Suggestions

Still relatively new, I'm loving community builder. There are two things that don't seem possible that I feel should be implemented.

The first and more critical, there needs to be a solution to allow the user to crop their profile image. It's almost expected now a days among all the major social media sites. This is really needed so that way images will always appear correctly, not just on their profile page, but in forums/other displays. It just looks unprofessional without this option.

To go along with this, is it possible to randomize their starting portfolio and canvas among the options you allow them to pick?

Second, for Group Jive, it would be really helpful to restrict group sizes by category. While not what I'm aiming for, I'm sure this would be a nice feature for anyone who would want to charge a premium for group membership. This would allow them to charge different prices for different sized groups.

From what I can tell none of these are possible, if they are I'd love to know how to implement them. If not possible, I'd love to see these developments in future releases.

msharp wrote: Still relatively new, I'm loving community builder. There are two things that don't seem possible that I feel should be implemented.

Cool - welcome to Community Builder then.
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The first and more critical, there needs to be a solution to allow the user to crop their profile image. It's almost expected now a days among all the major social media sites. This is really needed so that way images will always appear correctly, not just on their profile page, but in forums/other displays. It just looks unprofessional without this option.

Study the CB Primer Book - it has specific examples of settings that will crop uploaded images to get them to the exact size you want.

It is not ideal as it does not let end user actually select thecrop area (planned for CB 2.1), but it does address your main concern.

To go along with this, is it possible to randomize their starting portfolio and canvas among the options you allow them to pick?

Hmm - no such feature exists. I am thinking that you might be able to do this with a CB Auto Action (code), but I am not sure exactly how

Second, for Group Jive, it would be really helpful to restrict group sizes by category. While not what I'm aiming for, I'm sure this would be a nice feature for anyone who would want to charge a premium for group membership. This would allow them to charge different prices for different sized groups.

I kind of agree that a simple total number of users in group restriction setting would open the door to many cool new use cases (example team roster, etc).

Letting Kyle comment on this.

From what I can tell none of these are possible, if they are I'd love to know how to implement them. If not possible, I'd love to see these developments in future releases.

See answers previously given - thanks for posting feedback.

Second, for Group Jive, it would be really helpful to restrict group sizes by category. While not what I'm aiming for, I'm sure this would be a nice feature for anyone who would want to charge a premium for group membership. This would allow them to charge different prices for different sized groups.

If you want to limit the number of groups someone can create dynamically you can do so using a CB Query Field (e.g. cb_groupcount) to first count how many groups they have. Next in CB Auto Actions act on the gj_onBeforeDisplayGroupEdit trigger with the below conditions.

[var2_id] Is Not Empty
[cb_groupcount] Greater Than or Equal To [cb_grouplimit]

You can use a Redirect action for example to redirect away from the group edit page and inform them they've hit their limit. You can then adjust cb_grouplimit using CBSubs for example.

It maybe possible to limit the number of users in a group as well, but that gets a little more complicated to setup.