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New Post 3/4/2008 8:51 AM
  MarkSensei
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User Groups with Avatars and other things  (N/A)

I don't knw if this has been covered before, but if would be nice to see a few changes to the Groups module.
1) get rid of the default Icon or place it somewhere not at the head of the group name and ashow an Avatar, maybe the group owners user profile avatar. 

2) location as a reqired field...
I realize that you built this module with PokerDIY in your head, and poker games have tangible locations (most of the time) but, and please correct me if I am wrong, most users will probably never be using the groups module for tangible locations. I think it would be nice and les confusing for community users to ease off on this requirement and maybe make it a admin setting to show this field in the 'create a group' wizard. as would the whole "if an online location" 
honestly I really think its confusing.

My two cents.. looking forward to the next version

Mark

 
New Post 3/5/2008 6:22 PM
  Rodney Joyce
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Re: User Groups with Avatars and other things  (Australia)

Hi Mark,

Yes, the Groups module could do with an update - I just want to release Event Templating and then I will try and work on this (unless a UserProfile update is needed first), so it is a few months off at the moment...

1) When you say Default Icon - which one do you mean? I want to evenutally change the detail screen to use Templating, so you could lay it out as you like (with the profile pic of the owner).

2) This depends on the site requirements - most social networks use the online/physical group concept - obviously not everyone does though. Can you elaborate a little more on what you require though - ie. a setting for Only Physical, Only Online or Both (or None as well maybe)?

Out of interest, some of the changes I want to put into the next Groups update can be seen on the PokerDIY Poker League module (this is a custom module that was derived from the Groups module once upon a time). You can see that you can filter on Leagues by name (first letter), and the leagues have images that are shown in the poker league search results.

 


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New Post 3/6/2008 6:39 AM
  MarkSensei
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Re: User Groups with Avatars and other things  (N/A)

I realize that there are some who would need to have a location define. I think it would be nice to have an option to hide the *Location and Address rows so that it could be used in a strictly online environment with the least confusion as possible as to what should be entered in the fields. If the user is creating a group to hold meeting or something then they can include those details on the wall. this way it can still be kept private.

I like the league wizard, and I know you don't like to re-invent the wheel so you prefer core features, but the logo uploader allows the average user to view the contents of the portals file system...don't know if it is a security issue or not, but I think it would be a place to re-invent the wheel and have an dedicated file uploader here.

I guess this is now my three cents...maybe four

Mark

 
New Post 3/9/2008 10:05 PM
  Rodney Joyce
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Re: User Groups with Avatars and other things  (Australia)

2) This is down to Portal Folder security though - you can configure who can see what. For example, on PokerDIY, I have a Users folder which is where user content is placed and they can only upload view that. The problem is they can still see/change each others images (we need user-level perms on files.

I'll make a note of this thread and try and get some of this in for the next version. Unfortunately it is a little way off as I have to do an Events module update and then a UserProfile module update before this (they are more critical at the moment).


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