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bytobypsl, January 18, 2012
I'm currently using the free version to enable me to collaborate on projects more effectively with an associate. We'd been emailing one another and it was getting out of hand. This extension solves that issue.
The two things I'd look for in an update are:
1. greater functionality around date filtering - extending the utility of the tool into task / time management.
2. A printable reporting system for the various viewable formats.
But as it stands, for free, it's already an exceptional extension so it gets full marks from me.
bytobypsl, December 23, 2011
This extension has some promise but it's a long way off an acceptable level of completion.
In addition to the comments in the previous review I would add that there is a function to grab meta tags from articles and add those to the list of tags in the component - which on face value is a nice idea.
But the tags will not be grabbed as distinct tags - so if you have one tag appearing as a meta tag in several articles it will appear several times as a tag in the component tag list. This will instantly create a long unwieldy list of duplicated tags.
Although you can edit the text of tags there is no option to delete them. Which is just plain silly really.
The help forum has cobwebs, so my guess is that this extension started out as a good intention but got superceded by more urgent / fun matters along the line. Which is absolutely fair enough - since it's free.
Avoid unless you just want a very rudimentary tagging system with a limited list of tags you can easily manage, or the extension and support improves radically.
ps. It would be great if users could mark the JED contents as abandoned / out of date etc. Would save a lot of hassle installing and testing rubbish.
In addition to the comments in the previous review I would add that there is a function to grab meta tags from articles and add those to the list of tags in the component - which on face value is a nice idea.
But the tags will not be grabbed as distinct tags - so if you have one tag appearing as a meta tag in several articles it will appear several times as a tag in the component tag list. This will instantly create a long unwieldy list of duplicated tags.
Although you can edit the text of tags there is no option to delete them. Which is just plain silly really.
The help forum has cobwebs, so my guess is that this extension started out as a good intention but got superceded by more urgent / fun matters along the line. Which is absolutely fair enough - since it's free.
Avoid unless you just want a very rudimentary tagging system with a limited list of tags you can easily manage, or the extension and support improves radically.
ps. It would be great if users could mark the JED contents as abandoned / out of date etc. Would save a lot of hassle installing and testing rubbish.
bytobypsl, August 16, 2011
For me though - as an interested but non pro developer, the total lack of anything approaching adequate support makes a huge dent in the value of the yootheme products. These products are fairly complex and clearly well thought out and designed. But that makes them impossible to customise without at least some support.
bytobypsl, May 15, 2011
So, having waded through numerous forum posts for the last 40 mins it is a little frustrating to be confronted with - "contact us by email with access to the back end of your website" every time someone has a problem, the answer to which may be worth knowing.
How about helping people to help themselves. What is the point in providing a free extension then making it next to impossible to use ?
Garbage.
Owner's reply
Lite Edition allows to get data from database and show as sortable HTML table.
Full version can read database, CSV files, HTML tables and convert them to sortable tables.
This is puzzling and seems ridiculous to me. If it didn't work or the support is poor - it isn't a 5 star product. Surely this is common sense. You are misleading people who then download on the basis of inflated review scores. This product should not be a 4.7 out of 5 when it simply hasn't worked for over a third of the reviewers.
For me it just doesn't work. It looked promising but the table cell codes are stripped out when I publish with the Szakitable tags, so I end up with a line of text rather than columns and rows.
Because the site is poorly written and it hasn't worked for numerous other reviewers I wont be wasting my time trying to get it working. Instead I'll download 'picnet table filter' and use jumi or AN Other script plugin to allow me to set my own advanced sorting and filters on tables.
Shame, I'd much rather have a plugin solution, I think built in table filtering is a basic need in Joomla. This plugin doesn't fill the gap, not reliably anyway.
I'm using Joomla 1.6.
bytobypsl, July 27, 2010
The carousel worked straight away but I had one or two incompatibility issues (template etc) that I needed some technical help with. I have to say the technical support on this product is second to none and for the price I paid way beyond my expectations.
I've also used the other 2Joomla extensions and all their products seem to be professionally put together and well supported. Couldn't recommend the service any more.
bytobypsl, October 1, 2009
I've tried it on sites with different versions of Joomla and get the same error. Maybe worth testing the component to establish compatibility ?
Also there doesn't appear to be a demonstration on the website, which makes it difficult to assess without actually installing the component.
bytobypsl, April 8, 2009
My only gripe is that every time I have a question I have to log in to the ticket system support area. There appears to be no forum. This is more than just a shame - it's actually quite annoying. I make simple usage of most of the extensions I buy and I only buy extensions that have been well reviewed. I am fairly certain that any problem I encounter will have been encountered by more before me. It's not that the support questions go unanwsered - but it's a pain to have to wait for someone to answer your questions - which have no doubt been encountered and answered by a hunderd different users already. Why not make that knowledge publicly available ???
If there is already a forum I apologise, but I can't find it.
The product is excellent but I set aside time to make changes to my websites. Not being able to do things when I want to do them downgrades the value of the product for me.
Owner's reply
Thank you for your comments, we’re really appreciate it. According to your questions we’re using our own model of support: we have knowledge base with frequently asked questions and we have documentation with details of the installation and setup process for every product at client member place section.
In the case if customer do not able to find reply for they questions in FAQ , they able to post ticket to support section and we’re do our best to reply ASAP for all questions! (btw. Right now we’re working on new version of our CRM system with more advanced support section integrated with another products management tools. Main goal of this updates make life of our customers more easy and comfortable!)
Forum in the most cases it’s tool for slow support, where customer have to looking for reply during days and in the some cases with forum customers even stay single with they questions/problems most of the times, as result they trying to find solution communicating to each other.
We’re providing professional support for commercial extensions, so with our support ticket system we’re much close to our customers, then some other developers with forum.