Jumptree Open Source Forum Application Update

There will be another minor update to the Jumptree forum application coming up sometimes next week with a few new exciting features. J

In the past two weeks, I have been busy trying to resolve issues that are left in the Jumptree Project Management while at the same time, handling multiple other developments such as customer support portal, ecommerce integration and Jumptree NHibernate Forum.

After the Jumptree Nhibernate forum was deployed earlier this month, we’ve made several changes and added a few new features as well.   Mainly we sorted the categories by name in ascending order and in addition, we added the “code highlighter” by ActiProSoftware  into the forum that supports multiple languages such as Java, C#, XML,  HTML and CSS among many others. Lastly, we hooked up email notifications to all new thread as well as replies to thread.

For the code highlighter, this is the same code highlighter we used in our Jumptree Project Management software. By wrapping you code around our BBCode, for example

[code language=”html”]
 
     <p>Here is my html code in “p” tag </p>

      
[/code]

You will see a nicely “code highlighted” post in your discussion. An example can be seen here on our live forum

For email notifications, again we ripped the email notification classes from our Jumptree project management software and it’s very easy to configure, it even supports gmail J  

On more note, to fully qualify your “admin” needs, we are in the process of creating an mini add-on user management application based on the ASP.NET 2.0 Membership API (but it won’t be released till a later time) This app by itself can be a stand along tool that not only looks clean and fabulous, but also more user friendly than the default admin configuration tool provided by Visual Studio. I’m sure you are aware of the fact, ASP.NET 2.0 lacks the user management tool for applications deployed to a remote location, this is exactly what this mini-tool comes provides. You can use it as it is, integrate it and deploy it with your own applications. Of course, in Jumptree Forum, it will be integrated with admin category configuration J

Stay tuned.