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| Monday, June 16, 2008 |
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Smart-Thinker UserGroups 4.3.6 Released - SEO and bugfixes
By Rodney Joyce @ 7:26 PM
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This module allows users to create private or public groups of users. Groups can be public and joinable or closed to new membership, and the group owner can decide if new members require approval or not. Users can search groups by Category, Country or freetext tags. If the group allows new members then they can join the group. The group owner can send Private Messages to the group or invite groups to Events. This module was based loosely on the MySpace and Facebook Groups implementation.
See the Poker Groups on PokerDIY for an example of an implementation (here is an example of a Alabama poker group).
You can download a free trial version for your own site.
Enhancements
- Added Alphabet Search Filter to bottom of GroupSearch page
- New Setting on Group Detail to optionally set the browser title/keywords and decription to the Group Name or to format the current one (CurrentTitle - {0} {1}) for SEO (optional params are GroupName and Group City) and visual effect
- ModuleTitle setting on Group Detail now works. Use format "Current Module Container Title - {0}" where {0} is the Group Name
- New Token [PROFILEIMAGESMALL], used for list views to display the profile image at 50*50
- New Token [COUNTRYFLAG], which displays the flag for any Country of Location (For EventDetail and Event Guests).
- [ISINROLE] Token now also supports output if false - [ISINROLE|RoleName|OutputIfTrue|OutputIfFalse] e.g. [ISINROLE|Administrators|Admin|Not an Admin]
- Generated token images (Online/CountryFlag) now populate alt text
- WallCanPost cache is now invalidated when a user joins or leaves a group so the Wall is updated immediately to reflect this after a refresh instead of waiting for the 2 minute cache to expire
- Removed duplicated CSS styles from Module.css. You will need to follow the steps described in this post to retain module styles
- Replace Jscript calls - http://www.mitchelsellers.com/Blogs/tabid/54/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/205/Delete-Confirmation-The-Easy-Way-in-DNN.aspx
- Refactored Load/Save templating settings
- Made AcceptMembership and DeclineMembership buttons more obvious with CSS on GroupDetail page.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed bug with UserMyGroups showing groups with unapproved group membership
- Fixed bug with selecting users on subsequent pages of the user control
- ModuleSettings screen now checks for invalid TabID for integration options
- Fix mispelling
- Localized missing language strings
- Fixed problems with Profile Pics when Portal used non-numeric Portal Directory
- Removed extra "/" in image URL (AddtoEvent, AddtoGroup etc) e.g. src="/DesktopModules/Smart-Thinker%20-%20UserProfile//images/addtoevent.gif"
- Fixed problem with profile image when a user had a space in front of their FirstName
- DropDownLists of User-Type now show DisplayName and not Full Name
Note that a UserGroup is a logical, user-defined grouping, and does not affect security or access rights. Please raise any queries about this module on the UserGroup Forum here.
After upgrading you will need to edit the module settings to take advantage of the new features. It is highly suggested that you localise the email templates to punch directly into the Group view (for group invites) - see PokerDIY for an example. This highly increases usablity (feel free to play around on PokerDIY and request to join our DotNetNuke Poker Group if you want to see the emails that are sent).
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| Sunday, June 01, 2008 |
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Module Update - Smart-Thinker Wall 4.3.2 Released
By Rodney Joyce @ 6:28 AM
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The Smart-Thinker Wall module allows you to attach a Facebook-style Wall to a Group, Event, UserProfile or other entity. This allows users to collaborate, discuss or simply leave comments (It is not designed to replace the Forums module).This was a sponsored enhancement/project and is based loosely on the Facebook Wall design and is fully templatable/localisable so you can change the look and feel to match your site.
To see this module in action, have a look at my PokerDIY profile, this poker group, this poker event, or this custom entity, a live poker league. Feel free to log in and test the wall, but please bear in mind this is a live, working site, so leave sensible comments (the Wall is usually at the very bottom, under the other entity).
This module uses templates and tokens to display the Wall Posts, so you can define what content is shown as well as the layout. It integrates with the other Smart-Thinker modules (Groups/Events/UserProfile) so that you can define the security rights around who can see or post on a Wall. For example, if you add it to a UserProfile then you could chose to only allow your Friends to be able to post. If you add it against a Group then you could only allow Group Members to post on the Wall. On PokerDIY the Wall is actually quite simple and allows everyone to see and post (this is by design). You can also allow users to search on posts, as well as have a "threaded" conversation (where the top-level Wall Posts/Topics have replies. We wanted a simple Facebook-looking Wall on PokerDIY so we turned these off in the Module Settings. You can read the Module Config Guide here.
Please raise any queries on our Wall Forum. You can download a free trial version for your own site here. NOTE: This module requires DNN 4.6.0 as it uses the core token replacement functionality. If you are using friend integration for Wall security it requries The Smart-Thinker UserProfile module version 4.3.11.
Enhancements
- *Sponsored Enhancement* - New Setting for "Logged On User" instead of "Passed-In" (to use Wall in a "HomePage" type environment. UserProfile Walls can now pull from other Walls for that User, or only from that Wall
- Default Templates now follow Facebook-style WallActions - reload your templates to get the new look!
- New Token [WRITEONWALL] displays a "Post Comment" at WallPost level (this functions the same as the New Topic module action in the container)
- New Token [REPLYONWALL] displays a "Post Reply" at WallPost level (this is for item level in threaded mode)
- New Token [WRITEONAUTHORWALL] which links to the post authors wall so you can write on their wall
- New Token [SENDPRIVATEMESSAGELINK] which displays a link to send the post author a message via PM
- New Token [COUNTRYFLAG], which displays the flag of the post author's country. This will be rolled out across all modules that supports a location (e.g. Event and Group Country)
- New Token [DELETELINK], which displays a Delete Link on each post (can be used on Item Template and PostDetail Item Template
- New Token [PROFILEIMAGESMALL], used for list views to display the profile image at 50*50
- Token [EDITPOST] no longer displays an image so that it matches the WallAction styles of the above new tokens
- Added ModuleTitle.LoggedOut language string to WallTopics.ascx.resx - Can be used to display a message in the module title when logged out (Default: "{0} - Log in join this conversation". {0} is the Module Setting Title. Leave blank to not use)
- Wall Posts now sort by CreatedDate and not ChangedDate (when you edited a post it moved to the top which meant it was no longer in context to the posts around it).
- Refactored IsEventOwner and IsEventGuest caching checks from Wall module into the Events module (requires Events 4.3.7 which requires DNN 4.6.0+ Only)
- Refactored CheckUserProfileFriend caching checks from Wall module into UserProfile module (4.3.11)
- Updated DNN Manifest file to do version compatiblity checking on install
Bugs
- ModuleSettings screen now checks for invalid TabID for integration options (refactored code)
- Fixed problems with Profile Pics when Portal used non-numeric Portal Directory
- Removed PostDetail Delete Module Action which had not been implemented (later version)
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| Friday, February 29, 2008 |
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Smart-Thinker Events 4.3.7 Released (Requires DNN 4.6.0+)
By Rodney Joyce @ 12:42 AM
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Smart-Thinker Events is a DotNetNuke Event Management System with email notifications.
This module can be seen in action on PokerDIY.com (Find live poker games and leagues). The email templates on PokerDIY have been customized so that the "From" person punches in to their profile, and the event punches directly in to the event detail page.
You can download a free trial version for your own site here. NOTE: This module requires DNN 4.6.0+ as it uses the core token replacement functionality.
Enhancements
- "Invite to Events" Token and Functionality on UserProfile list
- "Invite New Member" screen can now be set to only show the user's friends (requires Smart-Thinker UserProfile module), or All Users (as before/default) or both. This means users could only ever invite their approved friends to events (like Facebook).
- New setting on Event Detail to optionally increment the View Counter to improve performance (causes a database write each time). With templating (4.3.8) you may exclude View Counter if you don't use it.
- New Setting on Event Detail to optionally set the browser title to the Event Name or to append it to the current one for SEO and visual effect
- Use of core TokenReplacement libraries for email templates - Tokens instead of ordinal replacement values (in line with other Smart-Thinker modules)
- - you will need to change your email templates if you have changed them for this module (the shipped ones have been updated). The email templates are now much more flexible.
- - To read more on Core Token Replacement
- - http://www.mitchelsellers.com/Blogs/tabid/54/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/150/TextHTML-460-and-Display-Tokens.aspx
- - http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Community/Blogs/tabid/825/EntryID/1547/Default.aspx
- Added the concept of an EmailFooter to all outgoing emails (this will be ported to all ST modules). If you want to attach an email footer to all your emails you can now edit the language string "EmailFooter.Text" in the SharedResources file (defaults to ""). This is very useful if you want to have email adverts so you do not need to edit every single email text; you can now do it by module.
- Added the concept of an HeaderFooter to all outgoing emails (this will be ported to all ST modules). Edit the language string "EmailHeader.Text" in the SharedResources file (defaults to "
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- The UserProfile List control now only shows the Pager Footer if the total number of records exceeds the selected pagesize (much tidier)
- The UserProfile List control now only shows the PageSize selector if the total records is more than 1 (smallest possible page size)
- Removed "lblNoRecords.Text" from SharedResources (now in local resx file prefixed with UserSearchID), e.g. "AddUserlblNoRecords.Text"
- Sponsored Enhancement: Add ISINROLE Token ([ISINROLE|RoleName|OutputIfTrue]) - this will be ported to each module as it is released
- - http://www.smart-thinker.com/Support/Forums/tabid/111/forumid/11/postid/4124/scope/posts/Default.aspx
- Removed references to redundant Smart-Thinker HomePage module
- Refactored IsEventOwner and IsEventGuest caching checks from Wall module into the Events module
BugFixes
- Removed EditEvent from Event Detail (problems with module settings - need to investigate module architecure options)
- CopyEvent now correctly resets DateLastEmailed for External Invites
- SuperUsers are now not added as an invited guest when they create an event (They are never shown in profile lists so it affected the count. SuperUsers also cannot RSVP to events for themselves - they can still edit other RSVPs)
- Fixed misspelling (lblEventDraft.Text) "finshed" = "finished"
Notes
Event Detail Templating has been postponed until the next version (hopefully in the next 4 weeks). It is 90% finished but needed more testing. All the emails have been changed to use the core Token Replacement code, so if you have customized any emails you will need to redo them (please note that there may be errors until you have converted your templates if this is the case). If you have not then you do not need to do anything.
The 4.3.7 source is available to the Product Suite Developer customers.
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| Wednesday, January 09, 2008 |
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Smart-Thinker UserProfile 4.3.10 Released
By Rodney Joyce @ 6:43 PM
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The new version of the UserProfile module has a single token improvement (ISINROLE) to display data based on a user's role. and a few small bug fixes. You can see it in action on PokerDIY (feel free to set up an account to test) or you can download a trial version here.
Enhancements
Sponsored Enhancement: Add ISINROLE Token ([ISINROLE|RoleName|OutputIfTrue]) - this will be ported to each module as it is released
- http://www.smart-thinker.com/Support/Forums/tabid/111/forumid/11/postid/4124/scope/posts/Default.aspx
Removed references to redundant Smart-Thinker HomePage module
BugFixes
Localised missing Settings - "Future Birthdays", "Past Birthdays" and "All Birthdays".
Fixed problem with install order and constraints on SmartThinker_UserProfileFriend table (if the latest Groups/Events module was installed before the UserProfile module there was a problem)
Removed redundant ModuleHelp.Text strings
Please raise any queries on the Smart-Thinker Forums.
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