compusolver
After five minutes, I understood. This is anything but intuitive. Many people won't get to first base on the "wizard". Those that do will be left wondering what to do when they finish the last shown step. If they assume they are done and go to Forms Management, they've lost all their work.
Yes, they do include a tutorial that can be downloaded, but it wouldn't take much work to make the extension easier to use.
If the developer would sit someone who'd never seen this app, in front of a computer and watch them struggle, they could easily make big improvements.
Also, the extension will put a link to the developer's website on all forms unless you pay.
I ended up just creating the forms for my client without any extension.
This was the best-looking classified extension for vehicles and boats (Noah is pretty good for misc stuff).
I'll add some search power to it later (after I build ads).
This component is very simple, which is what my client wanted, but perhaps too simple because it includes qty with ingredient field data so that 1/2 teaspoon of salt requires a different record than 1/4 or 1 full teaspoon, etc.
Also, ingredients are shown (in single recipe view) underneath the instructions and are comma separated instead of neatly columnized.
Worse is that the first record usually works, but following records do not work on the single recipe view page due to faulty SQL logic.
I fixed this for my client and will gladly offer the fix to the author if he would like it.
This component is simple, it's still in development. If you have a fix for this component i'll be glad to update this component with that patch.
There is no easy way to set this to fit in most columized module areas and for USA people, it doesn't matter because I couldn't get any US weather info working in this thing.
I had a great module when I used Joomla 1.0 but am having difficulty finding a decent free one for 1.5
Problem is, there are severe problems in the core of this app. Problems that have been posted on the developer's forum since last year, yet still not addressed nor even replied to.
The two biggest problems are:
1. Import of CSV product data does not work.
2. If using sales tax, pricing does not work!!!
If you're only having a dozen products or so, you may be able to live with not being able to import your products - but the developer has been aware of this bug for over a year and hasn't fixed it.
Random pricing? Actually, random discount pricing! Sales tax is usually subtracted after being subjected to seemingly random math functions.
I'm a web developer/database guy and have installed hundreds of Joomla (and other) components, plug-ins, etc., so it's not like I'm some newbie user who doesn't read manuals.
One annoying bug in the /administrator/index2.php file will keep loggin you out, but is easily fixed by adding ob_start(); immediately after the first php tag (include the semi-colon).
Unfortunately, the other bugs aren't so easily fixed.
- Hank Castello





