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Details: Category: News; Published: 08 September 2015; Last Updated: 09 January 2018; Hits: 4681

geers2 226 One of the most powerful tools available for Community Builder is the CB Auto Actions plugin.

In a nutshell, this tool lets you act when something happens in your community.

Without the assistance of CB Auto Actions such functionality could only be possible by coding a Joomla or CB plugin.

With CB Auto Action things are much simpler. Just decide what community event is important and what you want to do when such an event happens.

The latest CB Auto Actions add-on has many built-in System Actions you can study, clone and modify to your liking.

There are also many hands-on examples available in the tutorials section, the video channel and on our freely readable forum responses.

Here are 5 cool workflows you can implement using CB Auto Actions without writing a single line of code:

Send a personalized welcoming email to users when they login to your site for the very first time.
Inform your moderation team when users update a specific field in their user profiles.
Login redirect users to specific website pages based on their profile information (e.g., male users are directed to appropriate landing page for men).
Keep track of active users by incrementing a CB field after every user login.
Add users to Joomla groups based on profile data (e.g., female users are added to specific group).

These are just 5 examples, but there are infinite possibilities!

Just in the last few weeks, some of our members configured some awesome workflows with CB Auto Actions - without a single line of code - which will surely inspire you. Check out these forum discussions were our users really thought up some great concepts and put CB Auto Actions to work for them:

So join the discussion and share your CB Auto Action use cases.
The best examples will be converted to video tutorials!

Discuss this and share your auto action masterpiece here!

Details: Category: News; Published: 27 August 2015; Last Updated: 27 August 2015; Hits: 5600

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More great news for Community Builder compatible Joomla templates.

JoomlArt announces the release of JA Social II, a commercial Joomla template focused on communities that supports Community Builder 2.0. With this release JoomlArt now has two templates with full support for Community Builder and is committed to continue producing CB 2.0 compatible Joomla templates.

Both templates are responsive, have RTL support and are powered by the Joomla T3 framework and Bootstrap 3.

More information and template demos are available:

JA Social II info | demo
UBER info | demo

Discuss this great Joomla template CB 2.0 compatibility news on our forums.

Details: Category: News; Published: 16 July 2015; Last Updated: 16 July 2015; Hits: 5181

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The next generation CB Activity 3.0 stable release is here
and ready to download for all paid-up Professional/Developer subscribers!

Watch the buzz effect appear right before your eyes on your website!

Users will just love the clean and engaging look of CB Activity and start sharing their feelings and thoughts. Friends will review movies they saw, music they heard, places they visited and anything interesting that happened to them. This will inspire commenting and online discussions.

Just install and publish CB Activity 3.0 and see user participation explode on your website.

Users can start conversations by posting their thoughts, emotions, experiences, links, etc. directly on the activity wall. These posts can be enhanced with @mentions, #hash-tags, Google map supported locations and emotion icons. The built-in features are just awesome and you can extend them to suit your needs.

System Auto Actions for Activity Posting

You can also install CB Auto Actions 6.3.1 and publish preconfigured system actions to start conversation about profile updates, user logins, blogs, gallery uploads, GroupJive actions and forum posts (Kunena). You can also create your own activity related auto actions for your specific use case need.

Discuss this on our forums.

Details: Category: News; Published: 09 July 2015; Last Updated: 09 July 2015; Hits: 4942

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Joomla 3.4.3 was released last week and we have been testing it with our internal build of the just released Community Builder 2.0.10 and ... they are great together!

Simply put, we recommend upgrading to these new releases.

The Joomla 3.4.3 announcement came only a few days after the project's 3.4.2 release quickly addressing some buggers that slipped through. Joomla community gets an A for addressing these issues.

During this process we have been fixing CB 2.0.9 issues and also verifying that everything still works great with the latest Joomla versions.

Community Builder 2.0.10 is available and it has 3 new features and it also fixes 16 bugs (see forum discussion for full changelog).

All CB 2.0+ websites should upgrade to latest CB 2.0.10. Such an upgrade is a simple install over (precautionary backup always recommended) as all previous settings are kept.

CB 1.9.1 websites should also upgrade to CB 2.0.10 following the process described in video #30 of our CB 2.0 video tutorial series.

The CB Primer Book has also been updated as well as the CB 2.0 Add-on compatibility chart.

Discuss this on our forums !

Details: Category: News; Published: 02 July 2015; Last Updated: 02 July 2015; Hits: 4294

cbactivity30rc4

The new Activity Streams for Community Builder are now feature complete providing a rich and powerful user interaction experience.

CB Activity 3.0 RC4 is here with location support and new activity / comment fields!

Here is a summary of new features:

Google map supported location tagging for activity posts
Multiple profile activity streams with new Activity field type
Multiple profile commenting streams with new Comment field type
Each activity stream field can be configured separately to support different functionality

With this new release you can now transform your community site into a thriving active and exciting user experience with:

interactive activity streams with status, location, emotion, people mentions, hash tagging and URL linking with preview rendering
stream commenting and replies
ability to create new activity and comment stream fields using the new CB field types (Activity, Comments)
flexibility to extend with new emotions and status actions with font awesome icon support
backend administration for all entities and streams

As CB Activity 3.0 RC4 is now feature complete we expect the stable release very soon.

This is a major milestone for Community Building and we are extremely excited with the overall functionality and huge potential it offers.

All paid members can download CB Activity 3.0 RC4 and install it over the latest (required) Community Builder 2.0.9 nightly build or the upcoming CB 2.0.10 release.

Discuss this on our forums.