News, Announcements, Updates

This week we have number of fixes for Cobalt 8 Joomla CCK, exclusively for Joomla 3.x. And I think we can clam this version RC.^**

Interesting feature that is worth to pay attention on.

• add - custom css parameter for form and full articles templates Started import

Since Cobalt 8 we have individual template settings for every section. It means you do not need to copy template every time you want to use it with slightly different settings. This opens new possibilities and templates

Cobalt 7 is 7th generation of Joomla CCK exclusively for Joomla 2.5. This updated brings small fixes of errors reported on the forum. And one new field long waited by many.

Content Dripping Field

Content dripping is the gradual, pre-scheduled release of premium website content.

This field lets you set rules for gradual content access. Set time rules for portions of

Cobalt 8 - CCK for Joomla 3.0 new update available. This is very unusual, but we missed one Thursday for a very reasonable excuse.

Although there are not many new features implemented, this week we were working a lot, moving Cobalt 8 toward more stable version.

Not all fixes are in the list because most of them do not mean anything and are not worth to be listed, but those of you who was actively reporting errors knows what I mean.

New

New comment adapter for social service

Cobalt 7 for Joomla 2.5 update. Every time there is less and less to say. And in fact we consider this as good news. It means that less and less things to fix which also means that Cobalt 7 is in super stable stage.

This update contains minor bug fixes and adjustments. This is the list of affected files.

• Build media pkg_cobalt.media.v.7.17.zip

• Build Templates pkg_cobalt.templates.v.7.12.zip

• Build Field **field_cobalt.datetime.v.7.13.zip

• Build Field

This week We are happy to announce new field for Cobalt 8 CCK. It come out that in few places I got the same requests at the same time and I got feeling that it is very needed field. Welcome new field Register.

This field allows to register and auto login user during article submission. Public just enter user name, email and password and after form submission, account will be created and new

Few unmentioned fixes and polishes.

• fixed - uploader - headers
• fixed - multilevel select constructor

Updated files

• Build media pkg_cobalt.media.v.7.17.zip
• Build Cobalt com_cobalt.v.7.9729.zip
• Build Field field_cobalt.gallery.v.7.11.zip
• Build Field field_cobalt.multilevelselect.v.7.16.zip

Cobalt CCK is a 8^th generation of Joomla CCK exclusively for . It was first CCK and still the best. Do not forget to read what is new in Cobalt 8, but be sure you have fastened your seatbelt :)

This is a kind of updates we release weekly on every Thursday.

JomSocial final stage

just as we have been planing. We release final JomSocial integration

Some notable things

Cobalt 7 is 7th generation of great CCK excessively for Joomla 2.5.

1. Nextend Smart Slider

This is what we all have been waiting so long!! This is smart slider integration by Soós Roland on his nextendweb website. his slider looks amazing and believe it or not it works with Cobalt!

And that is not all. Roland does not stop. He's got a lot of feature requests and he is already

This update mostly provide important fixes. This week was not really productive. I was traveling for 2 days. Our support desk was flooded with topic I could barely look through all of them before build this update. But finally it is here. And I hope to make you all very happy and excited next week :)

• fix - cobalt - check out problem
• fix - cobalt - return after submission
• fix - cobalt - fields limit if more than 20.
• fix - cobalt - search clean the text
• fix - cobalt - filtering

Very few small fixes this week. Good or bad? I think good because ti tells that Cobalt 7 is very stable and there is almost nothing to fix. I am sure some discoveries are still waiting for us in the future, but we are very happy that we could provide such a stable extension to our customers.

Updated Files

• Build Field field_cobalt.geo.v.7.18.zip
• Build Cobalt com_cobalt.v.7.9726.zip

We are happy to announce another immediate update for incredible Cobalt 8 Joomla 3.0 CCK.

JomSocial Part 2

Tis is our second JomSocial integration step. Only one step left :)

• added - integration - jomsocial send personal messages ^free

JomSocial profile plugin ^Commercial with integration of profile toolbar and profile application. This package will install 9 identical plugins so you are able to integrate few Cobalt sections into profile. Because one plugin can only integrate

This update was built with our new automated builder which we had made for Cobalt 8. In fact all files was rebuilt and versions and file names was changed. So we had to update all of them. But only few have real fixes and improvements.

Update notes

• fixed - filter link in

We are proud to announce immediate availability of first Cobalt 8 update which brings all important fixes and some cool additions.

JomSocial Integration - Beginning

We have just started. We are using v 2.8 RC2 which is already working with Joomla 3.0. We hope we will be able to finish by the time JomSocial stable is released.

• fixed - integration - JomSocial compatibility. PHP classes redeclare fatal errors. Allows run both extension together in one Joomla instance.
• added -

We have released new pack Gallery. Although it is free to download it requires commercial field Gallery to be installed.

Urgent update. Fix some critical errors.

Fixes

• critical - article save SQL error
• fixed - Warning: Creating default object from empty value in statis… …
• fixed - strict standard error on section add.

Updated Files

• Build Field [field_cobalt.textarea.v.8.13.zip]
• Build Gateway [payment_cobalt.paypal.v.8.15.zip]
• Build media [pkg_cobalt.media.v.8.22.zip]
• Build Cobalt [com_cobalt.v.8.90.zip]

We are happy to introduce Cobalt 8 - the great CCK for Joomla 3.0

We aimed to be recognised as the best CCK for Joomla, and we were working hard to provide you features like no one else provides. This may be long reading, but believe me it worth to read it all.

Audit Trail

Welcome to well tested new audit trail feature. This is set of new possibilities that makes Cobalt 8 enterprise ready. There are 2 main parts which

• fixed - ordering per section.
• fixed - API ob_end
• fixed - text filter search select
• fixed - edit article and move to section home
• fixed - Templates errors in IE8
• fixed - edit record automaticaly publish unpublished article.
• fixed - image field - input to show preview and switch between methods is not affected. Image is still shown.
• added - field read also - parameter to show only selected articles or also alrticles where this article is selected.
• fixed - fatal erre

I am very happy to announce that we have set exact date of Cobalt 8 to be released. And that will happen (with God's grace) on Thursday, December 20, 2012.

Right now it is in testing mode and testers are already very excited about this new release. We had to send the box of ice to some of them to cool them down a little :) It has tons of new features. It looks better, works quicker, gives more and asks less. It you try Cobalt 8, there is no way back to Cobalt 7.

We are looking forward

Looks like GitHub help us to create more complete change logs. Because it does not allow commits without comments.

• fixed - map template non SEF links
• fixed - bootstap based templates menu issue
• fixed - ordering field not visible in order list if not set to be shown in the list
• fixed - after filtering stay on the same page. Now reset to first page.
• fixed - redirect after delete with none latin characters
• fixed - category is empty even if article is submited there

Speed

Moving to GitHub

As part of advancing our development flow, we gave up old technologies (SVN) and moved our development to GitHub. Although it is private repository and not accessible by other people I think it is important for you to know where we are going. GitHub will help us to work more efficiently.

Issue Tracker

GitHub's issue tracker is very good. It is much easier now for us to communicate and assign/explain tasks which results in less questions and therefore faster and