By Tomasz Karasinski on Wednesday, 20 August 2014
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Hi guys

I have some problems with EasyDiscuss/EasySocial that I wanted to clear before I install it on my real website. There are a few of them, so I desided to divide them into several points:

1. I want to get rid of all RSS buttons, but I cannot disable some of them. Like the one next to categories. Can you tell me where can I turn them off?
Buttons are here

2. When you view the main discussions menu, you can see avatars of the user who gave the latest answer to a particular discussion. That's a great feature, but when you put your mouse over this avatar, a completely different user profile appears in the popbox. Now there are my answers (kornik) but always another user appears in the popup (gosig). Do you have any idea what might be wrong?
The problem can be seen here

3. When you post a reply, you have a textbox which can be resized down (these dots in the bottom of the reply box). If I move the border of the box further down, it is stretched behind other elements of the site, and can even obscure the reply button. The same problem is in fact here - on your website. But it's strange because in Komento it works fine. Can I turn off these 7 dots that can be used to resize the reply window? The screenshot is attached to this post.

4. In the discussions toolbar I have the profile button and there are several options, including My Subscriptions. When I go there, a left panel appears with info about my profile and a link "view history" (zobacz historie). When I click on it, an error appears - Unable to locate the id of the user. To be honest, I don't need this function at all and it would be best to turn off the "my subscriptions" button alltogether. But I can't find that option in the backend. Can you help?
The problem can be seen here

Any help will be much appreciated;-)
Hello Tomasz,

1. Please replace the attached file (categories.php) in: ../components/com_easydiscuss/themes/flatt/categories.php

2. Seems like it is a bug from our side. Here is the fix. Please replace the attached file (frontpage.post.php) in: ../components/com_easydiscuss/themes/flatt/frontpage.post.php

3. You might want to add this css code in your template.css file:

div#discuss-wrapper .markItUpResizeHandle {
background-image: none;
}


4. As for this issue, I can't access the link you have provided. It seems like, I have to login to access it. Please advise.
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Wednesday, 20 August 2014 18:04
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OK I'll try this. As for the problem number 4, yes you have to sign in to the website. You can login as:



Click on Dyskusje in the main menu and then select the Moje subskrypcje option from the toolbar.
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Wednesday, 20 August 2014 20:18
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Hello Tomasz,

Sorry for the late reply.
If you are willing to remove it, please replace the attached files:
../components/com_easydiscuss/themes/flatt/toolbar.php
../components/com_easydiscuss/themes/simplistic/profile.php

Hope this helps.
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Thursday, 21 August 2014 10:25
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Hi again

Nick, you deserve at least a good beer for such a support. I'm getting ready to finally launch the whole thing on a real website, but I have to ask you a couple of questions more. I hope you don't get bored with my incompetence;-)

1. In the EasySocial Stream module when the item about a discussion in a group appears, there are buttons with views and replies on this discussion. The thing is that these buttons take too much space and the title of the discussion gets splitted into singular words and letters. Can you tell me how to turn these buttons off in the module?

2. Also in the Stream module there are icons saying what type of activity is this particular one. Signing in to the website is an orange lock symbol, adding picture is a pink one and so on. How can I change the colours of these icons? I didn't find these colors anywhere in css files. Can you help?

3. In the EasySocial Menu module we have the notification icons and to be honest they look a bit similar to those used by Facebook. Also these icons don't appear to be images, but elements of some font or whatever. How can I change these icons?

4. When a user creates a group, it has to be approved by the administrator. Can I turn this feature off? There is no notification for the user saying "your group has to be approved, please wait" or something like that, so my "testpilots" thought that it doesn't work at all. Can I set it up in such way that the group will be created instantly, without admin's permission?

5. When you have a reply in a discussion, there are Like and Favourite buttons, which have been translated and look fine. But when you click them, the text changes back to english. I tried to find the problem but I don't know what's wrong. Can you help?
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Wednesday, 27 August 2014 19:48
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Hello Tomasz,

Thanks for the compliment. For the question 2 and 3, I'll let our designer reply.

1. Can you give me the URL where I can see the issue?
4. You can unpublish the access in: Backend>Easysocial>Access: http://screencast.com/t/DBrKbXSEbx .
5. When you mentioned like button, did you mean this button: http://screencast.com/t/00mUpnac0A0 . Can you provide us your FTP so we can debug this issue? Please advise.
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Thursday, 28 August 2014 11:34
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Yes of course:

1. Go to the http://www.gosigkatt.pl and you'll see the problem in a module on the right. There is a screen in the attachments that kinda tells the whole story;-)

5. Yes, that's the one and the one next to it - there is a picture in the attachments with screenshots taken in a sequence. At first these buttons look good, but they somehow "forget" the translation when you click on them - the text changes from polish to english. You have to reload the site to see the right language. That's a bit strange, but maybe you know what's wrong.

The site details and admin login/pass are attached to this post.
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Thursday, 28 August 2014 15:25
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Forgot the pictures, so here they are;-)
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Thursday, 28 August 2014 15:27
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Hello Tomasz,

Regarding your first issue, can you put this code in your current Joomla template and see if this fixed the issue?

body div#fd.es .es-stream-meta .es-stream-title{
padding-right:25px !important;
}
About your no 5 issue, I have helped you fix your fix this. Here my screenshot: http://screencast.com/t/JVvB6oSIM . Can you verify it for me?

Please be advise.
Thanks.
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Thursday, 28 August 2014 16:40
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Hmm... No, adding this code to the template file doesn't work.

As for the buttons, yes they work perfectly now, but you have to tell me how you did it, because this is only a test website and I will have to do it on a real one now.

Thanks a lot for your help. And if we can solve issues no 2 and 3 that would be lovely;-)
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Thursday, 28 August 2014 16:57
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Hello Tomasz,

Regarding your first issue, may I know what do you trying to achieved? Here my screenshot: http://screencast.com/t/OnsbfVkXYNf . From my screenshot, the module is displaying correctly. Can you explain more so that we can understand you much better.

Regarding the like button, actually you need to recompile back the JS files. To do this, you need to follow these steps:
1. Go to EasyDiscuss > Settings > Maintainance >JS Compression.

Change System Environment = Development and Javascript Compression = Uncompressed then saved

2. Then go to EasyDiscuss > Layout > General > Theme.

Change Compile stylesheet = Force, Test Compile Stylesheet = Admin, Site & Module click on Test Compile. After test compile all three, click save.

3. Go to EasyDiscuss.


4. Clean your site cache and browser cache.

5. Revert back all settings to the original.
EasyDiscuss > Settings > Maintainance >JS Compression.
Then go to EasyDiscuss > Layout > General > Theme.


Also in the Stream module there are icons saying what type of activity is this particular one. Signing in to the website is an orange lock symbol, adding picture is a pink one and so on. How can I change the colours of these icons? I didn't find these colors anywhere in css files. Can you help?
>> Yes you may change the colour of these icons by do a css override.
>> I am really sorry but we are actually quite tied up with our own internal development and we wouldn't be able to assist you with these customizations right now If this is a priority, please do post them on our sales section at https://crm.stackideas.com and our sales department would get back to you with a proper quote.

In the EasySocial Menu module we have the notification icons and to be honest they look a bit similar to those used by Facebook. Also these icons don't appear to be images, but elements of some font or whatever. How can I change these icons?
>> I believe it is possible to change this icons but however, it is a little bit complicated since it will affect and messing up the others components. It is not advisable to change this icon.

Please be advise.
Thanks.
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Thursday, 28 August 2014 17:54
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The problem in EasySocial Stream module is visible now. This item has just been moved down because I clicked many times on these buttons. But yes, the solution you offered works perfectly, thanks. However, these buttons in Stream module with views and replies on a discussion are still a problem. They are too big and unnecessary, and on iPhone it looks even worse. It would be best to get rid of them. You can now see the problem on http://www.gosigkatt.pl - I left the discussion on the top for you.

Can you please help me with the colors of these labels in the same module? I know it's not a matter of life and death, but so far we've managed to change all the colors in EasySocial and EasyDiscuss to ones that match the template of our website. If you could at least give me a clue of where these colors might be, I will try to change them myself.
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Thursday, 28 August 2014 23:51
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Hello Tomasz,

I am sorry for the late reply.
Can you try put this code in your current Joomla template and see if this suit your need. However, this is only a temporary fix. We will have our designer to fix this in the next releases.

.mod-es-stream .discussion-title {
padding-top: 70px;
}
body div#fd .media, body div#fd .media-body{
overflow:visible;
}


Regarding colors of these labels, you can find it here:
> prepareLoginStream > \media\com_easysocial\apps\user\users\users.php
> onPrepareStream > \media\com_easysocial\apps\user\discuss\discuss.php
> onPrepareStream > \media\com_easysocial\apps\user\story\story.php
> onPrepareStream > \media\com_easysocial\apps\user\blog\blog.php

Hope this will help.
Thanks.
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Friday, 29 August 2014 12:26
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Thanks a lot, the quick fix is more than enough for me. We've made so much changes to EasySocial and EasyDiscuss, that we probably won't upgrade them for a long time. So this is perfect really;-)

I still have a problem with group moderation. I tried to do this as you suggested, in Access I disabled the 'New Group Moderation' item and it didn't make any difference - the user still got a message saying that their group has to be accepted, and I got an e-mail about this. Am I doing something wrong?

One more thing - do you know how to change colors in the graphs (groups, discussions)? They seem to be generated in real-time, but there has to be some place where these color codes are kept. Can you help? I attach an image so that you know what I'm talking about;-)

Please, tell me how can I reward you for your great support - send a beer, donate or whatever;-)
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Friday, 29 August 2014 13:51
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Hello Tomasz,

I still have a problem with group moderation. I tried to do this as you suggested, in Access I disabled the 'New Group Moderation' item and it didn't make any difference - the user still got a message saying that their group has to be accepted, and I got an e-mail about this. Am I doing something wrong?
>> There is another setting located in the profile types. To configure this, Joomla > EasySocial > Profile Types > (profile) > Access > Group. Here is my screenshot:
and this message will be displayed saying that their group has to be accepted:


How to change colors in the graphs (groups, discussions)
>> You can change the color in this file: \media\com_easysocial\apps\user\discuss\themes\default\profile\default.js
>> Since it is a JS file, you need to compile it back. Firstly, you need to change the setting for Site Environment and JS compression at Joomla > EasySocial > Settings > System Preferences.


>> Then, you can modify the color in this file.
>> After that, you need to run this in your url: http://yoursite.com/index.php?option=com_easysocial&compile=1&minify=1 .
>> Lastly, you can turn the setting for Site Environment and JS compression to it initial.

Hope this will help.
Thanks.
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Friday, 29 August 2014 17:15
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