Add news to the stream?
By Michael Shaw on Wednesday, 28 January 2015
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I am trying to make it easy for our members to post to their stream, and think I must be missing something obvious.

If a user goes to their own profile, they can post to the stream from there. However, for my website to work, I need to make it much more available (and obvious) than this.

I have assumed that there would be a module or component that would allow me to provide this functionality, either as a target of a menu option, or as a module that I could include on any page I choose.

Have I missed something? if so, what, where and how?

Or is this missing functionality that still needs to be created? if so, what are the current timescales for this feature?

Kind regards,

Michael
Hello Michael,

You can actually already display the stream on other pages using the stream module in EasySocial. Am I missing anything here?
Mark
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Wednesday, 28 January 2015 00:20
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Yes, viewing the stream is fine. The bit that I have yet to do is creating new posts
Michael Shaw
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Wednesday, 28 January 2015 03:50
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Hello,
I believe you can create new post from your dashboard and from your profile.

Now there is this third party module that let you create post anywhere the module is publish.

http://stackideas.com/apps/item/1186-stream-anywhere

Hope this help.
Aikigi
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Wednesday, 28 January 2015 04:38
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Hi Aikigi,

Thanks for sharing.

Hi Michael,

Please do update us back on this issue.
Yasser Ibrahim
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Wednesday, 28 January 2015 19:06
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Yes, this does answer my question. It confirms that this is "missing" functionality from easy social, and that I can only implement this either by writing my own module, or by purchasing a third party one.

I can't help but feel that this should be a core function of easy social, and not one that implementing on your website should place a dependency on third party developers, no matter how competent and skilful they are.

Kind regards,

Michael Shaw
Michael Shaw
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Saturday, 31 January 2015 23:12
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Hello Michael,

Thanks for the heads up on this, but if every feature that everyone suggests "Should be part of the core", it would really be bad for 3rd party developers and that would probably mess up with the eco-system.

Nevertheless, I do agree with what you said as well (It's a chicken and egg situation) We'll see what we can do about this in the near future
Mark
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Sunday, 01 February 2015 14:43
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