Customizing Profiles
LightWolf
posted 9th of June 2009
in
Community Voice.
30 comments.
Dear Boonex:
I have been waiting 2 years for you all to place a mod in the dolphin to be able to customize members profiles. This is a VERY important need for my type of website.
Each time a release comes out you say next release,next release. Now i see you have planned this for D7 (I hope). I can only afford to wait for this one more time around, then i must figure out if i want to stay with Dophin or move on.
Can you say for sure you will have this option for members in the D7 release? And can you PLEASE answer this time. I never get a direct answer from you on this and been asking for 2 years.
Below is the legacy version of the Boonex site, maintained for Dolphin.Pro 7.x support.
The new Dolphin solution is powered by UNA Community Management System.
The new Dolphin solution is powered by UNA Community Management System.
The task is named "Profiles Customization":
http://www.boonex.com/trac/dolphin/query?status=new&status=assigned&status=reopened&milestone=7.1&order=priority
This feature will be added on Dolphin 7.1 - so after the beta.. don't worry if it's there - it will be made..
hahaha yeah i bet it isn't.
Hopefully we can help you. I have placed your question on the Pundits General Forum. No one deserves to get an answer to their question more than you.
Juker
I have seen several that look good, most recently one recommended by another user created by MichaelSwiss.
They really don't seem very expensive, either. Perhaps I am missing something, since I am new to Boonex. *smiles*
The first time I asked if D7 would have privacy settings, I got the impression that the Boonex developers had no idea what I was talking about.
http://www.expertzzz.com/Downloadz/view/3034
I have seven sites running on xampp and I have this mod installed. Every profile admin is independent and the style possibilities are endless.
Semper Fi Wolf Lady!
Juker
http://www.open-lab.com/mb.ideas/index.html#
Now I like the concept of Floating mbContainers. Since MB is using many of the JQUERY files BoonEx already implements in the backside Admin. I don't see why I couldn't change the frontend to optimize ModularBox Layout.
Don't know if I would scattered them as MB but I likey the functionaility and expansion of the concept as a whole for frontside Navigation.
What do you think LightWolf, MickyB, Tyke?
As far as user customisation of blocks is concerned I'm currently writing a mod to add the datatype html to profile fields - this will also sanitize the content by allowing admins to whitelist commands.
With this mod installed you can provide a field in the profile where the see more
I hope whatever comes of the profile customization that its kept simple to use for user. not everybody knows how to lay down HTML, or put in #234765 colour codes to change colours, which ive seen not long ago on one site. They boasted that any member could create their own customised profile, Yeah sure, if you know CSS and so on, needless to say, everybody still had the default profile because Most people dont know how to do that, they see more
This is what it does...
If you include a text box in the profile it will only allow you to type text into it - if you add html - it converts it so that it displays as text - it basically 'sanitizes' it.
So with this mod - instead of choosing a text box - you can choose a html box. This checks which html elements are being inputted against a list of allowable elements and removes the ones that you don't with see more
Having re-read you post in more detail tyke - I agree - perhaps I have a tendency to consider such stuff as easy - which to many it is not...
It may be a contentious issue though - some will want simplicity whilst others will want flexibility.
So....
Perhaps a more usable / dynamic solution would be an extension of the block drag and drop mod - each block has a menu with a few simple point see more