CB Workshop with uddeIM, Kunena, GroupJive and CBSubs

CB Workshop with uddeIM, Kunena, GroupJive and CBSubs

@ J and Beyond 2012

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Author and other info … Nick A. (nant) – CB Team member along with Beat

and Kyle

Matias Griese – Kunena team Stephan Slabihoud - uddeIM

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Extensions mentioned

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References Slides will be shared here:

www.slideshare.net/cbteam/presentations Community Builder

www.joomlapolis.com/community-builder uddeIM

www.slabihoud.de/software/id4001.htm Kunena

www.kunena.org GroupJive

www.joomlapolis.com/cb-solutions/groupjive CBSubs

www.joomlapolis.com/cb-solutions/cbsubs Picture-book tutorials

www.joomlapolis.com/support/tutorials/111-picture-books

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Agenda Introduction – goals Step 1: Joomla (2.5.4) Step 2: Community Builder (1.8)

Configuring CB + Joomla integration Step 3: uddeIM (2.7)

Configuring uddeIM + CB integration Step 4: Kunena (1.7)

Configuring Kunena + CB + uddeIM Integration Step 5: CB GroupJive (2.5.1)

Configuring GroupJive + CB + uddeIM + Kunena Integration

Step 6: CBSubs (2.0.1)

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Introduction Three different project teams Collaboration – skype group chats Clean integration – api extensions End-users benefit

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1. Joomla Starting with default content Joomla 2.5.4 website

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2. Community Builder Install CB component Install CB Modules (login, workflow, online) Edit CB Configuration:

General tab: name style: First and Last Name Field Date format: yyyy-mm-dd

Registration tab: Allow User Registration: Yes, independently of global J! settings Require Admin Approval: Yes

User Profile tab: Fields validation in Admin: No Allow user to edit his CMS parameters in frontend: ? Use new div or old table based views: Use divs

Moderation tab: Allow user to edit his CMS parameters in frontend: CB

Moderators

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2. Community Builder Edit CB Configuration

Connections tab:Enable Connections: YesNotification Method: PMS+EmailConnection Types: Add Contact + Forum-buddy

CB Login module Position-7 Publish Show only on Home menu (same as Joomla module) Show avatar when logged-in: Always Private Messaging System: uddeIM Private Messaging Notification: Show even if no messages Connections notification: Show only if pending

connections

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2. Community Builder CB Workflow module

Position-7 Publish Access: Special Show on Home menu

CB Tab Manager Enable Connections Tab Enable Articles Tab

User Menu items: Create CB Profile menu item in User menu Unpublish Your Profile menu (Joomla)

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2. Community Builder Home Menu items:

Create CB Login menu Unpublish Joomla Login menu

Joomla login Unpublish all 3 instances

Turn-off Joomla Registrations Users User manager Options: Allow User

Registrations

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Joomla and CB CB registration and login processes can be used

instead of Joomla’s CB Articles tab shows all articles published by

user CB users are also Joomla users (i.e., if you remove

CB in the future your Joomla user table will still contain the users)

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3. uddeIM Install the uddeIM component Create User menu item to uddeIM Configure uddeIM:

Messages tab: Allow BB code tags: Yes Integration tab Verify that Community Builder has

been detected

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3. uddeIM and CB Enable CB support for uddeIM

CB Plugin Manager Private Message System plugin

PublishPMS Component Type: uddeIM 1.0+

CB Tab Manager Quick MessagePublish

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uddeIM and CB Integration You can send a private message to user by

visiting his profile and selecting CB menu item Quick message (one-click message) You can see number of incoming / unread private

messages in CB Login Any CB plugin can use CB Private Message plugin

(example CB Connections, GroupJive, CBSubs mailer, etc)

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4. Kunena Install Kunena 1.7.2 component Kunena Integration tab:

Set Community Builder integration items Create Kunena entry page menu in Joomla Top

Menu CB Plugin Management Forum Integration

plugin: Publish Forum component: Kunena

CB Tab Management Forum: Publish

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Kunena and CB Integration Forum Tab in CB shows all forum posts and thread

subscriptions of profile user Kunena avatar area uses CB Avatar and links back

to CB User profile Kunena uses CB Login, registration, forgotten

login functions Kunena sidebar can be customized to show CB

data of poster

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More Kunena sidebar – CB

integration<ul class="kpost-profile"> <li class="kpost-username"><a rel="nofollow" title="" href="index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userProfile&user=[user_id]&Itemid=47" class="kwho-admin">[cb:userfield field="formatname"/]</a></li> <li class="kpost-avatar"><a rel="nofollow" title="" href="index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userProfile&user=[user_id]&Itemid=47" class="kwho-admin"><span class="kavatar">[cb:userfield field="avatar"/]</span></a></li> <li>[cb:userfield field="onlinestatus"/]</li> <li class="kpost-userrank">[cb:userfield field="forumrank"/]</li> <li class="kpost-userposts">Posts: [cb:userfield field="forumposts"/]</li> <li class="kpost-karma">Karma: [cb:userfield field="forumkarma"/] [karmaminus] [karmaplus]</li> <li>[cb:if cb_osm="1"]OSM[/cb:if]</li> <li>[cb:if cb_jlt="1"]JLT[/cb:if]</li></ul>

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5. GroupJive Install and publish all CB GroupJive plugins Create GJ menu from CB Plugin area of main GJ

plugin Move item to Top menu and Publish GroupJive Forum configuration (select Kunena top

category)

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GroupJive and uddeIM GroupJive notifications can use uddeIM (config) GroupJive group messaging can use uddeIM

(config)

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GroupJive and Kunena GroupJive created Kunena forum for private /

intra-group discussions GroupJive forum tab shows forum subjects with

links

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6. CBSubs With CBSubs you can further achieve the

following integrations: Automatically add/remove subscribers to/from

Joomla Groups Automatically add/remove subscribers to/from GJ

groups Protect Joomla content based on subscriptions

(component, modules, menu items, articles) Do not allow users to post on specific Kunena forum

categories without a subscription (URL-Parts) Show/hide specific CB Fields/Tabs based on

subscriptions of profile owner and profile viewer

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Conclusion Community Builder, uddeIM, Kunena, GroupJive

and CBSubs integrate nicely with each-other and are able to support many different use case scenarios

With new Joomla UX project, user interface will even look the same.

This is an example of Joomla spirit and team-work There are many other Joomla projects that also

have nice CB integrations: K2 (authors use CB user profiles and K2 tab gets K2

articles) AcyMailing (nice integration with CB and CBSubs) We are always open