The ability to create niche Auction Sites, easy adaptable to any kind of auctioneered products are just few of the assets brought to you by Auctions Factory. You can use all the power of Joomla CMS System by using a 100% native solution for auctions. No Bridges, no incompatibilty issues. |  |
The Factory anounces the brand new Auction Factory 1.4. The incredible new versions brings ultimative features that completes the auction platform, fulfilling all the requirements for a professional corporate system.
The new version is build already on the high developed 1.0.3 version but it's extending the features far beyond.
First of all one of the major features is Templating adding a Smarty-engine to obtain a very easy modifiable layout. With this display features the Auction Suite can be easily integrated in a certain template or corporate design.
After Templating another very important web feature is the ability to generate RSS Feeds from the:
- Latest Auctions
- Categories present on the platform
- User Filter.
and the ability to set Tags (Blog Style) for each Auction which can be also used as filters. The system has now also support for a Unique Auction Number, a searchable UAN and SEF implemented.
User Groups ACL are implemented. The groups of Sellers and Bidders which have access to the platform can be generated from the:
- Native Joomla Groups or
- CB Community Builder Custom Fields.
To bring also real-time flavour the auction platform there is now a Minutes Countdown. This option can be enabled or disabled from the admin in the back-end of the component and brings itself two settings of the Cron: minute/daily.
Since there was allot of feedback from different site administrators a certain level of productivity was required except the subscriptions mode. Studying this issue the platform has now a integrated Payment Method which brings support for PayPal payments. This option is integrated into the system after the bidding process ends and can also be used to pay for Featured Auctions. Surely the administrator has an overview on the payment list and in order to cover a large area of payment processors, more payment modules will follow.
Powerseller and Verified User are also a new addition to the Auction Factory platform. They can be set by the admin together with other important admin options like:
- Delete - Purge Auctions
- Allow / Disable Messages between Bidder/Seller
- Editing Categories of each auction
- Setting Featured auctions
The Featured Auctions are payable with PayPal and they are three types:
- Gold (this auctions will be available on the top of the list)
- Silver (for example a highlighted background)
- Bronze (as Silver can be setted different, for example they are presented with bold)
The Rating System is now also displayable in the Template and has separated counting for the Auctioneer, for the Bidder and also avarage value. Regarding the usage the system has also further improvements like:
- a new Menu Item = My Won Bids
- Search by Location; the informations are taken from the User fields and they can be also displayed in the list of auctions due to the Template adding.
- a confirmation window on the BIN button
- new notification to the user when he was outbidded
- new notification to the auctioneer when an auction ends and they are no winners
- new icons in the list of auctions by editing the template
- module option to display an image before the auction.
Regarding the CB plugins the most important new addition is the Task Pad tab, where all the important Auctions tasks are present. Other additions are the new My Won Bids tab and the notifying when outbidded function on the My Bid tab.
Here we described just the important new features of the auction framework. Other tweaks are also implemented in the new version of Auction Factory 1.4 one of the most complete e-commerce platform available.
Unleash the RSS power ! On top of the demo site you can see a small Tutorial module that guides you through the site. If you want to test other features/settings you can login to administration backend (just follow the link in the demo frontpage) and you can change the configuration as you please! |  |
The Demo site is resetted every hour, so do not panic if you’re logged out and all your changes dissapeared. Also you can add your favorite feeds and test them with rssfactory. Just visit the new demo site http://rssfactory.thefactory.ro/ and convince yourself how easy to use RSS Factory actually is. AND IT’S FREE! | |
The Factory just released a brand new product for the Joomla world which also bring diversify to the RSS Factory Suite which include at this moment the top viewer RSS Factory and RSS Context Factory. The new product is called rss to image Factory and displays images taken from RSS feeds. The module is compatible with rss Factory 1.5.x.
The module is able to display only the feeds containing images or all the feeds. The orientation can be set up vertical or horizontal and there is a minimal required size for search and display images in order not to display images like spacer 1x1 px.
rss to image Factory is also capable of image resizing. The image caption can be choosen from "alt" or "title" attributes or disabled and in case of missing caption the text can be predefined by the admin (ex. "No caption"). Regarding the caption there is an option to set up the lenght (first x characters) and the position (up or above the image). Here the complete list of features at this moment:
- display images taken from RSS Feeds
- takes images from the cache of rss Factory 1.5.x
- is able to display only the feeds containing images or all the feeds
- orientation can be set up vertical or horizontal
- search and display images with a required size (in order not to display images like spacer 1x1 px)
- image resizing
- image caption can be choosen from "alt" or "title" attributes or disabled
- in case of missing caption the text can be predefined by the admin (ex. "No caption")
- set up lenght of caption (first x characters)
- caption can be displayed up or above the image
There is also an ETA for the next RSS Context Factory Module - next week! The new version will bring also compatibility to the Joomla 1.5.x and will fit perfect into the RSS Factory Suite.
The Joomla content table has migrated to o new format starting with version J! 1.5.X. The migration system handles the translation and expansion of mosImage (removed in 1.5), updating mospagebreak to be 1.5 compatible, renames mosloadposition to loadposition and moscode translates into geshi (renamed to pre tags). No other text content transformations are applied. mosimage tags are expanded into what they would be on the old site, this means that if you are using a different site, the image tags will point to its live site location.
In other words the concept of mosImage actually disappeared and was replaced with the
usual <img> tag (<img src="/yourimage.png" alt="Your Caption" />).
Through all this we decided to adapt our product to the new requirements, implemented new features and to change the name of the module from "mosImage Factory" to "Content Image Factory".
Content Image Factory Module 2.0.0 released on March 26, 2008.
- module is renamed from "mosImage Factory" to "Content Image Factory" due to the transition and changes from J! 1.0.x to J! 1.5.x
mosImage Factory Module 1.5.2 released on March 17, 2008.
- display first X images or random X images
- define image height and width
- skip nr. images
- Compatible only with Joomla 1.5.X
