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#13951 Akeeba Backup Module Notifications

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Latest post by nicholas on Monday, 29 October 2012 06:40 CDT

Monday, 29 October 2012 06:11 CDT

kimhuff
Mandatory information about my setup:

Have I read the related troubleshooter articles above before posting (which pages?)? None applied
Have I searched the tickets before posting? Yes
Have I read the documentation before posting (which pages?)? Yes
Joomla! version: 2.5.7
PHP version: 5.3.15
MySQL version: 5.1.65
Host: ServInt
Akeeba Backup version: 3.6.8

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Description of my issue:

What is the Akeeba back up and tools module notification used for? As soon as you enable them, they are disabled again.

Monday, 29 October 2012 06:16 CDT

nicholas
You don't need them. They used to display an icon to tell you if the backup (Akeeba Backup) or Joomla! (Admin Tools) are out of date. They have been replaced by plugins which do the same thing.

You might wonder, why are we shipping the modules? Older versions of our components used the modules. We needed a transparent method to upgrade from using modules to using plugins without having users to manually have to unpublish the modules off and publish the plugins (quite simply because nobody reads the release notes or information printed on the screen during installation). So the modules, if they are published, will now publish the plugins and unpublish themselves.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

Monday, 29 October 2012 06:20 CDT

kimhuff
Thank you for the clarification. I am sorry to bother you with it but I couldnt find that info anywhere when I searched for it.

Monday, 29 October 2012 06:40 CDT

nicholas
Not bothered at all. This was a deliberately silent change. We have no documentation about the plugins as it's no longer necessary. The plugins are activated and deactivated through the Post-Installation Configuration wizard page. We used to have documentation about the old modules... only it wasn't read by anyone. Ever since we moved that to the post-installation configuration wizard people started using this feature and stopped asking us about it. Well, I am glad that there is at least one person beside me who noticed the change :)

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

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