the component will be a nice one.

but i really think the developers should prepare a demo content file to allow beginners to upload a demo application to see how things are done.

i tried to create category , then content type then items, and i am going in a circle where the application says no content type available even though i created more than 50 now.

since there is no documentation , it is very difficult to understand where things go and what is the process to create a content from A to Z.

At the time of my writing this, JS Content still has a fair number of bugs, and some functionality that is still to be implemented, but it has superb potential. It is *very* flexible, you can create content submission forms that have required fields so that a list view can be easily filtered. So your members can slice and dice the entries to easily find what they are looking for... You can have attached document fields, drop down fields, checkboxes, radio buttons etc etc. And it's all submitted as content articles.

As an added bonus, you can have parent categories and as many levels of child categories as you would like! So it lets you bypass the Section/Category limitation of the Core J! components. From some emails I've swapped with Sergey (lead developer) you will also be able to have a single content item show up in multiple categories, and they are working on a tag system.

The best part is that the team developing it is an actual *team* with an established product line and they are very responsive. I've gotten an email from Sergey in response to every Bug Report and Feature Request I've posted. He even reponded (with a sense of HUMOR!)with clarifications when I asked questions about his answers.

The documentation is sketchy at the moment, and some might consider that there is a slight language barrier for the N.A. crowd (though Sergey's english is quite good) but there are a couple of useful video tutorials, and they have brought on a .com veteran Program Manager (worked as a PM for Real Networks for 5 years, Amazon for another 2) to help out and they have a US based trainer that will be producing some professional tutorials for them.


All in all, we have been very impressed, the JoomSuite site is still a bit rough(they need a forum and some template debugging), and a couple of the products are still in development, but they have a *great* lineup of products and seem very *very* enthusiastic and talented. Good combination, great team, and some real vision behind the products they are producing. We're very happy customers and look forward to new versions and additional products with great anticipation.

Five stars plus from us, despite the encryption. So far (IMO)it's the best of breed tool for developing a complex site quickly, in many respects the capabilities offered are not just impressive, many of them are unique.

James and Susan

This extension allows you to define different content types into your articles. It's complicated but powerful once you get the hang of it. You can create custom fields and content areas that are searchable and can be managed in the back end.

Unfortunately, the code it produces is a bunch of nested tables and not very controllable. While they say the template code is not encrypted, it would be far easier if they used css and provided classes/IDs for each element (or allowed us to choose). This of course is a problem for many components and even Joomla itself, but this component serves to make some serious table spaghetti in the main body.

I also agree with the other posters. The Ioncube encryption sucks and doesn't mesh with the GPL. Fix these things and it would be 5 stars. It would be a must have extension that I'd buy for sure.

Please read all carefully before purchase this product.
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I want to give a big thanks to Sergey, I had one tricky issue to solve before I made component functional because I thought it was some bug. I turned to Sergey ....however it turned out it wasn't a bug in their component but something with my server configuration that was causing the problem. He helped me identify the problem and made my day :)

They made a very versatile component that every joomla needs!

I reviewed and downloaded this and tried the demo install, I was very impressed with what you can do with it. But looks like they have a long way to go with help and admin (at the time of writing this review) they do not have a forum but they do say they are working on it, and they seem to be a good bunch of guys, and the communication with the team and bug fixing is fast. :o)

But the one thing that hurts me is the fact of using ioncube to encrypt the core component files, this leaves u at the mercy of them adding new feature or modifying it...

As stated this component has allot of potential... It can do some cool things and it allows u to create pretty much anything you want, basic knowledge of joomla is all you need and you can create galleries, video libraries, crazy content for what ever you want... and the best part it makes everything as content item...

I would buy this "ONLY IF"(and even pay alittle more) if they had a non-ioncube/encrypted version.

Overall, This has potential, but i feel limited with the encryption.