Community Builder 2.0 beta 1 has been released!
Earlier today the CB Team hosted a very exciting live webinar and presented Community Builder 2.0 - the next generation.
Presentation slides are available for those who missed the session and a video recording of the webinar is in progress and will be made public within the next couple of days.
Community Builder 2.0 beta 1 can be downloaded now by all developer members.
Please note that CB 2.0 b1:
- is not for live sites
- can be installed on Joomla 2.5 or Joomla 3.x environments
- does not work on Joomla 1.5, 1.0 or Mambo environments
All developer members can post questions, feedback and issues on the Developer forums.
Joomla 3.2 stable has been released and it is awesome !
With dozens of new features targetting the entire spectrum of Joomla users ranging from first time users, content authors, experienced administrators, multi-lingual site integrators, template designers and extension developers - the Joomla 3.2 announcement is rightfully tagged as the Something New for Everyone release !
The Joomla 3.2 team effort has been phenomenal with over 50 committers and hundreds of testers contributing to over 1000 code commits and introducing 24 new features!
Community members have prepared 7 short video preview tutorials that highlight and introduce:
- Content Versioning
- User Interface and User Experience Improvements
- Joomla! Extension Finder for convenient onsite find and install extensions from the 4000+ Joomla! Extension Directory
- Two Step Authentication to protect and secure credential management
- Multilingual Site Automatic Installer supporting 64 official languages
- Module ACL
- Rapid Application Framework for easier development of Joomla extensions
In addition to Joomla 3.2 the Joomla! Project has released version 2.5.16 of its LTS (Long Term Support) series to address security issues and also Joomla 3.1.6 of its 3.1 series. All Joomla 3.1.5 sites should upgrade to version 3.1.6 or version 3.2. All 2.5 websites should upgrade to Joomla 2.5.16.
The CB Team has been very active during the Joomla 3.2 effort and has contributed to make Joomla better for everyone.
To address the new password storage feature introduced in Joomla 3.2, the CB Team has released CB 1.9.1 which is available from the Free Download area (login required).
CB 1.9.1 is a maintenance release with no new features except for Joomla 3.2 support.
CB 1.9.1 is also available from the new Joomla! Extension Finder on Joomla 3.2 sites. CB 1.9.1 is compatible and will work on all Joomla versions.
The CB Team is now back in full force to finalize CB 1.10 and continue working on CB 2.0.
CB Auto Actions 5.x series (currently up to 5.1.3) now has support for CRON jobs!
It has 2 additional triggers that can be fired by your server CRON job service executing one of two URLs that the auto action plugin generates for your website.
The internalGeneral trigger is fired when the Internal General URL is executed (either through a CRON job service or directly from your website backend) and the internalUsers trigger is fired when the Internal Users URL is executed.
The Internal Users URL is used execute an action against all user objects of your website and you can also append the URL with a list of user ids you want to act on in the format &users=62,38,43,29.
The latest 5.1.3 release also has two new action types:
- the CiviCRM type that can be used to synchronize CB fields and data with CiviCRM contacts, and
- the Content type that can be used to create on the fly Joomla article content or K2 content.
This brings the total number of action types supported by CB Auto Actions to 25 !
CB Auto Actions is really a development tool that can be used to implement your specific use case scenarios without the need to go into detailed coding.
We have been publishing many resources to demonstrate the power of CB Auto Actions and we have also given presentations and video webinars. Here is a list of CB Auto Actions related material that you can take a look at:
- CB Auto Actions 4.0 release announcement
- Changing Approval workflow based on CB field value tutorial
- Assigning usergroup based on CB field value
- Adding your own events to activity stream tutorial
- JAB 2013 Slides / JAB 2013 Video
- CB Auto Action webinar video
Τhis is a very powerful tool that can be used in many different use cases.
As there are literally thousands of combinations, Professional members should post on the support forums their specific use case needs and assistance will be provided. And as our support forums are openly readable by everyone, such threads become valuable resources for the community.
The CB Query field plugin is a very powerful add-on that allows you to get data from an internal or external database query and display results as a CB field.
You can even display multiple query results formated as a list or a table of values.
Well, CB Query 3.0 now supports 4 additional field types:
- Query Check Box (Multiple)
- Query Drop Down (Multi-select)
- Query Drop Down (Single Select)
- Query Radio Buttons
These new field types work just like the core CB field types but they dynamically grab their optional data from a database query!
Some quick winner possibilities to inspire you follow:
- Drop down US states field
- Drop down World country field
- World currencies multi-select field
We have also written a new Configuring a Country field with CB Query field plugin tutorial so demonstrate the power of the new CB Query field plugin.
The new CB Auto Actions 4.0 plugin lets you implement powerful workflow and process automations with virtually no coding!
You can create unlimited automated actions and set them to get executed based on any one of over 400 event triggers from Community Builder, GroupJive, CBSubs, CB Activity, CB Privacy and CB Antispam.
Version 4 now has unlimited usage for appropriate actions (e.g., you can create a single Field action that modifies multiple fields), optional translation of conditional substitutions and new trigger drop-down selection with searching. Also, three new action types have been added (Menu, Antispam and Privacy). This means there are now 23 action types supported:
Activity, Acymailing, Antispam, CBSubs GPL 3.x, Code, Connection, Email, Field, Flyspray, GroupJive, K2, Kunena 1.7, Kunena 2.0, Login/Logout, Menu, Private Messages, Privacy, Redirect, Registration, Request, Usergroup Virtuemart 2.x
Here is a more detailed list of action types with basic usage concept:
- Activity action types let push new activity items to your activity stream (see tutorial example)
- Antispam actions can be used to block or whitelist users, IPs, email address or entire domains
- Field actions can be used to set, add, subtract, mulitply, divide, etc. CB Field values for users
- CB Paid Subscriptions actions can be used to subscribe, renew, unsubscribe or delete users from CBSubs GPL 3.x subscription plans (see tutorial example)
- GroupJive actions can be specified so users join or leave groups and can also be used to create new GroupJive groups or categories
- Connection actions let you create CB Connections between users
- CB Privacy action types let you add privacy rules to users (for profiles, fields, etc.)
- Menu actions lets you add new items to CB user profile menus
- Email actions can be configured to send (HTML or text) email messages with CC/BCC lists and file attachments. Emails can be configured to be sent from different accounts and servers.
- Private Message actions let you send private messages to/from users
- Usergroup actions let you add/remove users to/from specific Joomla ACL groups and you can also create new groups (see tutorial example)
- Registration actions can be configured to automatically create new user accounts
- Login/Logout actions can be configured to automatically login or logout a user
- Redirect actions let you redirect users to specific URLs
- Request actions execute specific URL targets (supports GET, POST, XML and JSON methods
- Query actions can be created to execute (internal or external) database SQL statements (see tutorial example)
- Code actions let you execute HTML, PHP (eval or create function), Javascript (inline or URL), jQuery, CSS (inline or URL), or load code to header, page title or pathway.
- Kunena 1.7 actions
- Kunena 2.0 actions (Kunena 3.0 also supported) can be used to create new forum categories
- Acymailing actions can be used to add, remove, subscribe. unsubscribe users to/from Acymailing newsletter lists
- K2 actions can be used to synchronize/delete users to K2 user groups
- Virtuemart actions let you add/remove users to specific Virtuemart 2.x shopping groups
- Flyspray actions let you integrate (user sync, add users to projects, etc.) your Joomla website with the popular open-source project management flyspray script
As you can see the list is huge and the potential is enormous. There are currently 4 use case tutorials (see linkes in list above) in our tutorials use cases section and many more examples on our forums. We are also preparing a related presentation for this years J and Beyond conference that we are Video sponsoring, so we will have many more examples to share.
- CB Antispam released with great protection tools
- CB Privacy 2.0 with new account removal feature released!
- CB Facebook and Twitter Connect 3.0 released!
- CB Connect 4.0 released!
- Joomla 3.1 beta 1 released and we are 100% ready!
- GroupJive 2.7 released with 15 new features!
- GroupJive 2.6 released with new clean bootstrap look
- CB 1.9 released for Joomla 3.0
- CBSubs 2.0.2 and Developer API access released!
- Community Builder 1.8.1 Released!