DanielKonstanz
The layout of the component looks very nice and appealing, good job ! thank you !
Among these, this module ranks on the lower scale for me. In my opinion:
(+) select section/cat. from dropdown (well done)
(-) no parameter to define thumbnail size and position
(-) no parameter to exclude articles
(-) no parameter to define list width and height
(-) strange weired URL parameter to "ALL Articles" (though the idea itself seems good)
Anyhow good job and thanks for the contribution of this free module - maybe it will be further developed or the user may extend it according to his needs - thank you !
I give just 4 stars because for a normal user with a simple web page this component is surely an overkill.
Thanks for your feedback. We've made every effort to make Kunena as easy to use as possible, but it still may seem like overkill. We're definitely committed to keeping all that "Kunena power" under the hood and as easy to use as possible in order to avoid that feeling of "overkill."
Thanks for supporting Kunena!
It's no solution "out-of-the-box" for sure - you have to study the tutorials thoroughly to even produce the most basic quiz - therefore only 4 stars from me, the concept is not self-explanatory.
Anyhow, once you went through all the tutorials and testing it (do it on your local server first !) it's a quite universal method to produce tests.
Especially I like the evaluation at the end of the quiz where the user gets to know which question he/she answered in which way incorrectly !
Keep on the good work - hopefully in the future with less options and clearer user guidance. Thanks a lot !
I do not give 5 stars because the backend is quite complex, for example its hard for me to see why we need "set of questions" and "quizzes", what is the difference ? And to assign quizzes to users seems to me a kind of overkill - honestly the older version 0.2.2 looked better to me.
Anyhow thanks for the good work, maybe in future the project will go in the direction of simplification again ? thank you !
Dear Daniel,
Thank you so much for your review.
We admit that through versions, JQuarks administration is getting more and more configuration work. Besides, this is required since it's providing more features that naturally need to be configured. We could imagine in future releases a default configuration which is preset when creating a quiz, and customization depend on users' willingness to go deeper with JQuarks.
On the other hand, "set of questions" are created to make easy to compose a quiz: An administrator creates several sets of questions, but when creating a quiz, he have just to select question families to include in the test.
Here a simple use case: we are assessing a job candidate, and we are going to test his skills in computer programming, so we will make him take three quizzes: 1. logical reasoning questions 2. PHP questions 3. SQL questions. Besides, to be relevant, the test should be adapted to the technical level of the candidate, then, the recruiter will pick the right set(s) of questions: "PHP - Intermediate" and "PHP - Advanced" for example. Same for Logical questions and Quiz (to avoid taking two PHP quizzes, this way, the candidate will only take the quiz resulting of the two set of questions merge).
Hope the utility of set of questions is more clear this way. If not, I highly encourage you to engage discussions on JQuarks forum: http://www.iptechinside.com/labs/projects/jquarks/boards
Thanks again,
Best Regards,
JQuarks Team
I do not give 5 stars because I miss the option that the user can review the right and wrong answers at the end of the quiz - the user just gets to know which question he answered correctly and which not. For further improvement I would really appreciate that this feature will be possible - THANK YOU !
1) the scrolling should be "automatic" also not just when you click the forward button
2) the pictures should be feeded from an image folder, not by typing the url directly into the module (though I admit that could be useful for images from outside the own webpage)
Anyhow thanks for the nice work !
A must have for file management.
The only small drawback is the htaccess error that I get when I try to use it through a firewall ... even by following the instructions from the support I cannot get a server connection using Endian Firewall, but thats a quite special problem.
Anyhow thanks a lot for this very nice and useful extension !
Dont want to discourage anybody but I think the authors should make suggestions to the Joomla Core Team for improvements - not to put another application on the existing one.
Anyhow thanks for the try, personally I removed the extension from my website.
I would just suggest some further improvements:
(1) in the parameters it would be useful to select whether the mindmap is fully expanded or contracted when opened
(2) it would be great if it would be possible to select if unpublished/expired articles should appear or not (right now they seem to appear)
(3) to click on a link of the mindmap opens a new browser window, it might be useful to open the article in the same window not to confuse the user.
Great work and I hope you guys are still working on this extension, I guess there may be more useful applications for it ! Thank you !
But JoomFish has 2 drawbacks in my opinion:
(1) you must disable the missing translation plugin or you will get the message "no translation" on each page
(2) more serious: the translation process is extremely confusing !
My default language is spanish, I wanted an english translation:
In the Translation Tab you have to go to ENGLISH (even there is no english language yet...) not to the original language. And THERE you have to make the translation (not the other way, what would be logical to me).
Confusing also is the conflict between menus and articles (content). You can create articles in the second language independent from the original one and let the menu translation point to this new article. To "translate" an article with the JoomFish options seems unnecessary and confusing to me, since we can always create articles in any language without Joomfish anyhow.
Anyhow a big thanks to the authors of this extension, this really saved my web site ! After some hours of struggling I got it run at least. Hope there will be improvements in the future, keep the good work up !
Not working because it doesnt show the home page (front page view) of the second language but only a blank page, the link is messed up and points to nowhere. Furthermore no SEO support.
Thanks to the authors anyhow for the good will and the effort and open source code, that should be appreciated !
Anyhow please make sure the user can at least get rid of the installation with uninstall / in my case an ugly empty select box remained in the backend menu page and the menus of the second language disappeared after uninstall.
Daniel,
Did you install the extension according to the instructions?
As a normal uninstall will replace the original Joomla files. Unless you did not have your FTP layer enabled.......
Wonder what you did exactly...
Anyone with some trouble.... just send me an email I will always try and answer within shortest possible time...
It should be in the core of Joomla, thanks a lot for this work !
I was looking for something like that a long time already and got bored with complicated SEO redirections ... this component makes everything on the fly ! Worked immediately after installation and addition of the .htaccess lines.
It is very userfriendly (for example line numbers in edit mode) and even allows to change file permissions. Instead to use the cpanel of the webserver I am using this component now to work with my files.
Much thanks to the team for providing this component, keep it up !
Anyhow thanks a lot for the very useful extension ! Keep it up !
The other stuff as library manager and table is totally useless - you will see a list of links that do nothing.
The update manager in this set is the older version and should be upgraded with the later version that I released separately. The library manager is designed to be used with the libraries that I make use of, particularly for JAuthTools. The Table Editor is a proof of concept system to demonstrate how you can build a system based on params to handle a flexible amount of tasks. It also allows you to easily install table definitions as well. All three components (library,package and table editor) have their own installer adapter so the standard universal installer can be used to handle installing their packages instead of duplicating the interface.
If I had more time I would do an update to fix this but as it stands I don't make much money out of Joomla! (curious really, Moodle makes me around 60x the amount of money and I give this all for free!) but thanks anyway for the complaint :)
As an aside most of the stuff that is in this set of tools is in 1.6 anyway.
I just like to suggest 2 more features for the future, if possible:
(1) Add separate rights for the "special user" as well (not only for public and registered)
(2) allow several upload areas in one article (maybe allow several [repository] tags inside the pluging or allow several {jsmallfib} tags in one article
If that will be the case, this is unbeatable for me !
Thanks again and keep it up ! Chris
My wish would be that the component automatically shows the articles of the logged-in user selected, but thats just cosmetic.
Thanks a lot for this work ! Chris