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001 Hello World with Joomla Component Builder 002 Intro to JCB 003 Installation of JCB 004 General Planning 005 Field Types 006 Basic Fields 007 Admin Views 008 Advanced Fields 009 Adding Admin Views to a Component 010 Component Settings 011 Component Scripts 012 Component FTP and more 013 dynamicGet 014 Adding dynamicGet to a Site View 015 Adding Templates and Layouts to a Site View 016 Template Setup 017 Layout Setup 018 Custom Admin Views 019 Adding Site Views to a Component 020 Adding Custom Admin Views to a Component 021 Tweaking MySQL Demo Data 022 Global Settings of Component Builder 023 Adding a custom time field 024 How to integrate the Create User Helper Method in your Components 025 How to use email helper in your components 026 How to setup a store message method along side the email helper class 027 How to ensure that a field is not escaped when added to list views 028 How to change exported values and setup custom import options 029 How to overwrite the custom fields 030 How to filter a list field based on association with another field 031 Automatic import of custom code during compilation in JCB 032 JCB manual custom code implementation 033 Export Import of fully mapped components 034 How to add Custom Buttons in JCB to your component Admin Area 035 Translation Mananger in JCB explained 036 Setting Site View Permission 037 Auto create SQL updates for Componets in JCB 038 Setup Site Edit View in JCB 039 Automated backup system in JCB 040 Adding Helper Structures to any JCB component 041 Upgrade to JCB v2.5.8 and using the new Admin View and Admin Fields 042 How to setup tabs after upgrade to v2.5.8 in JCB 043 Major Release of JCB v2.6.0 044 Hello World Component with Joomla Component Builder Creator Extended 045 Adding your own rule validation to a field in JCB 046 General overview of how community snippets work 047 Tutorial on forking JCB snippets so you can share your snippets with the rest of the Community 048 Tutorial on making a pull request at Joomla Component Builder Snippets 049 The New Library Manager Area 050 Easy Translation via excel 051 Dynamic Router Implementation Explained 052 Automated database updates in Joomla during development of a component 053 Quick Subform Demonstration 054 VDM Package Import Option 055 Dynamic File and Folder Inclusion concept 056 How to use the file field type to upload a file in JCB 057 Drag and Drop Upload functionality in JCB 058 The Quick Hello Word with JCB 059 Adding none database fields to an admin view 060 The custom dashboard option in JCB 061 Add or Remove Prefix to Component Name in Joomla Menu 062 Add your own JCB packages to the JCB Communty Directory 063 Proposed Collaborative Workflow in JCB 064 How to install jcb packages 065 JAB18 Using Joomla Component Builder 066 The new fields Area to make things easier 067 Adding Language String to your Component and get the Language Placeholder for dynamic use 068 Library Manager Anticipated Functionality 069 Join Fields in the admin list view with field relations 070 How to change the License Template in JCB 071 Reuse Custom Code 072 Setup Local Development Environment with Bitnami 073 JCB Fields Type Extended 074 How to add Joomla Custom Fields 075 Expand Custom Field Type Beyond The Default 076 A Quick Demonstration to Load a List of Items in a Site View 077 Run Expansion Explained 078 How to Add a Form to a Site View 079 Update the Site Form Field via URL Parameter 080 How to Add More Helper Methods to Your Components Helper Class 081 Easy Validation Rules for Fields in JCB 082 New Placeholders Feature 083 Manage a Components Global Config Option Field in Relation With Menu Params 084 Default Database Values can be set per Field Type Beta Testing Component Settings Develop a Joomla Component Guide to use the Component Builder Developing with Joomla Component Builder Home PHP Settings TIPS: Custom Code Using the JCB Demo Component While Building Your Local Development System
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VDM PACKAGE IMPORT OPTION

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This VDM package option that has been put in place will be great news for those who have purchased some of the JCB packages, like the Advanced Demo Component and the Sermon Distributor Component.

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This is a demonstration of what had been done and also some suggestions for future changes in the import components area. An extra tab has been added by which paid or free components can easily be imported. 00:00:39 It is called the VDM packages.

It will take a while to load it since it queries GitHub and checks and gets a list of all the latest packages. If GitHub is updated it will automatically show the new packages. 00:01:01 At the moment Hello World and the Demo versions are free packages and we are planning to add some more.

If Sermon Distributor is Reset - Everything Gets Reset

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If you have already purchased the Sermon Distributor version, just select it. Since JCB is constantly improving and with it Sermon Distributor, we are making changes to Sermon Distributor and if you want to update yours or even if you have played with it and you want to reset it, but remember if you have to reset it, it will reset everything including every field and even Field Types. 00:01:52 Do keep that in mind that if you install this package over the existing one, it will revert everything back, what is great though, is that Joomla keeps history. 00:02:07 If you put your history on for the JCB component, you could take a step back to some of those areas.

Install By Clicking Get Package - Read All Information That Is Given

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Select the package that you would like to install and then click on 'Get Package'. This will take a while as it is downloaded from GitHub. Please make sure to read all these things. You should end up on the page which usually shows who created the package. If you do not have a key, you could click on this 'sermondistributor' link to buy the key, 00:02:55 or get it from any of the other packages as well, there is a link that says 'Buy Packages'. Here it will show the component that is being installed, SERMON DISTRIBUTOR 2.0.2 which is the latest version. You can add your key here. Then click 'Continue'. Then it gets installed.

Quiet Switch Added

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We added this new switch here 'Quiet' . Some of the releases might have a spelling mistake like this one here which is 'Quite'. It has been fixed and a fix for this had been pushed out. This 'typo' will be fixed in JCB 2.7.1. 00:03:50 This 'Quiet' switch gives the option to see exactly everything JCB does when a package gets imported. It shows what IDs were changed but it does not give you the names, only the ID references. 00:04:19 Usually, it is set to quiet, so that you do not see all that detail except you would like to see if things had been done.

Force Local Update - Overwrite Existing Data

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If you want to overwrite existing data the 'Force Local Update' may be used. If it finds an item and that item is newer than the one 00:04:48 that is being imported then it drops the import option, and it keeps the newer version in your system. It usually worked like this when the Force Local Update had been clicked to 'No'. If you change it to 'Yes', then it will ignore the time stamp completely and update the item irrespective of whether it is newer or older or whatever. 00:05:15 Add the ID and then click 'Continue'. Now you will have a very detailed printout. It will indicate that it has been found, and then updates it. But if it is not found, it will say, that ID so and so, in a certain field was changed to ID so and so, and it has been imported. 00:05:44 There is quite a long list of everything it did and at the bottom, it says 'Great!'

Everything was visible because we ticked it not to be Quiet. Sermon Distributor was imported. It should have all the data here. If the licensing might have changed another license (vdm.txt) can be added and then save and close.

Then you can compile it. 00:06:28 Select Sermon Distributor, click Compile, and then once it is compiled, then you have the Joomla package. It also includes the external script which is also a demonstration of the adding external scripts. It grabs it from GitHub. 00:06:54 It is simply a script that checks for 'mime_types'. The first time it is very detailed but if it is open again, only this may be seen; (There have been 2 - code 'strings added to this component as EXTERNALCODE. To avoid shipping your component with malicious code'strings always make sure that the correct code'string values were used.). Only if it changes will you see something like that again. You can click on install. If you go to components there it is Sermon Distributor fully mapped, and all functional. 00:07:17 JCB has built this by importing it first from our GitHub repository. Then you are able to adapt it and use it anywhere. That is the new feature, hope you like it.

Suggestion - Community Tab

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Go back there for a moment to Importing Components. The suggestion is to have a 5th tab. So there will be this tab VDM packages and then a Community tab where members of the community can share free components. We are still thinking about a sharing paid components tab. 00:08:04 We want to avoid that it to become too complicated because if you click on anything and then click Get Package, that package has internal variables which decides what that values are going to be. 00:08:28

If we would click this 'googlePlusProfileFeed' value, it takes you to my shop where that specific product may be purchased. That is a value determined by the package which means it should not be that hard for us to include paid components. 00:09:06 Still under discussion is whether JCB should ask a contribution to support a project in this way.

If anyone has suggestions please post it here at the bottom of the video, make comments. At the end of the day, we want to make sure that the community can use this as a nice tool. 00:09:33 I even thinking of moving this option, this Importing of components, to an actual tab, on the dashboard. So you can get to this page without having to first go to components and then click through here. 00:09:54 There is even that kind of discussion. But just for now we wanted to demonstrate the new feature. It has been able to do that already. We just did not have that extra tab but you could have copied the links to those packages on GitHub and have imported them that way. That is what the ReadMe files would have shown you if you purchase any of these keys.