| 26 December 2010
Posted in New Releases

We are proud to announce that Jobs ! 1.5 is published.

Jobs! 1.5 will bring you some new features

New Features

1. Custom Field Manager is improved

1. Read Only Fields: You can make a field read only. User will be able to enter the field value while he is making a new record but the user will not be able to edit the field value later
2. Search Result Pages: You can choose the fields that you want to show in search results pages. For example, You can show the image in resume search result pages (see the image)
3. Between Search: Every resume has a classic number fields like age, desired salary etc. Jobs! supports the between, bigger than and smaller than operators. For example, if the user writes 5+ to the search form, It means bigger than 5. If the user writes 5-8, It means between 5 and 8. If the user writes 5-, It means smaller than 5
4. Secret Fields: You can hide the selected fields from view screen with using custom field manager

2. Featured Jobs

Featured jobs are possible from starting this version. You can define featured jobs count while you are creating your package. You must select YES for the "Jobs! Configuration>Job Posting Tab>Allow Featured Job Postings" parameter.

Featured jobs will take higher place on listing pages and job search. Featured jobs will also have a star images near them

3. E-mail on job posting/updating

This was a missing feature. You will get e-mail when a new job is posted or updated

4. Resume printing and Application Printing

This was another missing feature. A print link is added in resume view and application view screens

5. "Nice to Have" and "Required" buttons in resume search

You will notice "Nice to have" and "Required" buttons in resume search. This is a good way improving resume search experience

6. "Twitter" button in social bookmarking

As you know, Jobs! was having social bookmarking buttons in job detail views. Twitter button was missing there . It's no more missing

7. JoomFish Content Elements

Pervious versions of Jobs! was not supporting the JoomFish content elements but Jobs! 1.5 and later versions will support the JoomFish

8. Custom XML Feeds

Jobs! can deliver custom xml feeds for your job site. You may ask a question what xml feeds can do for my site. The answer is quite simple. It's limited for your imagination.


For example, see http://www.indeed.com/intl/en/xmlinfo.html . You can send your jobs to indeed.com with an easy way. Jobs! can create an xml like the mentioned one on indeed page.

This tool is also another way of creating rss feeds because rss feeds are custom xml feeds too :)

9. Performance Improvements

1. If you have many users (Lets say 1000 users and more), You may have a speed problems resume creating or company creating pages. These pages are loading the full users in a drop down list and expecting you to select the owner of resume or company. Jobs! 1.5 will have different point of view on this issue. It will open a separate window and will expect you to select the user from a different window (see the image)
2. Front side of the Jobs! is using less sql queries. We have cut some sql queries

10. Joomla Modules in everywhere

You can insert Joomla! modules to every part of Jobs! . The pervious versions of Jobs! was only accepting Joomla! modules for only home page. Jobs! 1.5 and later versions are accepting Joomla! modules for every part of Jobs!

What you need to do is opening related Jobs! template file and inserting {lknloadmodule MODULE_ID} to that template file. You can find MODULE_ID from "Joomla! Admin Panel>Extensions>Module Manager" menu. You will see an ID coloumn on that menu

11. Job Digging and Resume Digging

Jobs! 1.5 has an advanced filtering tool named digging. Resume digging is a filtering tool for employers to filter the resumes. Job Digging is a filtering tool for job seekers to filter the jobs.

12. Checking the latest version

Pervious versions of Jobs! was only showing your active Jobs! version but Jobs! 1.5 will check the latest version and it will inform you if you are using an outdated version.

DO NOT FORGET TO CHECK

1. New language strings are added to the language file. If you are using non-english Jobs! versionthat, Do not forget  to check the new language strings
2. New Configuration parameters are added . Do not forget to check them
3. You must update your payment plugins. Make sure you have upgraded your payment plugins

You have Questions

We will be waiting for your questions on our support forum or our ticket system

Related Links

• How Download System Works
• Jobs! Installation