As described in the CB at Joomladay - Switzerland! article, Beat has given a very nice presentation regarding Community Builder and work in progress items that was well received by the audience. We have compiled a 3 part video presentation of Beat's 1 hour presentation and are publishing it so those of us not as fortunate can see Beat in action .

Format is: Quicktime MP4 H.264 for best quality/bandwidth ratio, you might need a browser plugin which is available for download here. Enjoy!

If you are interested in up-to date first-hand information regarding the CB Paid Subscriptions System (part 3 of the preentation), then click here to subscribe to the Newsletter and then click on the Subscribe button (Don't forget to make sure your email is valid as you will then receive a confirmation email with a link to click).

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As announced in the 'Work in Progress' article (here), 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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Continuing the more detailed description of items mentioned in the Work in progress article, 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.

As mentioned in the Work in progress 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. 

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 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 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.