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BookLibrary Basic
★★★★★
This works like a charm. Excellent!
byTtfnJohn, September 24, 2010
BookLibrary Basic
BookLibrary is a great component with a limited, by design, function and that's to catalogue books.

For those reading, I bought the Pro version right away in order to take advantage of its features which are needed for the library I'm working on which has recently received a donation from a former priest and Bishop who has donated some 300 books to our small town church. Some very rare and old.

I had a problem where I needed to change the default BookID and sort from numberic and unique to alphanumberic and allowing for duplicatons as the classification for this purpose is the Dewey Decimal Classification (shelving) which allows for and encourages duplication. The site admin was both helpful and quick to respond once we overcame the problems that arise between native english speakers and those who aren't.

If you collect things other than books then JCollection is the choice but for books this is the best component I've seen for Joomla at any price. Well supported and well coded judging by it's performance.
Mad4Joomla
★★★★
Good stuff!
byTtfnJohn, February 19, 2009
Mad4Joomla
Fast and easy to use once things become clear. Luckily there's a link on the site to a quick little tutorial that makes it all come very clear.

It's only good because it's missing some really simple error checking such as an inbuilt email field that actually checks for the "@" and that kind of thing in it.

But, hey, you gotta start somewhere, right?

Great for quick, easy form creation that doesn't require a lot of fancy stuff in the background.
Profile Manager for Community Builder
★★★
This is a good idea but needs better execution
byTtfnJohn, February 18, 2009
Profile Manager for Community Builder
This has the potential to be a good product to deal with the challenges and issues of running a full fledges social networking site, big or small, though there's a flaw in the execution.

While answers to a lot of questions when one is a subscriber are fast and accurate some of the more core ones to getting this functional are not.

At least part of the problem is that is assumes a good knowledge of MySQL queries on the admin's part and the examples in the manual are so small that they can't be read. Also the package I got says it includes the samples which it did not.

A bit clearer documentation and including the base queries would help immensely. So would a place in the forum or elsewhere on the site for people to show their own recipes. Also needed.

The frustrating thing is that the idea is great, the coding itself is very good but there needs to be a little more attention shown to documentation and support for such a potentally complex and useful extention.

Until that happens I'll, sadly leave the manual on the corner of the desk and move on.
Remository
Poor support and no documentation
byTtfnJohn, October 15, 2006
4 of 8 people found this review helpful
Remository
Apparently one needs to use other user group software than Community Builder to even start to get the groups feature going. It doesn't recongnize CB at all which isn't good and it doesn't support a logged in user even when that user is the admin.

Documentation is non-existant and the forums, while not dead, don't answer much. FAQ's are pointless.

Please write up user documentation on how to configure and use this and build in Community Builder support. Without the first this is an exercise in futility and until the second I see no use for it at all.
Place Here module
Nifty little module
byTtfnJohn, September 13, 2006
Place Here module
This is a neat little thing that does what it says it does, simply and easily. Very nice for what I needed to do with it.

Congratulations.

And, oh, by the way. They don't charge, they don't track a license (no one I know tracks the GPL) and it doesn't require any additional software.
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