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Dave.
P.S. I have contacted the developers...
Thanks Sam, for making our lives simpler :)
I'm probably not using it anywhere near to capacity, but am restricting a particular J! usergroup to only be able to add content to a certain section/category, as well as allowing the site admin to do all the usual article administration from the front-end!
No more concerns about back-end access... this does the job perfectly.
Thanks again Ninjas!
Ok... I admit it... I'm a fan of the Ninjas because their extensions just work, their support is great and wheneven I've had any dealings with them they come across as being really nice guys who love what they do... so I was particularly pleased when I read that Uwe was developing NinjaBoard.
Bearing in mind that this is a beta (I understand stable release is the beginning of July), it is functioning really well (with a couple of glitches the developer knows about), was easy to set up and has all the features you would want.
Sure, it's not as developed as SMF, phpBB3 of vBulletin, but give it a chance as I'm sure they're keen to add new features. And it's free... can't say fairer than that.
So, four stars at the moment and looking forward to the stable release.
Hi David,
I'm Stian, I got to say I was as pleased to know Uwe got the main responsibility as you where:) All I did was designing the template and javascript.
Without doubt this makes Ninjaboard the most secure board out there, as he's our security expert and not without reason. It also ensure the code is top quality and top performing.
We are very keen to add features, but in order to launch and get Ninjaboard stable as soon as possible, we decided to first get the base rock solid.
When we start adding features like crazy, we will need the base as solid and stable as possible, and the UI as thought through and logical not to mention simple and easy to understand as humanly possible.
We appreciate your feedback on our extensions in general, and Ninjaboard especially. Ninjaboard will continue to grow, and just get better for every release:) The reason it takes a little time is that we always take great care when we making decisions.
We will do our best to meet your expectations for the stable release, as we look forward to it as much as you do.
Best regards,
Stian Didriksen
It also has the same functionality as jSecure built-in.
Do read the instructions CAREFULLY, as if you just install and publish you'll most probably lock yourself out of your site for 3 hours (!).
It's worth the financial and small time investment getting it working properly though.
Dave.
I donated - so should you!
Two little extras would be nice:
1) different options for how required fields are displayed, the red stars aren't massive eye-candy and it doesn't say on the form what these mean
2) a plugin so a form could be displayed anywhere in an article.
Thanks Phil!
Dave.
Hi Dave, thanks for taking the time to leave a review - I have some GOOD NEWS for you! in reply to your points. 1) I agree, I hate the validation error messages - and I cant decide how it should be - so for the next version I have made it 100% configurable, that right, you will soon be able to display the validation error message any way you like! 2) We have blogged about this, its the #1 requested feature at the moment, 80% of the code has been written to allow forms in content and this is the main new feature for the next release (Feb 2009)
Thanks very much! :)
P.S. I tried it on a fresh install of 1.5.8 too and had the same problem...
Thanks :)
I run a charity site and we wanted a simple voting system where people invovled could rate various activities. This fitted the bill perfectly!
Thanks :)
Dave.
Dave.
Just released new version (1.1.0). Now you can see by the icons color if the link is changed to anything but the main site.
Note: the current version of Linkr (for anyone that uses this great tool) does not work with FCK with respect to adding links to images. This is a Linkr issue that the author knows about and is fixed in the next, forthcoming release.
Hi David, we would be delighted to have you give us 6 stars & give careful attention to our user‘s requests! We have had some internal discussion,it's firmly on our things to do! In fact the 'newsletters mode' evolved from a similar conversation with Acajoom team. This has materialised in the latest version 2.6.3.9 as the 1st & only editor to provide such a resolve. So hold on, we will get there! Thanks d:o)
I've just installed 1.5alpha2 on a J1.5.6 site and it didn't work. I then read the installation instructions and lo-and-behold, it seems to be working fine! I do hope development on this continues; expect a donation when my next production site is complete :)
1. Install the component as a normal Joomla 1.5 component.
2. After installation change the config to replace the admin email address
3. You must then click the following links in the 'Development' tab in the JEvents control panel in order (VERY IMPORTANT)
1. Migrate admin menus and update databases (this will make sure your tables are up to date - the sql in the xml install file is more difficult to maintain during development and is therefore out of date!)
2. Migrate All Events to IcalEvents (this will copy all your existing events into the new format, if you have any - without removing them)
4. You MUST create at least one category before doing anything else
It's worth doing though.
This is a great little plugin to display a classy date next to articles.
A previous reviewer said that "it is not possible to suppress the date display for certain articles using the parameter settings of the article." This isn't really true: you CAN select within the plugin parameters which sections/categories you want to display the date on. So, since I'm only doing this for my 'News' section, it was very easy to implement.
I would like to see some more styles for the date (Roman numerals perhaps and maybe others), but it's still great :)
Thanks so much Johann! :-)
I love the simplicity of this - it just works straight away and is simple yet powerful. I know one small bug-fix is on the way and I would also like to see:
* the documents listed in the same order as document manager
* the addition of nested categories!
But it's still great with the potential to get even better. Thanks for a great extension!!