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Custom Properties			componentmodulepluginlanguage
Rating 28 votes	Developer:	Andrea Forghieri	Version:	0.97 - 1.90.3 (Updated 62 days ago)
	E-mail:	This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it	Compatibility:
	Views:	17,817	License:	GPLv2.0
	Favoured:	48	Type:	Non-Commercial
			Date Added:	Feb 27, 2008

With Custom Properties you can define your own properties/tags and label the content items.
Every property becomes a searchable field in the frontend module cp_search. It can be used to organize and re-organize your contents and to create new ways of searching articles.
With the recently added module mod_cpcloud, all tags can be displayed as tags cloud.
The tags can be displayed before, after or anywhere in the the text of articles.
Features:
- infinite field / values
- configurable and skinnable
- does NOT alter the default Joomla! installation
- simple-yet-powerful
- compatible with Joom!Fish for multi-language sites
- includes English, Italian and Arabic language for frontend (only ver 0.97)
- limit search results
- each field can be displayed in all/some/one search module
- added support for frontend tagging operations.
- a drill-down result summary can be displayed before actual results.
- results can be sorted by section/category
- usability improvements in the backend
- cp tags can be appended to meta keywords too
- SEF compatible
- version for Joomla 1.5 is built using the new MVC framefork.
- multi search module
- configurable search scope
- tags cloud module

Current versions :
Joomla 1.0 (>= 1.0.11) : 0.97
Joomla 1.5 (>= 1.5.3 is better) : 1.90.3

For more information, usage and examples visit http://www.solidsystem.it

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Step forward for Joomla - kudos to dev! by ssnobben, October 3, 2008

Applause for a great component and a step forward for using a semantic taxonomy structure? for Joomla community?

Hope that it will be continuously developed and improved!

Excellent component and in my belief could be a future core Joomla component!

Great Component! Well done ! by dgreengod, October 2, 2008

Very flexible and powerful component. Really simple intuitive tags management.
It could be a good idea in the future versions to add possibility of automatic tags exporting to the article's keywords.

misses usability by johnnydement, September 25, 2008

This is an awesome addon! the colser to what I'm searching, a good way to allow extra search values for the articles, to allow pages with results from multiple sections sharing something!

But having to go to another screen after having created the article, is not something I can ask my editors to do... so guess we will be staying with preformated keywords,,,

If custom properties could be assigned from article editor, or even a button on it, it would be perfect. Till then, not useful for me.

Tags for REAL! by ByeVas, September 4, 2008

This is the greatest tagging component I've tried so far. It allows managing and creation of real tags, not exploding keywords. There are a couple of improvments I would suggest:
1) sh404sef comaptibillity (I saw it is on the way)
2) Xmap compatibility
3) frontend CREATION and addition of tags maybe through ajax
4) development of a module that displays several articles with the same tags. (with the first image)

Thank you again for the great tagging component this is so far the best! Keep up the good work!

Little help by gogogogo, August 28, 2008

Fantastic job !!!
One of the most useful Joomla component.

Thank you.

Great Component by angelducky, August 26, 2008

This provides an almost perfect solution for my company! The component installed without problems, there's good information on the developer's site (although more documentation would be very helpful) and for the most part it's relatively simple to use. I would recommend creating a button for the editor that will allow users to add properties to an article while the article is being submitted. Editing properties from the front-end is not very intuitive and this is the part that we're currently modifying. Other than that I love this component!

Doesn't work for me by Dadoe, August 26, 2008

0 of 1 people find this review helpful:

It installs correctly, but I don't have a clue when it comes to getting it to work properly. I can't add a Custom Property to an article, and I can't View/Edit the articles inside this component (resulting in either a strange or no message(s)).

Unfortunately there's no documentation available, so I can't fix it myself. It probably has something to do with a conflict with another component I installed...

Excellent component by thirdsun, August 22, 2008

This works great, thank you. Note to users on php4 - be sure to change Script Position under Config to embedded to get this to work.

Excellent is only word! by deigor, August 22, 2008

Here's a lot of good components around for Joomla. But Custom Properties - is the Best.
Here's why:
- Simple to use
- Do exactly what it should do
- Flexible
- Great Tags Implementation

Great Job and Thanks.
I'm ready to donate but I can't find on the website "Donations" part :).

I like it but.. by google44, August 19, 2008

I like it but it has two major drawbacks. It isn't compatible with sh404sef and you can't automatically add tags to articles. If I have 1000 articles how do i add tags to all of them ? In an article site where also users can submit articles it is pain to add tags to every article in the backend. It is a good idea, if no tags are submitted, to automatically add tags based on keywords.

Owner's reply:
Thanks for the review and for the suggestions.

- compatibility with sh404sef is currently being developed

- you can add tags massively using the backend (even to 1000 articles at once)

- users can add tags (1 article at a time) from the frontend

- adding tags from keywords goes against CP "philosophy". Keywords are freetext, while CP uses DB defined fields and values.

Virtuemart and other Plugins by Charles33, August 10, 2008

To really harness the power of this component, it would be beneficial for the developer to create a Virtuemart Plugin. This component is great by itself for "content" in Joomla, but would even be better if it had a Virtuemart plugin, or capabilities to write quick scripts to incorporate into Virtuemart or other components. Furthermore, this plugin would especially benefit online stores which have a huge product base and need a way to present it to the customer, without the customer clicking multiple times to find product.

Nonetheless, Excellent WORK! By far this is one of the best components for Joomla.

The best by smapan, July 23, 2008

i'm new joomla user and try to manipulate joomla article by use tag system but almost solution not worked or not shared in open source.

I found you and it works!

Thank you so much.
(sorry for my English i try to explain my happiness)

Excellent system! by rob27, July 22, 2008

Custom Properties is just a very flexible system for creating and assigning tags, making it possible to classify your site's content in many ways outside the rigid Section/Category structure. I have just scraped the surface of possible uses, and loving it already.

The Search module offers website users an easy and flexible way of drilling down into specific content, perfect if you have a more complicated content classification.

The frontend tag editing possibility by assigned users is another added bonus.

This component's only problem is that it makes the webmaster think about the site's content organisation in a completely different way :-)

Great component, excellent coding and very helpful developers. Star stuff!

Fantastic!! by SineMacula, July 9, 2008

This extension is *exactly* what I was needing for a project I'm working on - works great in Joomla! 1.5.4 -- and as an added bonus, the developer is very responsive!

Excellent! by histerix, June 5, 2008

This is what I was looking for! Great work :)

I had to find a way to classify articles in more than just sections and categories, and make them searchable...this enabled me to do it easily...

Took me a few minutes to figure out how everything works, and now it....just works! :)

Suggestion: it would be nice if you could tag the articles as you write them...going back and assigning tags to them afterwards ain't really that complex...but, it would just be nicer if you could do it right away...

Is there hope for the J!1.5 version soon?

Great work! Thanks :)

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