vBa Dynamics - Looking For Beta Testers!

[Brian]

First, let me address the paid beta testing thing (even though Kevin seems to have covered it quite well). There are very few companies that I've heard of that release their beta versions for free. I know vBulletin certainly wasn't giving away licenses during any of their last beta tests. We've used the same pricing and beta testing structure for our past products and I don't remember any complaints then, so I was a bit thrown off to see that a few people seem upset by that. I think Kevin has covered our reasons for this pretty well, though I would like to add that charging for the beta version also helps to ensure that those who are receiving the product are actually going to use it.
I can fully understand that some people may not want to pay to help test a product. That's certainly your prerogative. There are also plenty of people who like the opportunity to start using a product once it's first released and the ability to work more closely with the programmer to see that some of the features and ideas they have are included in future releases. There are also those who've applied that have said that they have been waiting for something like this forever and can't wait to start using it. We've had a great response so far though, and I think we're building a great group to participate in the test. :)


I would be very interested in testing this out if the users could edit their time stamp so that they could change the order of there blogs if they needed to.

Is there any chance this could be added to this feature?

I can definitely see how that would be useful. I've added that to my to-do list, but since we've just started the testing and I'm not completely sure what my work load will be like yet or what other features might have to take priority, I can't say how long it might be before that's added.

Brian:

Regarding the multiple instance license, I'm curious to find out how this works. For example, is the multiple instance license needed when you need more than one instance of blogicles files? Is this needed if you mod-alias/mod-rewrite for blogicle?

The Multi-Instance license is only needed when you want to run more than one copy. Ex: You want to have a separate section for blogs and articles (or whatever). Now, you could possibly run both blogs and articles in the same instance just by changing some category options and having a separate category for each. That would still be allowed with a single instance license since you're only installing one copy. If you want your blogs and articles to be totally separate and independent from each other though, then that's where the multi-instance license comes into play.
No, a multi-instance license is not required to use the mod-rewrite functions and such.

A few questions...

1. If I am using GARS (http://www.thevbgeek.com), why should I switch to this for articles?

2. What are the differences between this and vBlogetin (http://www.vblogetin.com)?

3. I use a vBa CMPS sidebar on my whole site. I don't want to have two left columns. Can I put the Blogicles blocks on the right side?

Also, I would love to see some integration between this and Zoints Local. I have already decided on Zoints, I would love to deactivate the Zoints blog and integrate this one into it.

Unfortunatly I can't give you much of an answer for 1 & 2 since I've barely ever looked at either of those products. We do have a few testers that have been accepted that are currently using GARS and at least one using vBlogetin though, so hopefully we can get a review from some of them once they've had a chance to get a feel for vBa Blogicles.
For #3, blocks can be placed in the left, right, and center (both above and below the main content).

So what can you do to profiles with vba blogicles?
There's really not any type of profiles with vBa Blogicles. You can, however, let your users edit their vBa Blogicles pages (when browsing their members category or viewing an entry by a user) and choose which modules are active on them, as well as their positions. There are also a few modules that are user editable and specifically geared towards this, and I'm sure more will be created by the final version.

KW are 25 and 35 dollars prices of the final product or are those discounted prices?
$35 for the regular license and the additional $25 for the multi-instance license are the discounted prices. For those asking about the final price, we're still waiting to see what kind of interest there is and the final prices probably won't be determined for a few more weeks. We won't be talking about a drastic increase on either type of license though as we certainly want to keep the price reasonable and affordable.


A question, can you create html pages in a category? For example I have a category with the name of team and in it players and each player have his own page with html and images?
You can't really create HTML in a category per-say, but you can enable HTML within entries (though that's strongly discouraged if you let anyone besides yourself post entries). You could definitely setup categories for different teams though and then add each player as an entry.

[tim99]

No you've got it completely wrong, just read the first message. You're buying a license, not paying to beta test.

I've been publishing software for almost 30 years so I understand your point, it just doesn't apply here.

Using your analogy of the house - if you helped build the house you would get the house at a discount.


You got it wrong. I don't want this into an argument. I pay no one to test. Anyone who has been around as long as I have doing this knows the difference. Thanks anyway. My time is valuable. I don't debug your work so you make money off of it and a charge to me. If I help build the house I either live in it or I get paid for it. I don't rent it.

Besides. Your a member not the coder so please turn this thread back over to the rightful owner.

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[Tom_S]

Let me first say I truly apologize for opening up this can of worms. I will tell you however that I have beta tested for Microsoft all the way back to OS2 if anyone even knows what that is. I didn't pay them. They paid me and not only did they pay me I received free version upgrades as long as I participated by allocating my precious time to their project where they profited.

Now as far as how they do it now...that is fine..I merely overlooked that you are doing that and opted back out stating that I don't do your work for nothing in return. There is no money back guarantee here that I read so if the project bombs out due to mysql updates or php conflicts or who knows what could cause you the team to drop the ball but the bottom line is there is a lot of people that would have given you a lot of man hours (tiny in comparison to yours) to the project and risk it going belly up.

A good way to do this? Hand pick a select group of applicants that has what it takes to help on the project and give them what a beta tester does get or did when I did it. Then you won't go wrong with a full cast team that is dedicated to the project with benefits.

Okay..Now again. I humbly apologize for opening that can of worms. That was only my opinion from my point of view and not meant to cause a riot.

[Brian]

I can respect your opinion. Different people have different prerogatives, the same as different companies do things different ways.

There is no money back guarantee here that I read so if the project bombs out due to mysql updates or php conflicts or who knows what could cause you the team to drop the ball but the bottom line is there is a lot of people that would have given you a lot of man hours (tiny in comparison to yours) to the project and risk it going belly up.
If a case occured where the product simply would not work on somebody's server then we would offer them a full refund. In the 3 years that we've been around though I can only recall one case where the product would not work, and that was mostly due to the server settings. That customer was given a full refund.
As for us dropping the ball, in reality, that could happen with any company at any time. We're not exactly new though, and we've created a few other sucessful products in the past. What we've done with vBa Blogicles isn't exactly new coding for us either. A good majority of it is based on code that was already working and tested with our other products, though much of it was optimized. Yes, there will be problems with the software, but nothing that would make us say "forget it, we're closing up shop because of that bug".

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[blankoboy]

Unfortunatly I can't give you much of an answer for 1 & 2 since I've barely ever looked at either of those products.


Congrats on starting up a new product Brian! I must add though that not researching other existing Vbulletin products (GARS, VBlogetin) prior to starting development of your own or at any time seems somewhat short sighted.

vBa Blogicle - Blogs + Articles
GARS - Articles + Reviews
VBlogetin - Blogging system

Will Blogicle get a Review system added before it goes final? I don't think I could switch away from GARS to an Blog+Article mod that didn't support reviews. Good luck!

[PoetJC]

NICE! I am so excited about this one!
Just upgraded to 3.6.4 (FINALLY!) and have been considering vBlogetin - but have used vBadvanced Portal CMS since the beginning... Have been EXTREMELY satisfied with its functionality.

So a Blog/Article system from vBadvanced is AWESOME! Very exciting stuff for us vB-heads ;)

Sending email now!

Jacquii.

[Tom_S]

Sounds good Brian. I will be keeping my peepers open on the project. It looks like a worthwhile one for sure. I simply do not have the time to help out so I will wait for the finished product. :)

[smackLAN]

Hey Brian...you been bored in AZ or is David working you like a dog? ;) Nice stuff...I'll be watching this closely as I greatly admire you and your work!

[Brian]

I must add though that not researching other existing Vbulletin products (GARS, VBlogetin) prior to starting development of your own or at any time seems somewhat short sighted.
Remember that I said *barely* looked at them. I did check the feature list of each about 2 weeks ago and tried to make sure that vBa Blogicles had any of the key features and more. There were only a few small things that I ended up adding from that. I did browse around those two products as a guest as well, but that was about the extent of my research. I'm not going to purchase a competing product or look at it's coding, so either of those products could have more features that I'm not aware of, and I don't really know what's on the admin side with either of them. As far as I know our product has a lot more features and options than either GARS or vBlogetin, but again, I can't say that I've fully used either.

[0ptima]

Id like to see an example of this being used strictly for articles.

[Brian]

Anything specific as far as what kind of features you'd like to see enabled/disabled? I'll be glad to throw up another demo for you and change the settings so that it would act more like an articles script.

[Mick2015]

Not necessarily. The CMPS is more of a homepage or simple CMS system. vBa Blogicles is more for keeping a database of articles, blogs, files, and etc.
wow good to hear that, but can u have both installed in later relases ?

[Erox]

Just a suggestion...

Are there any plans with this to enable restricting certain articles and blog posts to specific usergroups? One of the plans we've been cooking up on my site is to offer tutorials and articles to members in specific usergroups.

But we'd also like to offer a little excerpt to tease and entice people to become registered members. Perhaps even paid subscriptions into a specific group for some areas we're exploring.

It's a great recruiting tool.

Even if you were offering this for free, I'd be compelled to send you a donation given the quality of your work and service with all your products. I KNOW this thing is going to rock and it's saving us a ton of headaches trying to come up with our own solution. CAN'T WAIT till it comes out. :D

[Brian]

wow good to hear that, but can u have both installed in later relases ?
You can currently have both installed (we have both here ;)). The two products are completely independent of each other.

Just a suggestion...

Are there any plans with this to enable restricting certain articles and blog posts to specific usergroups? One of the plans we've been cooking up on my site is to offer tutorials and articles to members in specific usergroups.
Currently there are default usergroup options where you can control which groups can view entries/posts, submit entries/posts, and about 30 other options. You can also change most of those same permission settings on a per-category per-usergroup basis through the "Category Permissions" link in the admin cp.

But we'd also like to offer a little excerpt to tease and entice people to become registered members. Perhaps even paid subscriptions into a specific group for some areas we're exploring.
If I'm thinking correctly, you could do that with the current version. I think we're going to need a new permission setting for "Can Browse Categories" to make things a little easier, but for the time being you could edit your specific category permissions and set the "Can View Category" option to yes and the "Can View Entries" option to no. That should allow your users to browse the category, but not be able to see the full content of entries. And of course if you have any ideas as to how we could improve this just let me know in the vBa Blogicles Feeback & Suggestions forum.

[blankoboy]

Remember that I said *barely* looked at them. I did check the feature list of each about 2 weeks ago and tried to make sure that vBa Blogicles had any of the key features and more. There were only a few small things that I ended up adding from that. I did browse around those two products as a guest as well, but that was about the extent of my research. I'm not going to purchase a competing product or look at it's coding, so either of those products could have more features that I'm not aware of, and I don't really know what's on the admin side with either of them. As far as I know our product has a lot more features and options than either GARS or vBlogetin, but again, I can't say that I've fully used either.

Thanks for your reply Brian. Is there still the possibility that VBlogicles will get "reviews" added to the feature list before going final? :)

[Brian]

Can you be a little more specific as to what you mean by "reviews" exactly?

[Paul M]

We have with every other product (except the CMPS of course), and we've given a discount each time the same as we are now. I don't think the prices are unreasonable at all.I'm sure your final product prices are reasonable - but expecting me to pay to test your software for you - sorry, but you must be kidding.

I can see that plenty of people seem to have time and money to burn so I'll leave it to them. :cool:

[YukseLL]

i would love to beta this for you please consider me as a beta tester for this.

[ConqSoft]

I'm sure your final product prices are reasonable - but expecting me to pay to test your software for you - sorry, but you must be kidding.

I can see that plenty of people seem to have time and money to burn so I'll leave it to them. :cool:


Jelsoft lets people test Beta versions of vBulletin for free? :confused: ;)

[Timewalk]

Just applied for the beta, hope you havent closed it as of yet..

Sorry for the delay guys/girls, ive been off sick due to heart surgery..




Joe Gronlund

[0ptima]

Anything specific as far as what kind of features you'd like to see enabled/disabled? I'll be glad to throw up another demo for you and change the settings so that it would act more like an articles script.

Nothing in particular, just want to see what it would look like in "article mode" (I wont be using the blog feature). Please also include a decent example of an article with inline images (they will be at most 600 pixels wide).

How would the image attachment work in article mode? Is the following possible:

[Block of Text]
[image]
[Block of Text]
[image]
[image]
[Block of Text]

(This would be a step by step how to with images)

Thanks.

[Milad]

For sure. I'll purchase this, if it support importing from vBJournal, I think it's easy.

Regards

[osirisjemz]

Please read here.

http://www.vbadvanced.com/blogicles/main-category-2/clicking-on-tags-searches-more-than-just-tags-ie-posts-too-20305/

Essentially the tags are not bringing up similarly tagged articles they are searching entire posts for the tagged word.

Much more useful would be for clicking on a tag to bring up posts with the same tag.

[osirisjemz]

I believe this bug is now fixed.

http://www.vbadvanced.com/blogicles/main-category-2/page-buttons-dont-work-20301/

[0ptima]

Any word on setting up the articles demo?

[aacircle]

After taking a closer look at this product, I don't see how it differs so much than using vbulletin directly. I can easily create a new forum and place articles in it and restrict access / functionality to certain usergroups. So why is vBa Blogicles so great then? Just something I can't workout....

Also, I didn't see any option allowing for HTML entries. It seems only BB code and straight text entries can only be used.

[BWJ]

Nice work Brian: One suggestion:

Make it possible to make different custom fields categories for different categories in the admin panel. So you could have:

Categories:
A) Articles
B) Reviews
C) Classified

Custom field categories:
1) Sex, age, height etc.
2) Sale, Buy, Rent etc.
3) (ex. cars): BMW, Mercedes, VW, Golf
4) (dating): romance, marriage, friendship etc.
5) etc.

Then you as an administrator could decide which category should have which type of custom fields:

e.g.:
For articles: You would combine 3) ... may be with one or more other categories (though not 1,2 and 4)

For classified (dating): You would combine 1) and 4)
For classified (advertisment): You would combine 2) and 3)

This way you would could exploit Blogicles in unlimited ways.... You don't have to consider to make a seperate review system... The users will do it themselves very easyly.... Make this and you will make a fortune.... :)

[skuba]

I don't know if I am looking on the wrong place, but I can't see on the demos anything that resembles a blog. I would expect to have small articles with at least one or couple images.
What I see looks more like a forum.

Can someone please explain it to me?

Thanks

[Alfa1]

So what can you do to profiles with vba blogicles?
Does anyone have an answer?

[Lionel]

If there will be an importer for vbjournal, i'll buy this new blog in a heartbeat. I want to get rid of that journal but i've got too many entries in there :confused:

[Raze]

Nice to see you continuing development with vB related products Brian :)

Just a few questions I hope you'll have the time to answer..


So with blogicles can we have more than one set up? Eg use it as a blog system and an article system and a users-groups system and a reviews system etc?

When using it as a member-groups section, can the users create their own groups? If so is it possible to moderate these? (Perhaps they can submit a description when applying?). Also, will they be able select who can join their group? In particular will they be able to 'moderate' members who want to join their group? (If they are denied or accepted will the system automaitcally let the person know via a PM?) Can we as admin also specify whether we want _any_ of them to be private or not? I wasn't sure if I was allowed but can I sign up to the demos you posted to have a look around?

I also agree with some of the others, that there should be some sort of enhanced member profiles. Eg, to say which 'groups' people are members of, what their lates 5 blog entries are (or article entries etc ((not 'posts' but actual entries))) or perhaps to indicate which groups they are 'leaders off'. Re group 'owners', can there be more than one? (some people may want to share) or if not, perhaps just say 'group started by' so it shifts the ownership aspect. How about a simple friends list? To use the groups aspect of it that would be extremely beneficial - The enhanced profiles don't have to be as feature rich as zoints, but I think the bare minimun would be; friends list (showing avatars), user comments from others, and perhaps people being able to upload more than one profile pic or being able to specify which of their uploads they can show on their profile. Plus the other bits I mentioned above re latest blogs etc.
Uploads - will there be an option where people can browse through other peoples submitted pictures etc?


I think that's all the questions for now, sorry it's a bit rushed. I'm not sure I could help beta test but am happy to post suggestions so long as there is an area I can keep up with the latest developments.

Good luck with the system and nice to see you back :D

[0ptima]

Has beta testing begun? anyone use this for articles?

[HenrikHansen]

I don't know if I am looking on the wrong place, but I can't see on the demos anything that resembles a blog. I would expect to have small articles with at least one or couple images.
What I see looks more like a forum.

Can someone please explain it to me?

Thanks


Agrees

[Greps]

I don't know if I am looking on the wrong place, but I can't see on the demos anything that resembles a blog. I would expect to have small articles with at least one or couple images.
What I see looks more like a forum.

Can someone please explain it to me?

Thanks
agreed. the feature list for vblogicles sure is nice, but it looks nothing like a blog system.

[wacnstac]

This looks interesting and I am interested in beta testing (please contact me), but I really want to use it for article posting and would like to see an example of that.

[Brian]

0ptima - My apologies for not getting this setup sooner. It's been a pretty hectic week. Here's a copy that should behave more like an articles program though:

http://www.vbadvanced.com/blogicles3/index.php

Feel free to play around with that and if there are any questions I can answer or there are any settings you'd like to see changed please let me know.


After taking a closer look at this product, I don't see how it differs so much than using vbulletin directly. I can easily create a new forum and place articles in it and restrict access / functionality to certain usergroups. So why is vBa Blogicles so great then? Just something I can't workout....

Also, I didn't see any option allowing for HTML entries. It seems only BB code and straight text entries can only be used.
You'll find a lot of the same options as you will with vB, but this gives you a totally different section of your site as not everyone likes keeping everything in a forum. There are also countless options you won't find with your forum like Members' Categories, the module system, what's new, what's popular, favorites, custom fields, tags, and etc. There are options to allow HTML in entries, posts, and custom fields on a per-category basis. This of course comes with the same potential security risk of allowing HTML in your forums though.

Nice work Brian: One suggestion:

Make it possible to make different custom fields categories for different categories in the admin panel. So you could have:
When adding or editing a custom field there is an option to select which categories that field will be displayed in. ;)


1. So with blogicles can we have more than one set up? Eg use it as a blog system and an article system and a users-groups system and a reviews system etc?

2. When using it as a member-groups section, can the users create their own groups? If so is it possible to moderate these? (Perhaps they can submit a description when applying?). Also, will they be able select who can join their group? In particular will they be able to 'moderate' members who want to join their group? (If they are denied or accepted will the system automaitcally let the person know via a PM?) Can we as admin also specify whether we want _any_ of them to be private or not? I wasn't sure if I was allowed but can I sign up to the demos you posted to have a look around?

3. I also agree with some of the others, that there should be some sort of enhanced member profiles. Eg, to say which 'groups' people are members of, what their lates 5 blog entries are (or article entries etc ((not 'posts' but actual entries))) or perhaps to indicate which groups they are 'leaders off'. Re group 'owners', can there be more than one? (some people may want to share) or if not, perhaps just say 'group started by' so it shifts the ownership aspect. How about a simple friends list? To use the groups aspect of it that would be extremely beneficial - The enhanced profiles don't have to be as feature rich as zoints, but I think the bare minimun would be; friends list (showing avatars), user comments from others, and perhaps people being able to upload more than one profile pic or being able to specify which of their uploads they can show on their profile. Plus the other bits I mentioned above re latest blogs etc.
4. Uploads - will there be an option where people can browse through other peoples submitted pictures etc?


1). Yes, but only with a multi-instance license. The multi-instance license allows you to install as many copies as you would like on the same domain. Each copy will be completely independent from each other so you can change anything in one instance without affecting any of your other instances. Basically the same as we have here with our 3 demos:
http://vbadvanced.com/blogicles/
http://vbadvanced.com/blogicles2/
http://vbadvanced.com/blogicles3/

All 3 of those were installed using the same multi-instance installation options from the install file.

2). I'm not really sure what groups you're speaking of... I'm not sure what you're seeing, but there are no kind of special groups with vBa Blogicles.

3). I don't really see the point of users having a separate profile from the default vBulletin one. Any of the things you're asking about could just as easily be added as plugins to the normal vB profiles.

4). Possibly in the future, but that's not a planned feature at this time.




For those saying that it doesn't look like a blog system, keep in mind that you can enable/disable just about anything you see within the demo. Most of the options are enabled in the main demo though to try and show what it's capable of. The content probably isn't very "blog-like" either since I just imported posts from here to try and keep it from looking bare. If there's something specific that anyone thinks would enhance it's blog capabilities then we're always open for suggestions as well.

[insolentmuse]

Has beta testing begun? anyone use this for articles?

I am using this specifically for articles and have it pretty much up and running.

[insolentmuse]

If there's something specific that anyone thinks would enhance it's blog capabilities then we're always open for suggestions as well.

From what I can tell in playing with it, a great deal can be done with it just in templating to make it appear more "blog like" while still appearing integrated into the site.

[tfw2005]

Great stuff guys.

I seriously want this program. It will cover 2 of my major needs on a site that has 3000 news entries and 1000+ articles with plans to expand greatly.

My thoughts and suggestions:

Articles - Category icons. Ability to upload and apply icons to categories, and then have that icon applied to each individual post, aligned as you wish in the template, and clickable to a listing of all articles in that category.

Articles - Editor's picks. Ability for Staff/Admins/Mods to mark a given article as an "Editor Pick", and then have a query to call these into a block. Functionality could potentially be used to sticky hot, new, or well done articles on the main page above cat listings. Both "title-to-article" and "Read More" style options (with first thumb and cat icon).

Articles - Thumbnails. Ability to only show first thumbnail of attachments aligned left/right, with text wrap. This should show up in cat listings, and on main page. In full story mode, this still shows within the article body, aligned left/right as defined in template, and the rest are shown regular style down below.

Articles - Ability to enter a URL or thread ID to an already ongoing discussion in the forums. With a magic wand, it would pull the posts into this as comments, and when clicking reply, take you to that thread to post replies from there. Choose "create thread for comments" - Creates thread with article as first post, and uses replys from there as comments. *(I think the VBDrupal system tries to do this, just never worked properly for me).
If nothing like that checked, uses Vblogicles comment system.

Most of my daily news comes from the forums. Right now, we have to create a thread in a closed forum that shows up on front page, so it is formatted properly and credited to staff, and manually link to the thread the members created with the original news and discussion. The above scenerio would knock that out, and be AWESOME.


Articles - Main Page. Ability to show the top 10/20/30 articles in "read more" format, with thumbnails and cat icons. These pull from ALL sub cats. Then have a listing of Cats/Subcats as is present already, and keep the same as it is now (Read More style blocks for that cat specifically).

Articles - Main Page. Ability to have more dynamic templates/formatting. This can probably be done with hacking after it's released, but key is allow us to have something such as

"Main Story (thumbnail, intro text, read more" ->
Break ->
2 COL LAYOUT [Last 10 entries from all cats, titles only] [Editors Picks, titles only]
-> Break
3 COL LAYOUT [Category Listing] [Navigation] [Random Entries] (all title format)
->
Etc, final block, whatever, etc.

Ability to use this as your main page (replace VBAdvanced, or merge into it).

Overall, ability to make this NOT look like a forum. I want my non-forum areas to look more like a regular news/article site, rather than forum. I have generally been able to accomplish this via modding templates. Just takes forever. The articles system recently released by "MadebyMary" does this well. Lack of communication and buggy home forum makes me nervous about trying that. And I know you guys do great work, so would prefer to stay here.

I have other ideas which would merge into this real well, but dont look doable with the current options. Could be possible with a couple additions, and now is the perfect time to start on them. Ill wait to see if this post is received well, if it is, Email or PM me and Ill elaborate here or in private.

And, Keep up the good work. Thanks!

[derision]

Is the beta still open I havent received a reply to my request yet.

[aacircle]

Brian, do you have an anticipated release date? March, April or later?

Cheers.

[0ptima]

I just noticed that the image link button is missing http://vbadvanced.com/forum/images/editor/insertimage.gif I like that is has the VBA gallery look, but im still not sold on this product for an article system.

[Brian]

aacircle - Some time in April would be my best guess right now. It's still pretty early in the beta testing process though, so there's really no way to tell right now.

Optima - That image isn't missing, I just have the [img] tag turned off in some categories.
What do you feel that it is missing as far as an articles system goes?

[Mick2015]

You can currently have both installed (we have both here ;)). The two products are completely independent of each other.


sweet !

[Shon]

What do you feel that it is missing as far as an articles system goes?Sorry to barge in, but I figured I would answer that question as well (really for articles, reviews, etc.)... the main thing that I would say is the ability to post multi paged entries.

[BWJ]

If you combine very powerful custom fields with a very powerfull search function then you have the foundation for something that can be used in multiple ways... Even though I really appreciate the on/off custom field function - It will only be a part of the solution... Please consider the following:

1) Include a multiple selection box as a possibility with the custom fields....
This is a 'must have' when you deal with many custom field categories and the users should have more than one option to choose from.

2) What I can see from the demo - it seems that the principle behind the search function is the same "obsolete and inlogic" way of doing things (excuse me...). On one hand Blogicle's (same problem with vbalinks!) offers custom fields which is very nice - but on the other - what does it help - when you can only search for keywords? If you like to have a classified system - you need dropdown boxes, check boxes whatever to choose geografic, price, and so on to narrow you search... The same goes for article and blog system.... This should not be difficult to implement - and I am sure you potentially will get a lot more customers.... The search engine of a system may be not the first that catches an users eye... but when he tries something - that eases his/her use of the system, then the notice, pleasure and feeling would be clear.....

[osirisjemz]

Brian :
Can you comment on the Tag bug in Blogicles ?
http://www.vbadvanced.com/blogicles/main-category-2/clicking-on-tags-searches-more-than-just-tags-ie-posts-too-20305/

[Brian]

BWJ - Thanks for the feedback. I'll see what I can do to get those things added in.

osirisjemz - That will be corrected in beta 2.

[stitch]

I have sent email for beta testing requisition. Would there be any feed back or answer from you?

[BWJ]

BWJ - Thanks for the feedback. I'll see what I can do to get those things added in.


That sounds great! It would make a huge difference...