Hello Simon,

thank you for the Concat field. It is really useful and I've been using it a lot on different projects ever since you published it.

I haven't been using SEBLOD in a while and now I bought and downloaded SD Concat V2.5.3. to use it on a client's site.

I needed to get the article id to concatenate with other stuff. So I followed your instructions on the product page where the described syntax is #art_id#. Of course it wouldn't get the id at all. I soon realized that the column name for article id is "id" and tried that. It always returned a "0". Now what the heck?

After an hour or so of trial and error and searching around, I got enlightened by this thread about the new syntax <conent> (in my case). I thought wow - great. Now we can get auto increment values from any table. How smart is that.

But I also wished I had found this information an hour ago. Would have saved me time and headaches.

So maybe you want to update the instructions on the product page so that people know how to use this new feature.

SEBLOD still can be very frustrating, even for experienced users. The documentation is still far from optimal. I don't mind paying for useful extensions like your's. But at least for paid extensions I would expect up to date documentation that saves us the frustration of time consuming searches here and with Google.

Thanks again and keep up your great work.

Cheers
gerhard

Hi Gerhard,

Thank you so much for bringing this to my attention. Something definitely slipped through the cracks when I did my documentation, as it appears as though I never completed the paragraph on getting the ID.

I apologize profusely for the frustration experienced in terms of trying to find the solution when it should be readily available from within the documentation screen.

I have since updated the documentation page.

Thank you for your continued support, you're a loyal SEBLOD power user!

Kind regards,
Simon

Hi Simon,

thanks for updating the doc. I'm sure other users will appreciate it, too.

And thank you for your kind words. I know my ways around Seblod pretty well after having used it over the past 3 years. But power user, I don't know. My PHP skills are not that good. I wish I could get my head around writing field plugins. And, as I said it still can be frustrating sometimes because of lack of documentation which really is a problem that drives off many people who are new to the system.

As for the loyality, I'm also using other systems - whatever suits the project best. But when it comes to using a CCK with Joomla, Seblod is my first choice. For many tasks Joomla has such a big overhead of code and things that I never use. Just recently I discovered ProcessWire which offers total flexibilty in designing your content types, a very well structured API with lean code that gives you full control over your template and, best off all, a great, friendly community with real good and quick support.

I'm not saying that this or that system is better. It always depends on the project requirements. But after having finished 2 projects with PW, I find it a pleasure to work with and I'm glad having found an alternative to the Joomla-Seblod combo.

Greetings from Thailand to SA
gerhard

Works SD Concat Field on Seblod 3.7?