The CB (Community Builder) team in an effort to improve its public relations image has decided to appoint a PR person (me) to improve the image of the team and the opensource project.
Under this framework I would like to inform everyone that the current release version of the suite is RC1 (release candidate). The code is very stable and we are already working on RC2 (you can learn more about RC2 at
www.mambojoe.com).
In order to assist the Mambo community and inform everyone, I have included an excert from the CB manual (one of the best component manuals ever released).
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Mambo CB is a Mambo component, which along with two additional modules and user list functionality, integrates with the Mambo CMS extending its functionality. This extended functionality replaces and augments existing features of the default Mambo installation in order to facilitate the creation and management of an online community on a Mambo driven website.
The default Mambo CMS user registration system does not provide the functionality necessary to properly support the creation and maintenance of an online community. The CB suite attempts (and hopefully succeeds) to address these matters and provides the basic building blocks to allow the Mambo CMS administrators (and moderators) to attract, manage and increase their specific online community.
The current feature list of the CB suite, which is addressed in this document, includes:
• Ability to define additional fields associated with user profiles that are organized using tabs.
• Tab template system available for tab presentation. Four predefined templates included. Ability to create your own tab template.
• Ability to include one or more of three predefined tab component plugins. Currently available are: Author tab, Forum tab (SimpleBoard) and Blog tab (Mamboblog).
• Eleven field types supported: checkbox, date, dropdown, Email Address, Editor Text Area, Text Area, Text Field, Radio Button, Web Address, multi-select drop-down and multi-select checkbox.
• Ability to specify whether a field is optional or required, publicly viewable or not, required during registration or not.
• Specification of which Mambo User Groups are permitted to view other user profiles.
• Avatar gallery support along with the ability to allow users to upload their own image (to be displayed in their profile). Image moderation supported. Image resizing support via GD1, GD2, Imagemagick, NetPBM server installed applications.
• Extensive and flexible, fully configurable, registration process using a combination of email confirmation functionality, “Terms of Acceptance” verification, moderator notification email messages, personalized applicant pending approval and welcome email messages.
• Ability to delegate specific registration approval and maintenance (image upload approval, banning of offensive profiles from public display) activities to moderators via a front-end access module.
• Creation of user specific lists based on CB fields (e.g., directory listing, etc). Up to four columns may be specified for each list. Each column may contain one or more field values. List sorting options may be specified. A filter may also be placed on a list by either using the basic filter constructor tool or populating the expert filter field (WHERE clause of the list SQL select statement).
• MyPM II (free version) and Professional version integration.
• Language support – currently 11 languages are supported.
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Nant, the CB PR & Doc person
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