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Continuing the more detailed description of items mentioned in the Work in progress article, one of the items mentioned is the CB Rating Field Plugin. This is another item that demonstrates the power of the CB 1.2 API. This field-type plugin adds another CB field type to the existing list of available field types.

This plugin is installed just like any other CB plugin via the CB Plugin Management backend. Once installed and published, website administrators will see an extra field type available when creating a new CB field in the CB Field Management backend – a Rating field.

As mentioned in the Work in progress article, one of the items the CB Team has been working on is the CB Privacy plugin. This piece of work illustrates the power of the CB 1.2 API. The plugin basically extends all CB fields and provides them with an extra layer of interaction that will enable CB members to specify (if the proper parameter is set) the viewability of a CB profile field.

Also, as extra functionality, this plugin allows website administrators to specify if a field can be edited by the user from front-end or not by the user or by a CB moderator. 

Some important announcements were made during the Joomladay in Switzerland event held on November 15th, 2008 in Luzern. On behalf of the CB Team, Beat gave an hour long presentation (initially planned for 45 minutes) revolving around many behind the scenes activities that have been taking place during the past months.

This article will serve as an introduction to a series of preview articles that will present in depth the various new “work-in-progress” items announced by Beat.

In parallel to getting CB 1.2 RC3 bugs ironed out, the CB Team has been preparing a number of very cool plugins. Many of these have been requested before by the community and others were created to serve a real need and test various CB API enhancements.

The CB Team will be represented by Beat in the first ever Joomladay in Switzerland. Beat will be giving a 45 minute presentation regarding CB and things in progress. 

For those fortunate Joomlapolitans in the Luzern area on November 15th, 2008, it will be a rare treat to meet the CB core developer and get first hand insight about CB 1.2, in progress work and future plans.

Beat will also be making a number of important and exciting announcements and will also be giving live demos about CB and other CB related work in progress.

Community Builder 1.2 Release Candidate 3 has been completed by the CB Team. RC3 addresses all the issues identified in the RC2 forum area (24 issues) and also a dozen more found by the test team and the CB development team. CB 1.2 RC3 has been running on Joomlapolis for a few days now and we believe that it is a very close to stability release ... but this remains to be seen .

RC3 is available - once again - to our supporters (doc subscribers, language translators, testers, etc) as a thank you for there efforts and continued support.

RC3 also contains a number of very nice last minute features:

• custom field input validation
• integer field type
• image field type
• new CB Tool to check on fix integrity of user database
• more extensive layout facilities and substitutions (a professional template is in the making to take advantage of these new facilities)

Lets pound away and get Community Builder 1.2 stable out as soon as possible!