Helix Ultimate RC 2 comes with a closer look at the future

07 February 2018

2 min read

Helix Ultimate RC 2 comes with a closer look at the future

I know, this announcement comes as a big surprise to you. Our products empower you to think outside the box, and we always want to provide something more than you expect from us. That’s why today we’re presenting the second release candidate (RC 2) version of your beloved Helix Ultimate. This is just another step towards our journey to a robust stable version of the template framework.

Helix Ultimate RC 2 mainly focuses on fixes and improvements. It offers a better experience with the export-import feature, mega menu, media manager, comments, and more.

Helix Ultimate RC 2 changelogs

Export-import issue fixed
Mega menu compatibility issue with Helix3 fixed
Media manager issue fixed
Blog image option issue fixed
Comment system changed
Removed Ajax plugin

Now we are a lot closer to the final stable release of Helix Ultimate. You all are invited to test this RC version and requested to share your feedback with us. Thanks in advance, happy developing!

System requirements

Joomla 3.8
PHP 5.6 or more
Fresh Joomla installation

Don't use ‘Helix Ultimate RC 2’ in any of your live sites. Try it only with a fresh Joomla instance.

Release timeline

Release of Alpha version--> January 10, 2018
Release of Beta version--> January 16, 2018
Release of RC version--> January 25, 2018
Release of RC 2 version--> February 7, 2018
Release of Stable version--> February 15 2018

Take Helix Ultimate RC 2 to a test drive now

Arafat Bin Sultan

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Jean-Marc Burri

6 years ago

Thank you so much for this guys... Appreciate all your hard work done so far. Really loved Helix 3 but Helix Ultimate will be so much more... Thank you very much for this!!

Happy Customer, Sincerely
Jean-Marc

#4544

Paul Frankowski

Thanks. In stable version will be more improvements.

#4547

Mackie

Hello! I managed to test a little "Helix Ultimate RC-2" and here's what I can say:

1 Add Viber to social icons.

2. Add the ability to specify several conventional phones and some mobile phones in "Contact Info".

3. In the media manager, make the current appearance of the checkbox a little faster than it is now.

4. Why is the selected background image not displayed on the frontend on the Error page 404?

5. In the "Presets" section, 1 preset is displayed by default. But why is there still no possibility to save a new (additional) preset with a custom name in the same list of presets so that you can choose another preset at any time?

6. How to make Predefined Headers the full width of the screen?

#4546

Hi Mackie.
ad1) Viber - we cannot, there is no such icon in font awesome collection.
ad 2) You can publish there your own custom module with any content.
ad 3) Thanks, I will ask developer
we have to check...fix

#4548

[we have to check...fix]

Paul, you mean items 4, 5, 6?

#4549

[ad1) Viber - we cannot, there is no such icon in font awesome collection.]

https://fontawesome.com/icons?d=gallery&q=viber&m=free

#4557

but there is FontAwesome 4.7, not 5

#4564

7. In the alpha version of Helix Ultimate, in the "Basic" section, it was possible to select from the list any "Preloader" effect and specify "Background color" and "Text Color". Why in Helix Ultimate RC-2 there is no such possibility?

8. It seems to me that in the media manager it would be much better and more convenient if the choice of the image occurred by clicking on a specific image, rather than by selecting the check box. The image clicked and everything, and to select the checkbox - you need to "aim".

#4551

9. On the "Coming soon" page above the login and password, I suggest adding one more field for the user content. Such user content can be, for example, the text "Only the administrator can authorize on this page" - so if a normal registered user understands that while the "Coming soon" page is displayed, he can not be authorized, since only the administrator has access. This is of great importance (for the sake of the customers' peace of mind, so that they do not think that their accounts have been deleted), if there is an online store on the site.

#4552

10. Please add to the settings of the "Coming soon" page (in addition to the existing functions) the ability to separately specify the color of each text on this page.

#4553

11. Why when I turn off the display of social icons on the page "Coming soon", the form for entering the login and password is shifted to the left, and does not remain centered?

#4554

12. Add the option "Do not display the number of days" in the settings for the "Coming soon" page - in this case only the number of hours, minutes and seconds will be displayed.

13. Add the ability to set the size of social icons on the page "Coming soon". Now they are quite small. It would be great if the administrator could at his own discretion set the size of social icons in this page.

#4555

14. How on the page "Coming soon" translate into Russian the words "Days", "Hours", Minutes, "Seconds"?

It should be like this:
Days - Дни
Hours- Часы
Minutes - Минуты
Seconds - Секунды

#4556

Have you ever heard about template language file?
HELIX_ULTIMATE_DAY="Day"
HELIX_ULTIMATE_DAYS="Days"
HELIX_ULTIMATE_HOUR="Hour"
HELIX_ULTIMATE_HOURS="Hours"
HELIX_ULTIMATE_MINUTE="Mimnute"
HELIX_ULTIMATE_MINUTES="Minutes"
HELIX_ULTIMATE_SECOND="Second"
HELIX_ULTIMATE_SECONDS="Seconds"

#4566

Thanks, I managed to fix it. Tell me why in the settings of the page "Coming Soon" you can specify only the date, but you can not specify the time? Can you add the ability to specify the time as needed?

#4570

Nayem Majhar

Sorry, there is no such feature. You can set a date and it will turn out as time if the date is shorter than a day.

#4583

Leo Baker

When using this template Helix r2.0 Ultimate with ACYMAILING component/plugin, if you go to components>Acymailing> then go to users or newsletters, list. If you try and edit, copy delte from the toolbar you get an error to "Please make a selection".

#4558

Yury

error when editing menu items in the admin panel - "syntax error, unexpected '}', expecting end of file"

#4559

yo_ray

Hi

1) it is nice to have now more social icons. Maybe a next step to more options for social icons would be a possibility to set the color for each social icon (if its wanted for hover for fb in dark blue, youtube red, twitter light blue and so on)
2) also it would be great to get the possibility to set the different options for offcanvas in presets (so that we can choose the offcanvas background, text color, hover, active)
3) i dont know exactly what happened if this is just a little mistake that appears on my side. i changed the body font in typography from the setted roboto to helvetica and then the sites article from the joomla example content didnt show up anymore
4) it is really great to get predefined headers in layout but i cant change/switch the logo/menu (think i just have to deactivate predefined and add a new header which i want
5) in basic at the logo it would be nice to get an option to set a second logo left or rigth or below the first main logo (maybe with an activate second logo option which activate the options for the secondary logo)

Thanks for your great work!

#4560

Smel

Widely used elements like logo, search, social icons, contact, copyright could come as built-in add-ons so that Joomshaper templates would have more editing options.
Also we are having difficulties with header and footer editing. Currently they offer no flexibilities.

#4561

15. Add the ability to change the scrolling speed up for the "Go to Top" button.

16. Why after I deleted all the sections (except "Predefined Headers") in the "Layout Builder" section, it is not possible to create sections again?

#4562

porscha

Hello guys. Very big surprise with this second version of RC. I still think that Column option has to be more flexible - someone should be able to choose any column layout from 1 do 12 columns, not only the predefined column variations. :)
For Viber icon - there is viber icon in font awesome.

#4565

https://fontawesome.com/v4.7.0/icons/
- no viber I checked yesterday and today. And won't be until we use v4.7

#4568

Oh sorry, now I see, I did not know that you used v.4.7. In v5.0.3 they have added it :)

#4569

Forgot one more thing but there is no edit option in the forum. Menu when is sticky jumps a little, when you scroll down the page. Ca something be done with it to be more smooth ;)

#4567

Yes, I noticed it. Yesterday I added as a new ticket to our dashboard. To check & fix.

#4571

yaser

Please add support for RTL language.

#4575

Sure. It will add in Helix Ultimate. No worries.

#4582

salvo86

In my local test i receive this error when i try to set menu items [b]0 syntax error, unexpected '}' expecting end of file[/b]

#4576

Kawshar Ahmed

What is your PHP version?

#4577

bed

I have the same problem : 0 syntax error, unexpected '}' expecting end of file

php version : 7.0.27

#4585

Did not see such an issue.

#4588

php 7.1.11, server nginx/1.12.2

#4586

Arkadiy

Hello. Installed RC 2, the admin interface buttons did not work. Disconnected
editor JCE, it all worked. Perhaps you will be useful. Thank you.

#4592

Goran

Hello and great work so far!
Can you answer me this:

If I use Helix Ultimate (when stable version become available) with SP page builder right now on joomla 3.x will I be able to upgrade to joomla 4 (when stable is out) without recreating all the pages in that moment?

Thank you!

#4593

ssnobben

Great to see this progress!:D

What I miss is just a powerful slider like Wordpress Slider Revolution https://revolution.themepunch.com/#features :( and some snippets that could be picked up from there too http://littlesnippets.net/

Thks! :p

#4596

Justin

Were you still planning on adding AMP to Helix 4/Ultimate?

#4598

I have the samezm error on PHP 7.1.13 : in menu edition with joomla 3.8.5 : 0 syntax error, unexpected '}' expecting end of file

#4599