Usecase related to posts

Hello...

I have noticed that there is a column named "title" next to "message" column of table comprofiler_plugin_activity that is always NULL. Where is this column used?


This is making me ask about the following usecase...

We need users to be able to select from prefixed titles (set by admin) while posting in the "What's on your mind?" text field.

The reason is because we want to make clear to our business community members, what each post is about and maybe use the title field values to categorize posts.

Is it possible to have a drop-down title field in each post that is done? I mean for each post that a user creates to select (mandatory) a title too.

Thank you in advance!

Most activity is dynamically output. Meaning the title and message of a post are output via other plugins after they've parsed their activity. However, stored activity is also possible. In that case the stored title and message would output as normally. The title displays directly next to a persons name in the activity display. You can create stored activity manually within CB Activity > Activity or using CB Auto Actions to generate it.

The title field is not meant to be used the way you're wanting. For what you're wanting you should use the Action feature and re-purpose it as you can supply your own action types in CB Activity > Actions that they can select from and supply a title for. They'd select the action from the dropdown and they'll be asked to supply a title, which is basically exactly as you're wanting.

The title displays directly next to a persons name in the activity display.

This is what we need...

You can create stored activity manually within CB Activity > Actions

Tried this and we are dealing with the following issues...

1. CB Activity / Actions does not seem to respect the ACCESS restrictions!
2. We need the custom action types we created to be visible by default for the users to select and be required.
3. We need the action types to appear as a normal dropdown select field. Now users have to pup the cursor in the field and write something for the options to become visible.

or using CB Auto Actions to generate it

Looked in CB Auto Actions but i have no idea about how to accomplish this. Is there a tutorial?

Thank you in advance!

CB Activity / Actions does not seem to respect the ACCESS restrictions!

Working perfectly fine in my tests. More than likely the user you're using has access to the selected access of the action. It uses View Access Levels and not Usergroups directly.

We need the custom action types we created to be visible by default for the users to select and be required.

There's not functionality to make actions required or default applied.

We need the action types to appear as a normal dropdown select field. Now users have to pup the cursor in the field and write something for the options to become visible.

You mean you don't want the textarea field collapsed? You can turn that off under the Create parameters of an activity stream.

Looked in CB Auto Actions but i have no idea about how to accomplish this. Is there a tutorial?

For what exactly? You misquoted me above. CB Auto Actions can be used to automatically generate activity entries. I don't know how it's going to help you exactly in regards to what you're trying to do as it was to explain how the Title parameter is used.

Thank you krileon.

What would be perfect for us shows in the following screenshot...



I understand that what we need may be out of the scope of community builder and possibly a modification is required. So we want to ask:

Does joomlapolis offer such a service? Paid modifications?

Is there a way to contact experienced community builder specialists for hire?

What you're asking for is custom behavior. You'd have to develop that your self. We do not provide custom development here. You maybe able to move the Action button dropdown using template overrides, but there's no functionality to make it required. You can find the template file with the Action button in the below files.

/components/com_comprofiler/plugin/user/plug_cbactivity/templates/default/activity/edit.php
/components/com_comprofiler/plugin/user/plug_cbactivity/templates/default/activity/new.php