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IP Mapping 1.4.0 released

location-48IP Mapping release 1.4.0 available.

The Joomla component came from a requirement to display IP addresses of site visitors upon Google maps.

This minor update corrects a minor problem but was mainly intended to prepare for Joomla 3.5 and the character set utf8mb4.

See the changelog for details.

The release is available in the usual download location on our site.

Timesheet Component 1.0.1 released

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We are pleased to announce the release 1.0.1 of our Timesheet component for Joomla 3.4.

Macrotone Timesheet is a component which allows employees to enter timesheet information that may later be printed and/or distributed to the company accounts for processing. The idea is that employees have a central mechanism for time entries against specific project (or account) codes.

At initial release it runs upon Joomla 3.4 the current Joomla release.  Note that it requires a MySQL database version 5.5.3 or higher.

This minor update corrects a few newly discovers problems but more importantly add a system plugin to provide synchronisation for the users details.

Please see the changelog for more details.

Timesheet Component 1.0.0 released

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We are pleased to announce the release of our latest component Timesheet for Joomla 3.4.

Macrotone Timesheet is a component which allows employees to enter timesheet information that may later be printed and/or distributed to the company accounts for processing. The idea is that employees have a central mechanism for time entries against specific project (or account) codes.

At initial release it runs upon Joomla 3.4 the current Joomla release.  Note that it requires a MySQL database version 5.5.3 or higher.

A timesheet is defined as a piece of ​paper upon which an employee records the number of hours they have ​worked. We have taken this and made it a Joomla component for recording these hours, Within the back end of the site one can add existing Joomla users to the timesheet tables, thus enabling them to create/edit their own timesheets. One also defines the users who can 'approve' and already completed timesheet, either at this stage or later.

The back is is also where the account/project codes are created and maintained. In the initial release the time codes are visible via a front end display, but are not editable or created on the front end.

The front end is where users will create their timesheet, and where they are generally approved. The timesheet' grid' is where the hours assigned against each project (or account) code is performed. All grid editing occurs solely in the users browser. The grid data is not saved to the database until the user presses the 'Save' button.

Note that time sheet grid editing is not implemented in the back end by design.

The component has an option to ensure that each user can only submit one timesheet for each defined weekly period.

EU Cookie Plugin 1.1.3 released

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EU Cookie system plugin release 1.1.3 for Joomla 3.4.

This minor update modifies a few parameter settings and updates the copyright year.

The plugin has been used on our site since the introduction of the legal requirement to comply with the EU Cookie Directive for web sites.  This plugin complies with the regulation by notifying the user of the Cookie policy.

 

IP Mapping 1.3.3 released

location-48IP Mapping release 1.3.3 available.

The Joomla component came from a requirement to display IP addresses of site visitors upon Google maps.

This minor update corrects a minor problem with the earlier 1.3.2 release.  Tested upon Joomla 3.4.8.

See the changelog for details.

The release is available in the usual download location on our site.

Password Control 0.1.6 released

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Password Control system plugin release 0.1.6 for Joomla 3.4.

This update adds the password checks to the User password rest form when the user has 'forgotten' their password.  It also updates the copyright date to 2016 and changes the 'once date' criteria to be a calendar form field.

The install file is available in the download area.

Issue Tracker 1.6.10 released.

issues-48We are pleased to announce the availability of Issue Tracker release 1.6.10 for Joomla 2.5 & 3.4

This update corrects a number of problems, mainly minor found since the last release. There are no 'new' features as such, but the Tags feature has been modified and it is now possible to add tags to an issue from the front end.

This release has not been extensively tested against Joomla 2.5 which has been unsupported by Joomla for nearly a full year (at the date of this release).  It is expected to run but we regret that support for against such an old version of Joomla is unlikely to be available.

This release also continues with the implementation of some suggested improvements from our users.

See the changelog for details of all of the changes.

 The update is available in the download area.

Joomla 3.4.8 released

joomlaThe Joomla! Project and the Production Leadership Team are proud to announce the release of Joomla! 3.4.8.

This is a bug fix release for the 3.x series of Joomla This release fixes some bugs related to session management from Joomla 3.4.7. The project understands that many of our users are now on Christmas Holiday's so we would like to emphasise that this release only contains bug fixes and whilst we strongly encourage our users to update as soon as practically possible, this update can be left until after any holidays.

What's in 3.4.8

Joomla 3.4.8 fixes some issues found in the 3.4.7 release on Monday to do with browser sessions. All reported bugs from the 3.4.7 update have been fixed in this release:

For known issues with the 3.4.8 release, see the Version 3.4.8 FAQ in the documentation site.. Please note that it is expected that you will be logged out as soon as the update is complete.

Official release details are located here.

Kbase 1.1.0 released.

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We are pleased to announce the availability of Kbase release 1.1.0 for Joomla 3.4

Kbase is a 'knowledge base' component used to present support information for our developed components in a user friendly manner upon our web site.  This update corrects a few very minor language problems and adds a new Glossary (Acronyms)) feature.

Updated documentation is available both as web pages and as a downloadable PDF file.

The update is available in the download area.

Joomla Audit 1.1.0 released.

auditWe are pleased to announce the availability of Macrotone Joomla Audit release 1.1.0 for Joomla 3.4

This minor release corrects a problem discovered in the earlier release 1.0.2 on some tables. It also introduces a few new features, the most notable of which are the ability to 'purge' out all change history records with a single click, and also the ability to download the change records as a CSV or zipped file, for later post processing if required.

This version ONLY runs on Joomla 3.4 and above.

 See the changelog for details of all of the changes.

 The update is available in the download area.

We have also repacked the older 1.0.2 release with the updated helper file and released it as version 1.0.3 for Joomla versions 2.5 and Joomla 3.3 and earlier. This is unsupported but fixes a known problem with the 1.0.2 release.

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