The OS Property developer team are proud to announce the release of OS Property 2.8.4. This is a 5th release for the 2.8.x series of OS Property and addresses issues introduced in previous versions and introducing new functionality: Fully Joomla ACL integration
What's in 2.8.4
1. Joomla ACL
In previous version, OS Property only provides 3 access levels for each property, category, extra field group and extra field: Public, Registered and Specially. It raise several restrictions, specially when you want to use Membership feature to prevent data accessing with several Joomla user groups. Understand it, we decided to add All Joomla Access level for Properties, Categories, Extra fields and Extra field groups. From OS Property 2.8.4, when you add/edit properties, you are able to select specific access level of Joomla for property. Specially, if you are using Membership tool on your site and you want to earn money from visitors, you can setup Membership Plans to assign visitors into specific Joomla User group with separated access level, for example, we call it is "Visitor access level". And the simple work is setup the access level for properties is "Visitor access level". It will be profitable for you with a small improvement in this new OS Property version.
2. Back button on Advanced Search result
In previous version, the Advanced search functionality work as below:
- Customer enter the search form to find corresponding properties
- Results are shown, and customer click on one property to see details
- From Property details page, customer go back to previous page and they must enter the search form again.
This point makes some customers feel anoying. Understand it, we decided to improve OSP Navigation plugin. As you know, this plugin shows the Next and Previous links to allow customer to go to Next and Previous properties in the Search result. From this version, it will show the Back button, it allows customer to go to the Search result page without enter the search criterias in second time. To get this feature, you need to re-intall the plugin plg_ospnavigation.zip too
3. Spam prevention improvement
Although we have had many changes and improvement in functionily: blocking spam, but in fact, some customers still notice that they were spam attack. This motivates us to think, search for more effective solutions to prevent the attack from spam. And from this version, we launched a new algorithm to help prevent spam effectively. It is based on features of Joomla Session, and it is able to block all spam attacks from forms of OS Property like Request More details, Property sharing, Comment, Agent and Company contact forms. Please try use and experience this effective feature.
4. Other enhancement
- Facebook auto posting: Facebook API has just released version 2.4, and this API version won't work with Facebook User's group. We have update OS Property to make it to work with Facebook API 2.4. Please notice that from this version, you won't be able to post properties into Facebook groups (that you joined) anymore.
- Restructured Company and Agent layout: These layouts has been improved to make they load faster, and become nicer
- Default Joomla Access Level: From this version, administrator is able to select Default Access level for properties that posted from Front-end by Company administrator, Agent/ Owner
- Issue when sorting columns in Cities Management page - Fixed
- Gray color on main picture of property after closing Color box (Property details - Theme3) - Fixed
As you know, there are a lot modification in OS Property 2.8.4 so we encourage you to download latest OS Property version to get new improvement.
Other links:
OS Property page: http://joomdonation.com/joomla-extensions/os-property-joomla-real-estate.html
OS Property demo: http://osproperty.ext4joomla.com
DOWNLOAD OS PROPERTY 2.8.4
Sincerely,
Dev team