This was exactly what I was looking for! You can do a lot of customization with this for your site!
More over, I had a problem (actually it was not a problem since I misunderstood something) and I got a reply from those guys in 1 day! Not a bad response time for a free piece of code! In fact excellent response time!

whenever i need an easy way to classify information, have attribute search, sort out a lot of different types of info, create semantic links i get back to custom properties. thumbs up for Andrea, developer of this excellent extension, who is eager to help and further develop this great extension according to community demands. thanks!

I needed an extension to add tags to specific articles and also create a search box more detailed than the standard Joomla one, Custom Properties with the CP Search module delivers these perfectly.

What's more, I had problems displaying the search button on my site. I emailed Solidsystem and they looked at my site, identified the problem in the code and showed me where it was and how to fix it. Couldn't ask for better service!

I've been struggling with how to implement searchable tags for price, description, etc. Most components are not very flexible. When I saw this component and their demo site, I knew I needed to try it.

Unfortunately I was having trouble getting it working. I sent an email to the developer and immediately went about trying to fix the problem myself (I installed the J1.0 component and it worked (better)). I got a quick reply (Saturday afternoon for me, late Saturday night it Italy - I am impressed). The problem was in my web hosting company using older PHP. I was given the reason and directions to fix the problem - now it works like a charm. You need to set a config option called "script position" to "embedded".

This component is great. I can configure it to address different product descriptions, price range, or any other parameter and create a search matrix applicable to specific categories. It is exactly what I needed for a site with lots of content.

Now, I'm hoping for the ability to create a search results page that compares parameter values. For example: display the results of: "wine region=campania / alcohol=medium / price=low" against "wine region=campania / alcohol=medium / price=high" as a split screen comparison chart where other details of the respective items are available to compare.

Thank you to SolidSystems for a fantastic component.

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!

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.

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.

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!

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

Thank you.

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!

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...

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.

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 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.

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.

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)

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!

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!

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 :)

I'm very impressed by the overall quality of this component, looks simple but do a lot !

Very handy and intuitive, this component perfects a features Joomla's core lacks : a good and fast way to browse through content, when traditionnal browsing or search aren't enough.

However, to fully suits my need I would expect that the module could use parameters to selects which custom property to display, so we can duplicate the module and configure them independently to fit different category thematics.

Keep up the good work :)