[SOLVED] CB Content Bot

Hello Support,

I must be having a senile moment! I have downloaded and installed CB Content Bot and ensured it is enabled.

In each user profile I have a tab for Lodge History. It contains a single field cb_lodgehistory.

What I want to do is display that same information in an article. Based on the scant information I could find on the plugin I surmised I should simply add this code to the article... ... and the textarea content of cb_lodgehistory would appear as if by magic. No such luck.

I then thought that I ought to make sure it took the field from the correct profile so I selected author in the plugin. No change.

Have I completely misunderstood the use of this bot? Do I need to add extra code to identify correct profile? The information on substitutions just confused me even more.

Is there a video?

Please be gentle when you berate me for not seeing the blindingly obvious that I must have missed
David

The user used for the substitution by default is the article owner. If you need it to display for a specific user you need to specify that. If you need it to display for the user viewing the article you also need to specify that. This is done using the user parameter for a substitution. So for example if you want it to display the field value of the user viewing the article you'd use the below.

[cb:userfield field="FIELD_NAME" user="#me" /]

See the below tutorial for further details.

www.joomlapolis.com/documentation/279-community-builder/tutorials/18353-using-substitutions-throughout-cb

OK - Senile moment over :blush:

I did need to add a user id in order for the system to know which profile to raid.

In case anyone else has a stupid moment here is the solution to my problem....

As each article is linked by a menu item relevant to the user profile I simply need to include the above code and whenever the user changes the profile then the Joomla article will also change.

Regards
David

You could also make that user the owner of the article, but ensure they've no usergroup to actually edit articles (e.g. Author) and then all substitutions in the article should come from their profile.

Thanks Kyle,

None of the users have author status so that is a good suggestion too. There aren't too many articles so it is also practical.

Better still I have only done one article so far so not many to change

Cheers