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Just what I was looking for, a simple but feature-rich component to provide a portfolio of work for my new website. There are some really nice features, and although I'd like a few extras such as being able to add a field for a client testimonial and have more than one image, perhaps other media such as videos, it does what it says on the tin and does it quite nicely! Good job!

It's not often you come across a component that is pretty good at what it does, and comes with an oustanding level of customer support.

I purchased this component this afternoon on something of a whim - I've used other commercial blogging components but fancied a change, and I am really glad I went for it!

The installation was very simple and configuration was easy (even without looking at the manual!).

I had a couple of problems with my template - nothing major but one of the menus right aligned when I was in the component, and some text was being echoed into the screen. I had a fix and response for both within half an hour, with assurance it'll be in the next update release of the component.

I take my hat off to the developers, they are certainly leading the way where all others should follow in terms of listening to their users, fixing even little niggly issues almost immediately, and being both friendly and courteous in the process.

This component does *kinda* work, in that when installed it will import the server and users from CE, however that's about where it stops.

It does NOT allow you to bring the features and functions of Client Exec into your Joomla! site - it only allows you to link the users and their passwords. How useful you find this I do not know, but to me it's a bit pointless given they're still going to have to do any admin in the Client Exec portal anyway.

You HAVE to use the CE Bridge user manager or you break things. You HAVE to use the CE Bridge login module (which is not compatible in any way with Community Builder btw).

The installation and administration documents are quite thorough, and most of the people leaving reviews so far probably didn't read through them thoroughly in my opinion.

The biggest disappointment for me is the complete lack of response from the developers on the forums or to bug reports/features, which means if you do come up against a problem (which I did), you can't expect any kind of support whatsoever.

A promising start, but I personally would call this early beta at best, and definitely not for use in a production environment unless you really know what you're doing and an fix any problems you come up against.

This component is incredibly powerful and once I found it I was quite literally blown away by the number of times I could really have done with it before!

If you're a bit rusty on MySQL queries I would suggest constructing them and pasting them into phpMyAdmin which gives somewhat more constructive feedback than the free version (you just get a data error when you try to download the spreadsheet).

I'll definitely be looking into the Pro version for the simple fact that it allows scheduled emails of the spreadsheets, which really reduces the amount of effort on the part of my clients having to download files every month!

Really nice module, installed and worked without any customization!

It's good to be able to have several size options for the icons as well, to ensure it fits with different templates.

Well done, very clean and easy to use module :)

This works perfectly on a site I am running with lots of components, including Community Builder.

Installed, enabled, turned off login redirection on CBLogin module, and it works perfectly. Absolutely AWESOME! Big thanks!

Everything from purchasing to installation and getting support was top notch for this plugin.

It massively extends the functionality of Community Builder profiles and lets you escape from the dreaded tab layout!

Much promise when they are able to implement including other content (from plugins, e.g. from forums etc) - actively being developed with helpful responses on their forum.

Had to do a couple of tweaks to get the plugin button working with JCE however these are all documented quite clearly on the forum. Some great video tutorials give you clear ideas on how to get started - I can only assume the negative reviews didn't bother to check out the resources that this developer makes freely available.

This is a really useful feature to incorporate into your Community Builder site - the option to allow a user to delete their account.

It adds by default as a tab to your CB Profile, and you can specify a warning message informing them what it does when pressing the button.

What I would like to see as potential improvements are the following:
- Send the admin a message via email as to why they're deleting
- Probably more sensible to be under Edit Account rather than as a tab? And as a popup window rather than there all the time, perhaps?
- Option to deactivate the user and then have the administrator do the actual delete (could prevent erroneous deletions)

Install via Community Builder plugin interface, automatically adds however many credits you set in the plugin settings when a new user creates an account.

Perfect :) Many thanks!

Ruth

I get the feeling I've only just scratched the surface with what this component can do - for me I need to be able to have an article show in more than one category.

What could be easier .. install the component, edit the article and on the rhs there is a new menu of "Sub Categories". Tick the box, et voila! All done!

Fab extension, hope it goes on to be developed!

Really impressed with this, it works out of the box and does what it says on the tin, prettily!

Very nice piece of work, will definitely consider using on my other sites :)

I have to say I was a bit sceptical about using this component having already tried several others which, to be frank, just weren't user friendly or "quick" enough.

There are a few things you have to get used to with this - firstly how to construct the forms using the pages, and secondly how to use the "drag" feature.

There are bugs like when you drag the menus they don't always move properly, and dragging the elements is sometimes a bit glitchy but once you get past this, it's a very powerful system.

Support is absolutely first class, I have had a few issues (where admittedly the answer was in the manual which like many I didn't read fully!) and had a reply within a couple of hours.

This is definitely one to watch - if the little niggles are ironed out I'll be using it on all my sites, for sure!

This addon for Virtuemart does so many things, it's a very powerful tool.

The need to export from VM in Excel format (e.g. CSV files) is central to so many business functions, whether it be for accounting, business intelligence, stock control, etc.

I'm astounded that VM haven't put more into developing this side of the extension, but RolandD has done an excellent job. He responds to questions very promptly and is frank and honest about what is being developed, what bugs exist and how long it'll take to get things fixed.

All together, this is an excellent addon which is being actively developed! It has huge potential and I'll certainly be using it a lot!

Brilliant module, does just what I wanted, although I tried searching for ages with no joy as I was looking for "add to favourites" - might want to add this to the search terms?

Works fine in firefox & IE

Just what I needed - I was going to write this module and thought I'd have a quick check to see if anyone else had already done so!

After a bit of tweaking I managed to add in Tel: and Email: which were not present, and with the instructions for adding CSS styles was able to customise to the site.

Thank you, saved me a lot of work!