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After over two weeks of work I have released a new version of the Joomla BibTex component. This is a major update and could be a final release. I have written full documentation available in the downloads section.
Bugfixes in 1.21:
Sorting references when in a specific category mode will not revert to displaying all references
Clearing a field in edit mode will delete that field from the database
Bugfixes in 1.22
Author sort now sorts by surnames of all authors, duplicating references where necessary.
I think that the sorting bug is actually fixed now.
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, on 07-03-2007 20:17
I wanted to be the first to congratulate Mark on an amazing job! Thank you for providing us with the perfect bibliography component for Joomla. We are currently testing it in our site soon to be released. There is one little question we have right now, it concerns the ordering, if you are looking at a subcategory and try to reorder the entries, it goes back to the general category with all the entries, is there a chance this can be fixed? |
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, on 08-03-2007 16:47
Thanks for the bug report. This has been fixed in version 1.21 |
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, on 12-05-2007 21:29
Mark, this component looks great. Just put it up and am loading in citations. Thanks.
I've got lots of feature ideas, but don't want to weigh down this comment with them - just want to tell you I appreciate your work.
Next comment has suggestions. |
Written by Danny Mittleman, on 12-05-2007 21:37
Mark, I've started working with the component and have some questions/thoughts/ideas. If there is an easy fix I can implement for these items, I appreciate you pointing me to it. If there is not, consider them on a list of possible extensions for the future. [but, as I said before, I am very happy with this component.]
1. I would like to place an ad module on the destination pages for individual bibtex articles; How do I get at this page's mapping in Joomla (item ID?) so I can place an advertising module specifically on these pages. It can be the same ad on all of these destination pages.
2. I want the webpage link and epaper link to open in a new window so my users don't leave my site. I know how to do this (_blank), but I don't know where to get at the html engine to make the change to the default link. Can you tell me how to get at this?
3. I see how user can display different numbers of articles on the index page though the default is 20. As admin, can I reset the default value for this?
4. Idea for a third url link out: a link to the amazon page if the item is a book. I'd love to put in a string with my Amazon Associates ID.
5. Title says "Bibliography" on the index page. I would like to change this string. Is there a way for me to get at it?
6. I would like to put a sentence or two static text under the "Bibliography" title on the index page. I know I can create a module in "above main" in Joomla to put text above, but I would like to put text below title.
7. The horizonatal string of author/title/filter/order/display objects looks great in my joomla template in firefox, but overflows to the right in IE7. Is there a way I can get into the .css for the component to tinker with this to make it align?
8. Your author sort is based on any author. It should be based on first author I think. Do others disagree with this?
Again, thanks for the component. Where is your donation box? |
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, on 14-05-2007 07:20
1. I am not completely sure about this off the top of my head, the function ‘viewBib’ in jombib.html.php generates the html for the individual BibTex details, so you might be able to add some code to this function to implement what you want.
2. To do this I think you will need to change the tags on lines 377, 386, 765 and 774 of jombib.html.php.
3. The default is 25 I think, line 8 of jombib.php sets the default value.
4. A third link URL is beyond the standard specification of BibTex, so this would require a bit of work, if you really need this doing I could help you through the necessary changes.
5. In function displaylist in jombib.html.php line 540
6. In function displaylist in jombib.html.php starting line 536, you could try adding some html between the tag and the would probably put the sentence in a new div tag.
7. That was a bit fiddly, getting all that to fit, I wasn’t able to test in in ie7, as it was crashing my pc. There is no separate css file for my component, it indirectly uses the joomla template css, but that will not help you in this case, all I can suggest is that you look at the code to generate the table in function showTable in joomla.html.php and tweak a few things, especially in the top table in that function.
8. It was originally based on first author, but as you say some people did disagree, and I thought that a full author search would be more powerful, it would take quite a few changes to revert the code to just searching by first author (it’s a little bit messy I’m afraid)
Hope that helps
Mark |
Written by Danny Mittleman, on 23-05-2007 21:38
Mark, are you planning to build a search mambot for joomla bibtext? |
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