News, Announcements, Updates

We have been preparing Forum Pack for you. And it is ready. But packer was not working good enough for what we wanted to deliver. So we have reviewed packer and fixed some issues there.

• added - packer - create menu (if not exists) for installing section and set itemid parameter automatically
• added - pack name generation now includes build number
• fixed - packer - installation script file permission and overrides
• fixed - packer - create directories permissions fixed
• fixed -

• fixed - sql patch
• fixed - save button in admin user subscription form
• added - user filter by email in user subscription form (admin)
• added - set tracking status in user subscription form
• fixed - admin expire alert
• fixed - tracking

Для всех наших Русских пользователей, для удобства установки мы собрали [установчный пакет русского языка для Кобальта][1].

Просим учесть что Русский перевод еще сыроват.

Хотя я могу поручится за его корректность, так как переводил все самостоятельно и как непосредственно один из разработчиков, будучи осведомлен что именно делают те или иные параметры, я смог их правильно фразировать. Иногда дословный перевод английского создал бы только еще больше вопросов что может это значить.

С

More Optimisations

I have been waiting for this moment. Fortunately one of our very first client had big DB (80 000 records) with different relations. That helped us to optimise Cobalt a lot. But I knew that there may be problem with many categories. And I did not have a chance to test in real environment.

Recently we got one [client][1] with 3 000 of them. And he had 11s page load time. The query that caused this delay was 7.8s. By the end of the optimisation it was 0.019s.

This update is critical. We wanted to avoid something like that, but we have to change some things in Cobalt 7 to support backward compatibility later with Cobalt 8. There is a big change in all fields.

• fixed - censor replacer compatibility with new Joomla 2.5.6
• fixed - Joomla! 1.6+ bugfix for "Can not build admin menus"
• fixed - notification module produce fatal error
• fixed - access to restricted items for moderators with enough right

Status field:

• fixed - On add comment set status
• fixed - Disable comments on status change to
• fixed - change default status to - do not set anything (не учитывалось)

Textarea field:

• fixed - long complicated markdown

We opened another section [Community Knowledge][1] driven by Cobalt.

It is intended to be the place where anyone can share his tips, tutorials and even code snippets with the rest of the Cobalt community. To make a start, i will post in the next days some tutorials there. I hope other Cobalt enthusiasts will follow and fill this section with valuable content to make it the ultimate source of information and documentation, accessible to everyone.

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At last! Wouldn't you say?

This took long, but only because we put a lot of effort in it.

To tell you the truth, I wanted a perfect [video field][1] . I have been using the video field in Mighty Resources a lot. And I have been missing it for Cobalt already. I wanted to create a few video tutorials but first the field needed to be released. Now we can showcase it here with some tutorials.

Piece by piece we are building the new MintJoomla page fully powered by Cobalt 7.

[1]:

• added - new SSI event to buyer on order created manually.
• added - notifications date in the notifications list
• added - section parameter date format
• added - title length limit type parameter
• fixed - section and category links Itemid consistency
• changed - now individual notification users will receive even if not subscribed to an article.
• fixed - SSI not save seller ID correctly.
• fixed - infinite loop with Itemid

On Mighty Extensions I always started my day with What is going on link. And i believe may of you too have had found this link very useful.

But you all know that this functionality was powered by Mighty Touch. And I was worrying that I will miss it on MintJoomla because we do not plan to release anything like Touch and install anything like JomSocial.

When I was developing Cobalt notification system I did not think that it

New simple and free module. Shows number of records, authors, comments, views, bookmarks, ... in the given section. This module is a free download and will be included into the next Cobalt package.

That took us sometime but we are finally releasing this long waiting field Multiple level select. The select relate field that we had in Mighty Resources was great. But it was also limited to some extend.

So we took all select relate shortcomings and created yet better field. The main advantages of this field on top of all features we had in select relate are:

1.

Dear Friends,

We welcome you to our new website. We have been working hard to make it more readable and clear. We restructured it and tried to focus on the parts which are most important to you. We even added some tiny new features to Cobalt to achieve additional functionality.

Blog

This might be the most important place for you, since we post here everything regarding our products. Follow our blog to be always up-to-date with new releases, promotions and other important

This release includes some cool features. It is only few lines in the list but i want to emphasize some of them.

Itemid

• added - category parameters to override content type itemid parameter
• added - itemid consistency for record lists.

This 2 features allow very complicated modules manipulations. Everyone who understand hat is itemid in Joomla will greatly appreciate it. By simple words it allows to change itemid of articles only in some categories and keep it different in

We will update our download section next week.

After receiving a lot of requests for field bundles and a subscription model, we decided to offer an alternative to our individual purchase model. Subscribe to everything for a highly discounted rate

At the same time, through this move we can also showcase the flexibility of our own Cobalt based e-commerce solution. Please see our last blogpost about [SSI][1]

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SSI stands for Simple Sale Interface

From A Development Perspective

Our SSI technology (a set of classes) will handle most of the e-commerce process for you.

What do we mean with "e-commerce process"?

All these functions like connecting the user to the payment gateway, processing the sale, receiving the order confirmation from the payment gateway, sending out notifications and everything what you expect to happen when an internet sale is processed.

That means:

1. We

This is a pre-stable release. We expect the stable release next week.

• changed - record menu now works on click rather than on mouse over
• changed - assets will not be saved anymore for individual records to avoid an unnecessary big table
• fixed - moderator list pagination
• fixed - records in backend display now much faster
• fixed - replaced deprecated JFactory::getXMLparser('Simple') with fa faster replacement
• fixed - fatal error on getName
• fixed - delete bug, which still

This release fixed small issues with Google e-commerce tracking.

This week we are going to publish Cobalt on JED. It will take at least one week to get approved. During that week we will make final fixes and after this we intend to release the stable version of Cobalt.

There is a need for additional people in our small Cobalt community to provide new ideas, concepts and experiences.

Cobalt is and will ever be a product heavily influenced by your input. We listen to your requests and try to implement them as much as possible to shape a product which

Emerald extension

• fixed previous version bugs
• fixed discount period
• added - google analytics tracking (ecommerce)