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Joomla 3.4.3 was released last week and we have been testing it with our internal build of the just released Community Builder 2.0.10 and ... they are great together!
Simply put, we recommend upgrading to these new releases.
The Joomla 3.4.3 announcement came only a few days after the project's 3.4.2 release quickly addressing some buggers that slipped through. Joomla community gets an A for addressing these issues.
During this process we have been fixing CB 2.0.9 issues and also verifying that everything still works great with the latest Joomla versions.
Community Builder 2.0.10 is available and it has 3 new features and it also fixes 16 bugs (see forum discussion for full changelog).
All CB 2.0+ websites should upgrade to latest CB 2.0.10. Such an upgrade is a simple install over (precautionary backup always recommended) as all previous settings are kept.
CB 1.9.1 websites should also upgrade to CB 2.0.10 following the process described in video #30 of our CB 2.0 video tutorial series.
The CB Primer Book has also been updated as well as the CB 2.0 Add-on compatibility chart.
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The new Activity Streams for Community Builder are now feature complete providing a rich and powerful user interaction experience.
CB Activity 3.0 RC4 is here with location support and new activity / comment fields!
Here is a summary of new features:
- Google map supported location tagging for activity posts
- Multiple profile activity streams with new Activity field type
- Multiple profile commenting streams with new Comment field type
- Each activity stream field can be configured separately to support different functionality
With this new release you can now transform your community site into a thriving active and exciting user experience with:
- interactive activity streams with status, location, emotion, people mentions, hash tagging and URL linking with preview rendering
- stream commenting and replies
- ability to create new activity and comment stream fields using the new CB field types (Activity, Comments)
- flexibility to extend with new emotions and status actions with font awesome icon support
- backend administration for all entities and streams
As CB Activity 3.0 RC4 is now feature complete we expect the stable release very soon.
This is a major milestone for Community Building and we are extremely excited with the overall functionality and huge potential it offers.
All paid members can download CB Activity 3.0 RC4 and install it over the latest (required) Community Builder 2.0.9 nightly build or the upcoming CB 2.0.10 release.
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Simplifying your website registration form will increase sign-up rates. Personalizing your user profiles will boost participation improve overall usability.
You can accomplish this and even more using one of the most powerful concepts available in our Community Builder toolchest that is the ability to display or hide things depending on specific conditions.
This concept is fully supported by the CB Conditional add-on that lets you:
- Show or hide fields or entire tabs based on another field value
- Enable or disable field options based on other fields
- All conditions can be applied separately to registration, profile viewing and profile editing processes
Our Joomlapolis video tutorials now have a CB Conditional playlist with the following 4 video tutorials:
More videos are planned, but feel free to propose your video topic in our discussion thread.
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Two new releases bring Activity Streaming to the next level !
An active website is your best tool - time to let everyone know!
Let the activity stream combo CB Activity 3.0 RC3 and CB Auto Actions 6.3 do this for you out of the box!
Just install and publish and all key community actions like profile updating, blogging, gallery uploads, user connections and even forum posting will magically appear in the activity streams!
But the fun doesn't stop here. You can tailor activity streams to your needs as everything is totally configurable.
And that's where the new CB 2.0 architecture shines: CB Auto Actions 6.3 links user-activities to streaming actions. And of course you can add your own actions to personalize your community activity streams!
To flexibly accomplish this out of the box, the new CB Auto Actions 6.3 release now has 46 built-in preconfigured system actions.
You can publish or unpublish these default system actions to configure the best activity streaming content for your usage. You can also clone and tweak to get things just right for your website.
Join the discussion to see the list of preconfigured auto actions and the available CB Activity features.
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The release of Community Builder 2.0 has motivated many template providers to contact us to see how their templates can support CB.
We are very excited to announce that the JoomForest team has just released a free (sign-in or share needed to download) JF Connecto CB 2.0+ compatible template.
This is a CB Template plugin that needs to be installed and enabled from the CB Plugin Management page and then selected in the CB Configuration User Profile tab Template parameter.
You can use this CB Template with your existing Joomla template or you can download and install the (also free) JF Connecto Joomla template.
We are looking forward to sharing similar great news from other template providers.
You can help motivate template providers by voicing your interest directly to your preferred template provider or by commenting in our discussion thread below.
- Community Builder 2.0.9 and 3 more releases
- CB Activity 3.0 Preview
- CB Primer Book designed to help you learn
- Celebrating 10 Years of Community Building
- Do more with Joomla 3.4 and Community Builder 2.0.7
- New CB Gallery supports photos, files, videos and music
- Time to fully embrace Community Builder 2.0
- New Template Releases for CB 2.0
- 23 action types in CB Auto Actions 6 now for CB 2.0
- 11 previously commercial add-ons included in CB 2.0