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Changelog for 4.2.1
New features
- Implement help in backend (j4)
- Display alias in items list (backend)
- Add layout support in created by and modified core field
- Add more field in export and import tool
- Improve relation field
Fixes
- Php 8.2 compatibility
- Update phpthumbs library
- Thumbmail in windows server
- Correct image field in joomla mode
- Correct fallback function in grid template
- Minor fix on empty value
- Fix canonical tag view
- Fix subform (j4)
Changelog for 4.1.5
New features
- Adding near search systeme in map module
- Basic support of matomo in download link
- Adding inline help (configuration, modules)
Fixes
- Joomla4 compatibility (ajax, downlad and more light bug)
- Adding language file in map module
- PHPthumb compatibilty with php8.1
- Cleaner filter display in front end
Changelog for 4.1.3 and 3.3.14
Fixes
- php8.1 compatibility
Changelog for 4.1
New features (compared to v4.0.0)
- Per type configuration to filter or append suffixes to the category titles of category selectors in item form, using item's language and using desirable category states
Fixes
- Fixed fatal error if a coreprops field is used in frontend
- Fixed coreprops fields (used by new item form layouts) not auto-assigned to new item types until a re-login is performed
- Fixed [PHP 8] fatal error during new install in PHP 8 website
- Fixed [J4] fatal error in image-gallery field when using Joomla Media manager mode
- Fixed [J4] issue with drag and drop reordering in templates manager, etc ... Use jQuery UI v1.13.1
- Fixed [J4] reordering in category manager is broken
- Fixed [J4]] fatal error in frontend search view
- Fixed [J4] cannot re-indexing search indexes ... drop-down button not opening
Fixes of minor importance
- Fixed in single content menu item, duplicate rows of same items are listed when content items items are assigned to multiple categories
- Fixed search reindexing buttons opening inline instead of using modal window when toggling fields search properties in fields manager
- Fixed [J4] minor styling issues with some parameters
- Fixed [J4] modal windows not auto-centering
Changes
- Display [J4] info message for default workflow only if DEBUG is on
Changelog for 4.0
- Improvement of the administration
- Unification and complete customization of forms for content
- Improvement of the image field
- Render fields according to the material
- Extend email field to Form builder
- Address field improvement
- Redesign of public template
- Improvement of filters with accordion effect
- New advanced search view
- Customization of the loading animation of the values
- Support of Webp images
- Support joomla 4 workflow
- New comment field
Changelog for 3.3.11
Hello we are happy to announce Flexicontent 3.3.11
Fix
- Fixed check for J4 giving wrong result in J3.10 (causing website to crash)
Changelog for 3.3.10
Hello we are happy to announce Flexicontent 3.3.10
Changes/Fixes
- Update phpThumb to v1.7.16-202012161640 (Added support for PHP 8.0. And a couple of more fixes for support for PHP 7.3-7.4)
- Avoid reload message warning in more views (like done already e.g. for items, tags, ...)
- More intuitive behavior for filters inside slider, plus counting and coloring of active filters
- Fix path when executed via CLI and a minor code cleanup when detecting Falang being enabled
Changelog for 3.3.9
Hello we are happy to announce Flexicontent 3.3.9
Fix
- Fixed weblink field clearing the hits counter, if a non-serialized value (legacy-saved value or imported value) is encountered during saving item form
- Fixed submit menu item parameters not loaded in some cases
- Fixed new item form (typelist) URLs not using configured menu item in them
- Fixed image thumbnailing (of item form) broken in some windows servers due to double slash in the image path
Minor Bugs
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Fixed one of the tab styling (cblue) having tab border under the TAB
Add
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Added Pannellum panorama layout to image-gallery field built-in layouts
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Added option for setting a custom (Map) tile server URL for Open Street Maps
Changelog for 3.3.8
Fixes
- Fixed creation of respective Joomla tags being broken, causing an non-editable Joomla tag record
- Fixed saving of item form when no tags are used (thanks @iamkeng)
- Fixed publish_up and published down format being destroyed when using custom date format for language string
- Fixed issue with (translation) associations being cleared during doing a CSV import update
- Fixed dirty (search, filter) flags not always cleared for unpublished fields, causing unneeded/annoying warning in backend views to recreate search indexes
- Fixed Rokbox and widgetkit layouts of image gallery field not including title in the pop window
- Fixed issue with deleting trashed categories not checking if the children categories are also possible to delete
Adding
- Changes to make re-importing export CSV files more easy. Like treating secondary categories selector as a default value for new items only. Added 3 from configuration form fields to backend CSV export button
- Added 2 reverse ordering options to configuration 1 for 'Current category Order' and 1 for 'Global ordering
Changelog for 3.3.7
Fixes
- (v3.3.6 bug fixed in v3.3.7) Fixed cannot create (and add) tags inside of item form
Changelog for 3.3.6
Fixes
- PHP 7.4 compatible. Fixed PHP 7.4 warnings
- Fixed image-gallery field not setting real height and width of fields into the HTML Tag, causing image to be scaled to largest dimension. Thus image quality appeared to be inferior
- Fixed adding multiple files at once (in item form) for file and gallery fields
- Fixed new flexicontent tags not creating and not mapping properly respective Joomla Tags
- Fixed not able to remove all Tags in item form
- Fixed overriding of filtering layouts via Joomla template override folder
- Fixed current language not always considered when using URLs with aliases only (when IDs removed from URL)
- Fixed rename-move operation after file upload giving warning message in some servers, breaking JSON response, thus preventing file/image assignment from saving
- Fixed path for original image being wrong when trying to view original image in frontend
- Fixed custom templates documentation page link in XML file of all 6 modules
- Fixed form reloading after server-side validation error loading an invalid text into automatic fields causing them to show as invalid when user clicks to save the form
- Fixed form reloading after server-side validation error not reloading previously selected values for image-gallery field in all cases
- Fixed after item form reload due to server-side validation error (form not saved) thumbnail in image-gallery field do not display until form is finally saved
- Fixed main category being re-added when it is changed, if current user cannot change secondary categories
- Fixed feature 'Edit rendered-uneditable items till log-off' (e.g. due to main cat changed) not working because of ACL calculation caching in inside JUser and JAccess
- Fixed email notifications for file downloads, ignoring 'Download hits per step' parameter and always waiting 20 download hits before sending an email notification
- Make URLs in feeds page to be absolute
- Fixed duplicate alias check not including records of language 'ALL' in the check
- Fixed default menu item per layout (authored items, tagged items) not using menu-overriden category parameters
- Fixed support for media link in filefields. Also addressed some consistent issues regarding file preview
- Fixed uploader toggle button of file field not showing inside fieldgroup
- Fixed default values for indexable fields (radio*,checkbox*,*select) not being used in frontend content viewing, despite being set to be shown instead of empty value
- Fixed custom (item form) date format for date field, not being parse properly during item form saving, causing non-filterable date values
- Fixed '?start=0' being added to page 1 pagination URL
- Fixed single quote not usable inside prompt of cascading fields (item form)
- Fixed new item data not fully cleaned when item creation is cancelled via a plugin event
Changes
- Better calculation and better texts of default page headings for multi-item views
- Change handling of search for languages without spaces, always try to split words if dictionary exists, and also split words in the text of user searches
- Use same item creation time as original item when translating content items and also respect selection order when creating them
- Add main category as fallback for getting current category parameters
- Revised Tag Element view (popup tag selection view, for e.g. menu items) to match common backend layout and styling of other views
- Improve HTML page rendering speed of backend items & categories managers, by hidding toggled-off columns via PHP logic instead of JS, plus avoid page jumping effect
- Modified import task to try file extensions that are all lowercase and all uppercase as fallback, if original is not found
- Allow setting is-filter flag of fields as dirty in rare cases that it may be needed ... (e.g. upgrade script)
- Expose elements of selection-like fields as a public property of the field object
- Update Mobile_Detect library to v2.8.34
- Apply JText to value's openTag Text and closeTag Text for all fields
- Some revising of CSS for item form
- Some revising of CSS for file-using fields (item form)
- Display error message, instead of crashing when item to edit is not found
- Renamed manifest.xml to flexicontent.xml
- Better dashboard icon (title row)
Improvements
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Revised the 2 inline JS galleries of image gallery field for better UX and better mobile support. Major revising of elastislide JS and complete revising of gallerific JS
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Add new maintenance Task to items manager 'Recalculate item aliases
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Added parameters to date and text field to allow CSV export of 'rendered' values, optionally stripping HTML
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Better message when a field type has not been found by backend fields manager
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Better alias when creating translating items via batch translate button
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Added warning to item form for incomplete loading in the case that some 3rd party plugin fails during 'onContentPrepareForm'
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Added option to image-gallery configuration to use srcset as min-width or as max-width limit (this can be configure per thumbnail size)
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Highlight 'Hide columns' button when some columns are hidden in backend managers
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Added options to hide secondary and featured category selectors in Frontend item form
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Added in category settings, option to override the item layout (override item type setting)
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Pass item's category parents to template for item view
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Added a flag icon inside title columns or backend fields and types manager to indicate that thefield label / type name have a translation. The untranslated string will show as a (delayed) browser tooltip
Changelog for 3.3.5
Changes / Improvements
- Removed minigallery field, modifying existing field instances with image-gallery field of appropriate configuration
- Added 2 editor buttons for inserting linking to FC items and FC categories
- Added support inline AJAX uploader for file field, revising the 2 item form layouts of the field field
- Added upload-in-progress validation check to stop form submission until all uploads finish
- Some UX changes to inline AJAX uploader, a nicer upload progress, widen display if field is set to single value
- Some styling / layout work for fields that use labels inside the input (e.g. weblink, email)
- Large display of filenames for image-gallery field
- Added support for changing main category via any post form saving event, e.g. onAllFieldsPostDataValidated event
- More compatibility for joomla plugin triggering category view by setting 'layout' URL variable to 'blog'
- Update phpThumb to v1.7.15-2020-04-30 (PHP 7.4 curly brace substring compatibility)
Fixes
- Fixed CSV export to show proper misconfiguration messages.
- Fixed the render value display to work for 'Export All Items' case
- Fixed scroll to invalid element (during form validation) not working when label is hidden (e.g. due to configuration)
- Fixed missing variable in base controller, preventing AJAX error messages for being returned and displayed properly (e.g. showing a non allowed file extension message)
- Fixed fatal error in backend items manager if having old flexisyspro plugin and attempting to do a CSV export of all items
- Fixed filemanager stats re-indexer using download filename instead of url
- Fixed filemanager stats re-indexer not updating file sizes of Joomla media manager links properly
- Fixed slide filter display preventing the listing of items without field value, by restoring the 'Any' to 'Any' values
- Fixed multi-select field loosing its the sorted order of its values after saving the item form for a 2nd time (thanks to Ruben)
- Fixed (minor) some times clipping the first letter of custom download filename when file is a URL and download piping via website is enabled
- Fixed (minor) asset title being set to the asset name instead of the title of the record itself
- Fixed layout of elastislide (slideshow) layout of image-gallery field not working when field name contains a dash '-'
- Fixed right slider handle in slider range filter only remembering its position is also the left slider handle is set
- Fixed limit to current item type for tags cloud module linking to wrong URLs
Changelog for 3.3.4
(v3.3.3 bugs)
- Fixed (external) file URLs download issues, by make forcing of file URL downloading optional, also make it more robust in cases that it gets enabled
- Fixed issues with description editor width, by handling more properly of editor HTML width and height (for editors that respect these settings)
(Older Bugs)
- Fixed Faceted filter behavior for fields set to 'Require All' filter values.
- Fixed 'Require All' filter values for tags filter
- Fixed database file usage counting to consider 1 more file usage case (this also effects the checks for auto image deletion by image fields when zero usage is reached)
Changes / Improvements
- Cleaned PHP notice in googlemaps module when zero map locations are found
- Changed URL for latest version info to be HTTPS
- Added warning for PDF stamping requiring manual installation of 2 libraries: tcpdf and fpdi
- Added support for mult-level category filter starting at an top level parent category(-ies)
Changelog for 3.3.3
Fixes
- Fixed date filter disappear if non-recognizable date is entered manually
- Fixed configuration height setting for tinyMCE-based editors being ignored
- Fixed microdata errors in category view due to item ratings included in the item listings (Google 's directions?)
- Fixed proper usage of filename_original property to maintain original filename for files moved to external storage.
- Fixed PHP notice when parsing SEF authored items URLs that do not specify a category
- Removed frontend URL dependency from backend item form for calling frontend core.php via AJAX. Needed in rare cases that frontend access is blocked (e.g. via Admin Tools)
- Fixed issue with SEF authored items URLs (using username, without IDs) breaking if username includes capital letters
- Fixed category parameter for Forcing fulltext in category view
- Fixed field configuration save failure when using a unicode field label (creation of an ascii field name fails)
Minor / Small Improvements
- Improved Layout of favourites field for a cleaner less cluttered display
- Allowed download of file URLs instead of redirect (like local files are downloadable)
- Allowed 'Save (Add) and New' button in new item forms (frontend and backend), for frontend, maintain, type, category and menu item
- Allowed changing original filename for file URLs via backend files manager
- Allowed onAllFieldsPostDataValidated event to cancel item form saving and also to redirect to custom URL
- Added popup selection of item type to frontend add button
- Allowed multi-category menu item selection in filtering module configuration, even when category selector is hidden
- Added display a warning message about clearing invalid date when creating a calendar that has an invalud date
Changelog for 3.3.2
Adding
- Add new grid template with many adding (mansory, multiplacement, overlay, image streching, builder css ...) More information here
- Add search word logging to category-based views (search view has already), also add new navigation link 'Search Logs' to flexicontent backend side-bar navigation
- Add the navigation link 'Search Logs' to flexicontent dashboard screen too
- Add an option for custom field label in item form
Fix
- Fix srcset for image-gallery field using configured sizes instead of real thumbnail sizes
- Make sure upload button appears as button in frontend
- Fix submit new related item button not shown (wrongly skipped) when related items list is empty
- Fixed progress bar not fitting in 'Applying filtering' modal message
- Fix filtering JS code giving JS error when filtering/search form is skipped completely because of configuration
- Fix SQL error while saving item form while editing falang translations inline (inside the item form)
- Fix (existing) tag edit form failing to save with SQL error
- Fix issue with adding spaces to search-word for language without spaces
- More proper behavior, for not found tag for tagged-items view, throw 404, instead of showing 'No items found' message
- Fix date filter filtering
- Fix wrong CSS class in toolbar.xml
- Update phpThumb for PHP 7.4 support
Enchanced
- Rename all template to be more simplier (table / grid / faq / item tabbed)
- Better display for filters shown as sliders
- Use 'From' , 'To' words for filter as slider
Changelog for 3.3.1.6
Bug-Fixes
- Fix viewing files inside modal when using fancybox modal instead of jQuery modal
- Add jstring compatibility in weblink
- Fix routing of tagged items view when remove ids from URL is enabled
- Fix load module field trying to load module that are not assigned to currently active menu item
- Fixed remove IDs from URL causing 404 error, when some component has same category alias as content category, e.g. a com_banner category has same alias as a content category
- Fixed items or categories with associations not selectable when trying to create menu item links to them
^ Disable idle time auto-hiding of navigation and caption text in image-gallery field when using fancybox - Fix empty black line showing in image gallery field when an image is cleared or when a new value placeholder is created
^ Hide expand and configuration-rip buttons in mobiles, as they have no purpose when viewing from mobile
^ Better edit icon (pencil with square) in backend management listings - Fix same item type filtering for tags cloud module being always ON
^Various J4 compatibility work - Fix delete button not shown by category layouts of 'default' and 'faq' templates.
- Add support for custom date format in date picker display of field filters
- Fix title cutting limit in backend managers cutting the start of title instead of the end
- Fix wrong state text in category state filter of items manager
- Fix Asian languages word splitting not triggering for articles with language All because of not using web-site default language setting
- Fix flexicontent category links for JCE, not working when using maximum PHP error reporting (PHP notice breaks JSON response)
- Fix CORS error when fetching video URLs via noembed.com in item form, for fields image, sharemedia, weblink
- Add support for custom date format in item form for date field
- Fix Uploader column wrongly hidden in file management views of administrators
- Clean minor PHP notices in backend management
- Allow file URLs (file management) to be added in 'media' mode according to field configuration
^ Use item's 160 first character as fallback meta description, avoiding site's default meta description - Fix input value masking in item form preventing previous value from loading properly
- Fix configuration warning in fieldgroup code causing a countable error in PHP 7.2+
^ Allow HTML in prefix, suffix of international address field values, according to user based text filters - A fix for saving Joomla article form in frontend, fixed using wrong item id in some cases
- Fix duplicate alias check for items to allow same alias in different categories and in different languages, while also considering multi-category assignments
- Fix image-gallery field 's thumbnails not recreated (size change in field's configuration) when any original image dimensions is smaller than the configured thumbnail size. Fixed behavior will scale thumbnail up to the original sizes
^ Improved usage of srcset, to allow browser to better choose image thumbnails according to client device (mobile, tablet, desktop) - Fix custom item layout, being reset to item type default when frontend item form gets saved
- Fix responsive column reduction in blog template
- Fix some records not listed in backend views for non super admins
Changelog for 3.3.1.4 and 3.3.1.5
Bug-Fixes (including v3.3.1.5)
- Fix viewing files inside modal when using fancybox modal instead of jQuery modal
- Add jstring compatibility in weblink
- Fix routing of tagged items view when remove ids from URL is enabled
- Fix load module field trying to load module that are not assigned to currently active menu item
- Fixed remove IDs from URL causing 404 error, when some component has same category alias as content category, e.g. a com_banner category has same alias as a content category
- Fixed items or categories with associations not selectable when trying to create menu item links to them
- Fix empty black line showing in image gallery field when an image is cleared or when a new value placeholder is created
- Fix same item type filtering for tags cloud module being always ON
- Fix delete button not shown by category layouts of 'default' and 'faq' templates.
- Add support for custom date format in date picker display of field filters
- Fix title cutting limit in backend managers cutting the start of title instead of the end
- Fix wrong state text in category state filter of items manager
- Fix Asian languages word splitting not triggering for articles with language All because of not using web-site default language setting
- Fix flexicontent category links for JCE, not working when using maximum PHP error reporting (PHP notice breaks JSON response)
- Fix CORS error when fetching video URLs via noembed.com in item form, for fields image, sharemedia, weblink
- Add support for custom date format in item form for date field
- Fix Uploader column wrongly hidden in file management views of administrators
- Clean minor PHP notices in backend management
- Allow file URLs (file management) to be added in 'media' mode according to field configuration
- Fix input value masking in item form preventing previous value from loading properly
- Fix configuration warning in fieldgroup code causing a countable error in PHP 7.2+
- A fix for saving Joomla article form in frontend, fixed using wrong item id in some cases
- Fix duplicate alias check for items to allow same alias in different categories and in different languages, while also considering multi-category assignments
- Fix image-gallery field 's thumbnails not recreated (size change in field's configuration) when any original image dimensions is smaller than the configured thumbnail size. Fixed behavior will scale thumbnail up to the original sizes
- Fix custom item layout, being reset to item type default when frontend item form gets saved
- Fix responsive column reduction in blog template
- Fix some records not listed in backend views for non super admins
Changes
- ^ Disable idle time auto-hiding of navigation and caption text in image-gallery field when using fancybox
- ^ Hide expand and configuration-rip buttons in mobiles, as they have no purpose when viewing from mobile
- ^ Better edit icon (pencil with square) in backend management listings
- ^Various J4 compatibility work
- ^ Use item's 160 first character as fallback meta description, avoiding site's default meta description
- ^ Allow HTML in prefix, suffix of international address field values, according to user based text filters
- ^ Improved usage of srcset, to allow browser to better choose image thumbnails according to client device (mobile, tablet, desktop)
Changelog for 3.3.1.4 and 3.3.1.5
Bug-Fixes (including v3.3.1.4)
- Fixed icon for add button when using image icon instead of font-based (CSS) icon
- Fixed icon for delete button when using image icon instead of font-based (CSS) icon
- Fixed auto-complete of address field (item form) not working when dash characters exists in the field name
- Fixed date-based alias resetting on every save (e.g. languages without transliteration support)
- Fixed heritage for checkboxes and multi-select parameters not working causing issues like items list markings not to work properly
- Fixed parameters slider of current layout (forms: item, type, category) being locked to "closed" state when layout Tab is not focused when form loads
- Fixed return URL in fileselement popup view not working, resulting in empty page after new URL addition and after file delete operation
Changes
- Updated URL (backend dashboard) for new translation packages (Crowdin)
- Remove local copy of statistics JS lib, this is already loaded from CDN and it will allow Flexicontent distribution package to be smaller
- Renamed 'languages' (installation) folder of modules to 'language'
Changelog for 3.3.1.3
- Fix menu item parameters not merged in CSV view
- Fix bug in backend type form saving loosing data in 3.3.1.2
Changelog for 3.3.1.2
- Fix text field's (per value) prefix, suffix not showing in item form
- Fixed option 'Keep source language' not usable in batch copy task (field says it is required, form does not submit)
- Fix bad parameter merge in model effecting frontend item form that hides specific parameters, e.g. edit button not showing after frontend item form save
- Fix not able to delete / edit / publish owned files in fileselement popup view if only having *ownfile ACL but not having Files management ACL
- Fix wrong escaping of title column in backend management views (e.g. & appears as &)
- Fix new item button (backend) giving error of plain editor users
- Fix non-privileged users not being able to assign images via the popup 'Myfiles' window when image field is in folder mode
Changelog for 3.3.0 - 3.3.1.1
Update
- CSV import update
- MVC update for backend
- New configuration screen for universal module
- Optimiaztion for tag display (10000 limit)
- Revised configuration screen (form) of universal module for more intuitive configuration.
- Remove ID on sef url with canonical support
- New configuration screen for layout parameter
- New UX for upload screen
- More compact UX for image field
- Update UX for text select field
- Improve HTML page rendering speed of backend items manager, by hidding toggled-off columns via PHP logic instead of JS, plus avoid page jumping effect
- Add new filter to backend item manager for empty meta kayworks and description
- Add parameters for image size and hiding linking text to weblink field
- Add pre-configured URLs type selector and preconfigured image list selector to weblink field
- Add onchange option to date field
- Added auto value calculation feature to date field too (like text and textarea fields)
- Added image property, plus youtube / vimeo video playback to the weblink field
- Add age viewing layout (and config for it), plus display as age filtering to date field
Fixes
- flexibreak plugin
- PHP 5.6 compatibility
- Pdf parser
- better auto-rezizing for image gallery field
- PHP 7.3 warning - Ajax loading for advenced module manager
- Map module display if empty value
- Option 'keep source language' in batch copy
- Fixed item title in item view being H2 instead of H1 when page heading is not shown (disabled or same as item title)
- Fix language string about duplicate alias not found
- Fix empty string radio value submitted as 'on' when a large form is submitted via serialization
- Fix favourites and voting core fields loosing types assignments after clicking save
- Fix text field's (per value) prefix, suffix not showing in item form
Changelog v3.2.1.15
Fixes
- Fixed no access error for new item button, when current user has no access to types manager
- Fixed pagination not showing when selecting single content item for new menu item, also fixed for same listing, language option 'All' not filterable
- Fixed item view SEF URLs that use directory ('catalog') menu item, breaking due to wrongly removing 'item' segment from the URL
- Fixed issue with field name not allowing underscore
- Fixed server-side 'decimal' validation of text field applied same as 'decimal_comma' validation
- Fixed issue with text field with numeric validation (integer or decimal) forcing a ZERO value instead of empty despite the fact that field is configured as not required
- Fixed bug that allows deletion of Core fields, and added code to check this case and restore the missing Core fields
- Fixed bug that allows deletion of CORE field, and added code to check this case and restore the missing CORE fields
- Fixed favorites field toggler button failing in some cases
- Fixed multi-category URLs having broken filtering form submit target and broken pagination links, when SEF URLs are turned off
- Fixed category image alignment in categories module being ignored
- Fixed CSV-export support for fields of type 'Core property': id, alias, access, language, Main category, publish_up, publish_down, created_by_alias
- Fixed item count in categories module and in other places counting also unpublished / expired / scheduled items
- Fixed link to google maps (international address field) to always use HTTPS (fixing cross-site scripting error in browser)
- Fixed current category ID for item view always being zero, causing eg. wrong breadcrumbs pathway when item viewed via a secondary category
- Fixed download link of file field not working in backend items manager when displaying it as button
- Fixed FC field configuration parameters (FC Field manager) being also shown at Joomla plugin manager
Improvements / new features
- Added color field (with multi-value and fieldgroup support), either pick any color via a colorpicker, or pick for specific colors list
- Prevent counting item / category hits when current URL is of non-HTML format
- Added new event to flexicontent field plugins, to handle user actions when viewing values. Added support to download, view, etc file actions and for weblink field when user clicks to view a URL
- Improved filters display in slider, slider will display in open or closed state without the use of JS executed after page load, avoiding the (bad UX) movement of the page contents
- Made configuration of Google Maps API key in address field more clear, making API key required for editing, and allowing a different API key for viewing
- Added source-mode for images (to Image-Gallery Field) when using 'Intro / Fulltext', option to select if intro or full image will be used in category view, module listing, item view, instead of the default intro, intro, full
- Added support for customized CSV export text for fields: email, weblink, international address, plus support for strip tags in fields: description, textarea
- Added viewing layout support to fieldgroup field, 2 alternatives, either render via layout file, or render via custom HTML code store in field's configuration parameter
- Improved viewing layout of file field for a cleaner display
Changelog v3.2.1.14 ... (below we include v3.2.1.13 as it was skipped)
Bug fixes
- Fixed issue with TABs sometimes not initializing properly
- Fixed textareas fields with HTML editors causing JS error when adding more values to a fieldgroup
- Fixed JS error during AJAX ACL perms updating in configuration of 'Core' type fields
- Fixed PHP variable notice in backend item form when article's image and links is enabled
- Fixed race conditions (uploader JS is broken in some cases) in JS of filemanager / fileselement views
- Fixed issue with counting returned rows in multi-item frontend views when using MySql PDO driver
... (plus skipped release of v3.2.1.13)
- Fixed sharemedia field embed.ly URLs adding ? twice, making parameters: autoplay, suppress-logo not to work
- Fixed mixed content browser warning (SSL lock does not appear all green) in the case that a cached page was created via an http request but also served via https request
- Fixed 'Rendered value' CSV export mode for fields: tags, categories
- Fixed language associations popup selection in frontend listing wrong language items or being empty
- Fixed configuration issue in filtering module, when categories parameter is in include mode, selecting none category, will make module in frontend to display all viewable categories (thus match parameter description)
- Fixed onContentPrepare event triggering for category description text, the event context was changed to be com_content.category
- Fixed rel-canonical in category view when using filtering
- Fixed unknown column SQL error in backend items manager when doing text search in description text and also filtering by item type
- Fixed (harmless) for PHP non-set variable notice in core functions system plugin when calling onContentPrepare event without loading form data
- Fixed wrong tags ids saved when using Joomla article form instead of FC item form
- Fixed (workaround) bug in image XTD editor button not defaulting to extension ACL asset, when given ACL asset is null, thus editors without global ACL perms do not see the button
- Fixed (harmless) non-set variable PHP notices when viewing a fieldgroup field that has fields that are no-longer asassigned to current item type
- Fixed instant text-search filter for checkbox-radio filter display not showing
- Fixed (minor CSS issue) common inline-block message box not fitting up to parent container when needed
- Fixed custom backend link to comments component not showing
- Fixed support for filtering an items listing (module / category views) via locked field values for items related to the returned items list
Improvements / new Features:
- Privacy embeed mode for sharemedia field to minimize personal data logged for media providers that support this, also added parsing of youtube-nocookie.com URLs
- Better UX for relation field in item form, hide (skip) currently edited item from items selector, and disable items that are already selected
- Added support for fieldgrouping in relation (related items) field
- Loaded versioned URLs for form.js of fields relation, addressint (browser cache refresh)
- Added item property replacements for creating display of fieldgroup values, also added value-count replacement
- Improved speed of tags auto-complete in frontend item form, and also fixed encoding issue with some tags having special characters
- Image-gallery field, new thumbnail recreation is possible even if thumbnails have bad permissions / owner if the container folder has good permissions / owner
- Improvement fo image-gallery field, allow suggesting only first image to social network listings, to allow easier image selection
- Smarter adding of OGP tags, detect current view is a matched item view for the rendered field's item
- Added sorting by title relevance by default when text search is active and optionally by relevance of all search index text
- Different display for date field in category-based views
- Better UI for new item type selection in items manager
... (plus skipped release of v3.2.1.13)
- Updated and added the FLEXIcontent OSMap plugin to CORE installation package
- Integrate Kommento's backend administatration link via extra option in our 'Comments' FC component configuration section
- State field template compatibility: added option to use image icons instead of font-icons, also added option to display both icont and text
- Auto add current limit (items per page) value to the frontend per-page override selector field
- Better content plugin compatibility when triggering event onContentPrepare
- Improve UX when selecting language associations (popup item listing window) the already associated items will be marked, and their selection will be prevented
- Added search-engine indexing limitation according to a configurable maximum number of active filters. If number of filters above limit then add no-index (but allow follow)
- Removed 2 variables in search / filtering URLs: &p=wordcombination, &listall=1, when they have default values
- Removed trailing slash from rel-canonical when FC URL is used as home page
- Smarter loading of pagination.php and listings_filter_form_body.php layout files, when the file that loads them is overriden, (both current and global common layout folder will be tried)
- Added min / max year (offset limitations) to date field year navigation (item form)
- Autosized bootstrap and mootools modals
Changelog v3.2.1.12 (same as v3.2.1.11)
- Fixed FC item type not being saved during new Joomla article form saving (you are asked to bind new article to a type when visiting FC backend dashboard)
- Fixed related items field not showiing related items when language of current item is All but language of related items is not All
- Fixed weblink field stripping all slashes when relative urls are forced and input start with slash
- Fixed (for J3.8.4+) image base path JS variable for media manager 'images' view, breaking the template override used by image field, fix is to always load default joomla layout
- Fixed date filtering when date filter's vvalues are group by month or by year
- Fixed syntax highlighting in editor of template files, and some font styling too
- Fixed filtering of relation field broken in v3.2.1.10
- Fixed misleading default category being shown when creating new items despite not being allowed (category cleared after submit due to ACL)
- Fixed custom SEF language code set in configuration of every language being ignored when forcing frontend language, e.g. when creating preview links
- Fixed custom SEF language code set in configuration of every language being ignored when forcing frontend language, e.g. when creating preview links
- Fixed business name / area title beging of address-international googlemaps field being duplicated in plain-text address field on every item form save
- Fixed issue single quote in tags names when importing tags and searching tags in backend tags manager, same fix applied to all search boxes in backend
- Fixed performance (20x in large websites) of 'itemelement' view used in menu item of type 'Content Item'
Improvements
- All valid HTML for modal blocking message during form submits
- Improved handling of limitstart and start variables, fixed 1st page of pagination URLs having both variables
- Added a new component option to allow new (Joomla) article form to load in frontend
- Added display of non-allowed parents categories as disabled in the category selector if they have allowed child categories
- Added option in component configuration to select jQuery UI theme
- Added checkbox and radio display for the filter of categories field
- Added customize options for blog template (item and category view)
Changelog v3.2.1.10
- Fixed 2 issues with SH404SEF, pages not changing when caching is enabled, and also fixed frontend per-page (limit) selector being ignored
- Fixed error during batch tasks in items manager due to cleanCache method of model being inaccessible
- Fixed needed JS file not loaded in carousel layout of universal content module
- Fixed 'Tagged' items view and 'Authored' items view, losing the alias part in their SEF URLs after filtering the views via the filtering form
- Fixed 'Tagged' items view and 'Authored' items view, missing the alias part when creating their canonical URLs
Minor fixes and improvements
- More responsive item title for news and carousel layouts of universal
- 2 responsiveness CSS fixes for columns of news and carousel layouts of universal content module
- Clean view cache when doing AJAX voting or AJAX favouring, also hide vote counter box when empty
Known issues
v3.2.x Before reporting an issue please look at this list:
https://github.com/FLEXIcontent/flexicontent-cck/labels/bug
please note that some of these issues are unconfirmed
almost all are of low or medium priority, we try to fix important and common ones ASAP
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