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CB Auto Actions 4.0 released!

The new CB Auto Actions 4.0 plugin lets you implement powerful workflow and process automations with virtually no coding!

You can create unlimited automated actions and set them to get executed based on any one of over 400 event triggers from Community Builder, GroupJive, CBSubs, CB Activity, CB Privacy and CB Antispam.

Version 4 now has unlimited usage for appropriate actions (e.g., you can create a single Field action that modifies multiple fields), optional translation of conditional substitutions and new trigger drop-down selection with searching. Also, three new action types have been added (Menu, Antispam and Privacy). This means there are now 23 action types supported:

Activity, Acymailing, Antispam, CBSubs GPL 3.x, Code, Connection, Email, Field, Flyspray, GroupJive, K2, Kunena 1.7, Kunena 2.0, Login/Logout, Menu, Private Messages, Privacy, Redirect, Registration, Request, Usergroup Virtuemart 2.x

Here is a more detailed list of action types with basic usage concept: 

1. Activity action types let push new activity items to your activity stream (see tutorial example)
2. Antispam actions can be used to block or whitelist users, IPs, email address or entire domains
3. Field actions can be used to set, add, subtract, mulitply, divide, etc. CB Field values for users
4. CB Paid Subscriptions actions can be used to subscribe, renew, unsubscribe or delete users from CBSubs GPL 3.x subscription plans (see tutorial example)
5. GroupJive actions can be specified so users join or leave groups and can also be used to create new GroupJive groups or categories
6. Connection actions let you create CB Connections between users
7. CB Privacy action types let you add privacy rules to users (for profiles, fields, etc.)
8. Menu actions lets you add new items to CB user profile menus
9. Email actions can be configured to send (HTML or text) email messages with CC/BCC lists and file attachments. Emails can be configured to be sent from different accounts and servers.
10. Private Message actions let you send private messages to/from users
11. Usergroup actions let you add/remove users to/from specific Joomla ACL groups and you can also create new groups (see tutorial example)
12. Registration actions can be configured to automatically create new user accounts
13. Login/Logout actions can be configured to automatically login or logout a user
14. Redirect actions let you redirect users to specific URLs
15. Request actions execute specific URL targets (supports GET, POST, XML and JSON methods
16. Query actions can be created to execute (internal or external) database SQL statements (see tutorial example)
17. Code actions let you execute HTML, PHP (eval or create function), Javascript (inline or URL), jQuery, CSS (inline or URL), or load code to header, page title or pathway.
18. Kunena 1.7 actions
19. Kunena 2.0 actions (Kunena 3.0 also supported) can be used to create new forum categories
20. Acymailing actions can be used to add, remove, subscribe. unsubscribe users to/from Acymailing newsletter lists
21. K2 actions can be used to synchronize/delete users to K2 user groups
22. Virtuemart actions let you add/remove users to specific Virtuemart 2.x shopping groups
23. Flyspray actions let you integrate (user sync, add users to projects, etc.) your Joomla website with the popular open-source project management flyspray script

As you can see the list is huge and the potential is enormous. There are currently 4 use case tutorials (see linkes in list above) in our tutorials use cases section and many more examples on our forums. We are also preparing a related presentation for this years J and Beyond conference that we are Video sponsoring, so we will have many more examples to share.

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CB Antispam released with great protection tools

Protect your Community Builder websites against spammers with the new CB Antispam plugin.

The new CB Antispam plugin is by far the most complete and versatile services independent protection mechanism available for Joomla websites.

Just install and publish it as a CB plugin and you can configure it to:

• Human challenge your CB forms (registration, login, forgotten password, email messaging) with Captcha image with audio playback and refresh button (also supports recaptcha and question mode)
• Automated duration configurable (e.g., 1 hour, 1 week, etc.) blocking of IP after failing registration or login (X failed attempts in Y duration)
• Automated duplicate registration blocking based on existing registrations from single IP (e.g., useful to block multiple free promotional trials)
• Stop or limit account sharing (e.g., single login session per account at any given time)
• Frontend blocking of spammer (account, IP, email, email domain) account for moderators visiting spammer CB profile

These are extremely powerful features that will help you manage multiple forms of spamming.

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CB Bootstrap 2.1 responsive template plugin release !

Make Community Builder responsive with the new CB Bootstrap 2.1 template plugin!

It's new, it's clean, it's super cool and it looks great on phones, tablets and computers, with your responsive Joomla template !

The CB Bootstrap template gives your existing profiles, user lists, tabs, menus, pop-ups and plugins a modern fresh new look.

It also styles all of the Advanced CB Add-ons and Professional Incubator add-ons profile apps.

You will be pleasantly surprised by the result. See for yourself how awesome CB Bootstrap looks on the CB Quickstart PRO demo site.

The new CB Bootstrap 2.1 template plugin is just one of the 43 add-ons available to Professional/Developer members and it also works great with our Joomlapolis Joomla 3.0 responsive templates.

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CB Privacy 2.0 with new account removal feature released!

The new CB Privacy 2.0 release is now available with many new features including frontend user requested account removal and general profile privacy settings.

Release 2.0 is a complete rewrite that supports all previous features and versions (upgrade automatically recognizes all previous version configurations) with the addition of the following new features:

• Let your users completely remove their accounts on your website with
  the new 'Close My Account' link in their user profiles
  
  
• Users can also disable their accounts with
  the new 'Disable My Account' link
  
  
• Administrator can specify default privacy settings for entire profile with
  the new Profile Privacy field
  
  
• Notify users and moderators when accounts are disabled or removed

• Administrator can specify default privacy settings for profiles, fields and tabs

CB Privacy 2.0 is available to all Advanced, Professional and Developer members from the Advanced Download area and as with all our latest add-ons it works on all versions of Joomla including the latest Joomla 3.1 beta 2 release.