FLEXIcontent latest version

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

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

Fixes

• php8.1 compatibility

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

- 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

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)

Hello we are happy to announce Flexicontent 3.3.10

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

• Fixed one of the tab styling (cblue) having tab border under the TAB

Add

• Added Pannellum panorama layout to image-gallery field built-in layouts

• Added option for setting a custom (Map) tile server URL for Open Street Maps

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

Fixes

• (v3.3.6 bug fixed in v3.3.7) Fixed cannot create (and add) tags inside of item form

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

• 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

• Add new maintenance Task to items manager 'Recalculate item aliases

• Added parameters to date and text field to allow CSV export of 'rendered' values, optionally stripping HTML

• Better message when a field type has not been found by backend fields manager

• Better alias when creating translating items via batch translate button

• Added warning to item form for incomplete loading in the case that some 3rd party plugin fails during 'onContentPrepareForm'

• Added option to image-gallery configuration to use srcset as min-width or as max-width limit (this can be configure per thumbnail size)

• Highlight 'Hide columns' button when some columns are hidden in backend managers

• Added options to hide secondary and featured category selectors in Frontend item form

• Added in category settings, option to override the item layout (override item type setting)

• Pass item's category parents to template for item view

• 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

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

(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)

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

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

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