Changelog for Hotspots - Google Maps for Joomla!

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Hotspots 5.4.8 - Released 6-may-2019

• Fixthe k2 plugin was not respecting the provided height and zoom setting

Hotspots 5.4.7 - Released 15-Apr-2019

• Fixupdated the k2 hotspots plugin - now it works without mootools and doesn't crash with latest gmaps version

Hotspots 5.4.6 - Released 10-Feb-2019

• Difffixing the google maps version of the api to 3.34 as 3.35 introduced some incompatibilities
• Diffbetter handling of aliases when creating hotspots
• Fixwrong category description in the CB plugin
• Fixzip was not copied over from the CB plugin
• Fixgeocoding requests in CB, k2 plugins were failing because of a missing API key for the google APIs

Hotspots 5.4.5 - Released 6-Jan-2019

• Newadded a css class to the div that holds the language in the frontend form
• Newadded an option to specify a default category for the hotspots submit form in the frontend

Hotspots 5.4.4 - Released 13-Sep-2018

• FixThe frontend submit form no longer uses the mootools js framework

Hotspots 5.4.3 - Released 21-Aug-2018

• Diffsmall UI improvements to match the new google maps css
• Newadded an option to show/hide the google maps fullScreen control

Hotspots 5.4.2 - Released 17-Aug-2018

• Newchanging the map control’s css to match the new big google maps style
• Fixcrash when captcha and contact hotspots owner was on, but no config was set in Hotspots
• Newimprovements to the url custom field

Hotspots 5.4.1 - Released 10-Feb-2018

• Fixsearch was not looking in the state field

Hotspots 5.4.0 - Released 4-Feb-2018

• DiffAdded a new format_address configuration option. Use this to have the proper format for your country
• NewAPI to load all categories, hotspots or a single hotspot
• Newadded onAfterHotspotDelete event
• Newadded an option to sort the user's hotspots in the usershotspots view

Hotspots 5.3.11 - Released 23-October-2017

• Fixthe bootstrap emulation css was missing, causing some installations to behave inproperly (could not hide filters)
• Fixpostal codes for Portugal were not always correct

Hotspots 5.3.10 - Released 7-October-2017

• Fixfixed SQL error when zoomed out

Hotspots 5.3.9 - Released 24-September-2017

• Newadd GestureHandling. The behavior of google maps has changed - now per default it decides whether the scorllwheel should zoom in the map or not. Use this option to manually controll this
• Fixthe URL in the K2 form didn't add the API key
• Fixsearch query was not returning the correct results: https://compojoom.com/forum/post/no-hotspot-find
• FixWeather layer was not working as the data coming from openweather had renamed properties
• Newdisplay the hotspot's address in the latest hotspots module

Hotspots 5.3.8 - Released 06-June-2017

• Fixthe CB plugin was missing the language file
• NewDisplaying description and image in the hotspots list module
• Fixthe tiles js files were missing in the PRO package
• Newadding sorting Hotspots by id - thanks to Laurant Collongues
• Fixsome missing translations in the send map view - thanks to Laurant Collongues for pointing it out
• Fixa js error was thrown when the google streetview API was retuning OK, but for some reason didn't have any imagery

Hotspots 5.3.7 - Released 30-May-2017

• Fixfixed [] operator not supported for strings in kml request on php 7.1
• Fixfixed bug with kml import
• Fixreadmore button was not shown when it was set to show in the Hotspot params, but forbidden in the global settings
• Diffno longer saving an asset for each hotspot (saving only when necessary)

Hotspots 5.3.6 - Released 2-May-2017

• Fixthe plg_content_hotspotscategory was missing from the core release
• Newadded the id of the hotspot to the div that holds the hotspot information in single view

Hotspots 5.3.5 - Released 25-April-2017

• Fixtypo in the config.xml latitude ASC ordering was leading to a wrong query
• Newautomatically scroll an open the contact hotspot owner form when redirecting back from joomla's login form
• Fixadding a new category was not working on Joomla 3.7

Hotspots 5.3.4 - Released 24-January-2017

• Newadded an option to select a user group that is authorized to contact the hotspot author
• Fixon error in the submit form, scroll to the system-message-container to show the errors

Hotspots 5.3.3 - Released 07-December-2016

• Fixcontact owner captcha now works recaptcha v2 and with any other captcha plugin
• Fixstreetview requires an API key & we now use the api key provided to authenticate our requests

Hotspots 5.3.2 - Released 20-September-2016

• Fixsince joomla 3.6 the way the language filter has changed. Applying the changes to the hotsptos view in backend in order to see all languages
• Fixmanage hotspots in backend doesn't show all available hotspots
• Fixediting an unpublished hotspot in the frontend was not showing the custom fields
• FixMarkers do not appear after direction search
• Fixthe latest hotsptos module was not respecting the limit set on sites that use the mysql pdo database driver
• Diffserve streetview imagery over https and not http
• Newadded an option to sort the hotspots by latitude or longitude
• Newadded an option to select the categories to display in the filter
• Fixmake the API field required again as google maps now needs an API key to work
• Fixthe hotspotsanywhere plugins was loading wrong parameters when no itemid was provided

Hotspots 5.3.1 - Released 20-July-2016

• Fixcompatibility fix for Joomla 3.6 due to this: https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/commit/4cf1dbdbcecab85b4331861aaa633d359bca9617
• Diffchanged the marker list lenght option from a dropdown to input field. Now you can enter whatever pagination value you want. Don't set a too high value!
• Fixthe k2 plugin was not setting the correct language
• Fixthe search plugin now creates a link that respects the category of the hotspot
• Fixfixed compatibility with Jomsocial 4.2
• Fixadding Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * to the json response. This way the browser can load the hotspots on subdomains (CORS)
• Fixin single view on mobile one was not able to use the search directions feature

Hotspots 5.3.0 - Released 05-April-2016

• Fixon Joomla 3.5 the recaptcha on the submission form was not working
• Fixhotspots - matukio plugin is not compatible with Matukio 6
• Fixfixed layout bug in the integration with k2 2.7.0
• Fixon some installations the tile request was causing a 500 error
• Fixcategory title shows as a hotspot name when the query was falling back to a search around the globe
• Fixwarning in logs parameter 2 to PlgContentHotspotscategory::onContentBeforeSave() expected to be a reference
• Fixthe hotspots list module was returning 0 results when sorting by title
• Fixhotspotsanywhere was not properly replacing |
• Newadded PhocaMaps importer
• Fixcustomfield menu was not selected when active
• Newadded ability to render customfields defined in the template overrides
• Newadded rss_logopath opiton (you can specify your own rss logo image now)
• Delremoved duplicate hs-directions-template causing invalid html
• Fixwhen searching for hotspots the category title was shown instead of the hotspot title
• Fixnow it is possible to change the menu width only with css
• Fixthe alias field was not auto-populated & the alias database field was not created when we updated from previous version
• Fixthe sticky option set in the k2 plugin is now respected
• FixEmail plugin now only sends a new email when we have a new hotspot, and not when we edit an existing one
• Fixrespect edit permissions set in the category and not only in the global hotspots config
• Fixthe settings override can be now used for any hotspot variable
• Fixk2 plugin was overriding any customfields set in the related hotspot
• Fixdue to a missing alias hotspots were not populated from k2, matukio or jomsocial
• Fixk2 plugin was not adding a title to the hotspot
• Fixwhen moving around the weather infowindow was added several times on the map making it hard to close it
• Fixthe hotspots helper was causing an error on php 5.4
• Fixcategory description in the filters was not properly encoded
• Diffdisplay the language select field for all users in the frontend (not only for admins as before)
• Fixdashboard had wrong links to the published/unpublished hotspots

Hotspots 5.2.1 - Released 18-December-2015

• Fixupdate script was not automatically updating the Hotspots config, leading to the Hotspots not loading in frontend
• FixCB plugin was showing undefined for title of the hotspot
• Fixwrong redirect when SEF urls are turned off and there is an error in the hotspots submit form

Hotspots 5.2.0 - Released 17-December-2015

• Fixjoomla 3.4.6 bug - when saving a hotspot in frontend without a description one is redirected to the startpage instead of the form
• Fixthe page was automatically scrolling to hotspots (on long pages this is not desirable)
• Fixthe tour was not working properly when the menu was starting closed
• Fixsingle view of a hotspot was not responsive
• Newnow saving & showing the state in the US interface
• Delremoved sensor parameter from the URL as it is no longer required by google maps
• Newthe search now looks for hotspots in 50km radius if nothing is found in the current view and then around the globe
• Newadded a new user hotspots view that can be used from moderators to edit the hotspots in the frontend
• Fixfixed bug with resizing PNG images
• Newadded option to add OGP(Open Graph) information without the need to have the share buttons
• Newbatch operations in backend (duplicate, move, change access level, change category
• Newthe hotspots now have an alias field (will be used for the url)
• Newadded an option to save and create new hotspot (without going back to the hotspots view) in the backend
• Newcustom fields are now visible on the map view (requires an update to your html overrides json view if you have any)
• Fixthe submit form could be sent several times when you click the submit button several times
• Fixa wrong created_by id was set when editing a hotspot as an administrator in the frontend
• Newshow "no hotspots found" in the user hotspots view, when the user doesn't have any hotspots
• Newadded edit & delete buttons to a single view of a hotspot (only when the necessary edit/delete rights are set)
• Newadded new Plugin events onMultimediaBeforeUpload & onMultimediaAfterUpload
• Newfilter by language in the backend
• Newadded google recaptcha v2 for the frontend submit form
• NewMake an option to select if you want to show username or name
• NewAuto-set the map language depending on the site language
• Fixmoderators were not able to delete hotspots in the frontend
• Fixupdate from version 3.x was not deleting all helper files, leading to errors in the dashboard
• Newcategory title and description can be translated in a different language.
• Newthe hotspots anywhere plugin supports providing a menu item id {hotspotsanywhere Itemid} or {hotspotsanywhere lat/lng/zoom | Itemid}
• FixWrong query in the hotspots mappings
• FixThe My Location pin was not translated
• Fixaup plugin was installed in the wrong category
• Fixthe aup plugin was not assigning any points
• Fixwrong redirect after deleting a hotspot in the frontend when SEF is on
• Fixadding a confirm dialog to the delete own hotspots button in frontend

Hotspots 5.1.11 - Released 27-August-2015

• Fixthe message to the owner of a Hotspot was stripped of spaces
• Fixcustom marker icon was not shown in single view of a hotspot
• Newthe Matukio plugin now ads the publish_down date of the event
• Fixsome update queries were missing and updating from old version such as 2.0.5 was not possible because of this
• Fix.compojoom-bootstrap class was missing from the single hotspot view page
• Fixchanged the default quality for the generated thumbs. Now they should have smaller size than the original image :)
• Fixthe custom fields label were not correctly aligned
• FixKML import option now supports unlimited Folder depth for Placemarks
• Newfrontend user hotspots now has a filter for search state, list length + an option to delete own hotspots
• Newadded an option to map Matukio categories to Hotspot categories
• Fixno language was set in the frontend & because of this the hotspot was not shown on multilingual sites
• Newadded a map background option
• Fixfixes to the CB plugin
• Fiximage upload resizing was not working on Chrome browser
• Newthe galleria now goes in fullscreen on double click
• Fixin single view we set the title of the page to the hotspots title & the site name
• Newfb share now shows the correct title, description & image( if available) and sets lat & lng coordinates
• Newg+ share now shows the correct title, description & image( if available) and sets lat & lng coordinates

Hotspots 5.1.10 - Released 08-June-2015

• Fixthe weather layer was showing up on the map per default, despite being turned off

Hotspots 5.1.9 - Released 02-June-2015

• FixSubmit map was no longer working on Joomla 2.5 (this is also going to be the last release supporting joomla 2.5)
• Fixwhen the weather layer was enabled the map on the submit page was not working

Hotspots 5.1.8 - Released 01-June-2015

• Diffswitching the weather layer to http://openweathermap.org (Google has deprecated it's own weather layer and it will stop working on the 4th of June 2015)
• Delremoved the clouds layer (as Google deprecated it and they it will stop working on the 4th of June 2015)
• Delremoved the panoramio layer (as Google deprecated it and they it will stop working on the 4th of June 2015)
• Fixthe jomsocial links profile was no longer generating correct urls to the user's profile
• Fixthe community - hotspots plugin was no longer working on Jomsocial 4
• Newadded recaptcha to the contact author of a Hotspot form
• Newadded an option to the k2 plugin to delete an existing hotspot directly from the k2 item
• Fixjomsocial features plugin was not working properly with Jomsocial 4.x
• Newadded a feature to send a mail to the author of a Hotspot
• Fixthe hotspots - k2 now supports swtabs
• Fixset correct orientation for the generated thumbs

Hotspots 5.1.7 - Released 27-April-2015

• Fixdashboard was not loading when ccomment 5.3.3 was installed on the site
• Fixfixed reordering issue with custom fields

Hotspots 5.1.6 - Released 23-April-2015

• Newoption to gather anonymous stats about the environment & configuration of the extension

Hotspots 5.1.5 - Released 13-April-2015

• Newadded JED review request on the dashboard
• Fixif we are in category list view look for the presence of the {hotspots} tag only in the introtext field
• NewThe create hotspots menu now has a default categories option. You can specify which categories are visible in the frontend with it.
• Fixoutput friendly warning when a hotspot is linked to unexisting matukio entry
• Fixsometimes the tabs in teh menu were executing ajax requests due to a jquery ui "feature"
• Fixhardcoded 'Select category' in the frontend submit form
• FixHack around joomla bug: https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/6440

Hotspots 5.1.4 - Released 6-April-2015

• Fixwarning when address was missing in single view
• Fixcenter by marker boundaries was not working

Hotspots 5.1.3 - Released 1-April-2015

• FixParse error: syntax error, unexpected T_OBJECT_OPERATOR for people on PHP 5.3 on single view. Users running PHP 5.4 were not affected

Hotspots 5.1.2 - Released 1-April-2015

• FixUpdating from any version previous to 5.0 would cause a mysql error

Hotspots 5.1.1 - Released 31-March-2015

• FixParse error: syntax error, unexpected T_OBJECT_OPERATOR for people on PHP 5.3. Users running PHP 5.4 were not affected

Hotspots 5.1.0 - Released 31-March-2015

• Newmultiple images upload
• Newuse of gallerio.io to show the images in frontend (with fullscreen support!!!)
• Newnew submit hotspot view in frontend
• Diffsingle hotspot view no longer relies on mootools
• Fixreadmore was shown even though the option in the hotspot was set to no

Hotspots 5.0.5 - Released 25-February-2015

• Fixload the correct language for facebook recommend plugin
• FixJoomla search plugin was not returning the correct results
• Fixjomsocial, matukio & k2 plugins were unable to select a Hotspots category
• Fixfixed sobiPRO import
• Fixselecting start and end date in the frontend was not visible due to css bug
• Fixon Joomla 2.5 one was not able to delete any hotspots in the backend
• Fixmap on dashboard was not showing the markers

Hotspots 5.0.4 - Released 30-January-2015

• NewKML import now import files that don't have a document node
• NewKML import now has a default category option
• Fixin some cases the installation was failing on joomla 2.5
• Fixuploading a category marker icon was not working
• Newit's now possible to seach for more than one hotspot by id in the backend syntax: id: 28,29 etc
• Fixfire onContentChangeState event when a hotspot gets published/unpublished

Hotspots 5.0.3 - Released 26-January-2015

• Fixcategory icon selection was not working when JSN power admin was enabled
• Fixwhen category filter was selected KML files were not being loaded due to wrong query
• Fixwhen the content - categories plugin was enabled one was not able to save hotspots, articles, categories or upload media :(

Hotspots 5.0.2 - Released 22-January-2015

• Fixthe publish/unpublish button in the toolbar was not working in hotspots view in backend
• Fixediting categories on joomla 2.5 was not possible
• Fixon some sites the marker icons were not loading
• Fixon joomla 2.5 the content and k2 plugins were crashing the page rendering
• Fixpossible page crash when using meta description & keywords
• Fixthe single hotspot selection was showing few notices
• Fixlocations view was not loading on joomla 2.5
• Fixdeleting a hotspot in the backend was resulting in a php error after the deletion
• Fixkml import was no longer working correctly with the new category manager
• Fixwrong link to the categories in the installation quick links.

Hotspots 5.0.1 - Released 21-January-2015

• FixDue to a wrong category check users were not able to create new Hotspots in the backend

Hotspots 5.0.0 - Released 21-January-2015

• Newwhen selecting a parent category automatically select all children
• DiffThe tile cache has been moved to joomla's cache folder
• DiffUsing Joomla's Category Manager. Now supporting subcategories!
• Fixmarker tiles were not loaded on joomla 2.5
• Diffchanged the default message that displays when you haven't provided a download id
• Newkml import now also support StyleMaps definitions in the KML file
• FixCB plugin - if the user is blocked, not approved, not confirmed or banned then remove his location from the map
• Newthe latest hotspots module has an option to show/hide the author and date
• Fixthe mail notify plugin was sending the same email X times to each user (where X is the number of moderators (facepalm))
• Fixthe email notify plugin was sending emails to blocked accounts
• Fixreverse geocoding location in the backend was working only for 1 item and for multiple items
• Fiximported KML locations were not being shown on the map due to a missing language value
• Newadded EasySocial avatar and profiles support
• Fixmap not working on Ipad in fullscreen mode
• Newadded an option to show the coordinates in the PRO version
• Diffshare map & rss is per default disabled in the core version
• Diffwhen a custom field is not filled out don't show it
• Fixkml import on joomla 2.5 was not working properly
• Newadded a module class suffix support to the latest hotspots module
• Fixjavascript error when changing direction's to/from in the hotspots marker
• Newthe matukio integration can now also use the locations define in matukio for each event

Hotspots 4.3.3 - Released 19-December-2014

• Fixsubmitting a hotspot in the backend was not working under joomla 2.5

Hotspots 4.3.2 - Released 18-December-2014

• Fixsubmission form was not working in the frontend

Hotspots 4.3.1 - Released 15-December-2014

• Fixcustomfields assigned to specific categories couldn't be loaded in the hotsptos create view

Hotspots 4.3.0 - Released 15-December-2014

• Newimproved Matukio integration. Now the link to event leads to the new dates view where the user can select a date repeating event
• Newadded option to show latitude and longitude in the frontend
• Delremoved print map option as it was not working since the 4.0 version. Will introduce it back in 4.5
• Newthe content - hotspots plugin now also works in jevents
• FixAddress is not displayed correctly
• Fixzoom not working in the div at the bottom of the map (when menu is turned off)
• Delremoved the loading data indicator near the cursor
• Newadded the hotspotsanywhere plugin. It allows you to include the main hotspots view in a module position or in an article
• Diffthe custom fields code has been abstracted and moved to lib_compojoom (have a look at your configured custom fields, you might need to reapply any category relationships)
• Fixcustom fields data is now output event for unpublished events
• Fixsaving a hotspot with wrong data was not outputing any error information

Hotspots 4.2.4 - Released 24-November-2014

• Fixon some installations the configuration was crashing
• Fixwhen the title was too long and there was an image, the title was slipping to a new row

Hotspots 4.2.3 - Released 23-November-2014

• Fixon joomla 2.5 the dashboard was crashing on some installations

Hotspots 4.2.2 - Released 23-November-2014

• FixK2 plugin was not working with custom zoom level
• Newadded option to toggle the states (open, clsoe) of streetview by clicking on the streetview image
• Newadded avatar support for CB, Jomsocial, Kunena and K2
• Newadded profile support for CB, Jomsocial, Kunena and K2
• Fixfontawesome icons for directions search were not loading when emulate bootstrap was on
• Fixmap width was not correct when menu was set to start closed
• Fixthe menu arrow was not correct when the menu was set to start closed

Hotspots 4.2.1 - Released 11-November-2014

• Fixwrong center when we had coordinates in the url
• Fixwrong offset leading to inability to load hotspots when a filter is selected

Hotspots 4.2.0 - Released 10-November-2014

• Delremove the installer - hotspots plugin from the core version
• Fixon some installations the dashboard was crashing
• FixShow correct message when saving a hotspot in the frontend and autopublish is set to off
• Fixlist length parameter was not taken into account (the menu list had always 20items...)
• Fixwhen tabs title is turned off don't show information how to change the tabs...
• Newadded an option to turn off the streetview when a hotspot is selected in the menu list
• Newadded a new custom field: url
• Fixwhen users don't have any markers in a category, always use the default map center
• Fixwrong tiles generated when no cats filter provided
• Fixcentering by marker bounds was not working properly
• Fixwrong catid was used when there was no k2catid=hotspotcatid mapping in the k2 - hotspots plugin
• FixMap doesn't respect the map type options in backend
• Fixthe rss feed is now cached in joomla's cache folder and not in hotspots media folder
• Fixk2 items were saving the hotspot with wrong coordinates (lat & lng were mixed up)
• Fixallow empty in custom fields options was not respected
• Fixmap in the dashboard was cut off
• NewHotspots is now fully responsive. Works on small screens(iphone, windows Phone, android)
• Fixfixed issues with the tour when tabs are disabled
• Diffmaking the css a little more bulletproof for templates that are not well written
• Fixemailing the map was not working when the user was not logged in

Hotspots 4.1.1 - Released 21-October-2014

• Fixfixed Jomsocial activity plugin was no longer adding activity to jomsocial
• Fixfixed warning on filters view

Hotspots 4.1.0 - Released 20-October-2014

• Newadded option to emulate bootstrap for templates that don't come with support for the framework
• Newenter now triggers the direction search in the hotspots list
• Newadded an option to hide the tab title
• Newwhen no tab is selected for the menu, we now show the information about the hotspot in a div on top of the map
• Newadded options to select which tab to show in the menu
• Fixthe menu closed option was not taken into account
• Fixthe k2 plugin was not properly centering the marker
• Fixthe k2 plugin was creating a fatal error
• Diffmoved all helper files to the frontend /helpers folder
• DiffRenamed hotspotsHelper to HotspotsHelperSettings - this might break your template overrides, so make sure to update them!
• Fixhotspots were not properly loaded on multilingual sites
• Newhotspots_above_filter & hotspots_below_filter module positions allowing you to display additional info to your users when they click on filters
• NewonBeforeBuildQuery & onAfterBuildQuery events for developers who want to manipulate the list of hotspots
• Langadded missing translations
• Diffmade the css a little more bulletproof against badly written templates and extensions
• DiffSwitching to the Handlebars.js template framework - you'll need to update your template overrides
• Newadded import locations from KML file
• Fixpage class & page heading options in page display in the menu were not respected

Hotspots 4.0.6 - Released 10-October-2014

• Fixtooltips on the filters were cut off
• Fixreorder the toolbar buttons in category view to follow the joomla standard 3.x behavior
• Newadding fb, twitter & google plus share button on single view of a hotspot
• Fixon some installations users were not able to upload KML files
• Fixthe k2 plugin was missing the javascript file
• Fixtour navigation buttons were not translated
• Fixdirections search from hotspots list was not working
• Diffchanged syntax of underscore js templates - we now use {{ }} instead of <% %> - Make sure to update your overrides!
• Diffcode cleanup
• Fixreloading update information was not working on joomla 2.5
• Fixkml files were not loaded when no category was selected
• Diffchanged the k2 integration behave. Now the fields support geocoding
• Fixcategory ordering was not respected
• Fixstart map in fullscreen was not working

Hotspots 4.0.5 - Released 05-October-2014

• Fixforgotten console.log output
• Fixhotspots were not loading because of a missing tooltip library on some joomla installations
• Newadded new module positions. Check docs on compojoom.com for more details

Hotspots 4.0.4 - Released 03-October-2014

• Fixon update the modified_by table field was not created, due to a typo in the mysql file
• Fixjquery ui tabs can load content using ajax, which screws hotspots if the url contains a query...
• Fixhardcoded language strings
• Difflanguage file cleanup
• Diffremoved unused code
• Diffcode cleanup

Hotspots 4.0.3 - Released 30-September-2014

• Fixwhen there is no filter set, make sure that we look only for hotspots in published categories
• Fixhotspots now respect the address settings
• Fixshow author and date settings were having no effect
• Fixmarker count was not taken into account
• Fixhardcoded language strings in the map view
• Fixtruncating the short description was creating issues with html code

Hotspots 4.0.2 - Released 29-September-2014

• Fixwrong sql syntax in a query on the dashboard
• Fixdashboard buttons were missing icons on joomla 2.5
• Delremoved option to hide categories on top (as we no longer have the categories on top)
• Fixmap was not respecting the centering method selected by the user
• Fixstyled maps was not working on some installations

Hotspots 4.0.1 - Released 27-September-2014

• Fixold install definitions in the hotspots.xml were preventing it from installing (update was working)
• Fixthe complete_uninstall option was not respected when uninstalling the component

Hotspots 4.0.0 - Released 24-September-2014

• NewNow using joomla's updater for updating core & pro versions
• DelRemoving the liveupdate library as we rely on joomla for updates now
• FixChange arrow direction when menu opens
• FixWhen menu is closed and the user clicks on a hotspot -> open it and center on this hotspot
• Fixmenu was not closing on IE11
• Newadded pagination on top of the list in the menu

Hotspots 4.0.0 beta1 - Released 27-August-2014

• Fixstill using mootools functions on some places
• Fixusing the new sql installer. Now updates from dev to stable, from stable to dev are no longer an issue. Downgrades as well!!! yahoo!
• Diffnow using our backend template
• Delremoved the old controlcenter and all backend modules
• Newadded new dashboard
• Fixadded map to the k2 item submit view (now user can use a drag and drop marker to specify the location + we have street, city, zip, country) fields
• Fixcustom fields were crashing, because values were not escaped.
• Newnew hotspots view - new directions, hotspots & settings
• Fixfixed bug in the SobiPro migrator
• Newadded option to add text above and below the map (in the map menu)

Hotspots 3.6.2 - Released 17-March-2014

• Fixcould not create a map menu on Joomla 2.5

Hotspots 3.6.1 - Released 12-March-2014

• Fixfixed - wrong group for k2 plugin

Hotspots 3.6.0 - Released 5-March-2014

• Fixfixed - wrong redirect when using SEF and wrong captcha was entered in the form in the frontend
• Fixfixed - content plugin was not using the custom image
• Newadded an option to override the hotspots settings in the menu
• Newadded k2 plugin that would add a pin for a k2 entry. It also displays a map after the k2 entry
• Newadded jomsocial plugin to add a pin for the user's address on the map
• Newadding a matukio plugin that can publish the events on the hotspots map
• Newadded an option to unpublish the hotspot created through CB, instead of deleting it
• Fixthe cb plugin was not properly deleting the hotspots mappings
• Newadded the compojoom library to the package
• Newadded id column to the hotspots view in the backend
• FixTypeError: 'undefined' is not an object (evaluating 'b.getNorthEast')
• Fixcentering in single view was not working properly in some situations
• Newupdated the CB plugin with an option to set the title of the hotspot and to define mappign between hotspots custom fields and cb custom fields
• Newadded the option to geocode the address of a CB user and to add his location in a specific category in Hotspots
• Fixthe map controls were not changeble (no position or style could be set)
• Diffpowered by cannot be changed from the settings for the core version anymore
• Newadded hotspots_search_tab position (in the menu directly after the directions form)
• Newadding the ability to show modules in the menu (hotspots_top_category_ID && hotspots_bottom_category_ID positions, where ID is the ID of the category where modules should be shown)
• Fixthe copied link was not working on safari browser
• Fixauto-resize the infowindow whenever the user changes the map dimentions
• Newadded list type for the custom fields
• Fixtreat the c argument in the url as lat & lng & not as a string for the geocoder
• Fixstyle the userhotspots view on joomla 3.0
• Newadding a no matching result message when there are no hotspots
• Fixmaking the sobiPro improt script compatible with the latest sobiPro version 1.1.5
• Fixcustomfields were not working on j2.5
• Fixsend map & print map was not working in some situations
• Delremoving unused files
• Fixthe update script wasn't properly updating the custom fields
• Fixgenerating unique file names for images. Otherwise they can end up being overridden by accident
• Newadded custom fields support to the hotspots form
• Newadded backend config screen for customfields
• FixSelecting single hotspot from the menu was not that easy as it was buggy...
• Fixrecaptcha was loaded over http connection on https sites
• Fixinfobubble was loading resources over http:// instead of https://
• Fixhelper was not defined in the CB plugin
• Fixload the correct url for the CB plugin
• Fixthe google api was not loaded through https in the CB plugin

Hotspots 3.5.x - Released 7-July-2013

• Fixpanoramio user id needs to be stored as a string and not an integer
• Newsearch now auto zooms out when we have hotspots outside of the current view
• Fixprevented scrolling the map, when using scroll in the infowindow in firefox
• Fixthe hotspots list module had hardcoded language strings in the code
• Diffremoved the back link in single view - users are supposed to use the browser's back button (that is why we have it!!!)
• Fixcomplete_uninstall was not taken into account
• Fixfixed a redirect issue when submitting on the frontend
• Diffswitch to the curl class for the geolocation feature
• DiffsobiPro import can now import more than 1000 locations
• Fixthe jomsocial plugin was not working properly
• Fixon some servers the uploaded images have wrong permissions. Now manually setting them to 0644
• Fixon some installation uploading a marker image was causing a fatal error
• FixinfoBubble was not opening when in panorama view
• Fixfixing a crash with IE8 when the hotspot had an image
• Fixquick-search was not working when the menu was hidden
• Fixin some situations a fatal error on j3 when creating a category
• Fixinfobubble problems with IE8
• Fixif we use geolocation centering it creates problem for single view of hotspots
• Fixlanguage improvements in the menu options (otherwise we had untranslated strings)
• Fixthe sys. language file was not loading available translations
• Fixerror in the language file
• Fixshow all tabs on map was not working propery
• Fixin some situations changing categories was not working properly in frontend
• Fixwelcome message was wrong right after the installation when the configuration was never saved
• Fixwhen importing from sobipro the access field was not properly set
• Fixsorting was not working properly in backend marker view
• Fixfixing XSS vulnerability in the mail function
• Fixinsufficient escaping leads to a possible SQL injection 2
• Fixinsufficient escaping leads to a possible SQL injection
• Fixusers with editState permissions were not able to change the hotspots published state in the frontend
• Fixsearch was not working when the string we were searching for was containing "id"
• Fixwhen we had a multilingual site the infowindow was making 2 requests to show the data instead of 1
• Diffchanged link to the JED for the core version
• Fixwhen using the search the menu was always showing up even though the user has closed it
• Diffcontent plugin is now only executed on featured view if we have the code in the introtext
• Newadded option for width to the content plugin
• Newadded option for zoom to the content plugin
• Fixhotspots adding now per default uses the center & zoom set in the global config
• FixRSS was not working on joomla 3 & with php strict mode on
• Fixcannot select FAHRENHEIT as temperature unit for the weather layer
• Newadded latest hotspots module
• NewLink author to jomsocial, CB etc
• FixKML was not respecting the state of a KML file (published, unpublished)
• DiffKMLs now are cleared when we switch between categories
• Fixit was not possible to save a sample image for the category
• Fixselect "show all tabs on map" was refreshing the map instead of showing all the tabs on the map...
• Newadded AUP plugin
• Newadded option to execute the content plugin in K2
• Delremoved the category shadow as the latest google maps API has deprecated it and it is no longer available in the visual refresh
• Newadded option to exclude a category from frontend submission
• Fixthe markers on the custom tiles were not clickable
• FixInfobubble - hiding markers when we use single instance of Infobubble - more info: https://code.google.com/p/google-maps-utility-library-v3/issues/detail?id=264
• Fixwrong values for boundary and default centering
• Newadded an option to set a custom zoom level when centering using the user's location
• Newadded high accuracy option to the user's geolocation (this will use HTML5 geolocation)
• Newadded an option to center the map using the user's location (based on IP)
• Newadding a show readmore option for each hotspot in the backend
• Fixmarkers were disappearing on the map when first clicked
• Diffthe markerImage class deprecated in the last version of google Maps API, so moving to the new icon class
• Fixon IE searches that contain UTF8 characters don't return any results
• Fixdestroying the infobubble from the dom when we close it
• Diffturned on autopan for the infobubble
• Fixwhen the menu was hidden we could not resize the map
• Diffmoved some options to the map tab where they fit better
• Newadded configuration option for Pan Control
• Newadded configuration option for Zoom Control
• Newadded configuration option for Map type Control
• Newadded configuration option for Scale Control
• Newadded configuration option for Street view Control
• Newadded configuration option for Overview map Control
• Newadded configuration option for Scrollwheel Control
• Fixa notice was display on the form view in frontend when we had a picture
• FixCB plugin was not displaying the infowindows and markers on the map
• Newadded an option to hide the menu on the right on start
• Newadded an option to hide the quick search form
• Newadded an option to hide the directions button for the marker

Hotspots 3.4.x - Released 6-May-2013

• Fixno spaces when showing the user name
• Fixclicking on a marker in the menu was not working on iphone/ipad
• Newadded plugin to link to Flexicontent
• Newadded plugin to link (read more) hotspots to external sites
• Newadded draggable directions option
• Newadded an option to provide API key & always using an https url to load the map
• Newadded the visualRefresh option
• Fixfixed - height of infowindow content was bigger than the height of the container
• Newadded an option to hide the zoom button
• Fixmap in single view was not loading properly when the weather api was on
• Fixaddress was not properly formatted on some places
• Newadded panoramio layer support
• Newadded bicycling layer support
• Newadded transit layer support
• Newadded traffic layer support
• Newadded weather api support
• Newadded clouds layer support
• Fixthe hotspots order setting was not having any effect
• Newadded fullscreen map option
• Fixshow author option was missing
• Newadding reverse geocoding option in the backend
• Fixthe color picker for custom tile marker was not working on joomla > 3
• Fixadded filter="raw" to the styled map textarea
• Fixthe joomla installer cannot copy empty folders and shows a warning. Adding index.html file to the kml folder because of that
• Fixfixed - the content plugin is now only executed when we have the appropriate context. Otherwise we get a high performance penalty
• Fixdate_format was of wrong type
• Fixthe geocoder feature in the backend was not working
• Fixsending a mail about new hotspots to moderators was not working
• Fixadded missing GPL licenses to some files
• Fixsome layout improvements in the backend of joomla 3/3.1
• Newadded styled maps feature
• Fixfixed PHP strict warning when creating a hotspot
• Fixuser was not able to edit their hotspots in frontend even if the edit.own permission was set
• Fixfixing the CB plugin - should now work on joomla 3
• Fixread more link was wrong in search results
• Diffupdated the ccomment plugin integration to be compatible with ccomment5
• Fixa language string was not translated in the javascript
• Fixlinks to k2 were not SEF
• Fixdeleting tiles was not functioning on joomla 3
• Newadded hotspots-fullscreen class to the body when in fullscreen (allows template devs to hide elements)
• Fixthe countmarkers function was not properly working on joomla3
• Fixfixed KML was not working properly on j3
• Fixmore php strict fixes
• Fixlanguage for each hotspot is taken into account when we present it in the frontend
• Fixfixing some php strict warnings in the router
• Fixfrontend marker picture upload setting was not taken into account
• Fixthe title of the hotspot in single view was not shown
• Fixwhen saving hotspot on microsoft server the publish_down date was incorrectly set to the current date of saving
• Fixcontent - Hotspots plugin is now compatible with joomla 3.0
• Newadding SQL SERVER compatibility
• Fixsome layout issues with the installer on Joomla 3.0
• Newadding a copy link button
• Diffcategory-shadow is now required in the category settings
• Newadding metadata information on map view
• Fixmap was not refreshing the locations properly when the search tab was selected
• Fixfixed layout issues on joomla 3.0
• Fixdate was not respecting the format setting on the maps view
• Fixfixed a bug with the jomsocial plugin
• Fixsome hotspots were not shown on the map and in the menu (bug introduced with the new sorting)
• Fixthe check all button in backend was not functioning properly on j3.0
• Fixsearch by street/country/town was not working - thanks to Grazing Cat .Inc for providing us with a fix
• Fixsorting hotspots by name ASC in the menu
• Fixsingle hotspots was not rendered when ccomment was selected in the options, but it was not actually installed on the user's site
• Fixsql error when hotspots order is set to created time
• Diffthe install script not allows the installation only on joomla >= 2.5.6
• Fixuserhotspots was not working on joomla 3.0
• Fixthe map was missing from "submit-hotspots" view in the frontend on joomla3
• Fixreadmore was showing in the menu even though "Marker detailpage" was set to no
• Diffmaking the links to k2 a little better
• Diffrunning the intro text through the code of the SEF plugin
• Fixthe search - hotspots plugin was not properly working on joomla 2.5 and 3.0
• NewAdded support for Joomla 3.0
• Diffsetting sticky to 0 when importing from sobi - this way one can edit a hotspot without losing the coordinates
• Fixfixed - edit button in hotspots view was not working
• Fixfixed - infowindow is not centered on the screen when we finish the ajax request
• Newupdating the CB plugin and adding it to the main package
• NewsobiPRO import - added support for the GeoMap field
• Fixfixed - import from sobiPRO was not working
• Diffmaking the router function a little more clever. We try to match the hotspot category against the start category selected in the menu
• Fixfixed - map was not working on IE8
• Fixfixed - when editing a hotspot from the frontend the wrong category was selected
• Fixpublish/unpublish hotspots redirects to the wrong view
• Fixzoom not working in single view
• Diffdon't rely on $ - avoids conflicts with incorrectly included jquery libraries
• Fixfixed - readmore in menu firing wrong click event
• Fixfixed - search results not showing custom markers
• Diffsearch now has pagination and respects the list lenght limit set in the options
• Fixfixed - infoWindow closes when moving around. Now it only closes when one changes the category
• Fixfixed - js bug preventing the map in single view to show the location of the hotspot
• Fixfixed - wrong redirects when entering a hotspot
• Fixfixed - the geolocate button was not click-able in frontend submit form
• Fixfixed - js error when loading the map with custom tiles
• Fixfixed - wrong markers shown when a tab is closed
• Fixfixed - when copying a search link and opening it in another tab the map now loads properly
• Newupdating the stats module to show number of tiles + option to delete the tiles
• Fixthe hotspot name was shown in the div for the marker_address...
• Diffremoving \t \n \r from the ajax response - should reduce the file size a little
• Fixfixed - comma is missing between address and town (infowindow)
• Fixfixed -> wrong tiles generated when searching for something
• Fixupdated the liveupdate library - this fixes a bug with wrong version number displayed (no version number displayed)
• Diffmoving to downloadid instead of username&password for live update
• Delremoved the information view as we use overview module in the dashboard for this
• Fixfixed - miltiple KMLs were not shown in the same category
• Newadded marker length parameter in the settings - controls how many markers are shown at once on the map
• Newadded custom tiles support
• Fixfixed - hardcoded language strings "There are X hotspots in your current view"
• Fixfixed - unable to save KML files
• Newsticky marker option is saves as param - this way when one edits a hotspot and sticky is set to no - we won't replace address or lat & lng values
• Fixsearch was not properly clearing the results in the menu
• Fixdescription of categories was not visible in fullscreen
• Diffcontinue to look for hotspots when we move around even if the infowindow is open
• Newadded - option to hide the categories
• Fixfixed - hiding menu hides categories as well
• Fixfixed - menu is now showing uploaded image
• Fixfixed - menu is now respecting the selected settings for country, author, date, address, user_inferface
• Fixfixed - form view was not loading map in IE8
• Fixfixed - some files were missing defined('_JEXEC') ...
• Fixfixed - changing the hotspots.xml file so that it won't install on joomla 1.5 anymore
• Fixfixed - use JString::substr for UTF-8 compatibility when copying images
• Fixfixed - KML view was missing title image
• Fixfixed - not showing edit form when SEF urls were on
• Fixfixed - frontend input hotspots form had invalid html & display issues
• Fixfixed - map not loading under IE8
• Fixfixed - full screen not working under IE9
• Fixan url to the search was not properly executing a search request
• Fixuser permission problems when editing in frontend fixed
• Fixdiscription not shown in single view
• Fixzoom control options were too big when submitting a new hotspot
• Fixlanguage strings updated
• Newimplemented request: https://compojoom.com/forum/55-wishlist/16432-search-results
• Diffimproved update from 2.0.5
• Difffixing hotspot submission bugs
• Newadded new content plugin that allows you to show a hotspot in an article by using {hotspots hotspot=12} where 12 is the hotspot id
• Diffwhen moving around hotspots are displayed way better!
• Fixfixed "close tab" bug
• Fixfixed the zoom bug (thanks Nedyalko)
• Fixfixed layout issue in category edit screen (thanks for the report to Ed)
• Diffimprovements on the submit marker js
• Fixfix for the sticky marker bug (thanks for the report to Ed)
• Fixcreating link to a single hotspot had a wrong modal window for selection (thanks for the report to Ed)
• FixCould not delete categories and hotspots in the backend (thanks for the report to Johnny)
• Fixfixed a bug in the rss module in the backend
• Fixthe update db script was not adding index keys for gmlat and gmlng
• Fixthe package was containing unnecessary images...
• Diffadding css for the next and previous buttons
• Fixfixed a bug in the "show all tabs" option
• Difflayout improvements
• Newclicking on marker in streetview will open the infowindow in the streetview mode
• Diffperformance improvements to the JS hotspots Module
• Difffinding out the category of the article + using ContentHelperRoute to create the link to the hotspots (com_content)
• Diffusing K2HelperRoute class for K2 links
• Fixfixed typo that caused the links to 3rd party components to not be created
• Fixfixed bug with tabs in single view
• Fixfixed the search... (it seems that it was broken in beta1...)
• Newadded support for publish_up and down in frontend
• Fixadd marker view was not fully translatable
• Diffadding back picture upload for markers
• Fixcustom marker image was not used in frontend
• Fixfixed issue with searching and pagination in the backend
• Fixsome custom marker fields were not loaded
• Fixbackend hotspots was not loading on some linux servers
• Diffupdated some languages
• Newadded turkish language - thanks for the translation!
• Newadded a loader module to show loading progress
• Newadded option to start without a category - centered on the directions
• Newadded new dashboard in backend
• Diffimprovement to the frontend
• Newadded send mail plugin for hotspot
• Diffnow it is possible to update from 2.0 to this version
• Newfrotnend now respects joomla's ACL for adding hotspots
• Fixfixed bug in the RSS feed
• Difffurther refactored js -it is starting to look really good!!!
• Newadded send js module
• Newadded print js moduule
• Fixfixed date bug on 2.5
• Fixunable to open hotspot
• Fixsaving settings was redirecting to wrong view
• Diffrefactored javascript (using namespace compojoom.hotspots from now on)
• Newadded turkish frontend translation
• Fixfixed notices
• Diffremoved unnecessary queries
• Diffremoved legacy code
• Diffspeed improvements category layout
• Fixsome parts of the interface were nto translated
• Diffspeed improvements to the Hotspots layout in the backend (large DBs - 100 000+ hotspots)
• Newadded basic ACL support in the backend
• Fixfixed clicking on KML's title didn't bring the edit screen
• Fixfixed wrong links in menu (components dropdown)
• Newadded sobiPro import
• Fixfixed bug in link_to display in backend
• Newadded plugin system enabling us to link to 3rd party components
• Newinstaller now installs all plugins
• Fixcorrected some js errors
• Fixremoved notices
• Fixcreate a link to single hotspots not working
• Newadded Italian translation
• Newadded ukrainian translation
• Fixfixed a problem creating a KML entry in the backend
• NewKML files are now shown on map (make sure that you are not accessing the site through localhost!)
• Fixcouldn't create hotspots trough the Backend again - due to missing sql fields in the sql file
• Fixcouldn't create hotspots trough the Backend
• Newwe can now choose as many start/default categories as we want
• Newadded KML views in the backend
• Diffchanged backend edit screen
• Newadded custom marker image
• Newadded server side Boundary method
• Newnew javascript engine relying on "modules"

LEGEND

• NoteNote
• NewNew feature or addition
• DiffMajor change
• DiffSmall change
• LangLanguage change
• FixSecurity fix
• FixBug fix
• DelFeature removal