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For all of you who are considering this product, first of all know that it does work very well. With little required from the user and a painless update process - they've done good work here.
Some of the recent 'hoopla' about this extension is due to the initial release being both FREE and fully laden with features,.. then, to many peoples dismay, those features were stripped in v1.5, while it was still 'FREE' it was what many would call a bait-and-switch. They also have v2.0 with basically has all the features of the prev. v1.4, but you have to pay for it.
Kinda on the sly, if you ask me. So, I decided to install v1.5 to see what it was about. It's basic, all options are disabled except ability to update from the full, current joomla version. Still not bad for free. But, if you want all the other features, and since this is GPL and freely distributed, you can check out this post on Joomla's forum (http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=355077) and get ALL the prev. functionality.... still for free.
Cheers
When we released software as a free software to serve Joomla community , we realised supporting that need at least one full time technical person to answer support questions .
We decided to accept donates and after 6 months we received $10 donation after more than 10000 free downloads and 1200 support request emails! (some times asking us to go and see what is their problem with their hosting server PHP settings!)
So we could just ignore support requests and even not bother ourselves and this is not defined in our organization's culture . We can't just ignore the client, Whether paid or free .
We decided to just set a price to support software and could answer questions and we didn't look into benefit for this software.
We feel some times it's good to pay for GPL software. This is meaning of support GPL concept and GPL means freedom and it's good to pay for freedom and support it.
Now our paid clients are happy because most of them they think it was worth to pay . At least some one is COMMITED to support them if they faced problem and keep software up to date .
We think also it's not fair to rate low for commercial component just because it's not free any more!
Author: If you are able to make the site more usable I think such a great extension as this would gain a lot of users.. but, being posted on an English forum and not having the resources in English could very well pose a problem for many..
And I very rarely, if ever, write poor reviews but we users must know about these things.
When you use this with extension with any template that accesses the mootools of joomla - say a rockettheme or yootheme template with 'moo-styled' menu, sliding submenu modules, or even something as simple as a hover effect.. all of those will NOT work with this extension.
Luckily Rockettheme and Yootheme both code their templates in such a way that these features simply degrade to CSS effects, which is nice.
But, what about the sliding menu that no longer works because of this extension?? How can you navigate from it? You contact support right??
Well, I did, and I have the support tickets to show for it..that's about it. All they said is that they guarantee this extension to work with joomla's included templates, not any others and it must be a template problem.. since very few users have responded with such a conflict.
Other than that.. it's a great extension.
We offer our Software with a free 14-Day trial, to make sure that it is compatible with your site and will fulfill your needs before you make the purchase, during this time we will try every thing within our ability to ensure that our software works within our scope, what we cannot do is guarantee that there will not be any issues with other 3rd party software’s and that is exactly what a template is. We have many clients that use our software and are very happy and I can assure you that they do not use the stock templates that come with Joomla.
We are also in the process looking at a solution to adding support to our Recipe Software that will allow it to function with a template that uses Mootools, keeping in mind the cause effect of this change on all of our existing clients.
So, after the experience I had with those components, I decided to tryout ChronoConnectivity to create a page that pulled very specific data from with the DB table.. this thing is awesome! Very simple, but very powerful.
Oh, did I mention this was the first time I have ever used a DB query?? Or written ANY WHERE statements, etc?? The forum on Chronoengine.com has very useable info and when I posted a question it was always answered at light speed!
I was able to create, essentially what would've been a custom component, in about 30 mins.. at that's because I'm a newb at MySQL (Graphic Designer by prof. :D )
And most of all, if you're tired of downloading free extensions with support that matches the 'you get what you pay for' cliche', check these guys out!
Most importantly, lets all support developers like this. These guys are helpful to the highest degree, have developed truly great extensions and only ASK for us to buy a license to remove the credits in the footer. No encryption, to hassles,.. these guys are role models for the rest of us!
Great job and thank you again Max (and Bob) for all you help and support!
Every question I have had I could either 1) easily find in the forum, or 2) Was posted a topic and the Admin (aka Max) or forum guru Greyhead (aka Bob) answered my post so fast it made my head spin!
These guys are awesome! The component works great, is super flexible and best of well, it's well supported.
It's extensions like this that we all should try out, and if we continue to use them in production sites, help the development by buying a license or donating.. these guys are by no means geedy.. these are the type of developers we should be supporting as users!
Great job Chronoengine team!
Thanks again for a great solution,..
Anyone looking for a solid, very simple and hands off backup, look no further. Install, configure easier than ANY other component,.. and let it do it's job.
Thanks again,
We contacted the creator of the plugin, Ian ManLennan, who simply replied and said he didn't know what was wrong, and didn't have IE7 to test the error! After multiple emails asking where we could find a solution - possibly a forum, other users, etc. - Ian basically refused to support this plugin (we have the emails if anyone, including Ian, would like to dispute this).
The bummer is that we really like this module, and can think of many uses for it.. but without the support it deserves, it is just a bunch of useless code.
The Joomla! community is known for developing some of the best feature additions and providing support for those contributions... and this plugin does not mirror, nor live up to, that standard.
I would highly recommend looking for another plugin instead of using this one...
Sorry for the poor review - it is the first we have ever written!! - but this project stands out in a very poor way amongst other contributions from people who will support and respect the joomla community.
I explained to the author of this comment that other responsibilities prevent me from fixing problems with IE7 at the moment, since I don't have IE7 at the moment, and have other commitments.
If somebody is able to verify the functionality of this extension with IE7, it would be greatly appreciated.