This is a simple problem I have with my 7.09 site that I figured I could find a solution to in the forums or in the bug tickets. I was surprised to find that there is no mention in the forums and I don't think there is a ticket. Not only that, the problem still exists in B2 of 7.1.
Here's the problem--I'm hoping that one of you has come across this before and knows how to fix it.
- Add the "Forum Posts" block to the Profile page. This will allow users to see the last few posts a user has contributed to the forums.
- When viewing a user's profile page there is a link at the bottom of the forum posts block that says Nicks Forum Posts.
You would expect that this would take you to a listing of the user's post in the forums and indeed, the entry in sys_page_compose implies that the link should be generated from: {SiteUrl}forum/?action=rss_user&user={NickName}#4
But it doesn't. The link takes you to the forum as if it only saw {SiteUrl}forum/
I looked at the output of {SiteUrl}forum/?action=rss_user&user={NickName}#4 and wondered, why would anyone want the listing to look like that--it's a raw rss listing. It would be much nicer to have the page resemble what one sees when you do a user search on a forum based on messages and posts, along the lines of:
{SiteUrl}forum/?action=goto&search=1#action=goto&search_result=1&&msgs&0&{NickName}&posts
So I put that in the sys_page_compose entry but it didn't work. I still got {SiteUrl}forum/ when I clicked on the link.
Does anyone know what is up with this? I've got enough to do just figuring out how to construct a site that will engage our users. There are certain features of dolphin that I* expect will simply work. When simple things don't work and there is no mention that they don't work I start to get really worried. I don't know how a page module like this ever got introduced--perhaps it worked at some point in the past. Does anybody really use this stuff? Or am I missing something that's obvious to everyone else.
