Here is a summary of changes in each release of EasyLayouts
We are thrilled to announce the release of version 1.4.x of EasyLayouts - this is first full release for Joomla 4.
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.x
Here is a summary of changes in each release of EasyLayouts
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