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This component is just GREAT !

There's also very usefull additional plugins for publishing tags while submiting an article on front end and backend (carefull it includes a core hack).

Make a search on "Custom properties"

This tag system brings joomla sections/categories to a higher level...

I have use 1.90.2 version of this successfully for several month and today I saw that there is new version with support for adding tags when writing articles. It was very nice to see this, but unfortunately 1.98.1 make troubles with URLs when use tag search and pick article from result it create completely new url of this sort: http://site.name/component/customproperties/article_name.html and it isn't same like menu path adress wich creates troubles with SEO, making duplicate articles.

1.90.2 haven't this problem.

Anyway I wote "Good" for a good component, I am sure this guy wil fix this issue.

I really love the way this works, but after some changes in our menu, we suddenly get an error when using the cpsearch: 500 - layout "blog" not found, and there is no documentation anywhere to help us out of this. Its a real bummer - I love it so much I am thinking about reinstalling it, but then I would have to ask my client to re-tag several hundred articles. Wish there is a forum on this...

You made exactly what I'm looking for, really really God bless u

This is a great component. I find it incredibly useful. One suggestion for the developer I would have is to take a look at the 'append to keywords' feature. It seems that it only works if there are no keywords in the article. It would be great if the plugin would simply add the tags as additional keywords which are editable when you pick keywords via Article Manager.

This component is in my must-have and amazing-should-be-in-joomla-by-default lists.

The component does what it says and does it very well. I can't believe joomla doesn't have a tag system like this.

And the support, I got all my replies blazing fast and by emails. How many developers you know that support you through emails?

For my wish list, I would like to be able to add tags in the article manager, or when I add an article it could be there just below the meta information. But this can take time :)

This is a must have component!

While we are waiting for the Joomla folks to make some way of adding articles to more than categories than the built in "section" and "category"; Custom Properties is a very good solution for people looking to be able to add articles / products to more categories / tags and to limit searches to these categories.

Only problem is that we are waiting with our breath held for the 1.5 version to be up to speed with the 1.0 version!! Would be nice if somebody killed the old Joomla 1.0 system so we could get on with the new 1.5 with 100% focus and not have to wade through components for version 1.0 and version 1.5

The work done on this component is nothing short of brilliant. The developer is friendly and efficient in communication, and has given me good advice both times I have contacted them.

The component is regularly updated, and I can't wait to see the new features in 1.0 applied to 1.5!

A developer I will be donating to more than once for certain, thank you for all your hard work!

It's really a smart component, I would like to see it as part of joomla core too, with custom properties panels inside of new/edit content-article panel.
Cause of it's unique intent of catalogue and schedule I think the output of article properties items could be enhanced:
not only to point to search similar article properties, but also in a custom output, related to specific property, or in a resuming page, giving to the author the opportunity to show the global "properties map" development process inside his site.

Perfect! There's not much so say.. perfect!

At first I didn't understand how to assign a CP Field to a module, in order to have modules appearing on specific pages, so I mailed the author and was very pleased to get reply in less than 30 minutes.

Great for filtering articles, works perfectly!

This is the best extension for tagging content, but for joomla 1.5 the frontend adding and replacing of tags seems not to work :((

this bundle of extentions is the lonely peak of content management. it leaves no wish unrealized - if you wish something that "custom properties" can`t do - forget this task, its unnecessary.

another topic is a the fast and furious support from solidsystem.

with "custom properties" you can a user edited site or a directory with any structure. forget a "section-category-article" - new custom properties joomla age is arise!

This was exactly what I was looking for! You can do a lot of customization with this for your site!
More over, I had a problem (actually it was not a problem since I misunderstood something) and I got a reply from those guys in 1 day! Not a bad response time for a free piece of code! In fact excellent response time!

whenever i need an easy way to classify information, have attribute search, sort out a lot of different types of info, create semantic links i get back to custom properties. thumbs up for Andrea, developer of this excellent extension, who is eager to help and further develop this great extension according to community demands. thanks!

I needed an extension to add tags to specific articles and also create a search box more detailed than the standard Joomla one, Custom Properties with the CP Search module delivers these perfectly.

What's more, I had problems displaying the search button on my site. I emailed Solidsystem and they looked at my site, identified the problem in the code and showed me where it was and how to fix it. Couldn't ask for better service!

I've been struggling with how to implement searchable tags for price, description, etc. Most components are not very flexible. When I saw this component and their demo site, I knew I needed to try it.

Unfortunately I was having trouble getting it working. I sent an email to the developer and immediately went about trying to fix the problem myself (I installed the J1.0 component and it worked (better)). I got a quick reply (Saturday afternoon for me, late Saturday night it Italy - I am impressed). The problem was in my web hosting company using older PHP. I was given the reason and directions to fix the problem - now it works like a charm. You need to set a config option called "script position" to "embedded".

This component is great. I can configure it to address different product descriptions, price range, or any other parameter and create a search matrix applicable to specific categories. It is exactly what I needed for a site with lots of content.

Now, I'm hoping for the ability to create a search results page that compares parameter values. For example: display the results of: "wine region=campania / alcohol=medium / price=low" against "wine region=campania / alcohol=medium / price=high" as a split screen comparison chart where other details of the respective items are available to compare.

Thank you to SolidSystems for a fantastic component.

Applause for a great component and a step forward for using a semantic taxonomy structure? for Joomla community?

Hope that it will be continuously developed and improved!

Excellent component and in my belief could be a future core Joomla component!

Very flexible and powerful component. Really simple intuitive tags management.
It could be a good idea in the future versions to add possibility of automatic tags exporting to the article's keywords.

This is an awesome addon! the colser to what I'm searching, a good way to allow extra search values for the articles, to allow pages with results from multiple sections sharing something!

But having to go to another screen after having created the article, is not something I can ask my editors to do... so guess we will be staying with preformated keywords,,,

If custom properties could be assigned from article editor, or even a button on it, it would be perfect. Till then, not useful for me.

This is the greatest tagging component I've tried so far. It allows managing and creation of real tags, not exploding keywords. There are a couple of improvments I would suggest:
1) sh404sef comaptibillity (I saw it is on the way)
2) Xmap compatibility
3) frontend CREATION and addition of tags maybe through ajax
4) development of a module that displays several articles with the same tags. (with the first image)

Thank you again for the great tagging component this is so far the best! Keep up the good work!