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The Problem

We were faced with the problem almost every company has.. That of making sure that information sharing across the organization is maximized in a bid to improve overall efficiency & educate our employees. To help do this, we started quickly put together a Company Intranet using some great extensions like Kunena, Docman, Phoca Gallery & of course Joomla content ( We Plan to upgrade this to Flexi Content later)

One of the Major issues, which you must have already guessed ... Was that the intranet was in place for over 6 Months.. but the activity was limited to a few individuals.. But even then no one else was looking at the posted info.. So effectively.. there was no information sharing .. file sharing.. Nothing.. Nada

After taking some offline sessions, we realized that though we were promoting the intranet heavily, there was no way for the people to know when new content was added..

The Solution

Who would believe that the Solution had been staring at us, sitting  in our own Downloads Area at Techjoomla for months !..  So in came J!MailAlerts..

We set it up with plugins for Kunena, Phoca Gallery, Docman & Joomla content & also threw in a new custom made plugin called most active users which calculated most active users across the extensions we were using.

We are now using this on our Intranet for almost a month now & we love the results.. Read on to see actual usage statistics & see how an alert email looks when there is content available from all the plugins..

J!MailAlerts is set to become even more powerful with 9 more plugins to be released very soon ! These plugins are very much complete & already passed internal QA & Beta testing. Here is a screenshot for you to see that we have them all ready. It will be a few more days before we can release them since we are restructuring the way you can bu...

We have just released a new promo video for J!MailAlerts. Check it out !

A Big thanks to the J!MailAlerts community users who have been contributing on the forums to help test & make J!MailAlerts bug free & feature rich ! This release addresses a lot of inputs that have been given by community users & also fixes a lot of bugs. Compatible with Joomla 1.5X 1.7X, 2.5.X, the release can be downloaded immediately from our Downloads Area.

More Alert Plugins for J!MailAlerts are here ! We have just released plugins for DocMan -the most popular document management system for Joomla, Mosets Tree - the Directory system that the JED runs on, & EasyBlog - An amazing blogging system for Joomla. With this set of releases , the plugin tally for J!MailAlerts has gone up to 17 with 7 free ...

We are pleased to announce the release of four new content Plugins for J!MailAlerts ! JomSocial Group Activities Plugin The long awaited Group Activities plugin for JomSocial that will let you send Group Activity digests to your JomSocial Users is finally here ! Whats more users have full control on what Groups they want alerts about & also wha...

J!MailAlerts 2.4 is now available & comes with a host of bug fixes & addition of 2 Major features.With this version we add the ability to pass data to the plugin tags & use the tags multiple times in the JMA template. For instance, you can now use the JMA latest news tags like [jma_latestnews_js|secid=1|catid=1,3,32] & pass it the parameters that are normally stored in the plugin params ( just like you would with Joomla content plugins) . This adds a mightly lot of flexibility to JMA plugins. Please read the documentation in this relation.

The second Big feature is the ability to send insert Ads ( using our SocialAds extension) in JMA Mails. So now your advertisements can reach your users via email even if they havent visited your site in a while. You can configure the SocialAds JMA plugin to show ads from specific zones in positions you can set in your template using tags. Special care has been taken that an user will never be sent an email only containing Ads. The SA plugin shall only be triggered if there is any other content to send. More details about this will follow in the SocialAds release in a couple of days. The plugin will be part of the SocialAds package.

Another small feature is the addition of a CSS Editor in the JMA template editor. This will make it dead easy to change your JMA template. Just paste the html part of the template in the normal editor & paste the CSS in the CSS window.  Besides these there are tons of other fixes & small features. Plus there is Jooma 1.7 Support !

Update Instructions :  Please note that we are now generating a random Cron Secret Key on every install to ensure your security. So Please update your cron job according to this new key after you upgrade.

All Paid & free plugins have been updated & are available for Download. Please read on for the full changelog. Please note that ver 2.4.1 has been released to fix a bug with the url in simulating the emails

J!MailAlerts ver 2.3 is now available with Joomla 1.6 Support ! The extension is free from download in the free extension area. All the plugins are also updated to support Joomla 1.6. Note that though all the plugins have been updated to 1.6, all extensions that we support might not be ready yet to work with 1.6. This is a common package release &a...

A Minor update to J!MailAlerts core extension has been released today.. We have added a new feature so that the Sync sets the date back to a Day/ Week / Month as per your default settings so that when you run the cron immediately after the sync, the component will find valid users to send emails to..  Another feature added in the earlier relea...

We are super excited to announce the immediate availability of J!MailAlerts v2.5 which comes with the much awaited Guest Alerts & Joomla 3.0 Support. Note that Joomla 1.5 support is dropped from this release onwards.

With an awesome bootstrapped UI, Ability to create your own frequencies & much more, this release is sure to blow you away !  

Download the Extension for Free today !

All plugins - both paid & free are updated as well. Read on to see the full changelog. Also note that upgrading this version has special instructions that you can see when you Read More..

We have released 2.5.1 version for our popular extension JMailAlerts. This release includes fixes for the bugs reported in version 2.5. We have also released updates for JMA K2 plugin(free plugin) & JMA DOCman plugin(paid plugin). Below is changelog for same. JMailAlerts 2.5.1Changelog -- Bugs fixed:#23347 Warning: Invalid argument supplied for...

JMailAlerts - jDownloads - Latest Files - Plugin and JMailAlerts - SOBI PRO - Latest Listings - Plugin, free plugins for JmailAlerts released! JMailAlerts - jDownloads - Latest Files - Plugin JMailAlerts - SOBI PRO - Latest Listings - Plugin Both plugins are compatible with Joomla 2.5.x Download your free copy today! These plugins are contributed b...

Hola, We have released a new version 2.4.5 for the JMailAlerts Plugin "DOCman - Latest Document plugin (jma_latest_docs_docman)"  today. This release includes new features & bugfixes listed below. It's time to upgrade this plugin on your site. :) Change log for 'jma_latest_docs_docman' plugin version 2.4.5 Tested on Joomla 1.5.x with docman_v1.5.15...

Hey guys, We have released the new version 2.4.5 for the most popular JMailAlertsplugin "Latest News plugin (jma_latestnews_js)" today. This reease includes the most requested features on the JMailAlerts forum. So go ahead, download and use this free plugin. :) Features implemented in this are - #9344 Show Intro text in "Latest news" plugin output#...

Hey all, We have recently released a stable version 2.4.4 for J!MailAlerts components and for ALL free & paid plugins. This version brings a lot power for admins. Whats new in this release -Admin -> Mange Alerts view* Admin can now publish/unpublish alert types (Emails will go out only for published alert types) * Admin can check & set/unset an ale...