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JCM Submit-Your-Stuff Meeting for the July issue

Attendees: Anja de Crom, Dan Atrill, Serge Billon, Herman Peeren, Christiane Maier-Stadtherr, Viviana Menzel

What did we talk about

This was a chat meeting meant to go over the list of articles in the making. For July, we have a good number of interesting articles. A lot is happening in the Joomlasphere right now and the Joomla Community Magazine is on top of it. So keep an eye out for this month's issue, you won't be disappointed! 

The meeting lasted around 40 minutes.

Want to join a JCM meeting?

You are more than welcome! Our meetings take place in the dedicated JCM channel on Mattermost. They're chat meetings, so if people can't join us during the meeting, they can always read back. Are you curious about the JCM or what's happening there? Join us, our channel is called OR Community Magazine.

You don't have to be a team member to join the channel. But we might ask you one fine day if you'd like to contribute to

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Joomla Academy 2026 – Ajaxified Backend [Midterm Report]

Here is a summary of the work completed during the first half of the coding period

  • Added SubmissionContext to derive the component, view, controller and normalized task action from submitted administrator forms.

  • Added SubmissionEligibility backed by server provided Joomla script options, allowing supported tasks to use AJAX while unsupported tasks continue through native form submission.

  • Added a reusable SubmissionTransport that submits the existing form as FormData, follows controller redirects and blocks duplicate in flight submissions for the same form.

  • Added ResponseSnapshot to parse the returned administrator document and collect the final response URL, canonical form, Joomla options, messages, assets and synchronization boundaries.

  • Added workspace synchronization for the browser URL, form action and server generated form controls after redirected actions such as Save and

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GSoC'26 - Automated Workflow [Week Report #6] - Midterm

A sync meeting was held on July 06. The midterm evaluation was completed this week.

What has been done throughout the week

  • July 06: Worked out the design for the conditions/filters feature and the one-to-many rules model; sync meeting with mentors.
  • July 07: Shared the filters & transition-conditions design doc; completed the midterm evaluation; registered to present at JUG London. Incorporated review feedback (separating filters from conditions, moving to nested boolean expressions, trimming the evaluation section, adding a UI mockup).
  • July 08: Started implementation with the schema; multiple automation rules per transition (dropped the unique key), added the item_filter and fire_condition expression columns, and repurposed ordering as the resolution priority.
  • July 09: Built the
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GSoC'26 – Multi-category Support for Joomla [Midterm Report]

Here's a summary of the work completed during the first half of the coding period:

 

  • Added support for assigning multiple categories to articles while keeping a single primary category.

  • Added the secondary categories field to the administrator article form.

  • Added the same functionality to frontend article editing.

  • Added support for creating secondary categories directly from the field.

  • Updated custom fields so fields assigned to secondary categories are available together with the primary category fields.

  • Extended article filtering to work with secondary categories.

  • Added support for secondary categories in search and Smart Search.

  • Updated featured articles and archived articles to include secondary categories.

  • Added secondary category support to batch

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CMS Release Team Meeting July 8, 2026

Participants: Jenn, Christiane, Martin, Sigrid, Heiko, Harald, Olivier, Benjamin, Martina, Stefan; We discussed the two releases, 5.4.7 and 6.1.2.