By Peter Gales on Monday, 24 March 2014
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Hi,
I currently use JomSocial and have decided to give EasySocial a try. I'm disappointed to learn that EasySocial still requires code to be placed in source files in order to get JFBConnect to work.
In Jomsocial it's a configurable button. See http://screencast.com/t/LrYb7teoGbd

I also hear that JomSocial will be deepening their integration with JFBconnect.

Are there any plans for EasySocial to have the same sort of deep integration with jFBConnect?
Hello Peter,

I will be discussing this with Alex on how we can properly make this work At the mean time, please wait for 1.2.4 and I will try to add these integrations
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Monday, 24 March 2014 12:50
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Very Cool Mark. You should know that Alex speaks very highly of you guys and he is one of the reasons i decided to switch to EasySocial. That's why I was a bit surprised that the integrations weren't there, but I also get you can't do everything at once.

I can wait, especially since you'll help me get through the manual implementation.

Thanks again.

Peter
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Monday, 24 March 2014 22:06
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Excellent news. I was going to ask if anyone was using JFBConnect with EasySocial in the forums today and this answers my questions.

I read everything I could on JFBConnect and watched all their demo videos yesterday.

V1.2.4 integration will be a big boost for tight integration.
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Tuesday, 25 March 2014 00:23
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Hello guys,

Stay tune for 1.2.4, it's already added (I believe I shown you the screen shot Peter)
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Tuesday, 25 March 2014 03:11
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This is great Mark, I'm not asking for a commitment, but can you give me a ballpark estimate of when 1.2.4 will be released. Next month, next quarter, next year? Reason I'm asking is that i''ve only installed (actually your guys installed it for me) on my development site. I might wait for version 1.2.4 before I install it on my live site. I would prefer to not make any changes to overrides files and installing code snippets if I can easily avoid it.

Nice job and please let me know.
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Friday, 28 March 2014 22:21
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Peter Gales wrote:

This is great Mark, I'm not asking for a commitment, but can you give me a ballpark estimate of when 1.2.4 will be released. Next month, next quarter, next year? Reason I'm asking is that i''ve only installed (actually your guys installed it for me) on my development site. I might wait for version 1.2.4 before I install it on my live site. I would prefer to not make any changes to overrides files and installing code snippets if I can easily avoid it.

Nice job and please let me know.



Peter,

You can download and install EasySocial v1.2.4 TODAY. It was released a few hours ago.

Randall
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Friday, 28 March 2014 22:37
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You can refer to this thread as there may be a problem with the JFBConnect integration in v1.2.4 (or perhaps just other actions needed to make it work), I am sure Mark will update on what is required.

I have attached the step by step manual integration guide for EasySocial, EasyDiscuss, EasyBlog and JReviews in that thread in case you (or Randall) wish to proceed until auto integration for Facebook, Twitter, Goggle+ and LinkedIn is working.
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Saturday, 29 March 2014 00:20
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Richard,

I am researching this JFBCONNECT and have a couple questions:

1. Essentially this plugin provides my site with register login form Facebook, Google+, Linked In, Twitter.
Have you found each of these easy to register and login?

2. What else is the benefit of using JFBCONNECT?

I am reluctant to use 3rd party addons. Hows the level of support?

Appreciate any feedback or reasons why you think a business focused site would find this a beneficial addon?


Randall
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Saturday, 29 March 2014 00:30
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Hey guys,

Will reply you on the other thread regarding JFBConnect issues. Odd that it's working perfectly fine on my local.
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Saturday, 29 March 2014 00:33
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Does JFBC integration work for you? I can't see social buttons comes from JFBC, maybe we need to add them manuelly?
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Saturday, 29 March 2014 00:56
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@ gökhan

No, but I believe Mark is looking into the problem from the other thread.


@ Randall

Answers to your Questions:

1. Easy to install and works 'out of the box' for registration and login on all 4 social buttons

2. It would be useful to look at this Stackideas Thread from 6 Dec, in which Alex from SourceCoast adds the following explanation of the benefits of JFBConnect in the last post:

"In short, EasySocial is a great 'on-site' social network tool. If you want to create a community on your site, you can't go wrong with EasySocial. There is some basic Facebook integration and other features, but they are meant specifically for EasySocial and social network integration isn't really StackIdeas focus.

JFBConnect *is not* a profile extension, we don't allow groups, or uploading photos, or plenty of other things. What JFBConnect does do is help you integrate different social networks into your Joomla site by tying into EasySocial, EasyBlog, K2, Joomla content, Virtuemart, and lots of other extensions.

For registration, there's a ton of flexibility over the process. You can enable 1-click registration where the account is automatically created. To @LAC's point, if a user already exists with the same email address, their accounts will automatically be linked. There's also a registration flow option where the user can step through the EasyRegistration flow with their profile information already filled out (or hidden altogether), making the process much simpler. You (the admin) can control what information is imported from social networks into EasySocial... and, lets say you have Virtuemart, you can import their city, state and interests into there as well, so that you can improve their checkout experience. Just one example of many.

Beyond that, we offer Open Graph Actions (the only Joomla extension to do so). With that, you can create an 'action' which automatically posts to a users Facebook Timeline when they perform that activity on your site. For example, when a user comments, votes on or even reads an EasyBlog post, it automatically posts to their Timeline. No extra "Share this on Facebook" buttons, just organic posting. Those features work, again, outside of just EasySocial for K2, Joomla content, jReviews and lots of other system. The Open Graph tags in general will also be set across your site so that when a user Like's or shares your content, you can be assured you have the best title, description and image selected to represent your content.. instead of letting Facebook randomly choose what it thinks is best.

Additionally, there are even more social network integration features like Page Tab integration, Facebook invitations/requests, social sharing buttons (FB Like, FB Share, G+1, Twitter Share, Pinterest and LinkedIn Share) that can be added automatically to your content, and every social widget from the networks we support in module form for easy use anywhere on your site.

JFBConnect isn't for everyone. It depends on how you want to organically grow your site and streamline social networking for your users."

My own thoughts, in addition to Alex's comments:

It is the smooth updating of major social timelines as well as one product that is a central point for sending community activity to the outside world (less pageload from multiple products doing this as well). It also integrates smoothly with EasySocial.

If we look further ahead EasySocial may expand to cover these options in the core, but until then JFBConnect provides additional options that may (or may not) be relevant to a community site, as every site is different and some may not require the extra features.

3. My own view is it makes sense for any site to have as few 3rd party addons as possible (I have gone through/dumped many during testing) and only include the best in terms of product quality and support, using Stackideas as the starting point and barometer for anything else as an addition under consideration. JReviews, MijoShop, JoomlaCKEditor and JGive are the only (relevant to my site) products that I consider in this bracket, AS WELL AS JFBConnect from Sourcecoast.

I do not have any problem in recommending JFBConnect, providing you consider the options it offers as a useful addition to your community site.

Hope this helps Randall,
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Saturday, 29 March 2014 01:41
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Thanks very much Richard for this informative reply. This gives me a much better understanding as to why I want to consider adding JFBConnect to my network.

I appreciate you taking the time to give me your insight into JFBConnect. I will be purchasing JFBConnect later today or tomorrow, but before I do I should mention this:

If you sign up for the Affiliate Plan on SourceCoast site - then you can Earn 20% Through Referrals - and since you have given me that necessary insight into why I should buy JFBConnect, It would be good that you get recognized for the 20% from the sale as your feedback convinced me to buy it from SourceCoast.com.

Let me know IF and WHEN you sign up as the Affiliate, and I will make the purchase so you get the Referral 20% credit Richard.

Link to SC Referral section: http://www.sourcecoast.com/affiliates/

Randall
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Saturday, 29 March 2014 01:54
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Thank you for the offer Randall, appreciated, but I couldn't accept as I offer information and thoughts freely on Stackideas (as you and many other do here too), perhaps if Stackideas were an affiliate that would be a route to take, otherwise fire ahead and sign up when you wish.
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Saturday, 29 March 2014 02:28
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Richard wrote:

Thank you for the offer Randall, appreciated, but I couldn't accept as I offer information and thoughts freely on Stackideas (as you and many other do here too), perhaps if Stackideas were an affiliate that would be a route to take, otherwise fire ahead and sign up when you wish.


OK, Sounds good.

Thanks Richard. I'll be buying it and implementing it later this weekend.

Randall
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Saturday, 29 March 2014 03:36
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Hey guys,

The fix is provided here, http://stackideas.com/forums/jfbconnect-issues-with-1-2-4 You can also click on the Get JFBConnect button from the back end to let us earn some affiliations
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Saturday, 29 March 2014 14:52
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thanks
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Saturday, 29 March 2014 18:42
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You are most welcome
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Saturday, 29 March 2014 19:10
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