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.
Protect your Community Builder websites against spammers with the new CB Antispam plugin.
The new CB Antispam plugin is by far the most complete and versatile services independent protection mechanism available for Joomla websites.
Just install and publish it as a CB plugin and you can configure it to:
- Human challenge your CB forms (registration, login, forgotten password, email messaging) with Captcha image with audio playback and refresh button (also supports recaptcha and question mode)
- Automated duration configurable (e.g., 1 hour, 1 week, etc.) blocking of IP after failing registration or login (X failed attempts in Y duration)
- Automated duplicate registration blocking based on existing registrations from single IP (e.g., useful to block multiple free promotional trials)
- Stop or limit account sharing (e.g., single login session per account at any given time)
- Frontend blocking of spammer (account, IP, email, email domain) account for moderators visiting spammer CB profile
These are extremely powerful features that will help you manage multiple forms of spamming.
The new CB Privacy 2.0 release is now available with many new features including frontend user requested account removal and general profile privacy settings.
Release 2.0 is a complete rewrite that supports all previous features and versions (upgrade automatically recognizes all previous version configurations) with the addition of the following new features:
- Let your users completely remove their accounts on your website with
the new 'Close My Account' link in their user profiles - Users can also disable their accounts with
the new 'Disable My Account' link - Administrator can specify default privacy settings for entire profile with
the new Profile Privacy field - Notify users and moderators when accounts are disabled or removed
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Administrator can specify default privacy settings for profiles, fields and tabs
CB Privacy 2.0 is available to all Advanced, Professional and Developer members from the Advanced Download area and as with all our latest add-ons it works on all versions of Joomla including the latest Joomla 3.1 beta 2 release.
The CB Facebook Connect 3.0 and CB Twitter Connect 3.0 plugins have just been released as free upgrades for all Advanced, Professional and Developer members.
Both can be downloaded from the: Advanced Download area.
Recently Twitter has changed their integration protocol breaking all previous integration plugins.
The new releases are now significantly faster (quicker page loading) and now have less conflicts with other social scripts that may be also present on your website. Kyle has rewrittent both CB Twitter and CB Facebook connect plugins to use their own internal javascript libraries.
Open your website to millions of users with CB Facebook and Twitter Connect that enable your users to register and/or login on your website using their Facebook or Twitter credentials. If you are a Professional or Developer member you should use CB Connect 4.0 instead as it supports more social networks and also supports (Facebook and Twitter) social applications.
Upgrading is a simple install over existing previous versions. No changes need to be made on the Facebook or Twitter application side. Documentation has also been updated.
And as with all our CB plugins, these work natively on all versions of Joomla - even the latest Joomla 3.1 beta 1 !
Community Builder 1.9 is required for both plugins.
- 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!
- Joomla 2.5.5 released but not recommended
- New CB Core Fields Ajax plugin released!
- CB Blogs 3.0 Released!