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Tabs Come to the Accessible Administrator Template

Written by Andrea Tarr

My project creating an Accessible Administrator Template is coming along. I've restructured part of it. The different submenus lacked clarity so I switched to a tabbed menu and moved them above the toolbar icons. This makes it more obvious what section you are in. As you look at the graphic you will also note that I have pulled out most of the styling, going back to almost a wireframe. Once I get the functionality in place, I will look at adding more styling back in as well as updating the icons/images as appropriate.

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GSOC JConnect Status Update 3

Written by Arunoda Susiripala

It's ready

JConnect - The Integration Engine for Joomla is now pretty much ready. (OK we say it BETA). Before we going into much details lets talk about it's features. It can do following with it's External Applications.. (Currently only Elgg)

• Dual-way communication..
    whatever the changes you made to a user(Create,Update,Delete) it'll affect to Both Joomla and ExApp. no mater where you made it (inside Joomla or Elgg)
• Bulk User Synchronization
    you can synchronize users in many numbers between Joomla and ExApp.
• Dual Login (Single Sign On)
   you can login into one site and go for a another site and do your work without login again. (a site may be Joomla or a ExApp)
• Activity Module
   you can see the activities in the ExApp inside Joomla in a Module..
• Sync User Management
   you can manage user sync users inside Joomla
• Admin Panel
   contains a easy to use admin Panel to control all of these
• Advanced Contols
   helps you to control the communication between Joomla and ExApps

Get It

Currently JConnect Only support Elgg as an External Application. So you can get,

•   JConnect Engine and,
•   Elgg plugin (makes elgg as an JConnect ExApp)

You can download above from here..
   http://code.google.com/p/jconnect/downloads

And documentation to Install And Configure JConnect with Elgg can be found here....
  code.google.com/p/jconnect/wiki/GettingStarted

Review It

I'll really apriciate comments and you review on this..

• Plese comments below this Article or http://code.google.com/p/jconnect/wiki/Comments
• If any kind of issue arise please kind enought to submit those in here..
      code.google.com/p/jconnect/issues

What's next

• Dual Login does not works for cross domains yet.. I'm working on it..
• User group consideration when synchronization (which is not currently supportes)
• Developer support (JConnect ExApps can be easily created - but a good Documentation should come up)

 

 

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Workflow extension [ BETA ]

Written by Mostafa Ibrahim

I'll start by explaining how the extension works , I won't dive into any technical details

This extension allows website administrator to define a workflow "i.e a process" of content publishing, Let's consider a scenario where the administrator runs a magazine with 3 content categories, Each one of these categories is managed by a team.

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JED to be 100% GPL at Midnight

Written by Toni Marie

We at the Joomla Extensions Directory are celebrating the next phase of our commitment to the GPL values that Joomla was founded on.   As part of an overall movement toward embracing and encouraging use of the GPL in all aspects of the project, the JED announced in December 2008 that only GNU GPL extensions would be listed as of July 1.  We have led up to this policy change slowly, and we hope with as much information as possible.

Tonight at midnight is the time and day that only GPL extensions will be listed in the JED.  We're incredibly encouraged by the show of support and cooperation of our third party developers.

Our developers were given the time of midnight tonight as the target for relicensing their extensions with the GPL. While extensions have been coming to the GPL steadily since our announcement was made in December, a flood of changes are coming in just before that cutoff.  We're thrilled at the overwhelming response to our call to bring extensions into GPL compliance.  Developers have been working well with editors to clarify wording on their websites to assure users of the JED that the freedoms of the GPL will be upheld.

We can't begin to thank all of the amazing developers who have embraced the open source values along with us.  Many previously proprietary and partially closed-source developers of commercial extensions have joined with us in the JED and released their Joomla extensions with the GPL license.  We are confident in keeping the vast majority of popular commercial extensions in the JED due to the developers' willingness to work with our team.

We are committed to working with each of our developers to ensure that their projects are treated with respect and protected from exploitation.  We're further committed to making sure the users of the JED have the most complete, compliant and vulnerability-free list of extensions for Joomla.

Thank you for making that possible.

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Multilingual CiviCRM: Changes to Translation Tools

Written by Piotr Szotkowski

All of my work on multilingual CiviCRM features, while required by many worldwide, cross-border and/or multi-cultural organisations, would be in vain if it weren’t for the hard and very under-appreciated work of numerous translators, contributing many man-hours to over thirty CiviCRM translations hosted on our translations server – hence one of my Google Summer of Code sub-projects was to ease the translators’ work as much as possible.

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