on your site for selling products or services. In the back-end you can set many options like, email paypal, item name, item number, ipn and more.
You can also send an email confirmation to your customers (with phpmailer) and store informations in the db using an ipn script included.
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