News, Announcements, Updates

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]

[1]:

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)

Cobalt extension

• improved - speed of selecting records with many categories
• added - field Image to Core fields
• added - parameter for form template to edit public user alert text
• fixed - Community builder integration file error
• fixed - memory overload on reindex
• fixed - asset data saved

Present to you the new advanced templates

Template

• Added - advanced table template to record list
• Added - template to select the category for the forms and categories of the index

Cobalt extension

• improved - filter search SQL queries
• added - cron-function for deleting unsaved files
• fixed - ItemId is taken from the category`s params but not from the section
• fixed - markup of the uploader with turned off editing of the title
• fixed - link to the pop-up method
• fixed - for Datetime field displaying saved data in the picker
• fixed - records mode.
• improved - speed of selecting records with many categories.

Toolset

• fixed - DB tool
• fixed -

• added - views of the opening the field (Download link open)
• added - variants of opening the file (Open file in)
• added - language translations
• fixed - bug with one limit file

Cobalt extension

• added - sending alerts to e-mail with list of events
• added - gravatar.com avatars support. Enable in global Cobalt parameters.
• added - sql-patch for alerts, added table 'subscription_params' field 'last_send'
• added - Language files for fields
• added - breadcrumb for all categories and subscategories
• improved - category index records count. With 50

• fixed – behavior on the non-cobalt pages
• fixed - bug of previous versions

• fixed - Categories list style MooTree
• fixed - bugs of previous versions

• fixed - previous bugs
• added - new template notimoo

Cobalt Extension

• Added - icon for the titles of fields in the back-end
• Added - sort the fields with uploader by name, size, hits, ASC / DESC
• Fixed - sorting field by type on the back-end
• Added - sending to e-mail notification with a list of events. You can specify different periods: Send notification a once a month, a weekly, 1 time a day.
• Added - sql patch alerts. Add a field last_send to the table subscription_params
• Fixed - Fields that use the uploader, has been fixed

• fixed - filter`s behavior
• fixed - zero sign in the end (like 0.50)

You all know that Cobalt 7 has different structure and queries to achieve great speed. That was one of the purpose of totally rewriting it.

One of our client started to use Cobalt in his serious projects. He encoded it with data about 16,000 records and 30,000 files uploaded. He used relate fields as well. And this fields's "Show intro" parameter is Yes. It means it shows list of children for every record in the list of parents and vice versa.

Suddenly Cobalt become slow. About 6

• fixed - search by cities