Community Builder 2.0 was presented during a 1 hour presentation at Joomla! Day France this weekend.
Beat, compiled a great presentation in French to highlight the differences bewtween CB 1.9.1 and the next generation CB 2.0 series.
The comprehensive huge list of new features and the new XML MVC AhaWow engine technology was discussed during the session and was very well received by the audience.
The new features that were presented are:
- new look and feel everywhere with new styles and a clean and crisp user experience
- 6 new core field-types: file, video, rating, points (substantially improved compared to existing add-ons), and brand new audio and date/time
- image field type now supports moderation and approval via CB Workflow module
- new built-in avatar gallery with full view and thumbnail view support
- 3 new core plugins: CB Articles, CB Blogs and CB Forums (re-written for new look and feel and performance improvements)
- CB Bootstrap template (previously commercial and also improved) is now included in core and is default for new installations
- all CB templates are now bootstrapped (default, winclassic, webfx, osx, dark, luna)
- HTML email support now added to all workflow email messages
- new administration module provides backend admin menu, CB news feed and CB plugin update feed
- enhancements to CB field manager with ability to copy fields and change field types
- CB fields can now be configured to turn-off profile editing (backend only editing)
- all CB fields now support profile layout, userlist layout, Profile edit and Registration layout flexible output configuration in addition to the traditional label: value layout
- tabbed and flat views can be applied to profile editing and registration forms
- optional public emailing to profile user
- new flexible layout types for user lists: grid and div
- user lists manager has been enhanced to allow copying of user lists
- improved SEO with new framework functions to add active menu item metadata to HTML header output and respect/use Joomla metadata on all CB landing pages
- new single Joomla package automatically installs everything for you and even publishes / pre-configures modules during first-time installation
There are of course many more features under the CB 2.0 hood that can be seen on our CB 2.0 forge area.
The presentation slides are available here.