Hello Horst,

It depends on how you mix and match them but my personal preference / advise for you is to have the following configuration / setup:

1. Disable the EasyBlog toolbar on your site.
2. Create a menu item on your Joomla site which links to EasyBlog.
3. Assign the EasySocial toolbar module to appear on EasyBlog pages.

Thanks, I will try and give you a feedback if necessary.....

You are most welcome Horst Let me know.

Horst Fuchs wrote:

Is there a way to combine those two products using one identical header and toolbar? On your demo pages there is a "visible switch" between the two applications.......

Thanks for your feedback.

If you want to have a look how it works then you can have a look here on my site I use EasyBlog to provide the front-page news, and I use the EasySocial toolbar to bring it together with the sites profiles. I have disable the Easyblog toobar to give it a nicer look and the feeling it blends in together. That's what I am aiming for anyway

RR

Thanks for sharing RR, appreciate your assistance on this.

Just renewed my EasyBlog licence and installed it on my page. It seems to work fine. One thing I have to change is the language for the acitvity stream if a user wrote a new blog. This needs to be in German. Where do I have to add / edit this phrase?

Hello Horst,

So sorry for the delay in getting back to you. You will need to get the latest translation for German. Please visit our downloads page to get it http://www.stackideas.com/downloads Hope this helps.

Thanks!

Do I have to update the ES files? EB files were just installed from your download page.....

Hello Horst,

So sorry for the delay in getting back to you. Are the language not translated even after you updated? Could you send me your backend and FTP to check this out? Please advice.

Thanks!

hey horst, hey adelene,
I think the problem is the language package in the download section, this is not up-to-date. I just compared it with the latest transifex files and the 3.9 lines aren't in it.
what you can do right now is to grab the latest language files for easyblog directly at transifex: https://opentranslators.transifex.com/projects/p/easyblog/language/de_DE/

hope that helps

Hey Alex, you might be right here. I just cleared out language file cache.

Thanks!

Hi,

I updated the language file from Easyblog from the mentioned directory but the stream from ES stays in English: "silberfuchs created a blog post xxxxx" ?

Hi,

I still need the Germans translation available for the two strings mentioned in the screenshots - where do I have to translate it....?

Thanks for your support

hey horst,
from the pics it looks as it's not coming from the easyblog file but from the blog app at easysocial.
I attach you my file here, simply upload it to yourjoomla/administrator/language/de-DE , then clear your cache and check if it's working.

hope that helps

Hi Alex,

thanks for your support, but it doesn't work - it's still in English....

Horst

Hello Horst,

Is it possible for you to provide us with the back end and FTP access to your site to check on this issue?

Hi Mark,

yes of course....done!

hey horst, hey mark
I double checked all the german language files and found that it's not related to the files at all. problem here is that the strings as "created a blog post" are hardcoded in the theme files of the blog app, for example at create.title.php and create.comment.title.php .... so I'd say the app needs an update, and then also the language files will work

Hi Alex,

thanks for your feedback - waiting for a "patch"

Thanks for the heads up on this guys, updated the app to 1.0.3 You may download the latest version from http://stackideas.com/apps/item/5-blog

Hi Mark,

I just updated but it still does not work.....

Hello Horst,

I just downloaded the app and it does seem like the files are up to date with translations. These are the 2 new strings that are added

APP_BLOG_STREAM_CREATED_BLOG_POST_ACTOR="%1s created a new blog post, %2s"

APP_BLOG_STREAM_COMMENTED="%1s commented on the blog post, %2s"

the app is working fine now for the comment and created stream - and thanks to god (or mark) these strings are now finally in one line ^^
however, it looks as you really want me to work on christmas as the featured stream for example still doesn't work
as that made me crazy I checked on and the reason is that you're using the same language string for the blog and the article app - if you'd give the blog app (or better the article app that already contains some own APP_ARTCLE strings) it's own language string then it works fine - so I see another update coming

Hi Alex,

the featured language string was exactly what I was testing and it did not work....you are right

hey horst,
for a quick fix, even if the apps need an overhaul and we'll see big language changes finally in easysocial 1.2, you can upload the 2 attached files into yourjoomla/administrator/language/de-DE and with a little christmas wonder it should work

Thanks for updating Alex by the way, I am not too sure about the same language string here. There's 2 new language string in the blog app,

APP_BLOG_STREAM_CREATED_BLOG_POST_ACTOR="%1s created a new blog post, %2s"

APP_BLOG_STREAM_COMMENTED="%1s commented on the blog post, %2s"

yeah, I've added these 2 lines into my own file which I attached here for horst. but there are other problems as well ^^ when you check your english source file for the article app you'll notice that it uses some of the same strings as used in the blog app language, for example: APP_BLOG_EASYBLOG_NOT_INSTALLED (makes no sense at all because it has nothing to do with easyblog, but that reason I choose it to show you that the file is messed up, some strings are APP_ARTICLE and some are APP_BLOG).

what happened for example for the featured blog post string was that it used the language string from the article app (which is the same as in the blog app) and so the string wasn't changed as all changes in the blog app language had no effect. additionally to make it all worse it was showing english at horst website because there is no article app language file at transifex for translation at all^^

Ah those APP_BLOG strings in the article app language file are not used. You can actually discard that

this thread is going way too long, so I try to finish it up now ^^ let's split things:

1) first issue was that the comment and create blog stream were not changing the language - while checking files I noticed that the languagestrings weren't used but there were hardcoded english parts in the stream php files. you updated these files in the blog app and added 2 new language strings (btw: much better strings, that's the way all have to be) and now these 2 are working fine - RESOLVED!

2) now horst replied that it's still not working and he was testing this with the "featured blog post" stream in easysocial. so I checked the featured.title.php from the blog app to see if there are hardcoded strings as well but there aren't. also the languagestring used inside featured.title.php are in the plg_app_user_blog.ini so it was strange that it didn't work. by investigating further I found that the SAME language strings are used in the plg_app_user_article.ini file (APP_BLOG_STREAM_FEATURED_TITLE). in short: the system doesn't use the languagestrings from blog.ini but uses the one form article.ini - so whatever changes you make in the blog.ini for the featured stream have no effect because the system uses the string in article.ini - so you'd actually have to change the language in article.ini to make blog streams appear correct, I think nobody would know that so if these aren't used at all I think they should be removed to avoid any confusions. also the article app isn't available on transifex therefore horst only had english stream at featured articles. I now made a german translation for him so the problem should be fixed for now at his site but others still may run into this problem

3) while you're right that most of these strings in the article app aren't used at all from my description above you see that it still causes problems by conflicting with the blog app. additionally there ARE used strings, especially the featured string. when you check the featured.title.php at apps/articles you'll find out that it uses the APP_BLOG string the same way as the featured.title.php at the blog app does.


I hope that makes lots of things clear and not generates new confusion

Hello Alex,

Thanks for the explanation here We will check out the language strings again.

Cheers!

Hi all, sorry for my delay - I just had no time to try the new files. I hope to try it latest tommorow.... I will give immediately feedback after testing! Thanks for your great support!

Hello Horst,

Sure keep us updated then D:

Thanks!

Hi,

I couldn't wait until tomorrow..... I copied the two files from Alex to my admin language directory but it still does not work. The "featured blog post" is still in English and maybe there should also be a space between the string and the blog title. (see attachment). The other issue I still have - if I comment my blog within Easysblog there is no activity stream visible - is this a bug or do I have to use Komento ti get this feature working?

If somebody is creating a new blog post everything works fine......

hey horst,
please re-download the files and try it again. after uploading them clear the cache and see if things are changing, especially the 3 area's: created a blog, featured a blog and commented on a blog. let us know how it goes.

Hi Alex,

I cannot get it working. The "featured" string is still in English and the comments are not visible as a new stream, only below the blog article itself in the stream. This means if the blog post is older nobody will see the comment.....

Need help from the support team? I think all my files are now up to date.....

Good news...... I got the information that someone comments on a blog working now in the activity stream - including the right language This is only possible when using Komento - using ES Comment function will only show comments directly below the blog stream activity......hope that's right

The only issue now is the language string for featuring a blog post - it's still English

Hello Horst,

I am really sorry for the delay of this reply as it is a weekend for us here. That is actually the default behavior when you are using the comments from EasySocial on EasyBlog. As for the featured string, can you please provide me with a screen shot or the link to the item?

Hi Mark,

thanks for your feedback - attached you will find the screenshot. It needs to be in German but I cannot get it working.....even after installing the 2 language files from Alex attached a few postings above.

Thanks for your support!

Hi Alex,

many thanks for your great support and your patience with me! It works fine now!

you're welcome!
and really great to hear it's working now

Thanks for sharing Alex