The Joomla! Extensions Directory ™

Having used Joomla and extensions for many years, I thought I was immune to buying the poor extension. Not the case.

If you want a drop down menu that selects All categories and articles including uncategorised then this will do the job for you. But unlike the description 'chosen section/category' you cannot choose the category or section and it won't split the categories and sub categories in 1.7. Even the basic module options don't display, so you can't add a module class suffix. Which restricts design and layout options.

So I decide to contact support, this extension when purchased includes one months support; having asked a support question I am still waiting a response almost 24 hours later and according to their support manager my ticket hasn't even been assigned yet. They are an Indian company so with time differences they may not have been able to deal with it yesterday, but when I started work today it was already 2pm in India and they don't have a national holiday now until the 5th Feb, so they have had time.

Now I have the ability to fix the issues and amended the code to make it do what I want, but I shouldn't have to do so and a novice will find it hard, and you would expect that from a free extension.

Conclusion: If you want to show all categories and have no design needs then this is fine and worth the $9. If you want it to do what is says in the description then don't part with your money or waste your time. As for the included monthly support I am still waiting for that to happen.

This is excellent, not quite ready for what I wanted to develop but even so it is beautifully thought out with excellent tutorials. I can't wait to see what they add to it, I will be watching this one very closely in the future.
If it achieves it's potential then I will become a platinum member.

Perfect works what more can I say

At last a K2 module that does what it promises, I have tried loads and this is the only one that is actually compatible with most browsers.

A few configuration issues, but once I played worked like a dream it took me no longer 30 minutes.

Support lacking on forum still no response to my query, but it was a cheap module and well worth the money.

Why oh why did I not get this one first

This must be a hit and miss module, installed it once and all it would do is stick on load, reinstalled to get a fresh install and then it brought my site down. It may work but no point installing something that can be so unreliable.

They claim it works in IE6+... firefox etc... the only browser where it's perfect is chrome... they have not tested fully in IE8,7 or 6 or firefox otherwise they would know they have problems...

Nothing from these guys seems to work, and I have followed their instructions to the letter, I even disabled all other jquery/mootools components and still won't work in two of the most used browsers.

Very frustrating and worse still I had to pay...

I test in firefox and chrome, yet I would expect that any extension would work in IE8... Unfortunately this one does not, I cannot recommend this product until this is fixed and it' a major fix....

What a lovely poll, some real thought has been given to what people want but unfortunately it is full of bugs.

I am writing this review to hopefully get this developer to wake up to the potential he has or he is in danger of getting some bad reviews which in turn will affect his other components.

He needs to answer his forum posts, there are so many bugs present but very few of them get answered.

This is a really good product but annoying and I am so close to dropping it.

What a pleasure to find a component so well put together. I am quite an experienced user of Joomla and yet I could see any novice using this easily. The only dificulty would be template design, but they do offer a nice looking template to start with and if you use an editor then you can easily put together something functional.
Here's the but though.....Bounces....any reasonably sized mailing list will provide mail returns and it desperately needs somthing to manage them. I previously used PHPList and it is perfect for that, but I needed something integrated within Joomla. I know it was mentioned on your forums in Sept 2006. Please hurry it is needed.
Still an excellent component amd well worth it even with the bouns problem.

Do not use this if you wish to rename the directory from 'SOBI2' to something else e.g 'My Directory'. It won't work. ARTIO JoomSef works fine its just the plugin.
I have rated this 'Very Poor' because this is a commercial plugin and they won't even respond to the support ticket I raised.
They seem to just want your money and are not showing signs of being concerned. I didn't even get an acknowledgment to my support ticket. Steer well clear, unless you have the time to manually customize every link.
I hope ARTIO Support are reading this and will do something to rectify this major glich.