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OSG Seminar Manager ComponentPlugin

OSG Seminar Manager is a course listing component that allows you to have a complete seminar listing and booking system on your Joomla! site. It is based on Course Manager 1.7 but we have added a lot of features and fixed some issues.

As the original version it has the following features:

* easy to use administration interface to manage your courses and applications
* receive email notifications
* organize course with tags or (nested) categories
* customize email templates in the back-end
* customize front-end course listings by setting course attributes
* create custom fields for the application form
* optional automatic registration
* high performance with caching support
* attach files to the courses
* add meta description and keywords to courses and categories
* receive online payments via PayPal
* support SEF urls

And this is what we added in OSG Seminar Manager:

* clone courses from templates
* list course templates without dates on your site and let
users sign in to a list of prospects (optional)
* view all users on this list in back-end and notify them on new course dates
* associate tutors with course templates and certain skills. If you then
create a course from a template the system recommends matching tutors
* seperated roles in Backend for manager and trainer.
* automatic PDF invoice generation (optional)
* attachment of invoices to booking confirmation emails (optional)
* generate PDF attendee lists from backend
* PDF documents can also contain images
* registered users can view their invoices in front-end
* customize invoice templates in back-end with an almost WYSIWYG editor
and pdf preview function. No need to edit PHP code!
* print on existing pdf file (up to pdf version 1.4)
* localized date from in most places
* excellent support for German language
* prices can be displayed with or without VAT
* VAT rate can be set per course
* support of 2nd currency using a static exchange rate
* display of max. 3 price groups depending on Joomla! usergroups
* display if a course is already fully booked
* display of free seats
* display of more course details (Day, Time, Room, etc)
* sending particpants or groups of participants emails directly from the backend. In addition to that also sending a email copy to a predefined mailbox

Several details we improved:

* customfields: use them in invoice templates / group them and use one group for booking form and another group for the form to sign in the list of prospects / new field for realizing a checkbox to agree to terms of services
* users can view course details when bookings are turned of
* avoid multiple bookings unless explicitly allowed
* added missing server side input validation at various places
* almost all important strings are now translatable
* rewrite of the installer
* rewrite of CSV export (import is yet missing)
* reworked every single view in front- and back-end to

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2013-03-01
Reviews: 1
After spending a lot of time to search an alternative to course manager, wie found this extension. And: It's great!
2012-12-23
Reviews: 2
Thank you very much! That's what I was looking for! Easy, simple, complete and free. For a small company like mine is perfect! Well done!
2012-07-04
Reviews: 5
This is a great alternative to Course Manager, and best of all it is free.

Coming from a background of using Course Manager, it was very straightforward to pick up, and I have noticed no bugs thus far.

Great work
2012-04-12
Reviews: 8
Thank you for your great extension , i take 5 stars , LTR and RTL support , i am translating to Persian ... good job
@lx
2012-01-30
Reviews: 6
A lot of functions, seems to have been a lot of work, but in my opinion not so userfriendly. And I got an error 404 when klicking on the link in the menu for the courses after setting it up including the course for more than half an hour ... probably not SEM-friendly? Little bit frustrating. Might really get a good extension. But for me to unhandy. Sorry!
2012-01-26
Reviews: 6
I'm sure this would be a useful extension but there is no support or documentation for installing or configuring it. It would be helpful if there was even just a list steps for the correct sequence.

Sorry - I think it could be very useful.
2012-01-07
Reviews: 3
This is a very good alternative to the "Seminar" component.

i tried it and want to use it for my customer productive.

Thank you!