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Here's a short tutorial on creating a Zoo element that has multiple sub-fields. A good example for the same, which we've also used as a sample is an address field. An address field will typically have different parts such as city, zip, state etc. I assume you have already gone through the zoo documentation on creating a new custom element - http://...

Its time to welcome the Spring and there could be no other better way than Shopping !!  So come and meet our Bunny who is ready offering discounts on all our extensions storewide!

 15% Off Storewide till 31st March

Just use the discount code - EASTER2013 while shopping in our Techjoomla store. 

The deal expires on March 31st, 2013. So Hurry!!

Read on for some more awesome deals from our partners.

Woohoo! JGive 1.5 is here with the much awaited Joomla 3.0 Support & 20+ New features!  Since its release, we have had an amazing response from the community & its fast grown into one of the best Donations & Investment extensions for Joomla.

The biggest feature of this release is, of course, Joomla 3.0 Support. The next Big feature is the addition of Categories.

Category Management

Admins can create Categories & these can be used to better present and manage campaigns on the frontend. Another awesome addition is support for Guest donations.

Additional Flexibility with Guest Checkout

Now Donors have an option to donate as a guest without having to log in to your website. This awesome flexibility is sure to improve your campaign conversions.

Campaigns Module

You can use this super versatile module to feature your campaigns on other pages of your site. Configuration options include deciding which categories to show campaigns from & ability to show only featured campaigns.

Rich Text Editor for Campaigns

Users can use a full featured Rich text editor to add descriptions about their campaigns. We recommend using JCE & setting up a Profile for frontend submissions that allow only the required features on the frontend. This means you can now add multiple Photos, Videos etc to your campaign!

Here is the list of Major Feature Additions

1. Joomla 3.0 Support
2. Category Support
3. Guest Donations
4. Awesome new Social Sharing options with OG tags support
5. Rich text editor for campaigns & a Cool new Module for campaign display
6. Flexible Commissions with ability to charge X fixed price + Y %
7. Lots of Filters on the frontend in All campaigns view - configurable via menu options
8. Admin Approval workflow for campaigns & email notifications on changes
9. Terms & conditions support
10. Commission Configuration override on a per Joomla User Group level
11. Paypal Mass payments
12. Ability to Delete & unpublish campaigns from the Admin interface
13. Featured Campaigns
14. Campaign Display Module

This is one Upgrade you don't want to miss! Existing subscribers can immediately download this new version in the My Subscriptions Area

Read on for the full changelog for the detailed list of Feature additions & Bug fixes.

Its that time again where there's plenty of Bug Squashing fun & Pizza .. Not necessarily & that order ! Everyone here at Tekdi & Techjoomla will be participating in Joomla Pizza Bugs & Fun tomorrow starting 1 PM & you are invited ! Joomla's PBF is typically a one day event with the main purpose of squashing bugs before a release...

Its that time again where there's plenty of Bug Squashing fun & Pizza .. Not necessarily & that order ! Everyone here at Tekdi & Techjoomla will be participating in Joomla Pizza Bugs & Fun tomorrow starting 1 PM & you are invited ! Joomla's PBF is typically a one day event with the main purpose of squashing bugs before a release...

After we aquired jomLike & jomGive from our friends at CorePHP last August, we had promissed both existing subscribers as well as our custommers of exciting & ground breaking changes & features to both the extensions. jGive a full rewrite of JomGive was released soon after to add tons of Features & native Joomla & CB support bes...

It makes us feel proud and very much glad for helping Joomla Day Boston 2013, by sponsoring a mobile app for the event. The app features in covering the entire event program, speakers, Social tweets and more !! So if you are hosting any of the Joomla Day events, then Tekdi Web Solutions and Techjoomla would definitely love to contribute for the eve...

JBolo Beta 1 with Group Chat is here!  This version brings most awaited group chat feature to current JBolo. This blog will give you a quick overview of what to expect from JBolo 3.0 beta release. There's this & plenty more under the hood including an API based architecture which will allow us to release mobile apps for JBolo in the near future.

It's a great pleasure to announce (finally ;)) that our super flexible E-commerce solution for Joomla is here! For those who haven't heard about this yet, here's a recap!

In all the years we have been working in Joomla, we have continuously been frustrated with the lack of a shopping cart solution that's plug & play & at the same time is robust & scalable. There are lots of Carts in the market. But for most applications, they are just too huge & come with a lot of overheads.

Hey all Joomla Day Organisors ! We are now offering a sponsored Mobile App development to get your Next Joomla Event an awesome smartphone app for IOS & Android. We have developed several event apps to date & have seen that these are a pretty cool value addition for both attendees & Sponsors.  Here is what our App can do for your E...

We are pleased to announce that SocialAds 2.9 has entered Beta! This version brings some pretty major features to the advertising scene in Joomla. This blog will give you a quick overview of what to expect. Note that this is a beta release & should only be used for testing & not on Production sites !

A Whole New Charging Option with Campaigns & Budgeting !

SocialAds 2.9 beta brings a whole new Charging Model. With this new model, SocialAds will now let you make a Pre payment to add balance to your account, then create Campaigns, set budgets & create Ads against them without having to pay & checkout for every Ad. Google Ads, Facebook & LinkedIn Ads already work on this model.

Switching to this model is optional. If you prefer to use the Pay & Checkout per Ad model, you can keep using this same. If you wish to switch, we have provided a quick migration tool that will convert your user's existing ad balances to the new model on a prorata basis.

Ad Balance & Billing

Once you are on this model, the users can use a 'Add Balance' process to prepay funds to their account on your site. A Nice looking Ad Billing view shows a history of all transactions as well as full details of how its being spent.

Campaigns & Budgets

The user can create campaigns & set a Daily budget against the campaign. Ads will be created against campaigns. SocialAds will show Ads till the daily budget is exhausted.

Beautiful with Bootstrap !

We have completely revamped the front end views of SocialAds & added some awesome Bootstrap magic. Now you don't have to wait for 3.0 to get a beautiful interface for SocialAds ! P.S. SocialAds will be 3.0 compatible by March end in the version 3.0 .

100+ Bug fixes & many Feature improvements

This version of SocialAds as of now has fixed 132 Bugs & added 6 features including the features mentioned above.

Help Us Beta Test & Give us Feedback

In order to do more inclusive development, we try & get our subscribers involved whenever possible in the planning & development process. This is your chance to help us test the beta release & also give valuable feedback on improving it. Jump on to our Beta testers Discussion forum. You can find documentation on how to setup SocialAds Beta 2.9 with Campaigns & Budgets here. 

Read on for the full changelog

Last week we wrote about a sneak peek into the new JTicketing Android app. This weekend, we got a fantastic opportunity to use it for an actual event. Techjoomla was a proud sponsor for the recent Joomla Day India that happened on 9-10th February 2013. And that's not it, our own J!Ticketing was powering the event booking engine of Joomla Day a...

Team Techjoomla was at the Joomla Day India (Mumbai) this weekend, and what an event it was! We had Ryan Ozimek (Ex-President, OSM), David Hurley (Development Team Leader) and Ofer Cohen (OSM Board Member) fly in from USA and Israel. Additionally, more than half a dozen speakers from various parts of India made up for an exciting lineup of talks for both days. We also had an enthusiastic audience from several parts of India, and all of them were more than willing to soak in every bit of the knowledge the community wished to impart! This also marked the alpha release of the JTicketing app for Event Managers. Read more about it at the end of the story. The Joomla Handshake #jhandshake too was ideated, you can view the video on Ryan's Vine.

Hello all, we have released a bug-fix version of People Suggest. Here is the changelog: People Suggest version 1.3.1 changelog- - Bugs fixed (4)   #15226  If we select the "Import fields" for suggestion preferences in backend,and user keep them blank in frontend ,the suggestions shown are in less in number than actual.#15221  Clicking on "Recommend...

Hello all, we have released a bug-fix version of Email Beautifier today. Take a look at the changelog.