BeeHeard Next Release (version 1.4.1) News
November 22, 2009
Currently working on finishing some enhancements for version 1.4.1 of BeeHeard which are now in the testing phase. We received some feedback from some users which are being rolled into this release. Roberto Carreón from Joomleros.com supplied us with two suggestions which were making links clickable in the suggestion description instead of having to use html tags and he also noticed an inconsistancy in the vote link URL which did not make it SEF friendly. Another nice feature is the display of subcategories that exist while in a category’s detail view and linking to them. Finally, we added messages to be returned when suggestions or comments are flagged as spam, duplicate or inappropriate as well as displaying the number of characters remaining in the input fields for suggestion title, suggestion description and comment text.
As for enhancements to the backend, we made the columns in the tables for categories, suggestions, comments, and votes sortable. There is an issue that is occurring regarding the sorting of columns in which it rarely does not show any information in the table until the data is sorted by clicking on one of the column headers. Nevertheless, the data is sorted properly. We followed Joomla’s specification to accomplish sorting but still don’t know why this is occurring. We will run more tests for this as it isn’t a big issue but would like the release to be consistant and not have slight issues such as this occur.
One bug that was fixed that was of a limit of only twenty categories, suggestions and comments being displayed on the page at any given time. This was due to a conflict with a future feature of having pagination (refers to dividing a document into multiple pages) for a predefined limit. We removed the limit and now the component will display all categories, suggestions and comments.
