Introduction
JEM is based on the famous Eventlist component, originally developed by Schlu.
It's a full-featured package that includes the core component as well as some very helpful modules and plugins.
JEM is open source and is developed, maintained and supported by an active community of volunteers.
February 2026
Today we launch JEM 4.4.0. The list of additions, fixes and improvements is very long and can be found at https://www.joomlaeventmanager.net/project/changelog-jem-4
Here's a summary of the most important ones:
• NEW: Module "Venues Map Module" (modjemmap)
• NEW: Plugin "JEM Embed" for JSON Output and to Embed JEM Events on Any Other Site
• Added: JEM Map Module with Category View (Filter)
• Added: Event Owner Can Decide When Term of Application Is Over
• Added: Menu "Archive"
• Added: Use Override of Layout in All Modules
• Improved: Redesigned Admin Panel Icons
• Improved: Add IDNA Support for URL/Email Fields (IRI, Punycode)
• Improved: JEM's Own Images: Replace PNG with WEBP/SVG Images
• Improved: Version Check upon Installation
• Updated: DB Content upon Installation
• Updated: Zebra_Image from 2.8.2 to 3.0
August 2025
JEM 4.3.4 has been released. It's a release with fixes for a variaty of issues and improved handling of maps, introtexts are now possible in HTML format and layout overrides are now possible in the calendar module.
For the full list see https://www.joomlaeventmanager.net/project/changelog-jem-2
We started working on JEM 4.4.0 with some very nice exiting new features..... follow us for more info at the JEM website!
May 2025
We just released JEM 4.3.3 with some fug fixes and new features
• Fix show date in filter row of eventlist view
• Fix for disappeared events after more than 1 days
• Improved listevent plugin: responsive functionality
• Added category 'uncategorised' as default
• Added time picker with 00, 15, 30, 45
• Added "Read More" feature
February 2025
JEM 4.3.2 has been released with some essential bugfixes and a few additions
• participant list in alphabetically order in frontend
• registration option for an event on the frontend
• show/hide options for icons in the sorting menu in simplelist
• show/hide options for categories and venue name on event page
• mod_jem module overrides with core ModuleHelper
Enjoy!
November 2024
JEM 4.3.1 is out with some essential bugfixes and a few additions like a feature for event registration deadline.
October 2024
JEM 4.3.0 is out with tons of improvements and added functions!
• Improved native Joomla 5.1 compatibility
• Improved dark mode in JEM backend
• Improved sample data, incl installation button in post install text – wider date range, recurring events, different reg. modes
• Improved recurrence events – Create all events, add repeat event by year and 5th weekday
• Improved en-GB language – removed all en-US expessions and made it real british, in addition we created a new en-US language package
• Improved language file linking – rewritten all languags file linking according to Joomla standard, removed the language prefix in standard language en-GB
• Improved the event list view in the backend
• Improved search filter views
• Added user registration for recurrence event – User booked in all events of series
• Added option to show rows with month name in the eventslist view
• Added css classes with uniques IDs to evnets/venues/categories
• Added in teaser module: calendar page color according to category color and fallback color
April 2024
We are now releasing our second Joomla!5 compatible version with some bugfixes and added functionality (check the change log on our website).
November 2023
With JEM 4.2.0 we bring Joomla!5 compatibility to our free event management component along with some bug fixes. Enjoy!
JEM consists of:
Component
The JEM core component handles:
- Venue management (with built-in geocoding)
- Event Management. Events can be a one-off, or a repeating event with complex repeating patterns
- Repeating events can be auto-created in a configurable future time-window
- Category management (Events can be part of multiple, nested categories)
- Group management (for view access rights)
- Front end editing of events
- Auto-archiving of passed events. Archived events can be copied into a new future event.
- Attendees management, including waiting list and email notifications for attendees
Events display options:
- Day View
- Simplelist View
- Calendar View
- Week Calendar
- Categories View
- Venues View
- Venue Calendar (restrictable to categories or venues)
- Submit Event / Submit Venue
- My Events,
- My Venues
- My Attendances - views showing personalised data
- Search view
Modules
- Latest Events Basic Module
- Latest Events Wide Module
- Teaser Module
- Calendar Module
- Banner Module
Plugins
- Search Plugin
- Finder Plugin (smart search)
- Mailer Plugin (highly configurable automatic mailing of new events, subscriber mail for attendees)
- Comments Plugin (for integration with JComments)
Optionally, some additional plugins are available:
CB JEM MyAttending. This plugin shows events where the user is attending in their Community Builder profile. You need the Community Builder extension 1.9.1 or higher installed on your Joomla site.
CB JEM MyEvents Plugin. This plugin shows events that were created by the user in their Community builder profile. You need to have the Community builder component 1.9.1 or higher installed on your Joomla site.
Quickicon Plugin. Shows an icon to quickly jump to the JEM component in the administration dashboard.
Acymailing Plugin. This plugin enables you to insert events from JEM inside any e-mail sent by AcyMailing by using tags.
Languages
JEM is available in more than 20 languages. Please mind that not all language packs are yet 100% complete, but translation can easily accessed as each language is hosted on the Transifex platform.
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