Here is a summary of changes in each release of EasyLayouts
We are thrilled to announce the release of EasyLayouts for Joomla 5.
Version 1.5.+ should continue to work in Joomla 4.3.x for the time being - though going forwards testing will be against version 4.4+ and 5.x only.
If you are upgrading your site to Joomla 4 and are already using the EasyLayouts 1.3 series you should install version 1.3.3+ before upgrading to Joomla 4. EasyLayouts will be disabled in Joomla 4 until you upgrade to version 1.4+ of EasyLayouts
Here is a summary of changes in each release of EasyLayouts
Version 1.7.3
Date Released : 23 April 2024
New Features/p>
- Mini-layout hover effect for intro and full images in articles
- JSON/AJAX reloading of matching float articles when used with filter module
- Configurable option to show grid/list toggle in float view
- Option to output image fields as raw URLs - can be used for background images via CSS
- New option to disable label output in filter module
Changes
- Image style should be set if any of height/max-height/width/max-width are set
- Switch submit event to requestSubmit events so that listeners can intercept when called by javascript
- Joomla 5 fixes for sites with compatibility plugin off - mainly article routing links
Version 1.7.2
Date Released : 12 March 2024
New Features/p>
- Replaceable Keys/Values for mini-layouts. Static strings initially but will be extended to pick up parent layout values such as article IDs
- Output download statistics for eldownload field visible to super users and other users with backend access
Changes
- Disable easylayout plugin when using Joomla CLI e.g. for smart search index updates
Version 1.7.1
Date Released : 27 February 2024
New Features/p>
- When credting premade structured you can now import HTML e.g. bootstrap modal template code from https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5.0/components/modal/#static-backdrop
- New translatable text field type in layout to make labelling buttons and links easier
Changes
- Fix for custom field rendering in version 1.7.0 - sometimes was adding an extra closing div tag in the output
Version 1.7.0
Date Released : 21 February 2024
New Features/p>
- First experimental release of template creation engine - requires custom template installation. See documentation article on usage
- Re-usable mini-layouts for articles
- Re-usable pre-made structures
- Add category name to related article lookup selector
- Add support for sprintf formatting codes instead of just %s replacement
Changes
- Add support for custom field prefix and suffix output
Version 1.6.3
Date Released : 1 February 2024
New Features/p>
- Add support for custom Login and Logout pages
Changes
- Fix for warnings on required form fields after adding and cancelling new fields and rows
- Fix for missing fields in modal popup when in full screen view
- Fix for showon issue when adding new rows
- Fix for new rawHTML rows - should not offer column options when first created
Version 1.6.2
Date Released : 25 January 2024
New Features/p>
- Custom offline page can now be overridden by adding a customisable ?key=val to the URL - in this situation the offline page would revert to the Joomla default
Changes
- Strip menu/module mapping from imported layouts - these were causing the import to fail
- Remove duplicated task field on layout edit page
- Fix MySQL filter when using experimental custom field filtering
Version 1.6.1
Date Released : 24 January 2024
New Features/p>
- New calendar custom field type (elcalendar) - Joomla stores date fields with no time as a date/time value adjusted by timezone. This can make filtering based on dates values impossible - this new custom field stores the value exactly as set in editing interface with no time value (when no time value is specified in the field configuration)
- Layout editing now uses tabs which can make it more obvious when there are additional options available e.g. custom JS or CSS
Changes
- Update handling of Articles Category Module layouts to support changes in Joomla 4.4/5.0
- Fix grouped item category module output in Joomla 4.4+
- Minor improvements to export of layouts and importing new ones to pick up some default parameters
- Enhance article.mini title links
- Fix for layout filters and sort integration in management interface
Version 1.6.0
Date Released : 8 December 2023
Changes
- Update handling of Articles Category Module layouts to support changes in Joomla 4.4/5.0
Version 1.5.6
Date Released : 5 December 2023
Changes
- Add support for custom offline and error pages
- Language file changes for Joomla 4.4.1/5.0.1
Version 1.5.5
Date Released : 13 November 2023
Changes
- Correct missing custom field output in v 1.5.4
- Fix for multi-checkbox filter issue in PHP 8.x
Version 1.5.4
Date Released : 9 November 2023
Changes
- Allow matching custom fields by name in layouts where the ID doesn't match up - useful when importing layouts and the custom field IDs are not synchronised. This will work AFTER all layouts are edited and saved
- EasyLayouts Download custom field now has config option to control which download statistics you want to record
Version 1.5.3
Date Released : 3 November 2023
Changes
- Fix for showon for option values causing container class names to be lost when reloading a saved layout
- Set sortable ghost height set to 20px to make dragging rows into columns easier
- Start to remove a few deprecated functions e.g. Factory::getUser()
Version 1.5.2
Date Released : 27 October 2023
Changes
- Enable EasyLayouts to run in Joomla 5 without using the compatibiliy plugin
- Add support for empty column handling e.g. 1/3 1/3 1/3|1/3 2/3
- Include explanation of how to use test versions of layouts as tooltip on the icon
- Add support for custom UIKit prefix in layouts to allow alternatives to uk-
- Fix Easylayouts Download Field - was not rendering correctly in edit pages since v.1.5.0
- Fix for PageNaviation issue in Joomla 4.4 within content items
- Fix for menu/module filtering - the custom fields didn't always format correctly until you saved and re-editing a menu item/module.
- Fix category specific layout selection when sub-categories don't inherit from parent category
Version 1.5.0
Date Released : 19 October 2023
Changes
- Minor changes to support Joomla 5
- Add support for support for Joomla user registration, profile editing and display layouts
- Fix for module style setting in layout
- Eliminate PHP 9.0 deprecation notices shown when using PHP 8.2
- Catch CW Multicategories bug
Version 1.4.19
Date Released : 14 August 2023
Changes
- Fix Javascript error in showon affecting select lists where the options values are conditional. This could cause unpublished themes default to being published when they are edited :(
- Fix for setting custom field vales in constraints - was caching based on specific initial item name but now uses form field attribute which is more reliable
- Bootstrap 5 fix for article selection in selected articles module
- Fix for grouped items wrappers stripping HTML tags
- Typo for mysql expression conditionality check
- fix for sortable repeating custom fields
- Fix for module position in admin module editing
Version 1.4.17
Date Released : 10 July 2023
Changes
- Fix filtering of input fields - some were being aggressively stripped by Joomla e.g. HTML removed from value/label separator field
- Remove stray carriage returns which broke top/bottom wrapper functioning when used with a field attribute e.g. <a href="/ and then ">Click Here</a>
- Config option to match custom fields by alias and context when importing layouts
- Fix ordering issues with new rows in layouts
- Update sortables library works better in firefox
- Fix for list of layouts display of article edit layouts - was not showing the correct indicator for layouts used in both frontend and backend
- Fix usage of publish up and publish down fields in backend article editing layouts
- Workaround for date filters when the date custom field is stored with time data attached!!!
- Fix article ordering in EasyLayouts Articles Module
- Allow article edit layouts to be used in both front and backend and not just one or the other
- Fix for author and category custom field output in EasyLayouts Articles module
- Fix for date filtering when date format isn't YYYY-MM-DD
- Fix for joomla media field not setting current modal on opening modal to select image
- Use Joomla 4 trigger to better populate custom field interactions in constraint setting - affects image selection and calendars amongst others where javascript needs to be initialised when adding a new field or subform entry
- Tweak CSS to make field selections easier to manage in constraint setting
- Allow component layouts e.g. single article, blog views etc. to specify a particular joomla site template to use. Allows a menu item to change the layout of a page dependent on the output type
- Fix for com_finder layouts to allow category selections in layout editing
- Fix for com_finder read more output in articles
- Allow up to 200 columns to be used in the layout
- Implement EasyLayouts debug mode so that you can debug layouts independent of Joomla debug mode
Version 1.4.13
Date Released : 21 March 2023
Changes
- Joomla 4.2.9 changed the way the form validator script works so we now need to set the 'elements' on the dom element we pass in to simulate being a HTML form
Version 1.4.12
Date Released : 21 March 2023
Changes
- Add support for Smart Search/Finder Results styling - specific styles for content items and general styles otherwise
- PHP 8/Joomla 4 change to fix PHP is_callable problem in some float layouts
Version 1.4.11
Date Released : 9 March 2023
Changes
- Repackaging of 1.4.10 which was not the correct package in the Joomla update manager
Version 1.4.10
Date Released : 8 March 2023
Changes
- New option to allow filtered custom fields with multiple value to force match to ALL values selected and not just one which is the default
- Make sure image caption and alt values are set before referencing them
- Fix for resetting filter and custom field values
- Add option to filter list of layouts for all related to a specific view - e.g. all the category blog related layouts together.
- Add config option for multi-select fields to match all selected values
- When match all selected values for multi-select fields allow default values to be skipped
- New layout option for intro items and lead items to display the output in responsive column layouts - Bootstrap 5 and UIKit 3 only
- Fix for importing layouts which match specific menu items - was throwing a duplicate key error
- New filtering option for menu items to use MYSQL statement so you can compare a date field with NOW() for a dynamic date based filtering
- Fix for changing filter module filter options after pagination - goes back to start of the list. Previously adding secondary filters on second page could output nothing instead of a smaller subset of results.
Version 1.4.9
Date Released : 28 February 2023
Changes
- Fix for contact form fields in Joomla 4 - was picking the form file from the wrong file location
- Fix problem adding new fields in version 1.4.8
Version 1.4.8
Date Released : 14 February 2023
Changes
- Fix for Joomla 4 when adding new fields to layouts - was not initialising tabs or showon until the layout was saved. Caused by the say Joomla 4 initialises scripts
- Add more custom form outputs so that filter module can work without permission to edit field values
- Improve custom field condition styling in layout editor
- Warn users if filter custom field is not visible to non-editors
- Parsing error for raw_html field selection in v1.4.7
Version 1.4.7
Date Released : 10 February 2023
Changes
- load bootstrap using Joomla method which uses dom.js rather than bootstrap.js which could lead to duplicated event handlers
- Fix for filtering rawhtml field value = HTML was being stripped in J4
- Add placeholder/hint to video code input in elvideo field
- Allow filtering on tags to be multi-value - any of the selected values to be matched
- Allow custom field values to be output 'unwrapped' i.e. HTML value without the Joomla wrapping HTML signifying field value etc.
- Allow attributes to be set on media type field output
- New output option for article category title to show link, raw text or raw link as output
- Show warning that grouped items cannot be used in float output
- Start of work on new EasyLayouts Articles module - will offer more advanced article selection rules that articles category module together with direct selection and ordering of articles
- Fix for Save2Menu in article edit actions
- Custom field condition styling in layout editor
- Warn users if filter custom field is not visible to non-editors
- $view->get("columns") needs to default to 1 otherwise sometimes get division by zero for newly created blog/float layouts where the value has not been set!
Version 1.4.6
Date Released : 16 January 2023
Changes
- Improve required fields handling when adding new output fields to layout. Message now appears in popup and blocks it from closing
- Month Select field now allows you to filter articles based on creation date, publish up date or modification date
- Reset button in filter module will now work if the filter module is displayed WITHIN the adminForm part of an article list view
- Fix for save and new article button in Joomla 4
- Fix Db function call during uninstallation
- Remove 'update' SQL files from old J3 migrated sites.
- Update modal popups of full image and intro image to use Joomla 4 based modals
- Meta Key Values for images now use the src instead of the full tag - allows use custom media fields for og:image meta tags
- Switch experimental filtering for ENUM/Radio field values to use FIND_IN_SET
- Fix for combined fields handling in Joomla 4
- Fix loading of bootstrap css and js when configured to do so in Joomla 4
- Make sure Media custom field picks up alt tag settings
Version 1.4.4
Date Released : 30 October 2022
Changes
- Remove print, print preview and email article icons from output options (pending implementing our own version) since Joomla 4 no longer supports these
- Trap for occasional combined fields table permissions issue to warn user that the database user has insufficient privileges if needed
- Tag list layout support and individual tag layout within this
- Switch default layouts for newly created to bootstrap 5
- New option to hide out of publish date range in frontend even for event editors/publishers
- Fixed single article layout module (was throwing data model error)
- Joomla 4 fixes for eldownload field
- Add option to skip token checks for eldownload field (not generally recommended)
Version 1.4.3
Date Released : 29 September 2022
Changes
- Add support for category custom fields in content layouts
- Add support for tag list component views
- Add support for popular tags module
- Add default layout for EasyLayouts filter module
- Add additional class options for submit and reset buttons in EasyLayouts filter module
- Fix for articles category module not respecting EasyLayouts in Joomla 4 (was missing bootstrap 5 output options)
- Fix for managed location field type in Joomla 4
Version 1.4.2
Date Released : 12 September 2022
Changes
- Fix for category blog ordering by custom field config in Joomla 4
- Fix for reflection examination of system plugins sometimes being given an array
- Full fix for pagination and ordering of els filtered category blog views
- Category model fix for Joomla 4 for filtering category items
- Fix for article editing layout
- Formatted output for custom fields so you can created sophisticated HTML outputs with the value e.g. tel: type links of scaled imagesn etc.
- Fix for module display without a layout in Joomla 4 due to change in publish_up/_down fields
- Fix for author custom field output
Version 1.4.1
Date Released : 3 August 2022
Changes
- Fix for missing ucm table in some Joomla 4 installations
- Fix for showons not working on "new layout" creation page
- Fix for Joomla reporting DB errors (was missing a space in SQL declaration that didn't affect MySQL but did affect Joomla interpretation)
- Missing ArticleModel declaration in Joomla 4
- Fix for tags layout in Joomla 4
- Fix for pagination links not appearing in single article view
Version 1.4.0
Date Released : 4 July 2022
Changes
- Joomla 4 compatibility
- Changes and functionality inherited from the 1.3 series of EasyLayouts