Elxis 4.3 requests

[Amigamerlin]

@Amigamerlin:


- Category structure that can be compressed and expanded.
Provide more information. Which category structure? In admin section the full tree is visible. Do you need a custom module for the frontend area?
UNKNOWN

Sorry I was not precise. I'm referring in admin control panel.

- Notification to Email of user detail.
It is not wise to send access details in plain text via email. What we did is to add the feature to send email to users with custom text. You can select multiple users and send emails at once to all selected. This was a request by sawaedy and fulfils your request too. See attached screenshot.
DONE.

Sorry datahell but IMHO the feature to contact users is not the same.
Maybe is not wise to send detail access in plain text but anyway I need to send them their users detail.
Doing this Using CMS feature or sending an e-mail is the same thing (both are plain text).

The difference is that with this missing feature I need to do the job 2 times.
Go to figure: I need to create a reserved area for 80 Users.

I don't let them register by themself but I prefere to register them all by myself.
I need to insert their data inside CMS, take note of the inserted data and manually send an e-mail, one by one, with their own user detail.
Having this feature I have just to insert their data. CMS do the rest of the job for me.
Moreover I rememebr you that this feature was present in ELXIS 2009.x (and for me was really useful and not for me only).
Let me know.

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[Dimitris Kanatas]

contents in an article ΟΚ! thks 

EL - Αποστολή προσωπικών μηνυμάτων μεταξύ των μελών από το δημόσιο τμήμα.

[datahell]

Regarding Sharing buttons which some users requested: integrating sharing buttons in your site is as simple as writing 1 line of code in your template's index.php file. It is not needed to be elxis core feature, not even a third party extension. See how easily you can integrate add this for example: https://www.addthis.com/get/sharing-sidebar However if you insist I can develop a third party extension (module and/or plugin) which will make use of Add This services.

@Amigamerlin: You are like a headache . We will see what we can do to satisfy your requests.

@Dimitris Kanatas: Αυτό δεν μπορεί να γίνει στην παρούσα φάση. Ίσως θα μπορούσε να φτιαχθεί ένα third party module που να εμφανίζεται σε κάποιο σημείο στο template και να κάνει αυτό που θες. Θα σε ικανοποιούσε αυτή η λύση;

[datahell]

I forgot to mention that sending username/password via email to users cannot be done. Elxis stores users' passwords in database encrypted with a special function that does not allow decryption (for maximum security). There is no way to get user's password even if you hack the database. When you login in Elxis CMS Elxis encrypts the password you provide and compares it with the saved encrypted value. If these 2 match then it grants you access. You need a super computer performing a brute force attack to be able to crack the shalted sha1 encrypted password... So, the feature you requested cannot be implemented. You can use the new added "contact" functionality to mail the user his username/password (if you know them, or just created the user).

Here is an encrypted user password (very simple one). You can try to crack it if you like: 09b2550704363dd0ba689ee4d49a3e88279cc88a

[Dimitris Kanatas]

  EL - Φυσικά. Στις περισσότερες εφαρμογές π.χ. facebook, forum χρησιμοποιείται αυτή η δυνατότητα σε μεγαλύτερο ποσοστό, αν και υπάρχει διαθέσιμο e-mail. Με αυτό τον τρόπο θα υπάρχει αλληλεπίδραση χρηστών. Προσωπικά πολλές φορές χρειάστηκε να επικοινωνήσω μέσω pm του fb με μέλη από το site που είναι φτιαγμένο στο elxis, ενώ θα μπορούσαμε να το κάνουμε αυτό χωρίς να εγκαταλείψουμε το περιβάλλον του elxis (εξάλλου αυτός είναι ο στόχος μας). Ελπίζω σύντομα να έχουμε αυτή τη δυνατότητα.

[Amigamerlin]

I forgot to mention that sending username/password via email to users cannot be done. Elxis stores users' passwords in database encrypted with a special function that does not allow decryption (for maximum security). There is no way to get user's password even if you hack the database. When you login in Elxis CMS Elxis encrypts the password you provide and compares it with the saved encrypted value. If these 2 match then it grants you access. You need a super computer performing a brute force attack to be able to crack the shalted sha1 encrypted password... So, the feature you requested cannot be implemented. You can use the new added "contact" functionality to mail the user his username/password (if you know them, or just created the user).

Here is an encrypted user password (very simple one). You can try to crack it if you like: 09b2550704363dd0ba689ee4d49a3e88279cc88a

Hi. I'm happy to be your headache and this post is the proof.
I'm simply sure that ELXIS is secure I've no dubt about.
In my opinion can be enough to send the user's detail and password just before Encrypt/Store it in the database or find a way to sent, to the user just added, info how to recover or reset the password or sending a deafult password that must be changed with a real user password at the first access ...  I dont' know ... you are the wizard and I'm simple sure that you can be able to find a solution, if you want.
Anyway always IMHO is useful to treat this feature, if you add it, as option that can be enabled / disabled.

[datahell]

@headache: Added in Elxis 4.3 the option to send automatically via email the username/password to user.
Important notes:
- This option added in add/edit user form in administration area. When you add a new user, or edit an existing one, you can click to mail access details to the user.
- Works on non-administrator accounts only (for security).
- Works on new user accounts or on existing user accounts if you provide the user password.
- The user must not be blocked.

If you wish translate the following into Italian (or any other language).

$_lang['SEND_ACCDET'] = 'Send access details';
$_lang['SEND_ACCDET_DESC'] = 'Send Username and Password to user. Works only on non-administrator accounts and on new user accounts or if you provide the password.';
$_lang['YCAN_LOGIN_DETAILS'] = 'You can login at %s by using the following access details.'; //translators help: ... login at {SITENAME} by ...
$_lang['ACCESS_DETAILS_SITE'] = 'Access details at %s'; //translators help: ... at {SITENAME}
$_lang['ACCDET_SENT_USER'] = 'Access details sent to user.';

[Amigamerlin]

@headache: Added in Elxis 4.3 the option to send automatically via email the username/password to user.
Important notes:
- This option added in add/edit user form in administration area. When you add a new user, or edit an existing one, you can click to mail access details to the user.
- Works on non-administrator accounts only (for security).
- Works on new user accounts or on existing user accounts if you provide the user password.
- The user must not be blocked.

If you wish translate the following into Italian (or any other language).

$_lang['SEND_ACCDET'] = 'Send access details';
$_lang['SEND_ACCDET_DESC'] = 'Send Username and Password to user. Works only on non-administrator accounts and on new user accounts or if you provide the password.';
$_lang['YCAN_LOGIN_DETAILS'] = 'You can login at %s by using the following access details.'; //translators help: ... login at {SITENAME} by ...
$_lang['ACCESS_DETAILS_SITE'] = 'Access details at %s'; //translators help: ... at {SITENAME}
$_lang['ACCDET_SENT_USER'] = 'Access details sent to user.';

Thank you from your headache 

Ps: Have you dediced about - Editable article's creation date?

[datahell]

@Amigamerlin: Added the option to edit article's creation date. You can set date time to any date in the past (future dates are not allowed).

[Amigamerlin]

@Datahell:

I promise this is my last request:

1) Availability to set a "featured" status for each article (same as public in frontpage ELXIS 2009 ).

In that way I can build a page that groups elements according this status. Using a menu item that let me take all the "featured" marked items taken from all the categories or from a single category,  is a simply way to give to the users the opportunity to build their own "frontpage" with all the article they want to stay in frontpage.

I know that this can be done using a customized module / component but since we are discussing for new feature that ELXIS will get once 4.3 will be released, IMHO this is a step forward for ELXIS CMS, having it as core feature can be a really great thing.

[rentasite]

I have mentioned in a previous old post, that the % symbol in Mikro articles does not display at all. Can this be changed in the new version of Elxis?

[datahell]

Mikro is a third party component and has nothing to do with Elxis CMS release.

[datahell]

News from Elxis 4.3 development.

1. Added the option to set an article as important.
2. Publish icons became AJAX powered. By clicking an icon you toggle items publish status.
3. IOS Slider module updated to support important articles.
4. You can now edit article's creation date.

See attached screenshot.

[Amigamerlin]

@Datahell

If you wish translate the following into Italian (or any other language).

$_lang['SEND_ACCDET'] = 'Send access details';
$_lang['SEND_ACCDET_DESC'] = 'Send Username and Password to user. Works only on non-administrator accounts and on new user accounts or if you provide the password.';
$_lang['YCAN_LOGIN_DETAILS'] = 'You can login at %s by using the following access details.'; //translators help: ... login at {SITENAME} by ...
$_lang['ACCESS_DETAILS_SITE'] = 'Access details at %s'; //translators help: ... at {SITENAME}
$_lang['ACCDET_SENT_USER'] = 'Access details sent to user.';

Italian translation

$_lang['SEND_ACCDET'] = 'Trasmetti dettagli accesso';
$_lang['SEND_ACCDET_DESC'] = 'Trasmetti Username e Password all’ utente. Funziona solo su account non Administrator, su ogni nuovo account utente generato e quando, per l’utente, viene reimpostata la password.';
$_lang['YCAN_LOGIN_DETAILS'] = 'Puoi effettuare l’accesso in %s usando le seguenti credenziali.'; //translators help: ... login at {SITENAME} by ...
$_lang['ACCESS_DETAILS_SITE'] = 'Dettagli Accesso per %s'; //translators help: ... at {SITENAME}
$_lang['ACCDET_SENT_USER'] = 'Dettagli accesso trasmessi all’utente.';

Edit: Corrected a sintax error