Profile & Timeline in Dolphin 7.1 Osho
Dolphin "renovation" project is going on in full steam and today we'd like to show the updated look of member profile and the new Timeline.
Yes, you read it right - it's Timeline now, not Wall. The big blue giant is "imputing" naming conventions for social networking features, so it won't be long before your users would expect you to have a Timeline, and wouldn't care about your Wall. Anyway, Timeline would have made a better name for the thing in the first place.
Timeline
It really is a timeline, actually. Now it has a fancy, ajaxy "infinite scroll" and a period range selector, which create a feeling of peering back into past. All updates are arranged into daily groups, with improved date representation.
The new Timeline now includes updates from many modules - photos, videos, music, events, groups, blogs, articles, news, etc. Direct posting to Timeline has also been improved.
Another notable update is grouping. Yeah, the long awaited grouping. Now, when you upload, say, 20 photos - it would only show one update, with 4 thumbnails and reference to the album and amount of added photos. It is even smart enough to merge updates if you add another dozen of photos to the same album within one day. How cool is that! Same applies to other media types.
The Timeline makes profile dynamic, interesting and interactive. Default profile configuration in Dolphin will give it a major prominence, so expect the Timeline to improve even more over time.
Profile
Other components of the profile will look familiar, but we have removed a good deal of junk, rearranged what was left and voila - a fresh profile à la mode. Check it out....
There're many changes in other Profile-related pages and functions that we're working on right now - expect an all-around better user experience.
More cool news about Dolphin 7.1 coming very very soon, so don't go too far!
PLUG
Dolphin 7.1 will be a direct upgrade from Dolphin 7.0.9. Licenses are not version-sensitive, so current license will work with 7.1 just fine. It's a good idea to buy a license now, since prices are likely to go up soon.
The new Dolphin solution is powered by UNA Community Management System.
I think I'm going to cry.
I give you one :-)
May be it is going to be with the release of 8.0 so you don't need to wait for Dolphin 12 :-)
Do it :-)
Oh, and you should probably see a doctor.
29 minutes ago: Alexander Trofimov - Mobile design update - Mobile Blogs
I simply love BoonEx :-)
There's your update!
(Of course, I'm sure more's coming. But can't help poking fun at people who don't check the changesets.)
Are Profile comments still available?
Without the 'wall' feature, comments would be the only on-profile posting method now... would be nice to still have comments as an option.
Things are happen it looks fantastish!
Andrew, may be you could organize a BoonEx-Unity convention or something similar for June/ July 2013 I'm quite sute that I could plan ahead for such a trip and it would be more so pleasure to get to know you guys as well as some unity members in person :-)
We are a unity :-)
cos then it's here in Sweden bloody cold and I love the sunshine :-)
Even down under has to come up once in a while to get the light!
Because I can't afford to travel to Sweden or Australia.
Save a few bucks a month and may be if a lot of people go Australien airlines give a discount :-)
It would be easy for BoonEx to add something where members could book a fly and each time 10 more join it gets a bit cheaper :-)
That's the problem with linear thinkers (geeks). Stepping 'outside the box' just isn't in their vocabulary.
The 'timeline' isn't all that great as far as I am concerned. I already have trouble because people think they are exposing too much of their personal information. There is a rather large community of people who are balking (and removing) see more
As for original ideas - there are many of those in Dolphin, but not do much in latest iterations, because compatibility is such a big concern for D7. Still, you'll find some very unusual, yet cool bits in 7.1 - in photos, in mobile see more
I have created a module for for 7.0.9 and would like to know for 7.1 has
the module structure or the pages system changed, and have the
database tables been renamed. Or anything else that I need to know so I can prepare my module for 7.1
Regards
Jennifer
For sure - you can try to get latest version from SVN and check your module compatibility.
Regardless, I love my site despite no members. I could always take my guard down and let all the bots join up. Looking forward see more
-Ted
I'm asking before I endeavor to make the multitude of changes myself and then find out it is in the works on the BoonEx end!
Thank You.
I just bought the multi wall generator mod from Scriptologist, allows me to place a wall inside modules view pages. This is a big feature for me...
Will the Timeline render this useless, as I guess the whole Wall module will be dropped altogether?
PLEASE SAY YES...!