[SOLVED] A few questions regarding the latest CB Activity (3.0.0 RC1)

krileon wrote: Both Joomla SEF with and without URL rewriting appears working here. Has the .htaccess been modified for custom rewrite rules maybe? What URL are you sent to with SEF disabled (starting with index.php). Ensure the System - Community Builder plugin within Extensions > Plugin Manager is ordered first then ensure the Joomla SEF system plugin is published and public.

Hi Kyle

Apologies for not answering your initial question about the URL. If I disable SEF, I'm taken to the following URL (which works perfectly well): - index.php?option=com_comprofiler&view=pluginclass&plugin=cbactivity&action=recentactivity&Itemid=338

No, the htaccess has not been modified as far as I can tell. In terms of the plugins, I just moved the CB plugin up on top of all of the others. The Joomla SEF plugin is published and public as well.

Not sure what is going on here ...

No idea, the URL is correct. I can't see any reason for it not working. Please PM backend super administrator login credentials and will take a look.

krileon wrote: No idea, the URL is correct. I can't see any reason for it not working. Please PM backend super administrator login credentials and will take a look.

Thanks for the response Kyle. I'll set up super admin access now and PM you shortly.

Have reviewed your install and it's due to "System - K2" within Extensions > Plugin Manager. This appears to be due to the K2 parameter "Community Builder integration for avatar, user names and user pages". I believe their integration with CB needs to be upgraded to be compatible with CB 2.x. For now I've set it to "Disabled" and confirmed the recent activity page is now displaying fine. I do not know how they're using CB API so beyond my findings I don't have any other workaround to suggest.

I also noticed you've an infinite loop erroring in JS. The below is the error. It's coming from "System - AntiCopy", which I recommend disabling/uninstalling it as it does nothing for you (press F12 and you've full access to the DOM). Stopping context doesn't stop anything, but causes a lot of annoyance.

Location: VM25950:1
Error:

Kyle, thanks a LOT for the time you took to look into this and provide a detailed synopsis of your findings!

krileon wrote: Have reviewed your install and it's due to "System - K2" within Extensions > Plugin Manager. This appears to be due to the K2 parameter "Community Builder integration for avatar, user names and user pages". I believe their integration with CB needs to be upgraded to be compatible with CB 2.x. For now I've set it to "Disabled" and confirmed the recent activity page is now displaying fine. I do not know how they're using CB API so beyond my findings I don't have any other workaround to suggest.

Yes, works fine now, and no problem disabling that plugin. The only reason I'm using K2 is because (if you recall) I was having a very weird issue with using the "internal" CB blog storage system (which, again, if you recall, is what I would really, really like to do as I'm not a K2 fan).

We had discussed that issue here: - www.joomlapolis.com/forum/153-professional-member-support/228823-strange-issues-with-cb-blogs-unable-to-add-blog-etc#260434 ... I had torn more than a few hairs out testing and retesting (as you advised in the post), but was unable to get it to work. I initially thought about requesting you to take a look at it, but I then figured it was all good if I could get it to work with K2. However, as we just discussed, it seems that K2 isn't compatible with CB in a lot of regards - so - long story short - is there any way you could take a look at my install right now (same login etc that I sent you in the PM) and advise a potential solution to the problem mentioned above? As I said, I'd really like to use Community Builder for the core of my site and I would have no issues completely uninstalling K2 from the site if the aforementioned issue could be resolved. :cheer:

krileon wrote: I also noticed you've an infinite loop erroring in JS. The below is the error. It's coming from "System - AntiCopy", which I recommend disabling/uninstalling it as it does nothing for you (press F12 and you've full access to the DOM). Stopping context doesn't stop anything, but causes a lot of annoyance.

Location: VM25950:1
Error:

Code:

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'clearData' of undefined

Spot on, buddy - it seems to conflict with a few other things as well. The only reason I'm using that is to stop people from copying and pasting blog info that will be posted. Do you know a better way to do that than using the plugin that I am? I am aware that it's nigh impossible to stop anyone that's determined to really "steal" content from doing so, but just curious to hear your thoughts on it as well and if you have any other suggestions in that regard.

Thanks again for the assistance - much appreciated!

We had discussed that issue here: - www.joomlapolis.com/forum/153-profession...-add-blog-etc#260434 ... I had torn more than a few hairs out testing and retesting (as you advised in the post), but was unable to get it to work. I initially thought about requesting you to take a look at it, but I then figured it was all good if I could get it to work with K2. However, as we just discussed, it seems that K2 isn't compatible with CB in a lot of regards - so - long story short - is there any way you could take a look at my install right now (same login etc that I sent you in the PM) and advise a potential solution to the problem mentioned above? As I said, I'd really like to use Community Builder for the core of my site and I would have no issues completely uninstalling K2 from the site if the aforementioned issue could be resolved.

I'll take a look and update your other topic with my findings to avoid confusion of 2 issues in 1 topic.

Spot on, buddy - it seems to conflict with a few other things as well. The only reason I'm using that is to stop people from copying and pasting blog info that will be posted. Do you know a better way to do that than using the plugin that I am? I am aware that it's nigh impossible to stop anyone that's determined to really "steal" content from doing so, but just curious to hear your thoughts on it as well and if you have any other suggestions in that regard.

Best solution is to just not block it at all. Soon as you try to paint your viewers as the bad guys you've already lost the battle. Anyone that wants to steal your blog text will do it without the need of context window. There's many ways around it. For example Ctrl + A, Ctrl + C, and Ctrl + V into notepad, view page source, F12 developer console (available on every browser), throw the site through Google translate, or just toggle off JS. I don't recommend exhausting time and resources on a war you will never win.

Focus on making a great site with great content and you shouldn't have anything to worry about. Also having share links for every blog post can significantly help as often people want to share a blog entry, but with no easy share button they'll copy/paste and you lose the awareness that a share link can bring.

It's also vital you disable that extension though. Within 1 minute it's causing 100+ JS errors and will not stop. This will crash peoples browsers. So regardless of my advise above you if you intended to still use something like this you need to be using an extension that works cross-browser.