After months of designing, coding and testing the desired target was met. New generation of SearchLog Joomla component, used for presentation of Amateur Radio logs on the web sites, is now available on Download page. Starting from first encouragement by Kevin N5DX, continued with very cordial supportive activities of Hans SMØIMJ, pre-release testing by Ton PA1CC and John IW6ATQ it was possible to prepare web log with some sophisticated features. Thanks all for their commitment.

In SearchLog, ver.2.x it was possible to include following data items : contact callsign, band, transmission mode and status of confirming of QSO via QSL card (none as blank, sent, received, confirmed on both sides). In this version of SearchLog was used compressing method for store and display of QSO contacts. Duplicate contacts between same station call and callsign were "compressed" to only one record in database.

New SearchLog ver.3.x allows to use described operation type (here named as Basic) but also storing the QSO data one-to-one into database with possibility to assign data to specific activities (contests, expeditions, special occassions, etc.) - Extended type of operation. Using both types of operation supports easy migration from SearchLog ver.2.x as well as it allows in Basic type saving the database size and processing time when this type of QSO presentation is evaluated as sufficient (mostly for award hunters). In SearchLog ver.3.x is fully reengineered against older versions in administration part as well as frontend where new features covers partial search, result pagination, column sorting and inclusion of QSO audio files.

Operation of the new SearchLog you can see on my Page (in Basic mode) and frontend in Extended mode is shown here :

Joomla CMS framework is comming soon to the final stage (now Joomla 1.5RC3 available for download on the main web site) and developing components for native (1.5 version) framework is more and more demanding. Although the SearchLog component (ver. 2.0.4) can work without problems in "legacy" mode of Joomla 1.5, now here is available new version of SearchLog component in two native formats - for Joomla 1.0 (zip file name is ending with _j10) and for Joomla 1.5 (zip file name is ending with _j15).

Both formats have some corrections in the code (against ver.2.0.4) improving processing of different variations of ADI 2.0 files.

Warning : Joomla 1.5 RC4 and later (incl. Joomla 1.5 FINAL) has other internal access to the core JTableComponent as previous releases therefore please select the proper version of SearchLog for the download and installation.

Download of new SearchLog versions is available here.