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Solidres v0.9.0 Stable is released

Solidres v0.9.0 is the release that took a lot of time to get stable enough for public release, this version contains a lot of major and minor new features, bug fixes and improvements:

New features

  • Back end reservation creation
  • Support booking per night and per day
  • Support single use supplement
  • Support min and max people limitation
  • Add deposit by length of stay
  • Add search box in Media Manager
  • Allow editing asset’s coordinates directly in map
  • Add new system event: onTariffAfterCompute (see plugin Sample for usage instructions)
  • Add new system event: onSolidresAssetViewLoad
  • Add option to toggle multilingual support for better performance
  • Add Falang content element for currencies
  • Add option to hide room type form fields like adult number, child number, guest name
  • Add option to show tariffs only when guest enter check in and check out
  • Add new translation: Arabic, Polish, French, German

Improvements

  • Add new options to handle adjoining tariffs and overlapping tariffs better.
  • Add new option to specify how child room cost is calculated (per age range or per quantity)
  • Update translations: Italian, Greek, Russian
  • Improve date handling
  • Change the order of Next and Back button in front end
  • Detect when User plugin need to be reinstalled

Bug fixes

  • Add missing icon for asset with rating 0
  • Fix PHP notices messages related to Facebook Open Graph in front end
  • Fix issue that asset can not be saved without tax
  • Fix issue with Hub pagination
  • Fix delete issue between room and Limit Booking plugins
  • Fix language strings in country edit/add screen
  • Fix incorrect order of post code and city name in front end
  • Fix incorrect number of child max quantity in Check Availability module
  • Fix asset’s theme can not be saved
  • Fix date picker incorrect dates when option “Min days book in advance” is enabled
  • Fix regression that custom payment method’s message is cleared too early
  • Fix room type copying: rooms/standard tariff/complex tariffs are now copied too
  • Fix issue that room type can not be deleted because of facility
  • Fix cancel buttons because of recent change in Joomla 3.4+

As usual, we also release updates for many commercial plugins and templates, more details below:

Plugin Hub v0.4.0
  • Add option to show/hide carousel in hub search page
  • Add option to show/hide sorting bar in hub search page
  • Add option to show/hide each filter section in Filter module
  • Improve search in multilingual site
  • Support search by category and search by asset’s name
  • Add filter row for asset listing view in front end
  • Add missing smoking option and show child options in front end
  • Fix JS issue with template compression.
  • Fix broken link in asset edit screen – tab room type
Plugin Complex Tariff v0.5.0
  • Pre-select field Limit Check in to
  • Add support for booking per day
  • Support min and max peple limitation
Plugin Feedback v0.1.0
  • This is the inital release of this plugin, this plugin allows you to collect your guest’s feedback after they checked out. You can also manage your feedbacks and show feedback in front end with module Feedback.
Plugin Advanced Extra v0.2.0
  • Fix incorrect SQL updates
  • Add support for booking per day
Plugin Discount v0.1.0
  • Fix issue with multiple discounts applied together
  • Update Greek translation
  • Add support for booking per day
Plugin Invoice & PDF v0.3.1
  • Fix date not show correctly because of time zone
  • Update Greek translation
Plugin Offline payment v0.1.1
  • Fix card form not showed when this payment method was selected before
  • Fix credit card validation rules
Plugin User v0.9.2
  • Fix customer group filter and close button
  • Add support for booking per day
  • Add pl-PL translation
  • Fix various PHP notice messages
  • Fix link powered by Solidres can not be turned off in my reservation view
Module My Recent Searches v0.1.0 (New)
  • This is the initial release of this new module which show a list of your recent viewed assets in front end. This plugin requires Hub plugin.

Also, we are packaging our latest template L’Amour, it will be available soon while the new version of our Statistics plugin needs to be delayed because we are having some regressions with the quick booking form.

Useful links for you

Update notes

  • Backup your website (files + database).
  • Download 0.9.0 and install using Joomla Extension Installer, it will automatically update your current version. Or you can update using the built-in Joomla Updater.
  • If you are subscribers, please make sure all plugins/modules are re-installed for best compatibility with new version.
  • If you are using a 3rd templates that have override files for Solidres, make sure they are compatible with new version.

Solidres v0.9.0 Beta 2 is released

Thank to many useful feedback on the first Beta, we’d like to announce the availability of Solidres v0.9.0 Beta 2, Complex Tariff v0.5.0 Beta 2 and User v0.9.2 Beta 2. All subscribers can download from menu Download – Show all downloads.

There are many fixes, new features and improvements since the first Beta, there is a new tab Tariff in Solidres Options which allow you to configure how you want Solidres to handle adjoining and overlapping tariffs.

We are also making a great progress on the brand new Feedback plugin, the first Beta version of it will be available soon for testing.

Solidres v0.9.0 Beta is released

We’d like to announce the first Beta release of v0.9.0 is ready for download by all subscribers (please go to menu Download – Show all downloads). We also release Beta versions for Complex Tariff v0.5.0 and User v0.9.2 as well, we’d love to hear your feedback so that we can improve it further toward the stable releases.

Please note that in this testing phrase, Solidres v0.9.0 Beta need to be installed in a new Joomla installation without previous Solidres versions installed. We will re-enable upgrading feature in the stable release of v0.9.0.

Solidres v0.9.0 development updates – May 2015

Coordinates editing

May has come and we’d like to share some latest development news:

Solidres for Joomla v0.9.0 development is going well with many bug fixes and new features implemented, the highlights are:

  • Reservation creation for staffs: before v0.9.0, reservation can only be made in front end. This new feature will allows reservation to be created by back end staff or front end partners (Hub plugin), it will be very handy when you need to record reservation over phones or direct reservation or reservation via other booking sources.
  • Editable asset’s coordinates: before v0.9.0, coordinates will be automatically generated in the background using Google Maps Geocoding service, but sometimes coordinates generated this way is not correct and we need to manually adjust them. Since v0.9.0 we add an UI that allow you to manually choosing coordinates by dragging map marker on a real Google Maps, it is very handy and ensure 100% accuracy.
  • Booking per night or per day: Solidres was built to support hotel booking, that’s why Solidres support booking per night out of the box. Since v0.9.0 we add a new field in asset to allow configure whether an asset is for booking per night or per day.
  • Add plugin event onSolidresTariffAfterCompute: this will allow you to write plugin which modify the computed tariff programmatically, it is useful when you want to change the tariff’s result the way you want without having to edit Solidres core files. With this change we also develop a simple plg_solidres_sample plugin to demonstrate this ability so that you can use it as an example to develop your own.
  • Add plugin event onSolidresAssetViewLoad: the initial idea is from this topic when fabrikastyle implemented mod_sr_last_visited. We have to give a big thank to fabrikastyle for the contribution and sharing effort. Base on that we developed mod_sr_myrecentsearches which offer the same functionality but following Solidres coding standard, this module will be released when v0.9.0 get stable.
  • And more which will be disclosed in the stable release change log.

About Solidres for WordPress, we are are working to keep it up to date with Solidres for Joomla v0.8.0 (or event v0.9.0 if time allows).

We will release Solidres for Joomla v0.9.0 Beta for all subscribers in the next several days to get feedback so that we can fine tune it for stable release. Please stay tuned and check back often for more news.

Solidres v0.9.0 development updates

March has been an exciting month for us, so far we have released Solidres for Joomla v0.8.1 and the initial public Solidres for WordPress v0.1.0 Beta 1. At this moment we are focusing on the upcoming Solidres for Joomla v0.9.0, this release will highlight 2 long awaited features:

  • Backend reservation creation for hotel staff
  • Feedback plugin

Along side with them, there will be improvements and bug fixes as well as other new features. This version is targeted for April release, but the plan could be changed if it need more time to be fine-tuned. Please stay tuned for more news.

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