Using Profiles like social Media sites

We need to make sure we define the purpose. It is for maneging Profiles so I would call it. FlexiAuthors or FlexiProfiles.


@Micker the name FlexiCommunity is very powerfull are it can be use with another purpose like jomsocial if you know what I mean. For me community is like the interactions between users.

in General you should also update

a record in flexicontent_authors_ext to set this "profile" item as "author description item"

This now makes me think , we should change the "Author Description item" to be "User FLEXIprofile" ???

I forgot That one. Please confirm all the user fields in the database because I don't know them all.

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Flexi profile is coll

Hi,

Have been searching around the forum & FAQ and this is the only closer topic I could found about our current issue.

As mention previously in some other topics, we are currently developing a classified website, meant for real estate advertising with community features using Jomsocial, in fact, we do not want to mix things, Jomsocial, as mention in this topic is more likely for user interactivity and we want to have an author page where we can show the 'author profile' including avatar (logo or image) some basic contact details and all items that such author has added to the website.

In fact, we have various categories and sub-categories like properties for sale, properties for rent etc. Each category (sub-category) has its own type and template, hence, we want to show the items and in which category such item has been added as well.

I know this can be done with new features that have been added to FC lately but I would need some help (guidelines) how we may start this kind of approach, will the solutions provided by @algardata be good for what we are trying to do? Or is there any new simpler solution to achieve this?

Note: We do not want to build a complicated author profile, just the avatar, contact details and items added by this author, such author profile needs to be as individual items within specific categories so that we can use such information as relative fields within other categories.

That is, when a user is adding for let say, a property for sale, in the category view and item view, we'll be showing the author avatar and his contact details as well in some other tab, such information will be retrieved from the author type.

Hope I was clear enough about what we want to do! If not, please let me know and I will try to provide more information.

My tutorials / suggestion for the profile page appeared because:
- I cannot use custom fields in FC AUTHORS
- I cannot change the template on FC AUTHORS
- I cannot have a list of AUTHORS

We tried Community Builder and Akeeba Subscriptions and to control the users even if they are only registered we will use Akeeba for the future. It's free and add another level of customization to the user core.

My solution for a simple community use Akeeba and jGroups.

If you want more features for the community then jSocial is a great approach.

About the profile page. This are my solutions:

1 - Since you are using jSocial why dont you create a field in FC to link for the user profile? This is simple.

2 - If you want to use a FC Type of content as the profile (this is what my tutorial do) you need to code a little bit. You need to "map" all the jSocial fields with custom FC fields.

So you only have to choices or use a component or map it to FC Fields becouse FC Author won't allow you to do what you want.

This is a limitation but this is a feature request for future releases.

Hello guys,

I would need this feature as well. I have found a nice solution.
Please read below article written by Brad Markle.
www.inmotionhosting.com/support/edu/joom...-user-profile-plugin

Basically, He introduced how we could build a custom user profile plugin with some extra fields by using built-in Joomla user profile plugin. But Not sure for adding Avatar though.(Maybe we could get a little help from our HERO GGPPDK! )
Maybe we can work together to build one for FC community.

Anyway, let me know your opinion.
Regards,
Brandon

Edit:
Found how to add Avatar.
www.mangluoiweb.com/2012/04/add-avatar-i...ile-picture-for.html
Accessing the Custom Fields in Joomla User Profile
ammonitenetworks.com/14-joomla/13-access...-joomla-user-profile