Adding your own events to activity stream

I followed your tutorial and everything works, however, the first time the user updates their status it shows this in the activity stream: "removed From Feeling Happy" I assume the removed is due to the fact the field is blank initially. Is there a way to remove the word remove on the first update of the field? Thanks!

Tutorial link

iamlove wrote: I followed your tutorial and everything works, however, the first time the user updates their status it shows this in the activity stream: "removed From Feeling Happy" I assume the removed is due to the fact the field is blank initially. Is there a way to remove the word remove on the first update of the field? Thanks!

Tutorial link

I guess you would need to create 2 auto actions.
Both triggered off the same events as in the tutorial.

One should have a condition to check if your field has changed (just like in the example) and another condition to check if the initial value was empty. Then just format the messages as you want for this case.

The second one should be like the example in the tutorial with an additional condition (the + button is used to add it) that checks if the previous value was not empty.

I will describe my setup here based on the after user update profile event.

Condition 1: [var1_cb_myvibrationalstatus] not equal to [var3_cb_myvibrationalstatus]
Condition 2: [var3_cb_myvibrationalstatus] not empty

The From field is: [var3_cb_myvibrationalstatus]
The To field is: new status of [var1_cb_myvibrationalstatus]

When I have the auto action setup this way, it does not show anything when the original value is empty. Just the required title I have given it "Changed Vibrational Level". It does not show the To field. This is fine, however, it still updates the activity wall. Therefore, when I add the second auto action, I get two updates on the activity wall with one being blank.


One last thought. Is there a way to have the drop-down field, "prefilled" with a value?

The display is a language string. It's also displaying properly. The language string is as follows.

'removed [from]' => 'removed [from]'

If there is a to value then the language string is as follows.

'[from] to [to]' => '[from] to [to]'

One last thought. Is there a way to have the drop-down field, "prefilled" with a value?

Only at registration. Alternative is to try using the before profile edit display trigger and alter the user object with a Fields action to change the value of the field if the field is empty.

Thanks! I want to try the fields auto action so can you walk me through this?

I have it setup like this:

1. conditional: [var3_cb_myvibrationalstatus] = empty
2. field: vibrational status
3. operator: Set(Field=value)
4. value: ???? I want to set the value to one of the drop down select options. What substitutions would I use for this?

I want to set the value to one of the drop down select options. What substitutions would I use for this?

You don't use a substitution, just specify the value you want to set it to. There is no substitution to get a dropdown fields options.