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Rod,

What about integrating the UserProfile with the Repository?

The way I see it working is that when special types of users register as part of the profile setup they could be allocated to a category (or more than one) that relates to the repository, either by selecting it themselves or being set up by administrator.

 As an example you could have advertisers or service providers who are in a certain role. A site visitor could select a category from the repository and see a summary (like businesscard template) then click to see full profile of the service provider. Further to that, integrate the ability to add products/services/offers to a profile (updateable by the user) which can be displayed in the full profile, or as a separate list (eg. top offers)

Any ideas of where to start with this idea?

Paul

Thanks for your thoughts Rod.

Am off on Hols for a few weeks this weekend (where I will not even think DNN!) but once I return I will get into specing and how this could work.

Paul

Hi Rod,

I am using Ventrian's Property Agent. I am trying to include a token used to link to Private Messaging to link to your User Profile module. I managed to get it all working for Messaging using Ventrian's [USERNAME] token, but I cannot seem to get your module to work on it. I wondered, is this because User Profile needs [USERID] and not [USERNAME]?

This is what I am trying to use:

..../tabid/62/ID/[USERID]/Default.aspx

It links to the page OK, but does not pick up the user. Think it also gives an error:

Error: Profile is currently unavailable.
DotNetNuke.Services.Exceptions.ModuleLoadException: Input string was not in a correct format. ---> System.FormatException: Input string was not in a correct format. at System.Number.StringToNumber(String str, NumberStyles options, NumberBuffer& number, NumberFormatInfo info, Boolean parseDecimal) at System.Number.ParseInt32(String s, NumberStyles style, NumberFormatInfo info) at SmartThinker.DNN.Modules.UserProfile.UserProfile.IsValidUserProfileIDForRetrievalType(Int32 selectedProfileTypeID) at SmartThinker.DNN.Modules.UserProfile.UserProfile.Page_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e) --- End of inner exception stack trace ---

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Anna

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Of course...

<a href="http://www.thenursingjobsite.com/tabid/62/ID/[USERID]/Default.aspx">

Produces:

http://www.thenursingjobsite.com/tabid/62/ID//Default.aspx

Anna

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Is it possible to integrate Active forums (or the core forums for that matter) and ST UP so that when you click on the user in the forums it takes you to their ST user profile and not to the forum profile?

I think we finally decided to go with DNN (were thinking of MOSS 2007) so I will have to get more involved. Plan to buy that platinum benefactor package so I can scream a bit louder:).

DNN Fusion integrates his UP with Active Forums so I guess it works. What is the reason the core Forum people don't  want to do this? You may want to switch to Active Forums as you can integrate there the Ventrian private message module that you use for communication between users.

ivtch wrote Is it possible to integrate Active forums (or the core forums for that matter) and ST UP so that when you click on the user in the forums it takes you to their ST user profile and not to the forum profile?

Has anyone done this to date? We would like to implement this also.

stephan schneider wrote With a little change with the Uploaded Profile Pictures the Integration into ActiveForum would be very easy. If the Uploaded ProfilePicture would be stored in a different way, it wolud be possible to use this picture for the forum even with a link to the profile! If it would be stored like this:   ...folder/[UserID]/Profile[UserID].jpg  Maybe Smart-Thinker can change this in the next realese, so everyone could easily use this! I think this could be great step for integration ;-)

Hi,

A new token was added in 04.03.09 to allow this kind of integration:

    Sponsored Enhancement: Profile Pic can now be retrieved with UserID only - eg. /DesktopModules/Smart-Thinker%20-%20UserProfile/Profile.ashx?id=[USERID]
        - http://www.smart-thinker.com/Support/Forums/tabid/111/forumid/11/postid/3832/scope/posts/Default.aspx

Can this code be modified for Active Forums to show the user photo?

What am I missing here,

I'm trying to integrate the UserProfile photo along with a link back to the userprofle.

<A href="http://mywebsite.com/User/tabid/157/ID/[UserId]/Default.aspx" class="CommandButton"><img src="/DesktopModules/Smart-Thinker%20-%20UserProfile/Profile.ashx?id=[UserId]></a>

I've also tried entering the full string for "img src", change [UserId] to [USERID] and commented id="[USERID]".  Ive also removed the %20 and replaced w/a space instead.  I'm running Active Forums 3.6

Any ideas?

EDIT:

I forgot to mention, I am adding this to Templates: PostInfo, under admin control panel

Last update,

I think I can figure the rest out. after placing the code into my template, I went into a demo user account and uploaded a new user image, went back to the forums and is displaying correctly. Funny thing is, I had cleared cache prior to all these posts, as I was sure that was not the issue, but now I'm not sure.

All currently appears normal

Hi Rodney,

I'm not having any luck with this, I'm even trying replacing the userid with a hard coded userid I know has a photo, but still no luck... any thoughts?

I'm not using this wih the forum I using it to pull a link into another page... is this the problem?

Cheers

Nick

Hi Rodney,

I have a list of record labels being pulled from the catalook system by a sql sharp module and creating links to a custom page which lists information on that label - this is working very nicely.

However alongside his text list I want the image pulled from smart-thinker profile, but all I get is the broken missing image icon.

I have being using the image coding in this way...

<a href="http://www.mywebsite.com/Labels/LabelDetails/tabid/459/LabelID/$row.UserID/Default.aspx">
<img src="/DesktopModules/Smart-Thinker%20-%20UserProfile/Profile.ashx?id=371>"</a>

Cheers

Nick

HI Rodney,

I've found the problem... the code is putting on an extra >... I've omitted the > from my string and now all works thanks.

NIck