Question abouf community forum WCB

I ran into a couple of issues while using the community forum WCB. Unfortunately, the lack of documentation didn't make solving them any easier.

Here are the questions:

1. Active forums pagepart; what is the best way to achieve it's functionality? (Queries vs API)

2. How would one go about making it possible for editors to select a couple of users (in, for example, a query element) so that their avatars could be shown on the website?

Thanks in advance!

EDIT:

Another question has come up: How can I link to a profile like: connect.gxsoftware.com /username?? Is a profile page always created under this address (because then it's a piece of cake...)?

I know an answer to question 1!

The community forum WCB makes use of database pages to implement a forum. The "active forums" bit (as seen on the left side of this page) is actually a query element with a custom presentation.

I guess a query element could also be used for question 2. Create the query that does what you want, then parameterize it and connect to a table so editors can choose users from a pulldown.

As for the final question: since forum users are database types as well, you could have a standard display on page for that type and link to that.

You could do something like:

<c:forEach var="typeOfPage" items="${website.resourceEntities}">
  <c:if test="${typeOfPage.identifier == 'forumuser'}">
    <c:set var="forumUserTypeOfPage" value="${typeOfPage}" />
  </c:if>
</c:forEach>

<wm:link var="profileLink" dbid="${userId}" 
    typeofpage="${forumUserTypeOfPage.id}" />

Enjoy!

Greetings,

Patrick

Thanks!

This helps a lot! I was actually thinking of something like your solution for question 1, but I forgot to implement a standard page.

Off-topic:

Seems like the active forums pagepart on Connect sometimes fails to show some of the topic titles (even misspelled ones like mine ), and it's not always up-to-date (although that's probably caching, SSI problems?).

It's a pity you can't edit topic titles after a topic is submitted; perhaps something for a change request?

Yes, I know. Something's fishy in the forum department since we updated a while ago. Might even be my own fault, since I submitted some changes.

I submitted the symptoms to the maintainer, let's hope he finds the time to fix things.

On a side note: why did I only get a "helpful" instead of a "solved"?

Greetings,

Patrick

Let's hope all will be well on the Connect.

Oh and about helpful and solved; I guess it's all a matter of definition. I only give out "solved" when I get a 100% copy-pasteable solution... (Although I was in doubt when clicking the "Helpful" link)