The Connections CSV Import Pro Module version 0.6 has been released. This release brings minor bug fixes and compatibility with Connections >= 0.7.2.1 Changelog: Fix mapping bug when mapping to Address 1. Added additional Social Media mappings to be in synce with Connections. Added the ability to import to multiple categories, pre-existing or create new categories …
The next release of Connections is packed with new features, many of which can be taken advantage of by templates. Every template in one way or another will benefit from the next release, but most templates will need to be updated to take advantage of most of the new features. If you’ve been following along, you already …
It probably would be an understatement if I said search was the most often requested feature. Well, it’s coming. The feature is fully implemented in the admin. There is only some tidying up yet to do. I also updated the cMap template to include search. Market will also get search and so will the ‘Plus’ templates. …
Connections has many unique features, one of which is the ability to add as many items to each field type as you need. What do I mean? Well, for example, for the address field type you can add as many addresses as you need for the entry. The same goes for phone numbers, email addresses …
Another week, another feature preview. One of the most visible changes will be the addition of the Connections Dashboard admin page. This page was modeled after the WordPress Dashboard, so what you see in the screen capture are the available widgets and just like the WordPress Dashboard these can be rearranged and even hidden if you …
Just like addresses, an entry could be assigned any number of websites. While that was pretty useful, I wanted to improve on it. After taking into consideration how I’ve been asked to use this feature to customize templates, I decided to re-engineer this feature and rename the section on the entry form to ‘Links’. Take …
Due to lack of activity on the site, I’ve been getting emails asking if Connections is still under development. The answer is, yes. Connections is actually always under constant heavy development. I have been neglecting the site a bit, which I’m going to remedy. To start, I’ll give you a little feature preview. One of the …
I’m already hard at work on the next version of Connections and here’s the list of features and changes that I hope will be in the next version: Features: Add an Overview page that will display the following widgets: Today’s Birthday’s Upcoming Birthday’s Today’s Anniversaries Upcoming Anniversaries Recently Added Recently Updated Awaiting Moderation Add ‘tabs’ …
After a couple thousand upgrade and no reported issues I’d say this latest release is a success! Download Here Here’s the official changelog: 0.7.1.3 01/17/2011 OTHER: No Changes. SVN error. 0.7.1.2 01/17/2011 BUG: Fixed the width and height setting being swapped in the getLogoImage() method. 0.7.1.1 01/15/2011 FEATURE: Added Contact First and Last name fields …
One of the planned updates for the next release of Connections is to improve the rich text editing of the Bio and Notes fields. Well, I’ve made great progress with that. Take a peek at the screen captures. I’ve dropped jWYSIWYG for rich editing. Unfortunately it just isn’t robust enough and had some flaky behaviors …