With this new feature, you are not forced to remove and recreate your table field when you want to change its type. It has been a long job to do because the builder was not able to do it due to all the cascade restrictions of the builder (wizards, Icons refresh, Fields tree icons and expandable nodes, ...)
To change a field type : Open the properties box, and change the 'type' parameter. Sometimes, the list of possibilities can be restricted by the wizards using the current field you want to modify.
From the decimal field type, you can now choose to display the value in a financial format.
Add the currency symbol (before or after)
Pad the decimals with zeros
Group the thousands
New Feature : for decimals field type
Group the thousands
New Feature : UTC Time management Time or Datetime field can handle the user UTC timezone in order to store the values in UTC (Universal Time). This is highly recommended for creation / modification dates, and for all fields who requires a synchronic clock between users or for the system. The time values are shown according to the user's timezone.
We started to remove the back compatibility layer.
The version 3 will be released step by steps in successive sub-versions along the complete cleaning. Joomla! 2.5 is not anymore compatible with Cook 3.x
Choose "beta" version in the component configuration.
New Feature : SQL Import
New Feature : SQL field types.
New feature : Change field type AFTER instanced
New Feature : Financial field