Bee Heard

Product Description:

BeeHeard is a UserVoice like component specifically for Joomla! that allows users to create suggestions, vote on suggestions and post comments to suggestions for the categories that are created.

Some of great features:

• Restricting user levels for posting suggestions, comments and voting
• Limiting the amount of votes users can have
• Create unlimited categories and sub categories to any depth
• Integration with the biggest social networking components (ie, Jom Social and Community Builder)
• AJAX powered for enhanced web 2.0 look and feel
• Many other customizations to serve your needs.

 

Check out the demo site for a feel of the front-end and a look at the administration area.  Almost all moderation and administration functionality can be done through the front-end, making BeeHeard extremely easy to use.

 

Version 1.4.4 Features/Changes:

- Added functionality to display user's name or username depending on the format specified in the configurations for either Jom Social or Community Builder.  Now if you don't use any of those great social networking components then you still of the option to display the user's name or username.
- Option to display or hide the copyright in the footer of the component.
- Added the "Rejected" status label for suggestions.
- Added the feature to display the number of categories and the number of suggestions for the Top, New, Accepted, Work in Progress, Rejected, and Completed items in the top navigation menu if enabled.
- Added a little bit of CSS to make the top navigation tab display the current tab by making it pop up a little bit.
- Fixed the Allow Suggestions when creating a new category in the back-end to default to 'Yes'.
- And finally a major improvement that has been in the pipeline from the beginning of this component but has not been implemented until the release of the Lite version to differentiate it in a major way is the ability to allow the users to vote and report while filtering the suggestions by the different status labels.  Also, front-end moderators are allowed to edit and delete suggestions while filtering as well.

 

Version 1.4.3 Features/Changes:

- Now supports French and German for site only.

 

Version 1.4.2 Features/Changes:

- Added additional security to the component's code to prevent SQL query injections vulnerabilities.

 

Version 1.4.1 Features/Changes:

- Added functionality to allow URL links to be clickable in a suggestion’s details.  Courtesy of Roberto Carreón from Joomleros.com
- Fix the consistency of the vote link to be Search Engine Friendly.
- Added option to list subcategories of a category in the category’s details view.
- Added months for created date to language files for translation.
- Added created date to suggestion details.
- Added messages for reporting suggestions and comments as spam, duplicate, or inappropriate.
- Added a character counter to display and restrict number of characters for suggestion title, suggestion details and comment text.
- Fixed an issue regarding future feature of pagination (refers to dividing a document into multiple pages) causing the categories, suggestions and comments list to only display twenty items.
- Added option to enable/disable suggestions for a specific category.  This feature is intended to prevent suggestions to be entered in a parent category that has several depths of subcategories.
- Made all columns sortable for Categories, Suggestions, Comments and Votes tables in the backend.

- Fixed display of total category votes as zero if no votes exist for that category when in a suggestions details and it shows suggestion votes out of category votes.
- Changed the footer link to direct to beeheard.cmstactics.com instead of cmstactics.com
- Allow html tags in suggestion description and comments if allowed in configurations.
- Added English language files for both the site and administration.
- Created Spanish language files.
- Change directory structure for language files to meet standard.
- Fixed module position conflict with component that resulted with older php versions.
- Fixed bug when trying to add a new suggestion or comment in backend only where it didn't recognize the value of a variable since it didn't exist yet.
- Have option to display the Details word following the category in the list of suggestions view.
- Added a new line between the category’s description and the Enter New Suggestion/Register or Login to submit a suggestion! due to having more space when the category’s description is really long.
- Added the options to display a suggestion’s status, display the word “Status” preceding the status and hiding the status of “None” if desired.
- Fixed editing suggestion/comment issue where admin overrides the user’s username who created the suggestion.
- Fixed vote count conflict with guest and users with same IP address.
- Added functionality to move suggestion to another category in the backend.
- Added functionality to move comment to another suggestion in backend.
- Fixed the stripping of html elements when suggestion is being updated.
- Added upgrade/install file to override database structure when new features are added that require database structure changes.
- Added functionality for registered users and guest to receive email notifications listing comments posted to their suggestions if allowed by parameter settings.  Registered users are allowed to edit that option whereas guests are not.  Administrators can customize the contents of the email.
- Added the option for specified user group levels to receive email notifications when suggestions and comments are entered to BeeHeard.  In order for users in specified user levels to receive emails, the Receive System E-mails option must be set to ‘Yes’ for users.  This option is available in the User Details in User Manager for each user.
- Added functionality to return votes to users and close voting when a suggestions reaches a specific status set in the params.
- Added parameter to customize the closed/disabled voting label.  The default is blank but can be customized to display “Closed” or “Disabled” when a user runs out of votes or the suggestion reached the disabled voting status.

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