Config Questions for EasySocial
By Diane on Thursday, 24 January 2019
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I have a few questions regarding EasySocial:

1) What is a Story Form?
2) I only want certain user groups to be part of EasySocial. I have enabled "Exclude Site Admin's Stream From Appearing" which excludes our super admins, but I also need to exclude our Manager group. Is there a configuration setting for this, or do I need to manually remove the Managers from the Users area?
3) When a user bookmarks an item, what does this mean?
4) When a user pins an item, what does this mean? I see that it gets posted in the user's Profile, but does it get posted to the top above all other posts?
5) How do I remove certain items from the Edit Profile page, such as Gender Birthday, Website, etc.?
6) How do I remove the People/Location/Mood icons that display when I create a post?
7) I will have only one Profile Type for EasySocial - Alumni. Is there any way to remove this profile from the Share section when creating posts? Since Everyone and Alumni are the same, I don't want to confuse users.

Thank you.
Hey there,

1) What is a Story Form?

It is a form that allows you to create a stream item for you as shown in the first screenshot.

You are able to configure the story form which is at Backend > EasySocial > Settings > Activity Stream > Layout > Story Form.

2) I only want certain user groups to be part of EasySocial. I have enabled "Exclude Site Admin's Stream From Appearing" which excludes our super admins, but I also need to exclude our Manager group. Is there a configuration setting for this, or do I need to manually remove the Managers from the Users area?


It is impossible to do that at this point of time currently.

3) When a user bookmarks an item, what does this mean?

I believe you are referring to 'Add To Favourites'. After you press this, the stream item will be bookmarked and you can view all the stream items that you bookmarked via 'My Favourites' filter as shown in the 2nd screenshot.

4) When a user pins an item, what does this mean? I see that it gets posted in the user's Profile, but does it get posted to the top above all other posts?


Users are able to pin their own stream item. It will stay on the top of their user profile page and the streams too.

5) How do I remove certain items from the Edit Profile page, such as Gender Birthday, Website, etc.?


You can remove the fields in your User Workflow which is at Backend > EasySocial > Custom Fields > Workflows > your User Workflow.

6) How do I remove the People/Location/Mood icons that display when I create a post?


You can disable the following settings which is in Backend > EasySocial > Settings > Activity Stream > Layout > Story Form > Layout:

- Display Mentions In Form
- Display Location In Form
- Display Mood In Form

7) I will have only one Profile Type for EasySocial - Alumni. Is there any way to remove this profile from the Share section when creating posts? Since Everyone and Alumni are the same, I don't want to confuse users.


Do you mean that you don't want to allow them to share a stream item?

if yes, you can disable 'Enable Social Sharing' which is at Backend > EasySocial > Settings > General > General > Social Bookmarking.
Irwin
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Thursday, 24 January 2019 13:09
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Thank you. When a user edits their Profile, if they change their name, email, or password, does this update their Joomla user account as well?

Regarding question #7, what I mean is that all my users are in one profile type. So selecting "Alumni" in the Share dropdown selects all users, and selecting "Everyone" selects all users. It is redundant, and users may think there is a difference between the two, when there is not.
Diane
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Friday, 25 January 2019 01:31
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Hey there,

Thank you. When a user edits their Profile, if they change their name, email, or password, does this update their Joomla user account as well?


Yes, it is.

Regarding question #7, what I mean is that all my users are in one profile type. So selecting "Alumni" in the Share dropdown selects all users, and selecting "Everyone" selects all users. It is redundant, and users may think there is a difference between the two, when there is not.


Do you mean that you want to remove the 'Everyone' from the privacy option in the story form as shown in the screenshot?

If yes, you can enable 'Enable Lockdown' which is at Backend > EasySocial > Settings > General > General so that the 'Everyone' option will be disappeared.
Irwin
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Friday, 25 January 2019 11:18
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Thank you very much. One last question, when I go to People and select a profile from the Browse by Profiles list, then select to view that Profile, how do I remove the Random Members and Random Albums from the sidebar?
Diane
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Friday, 25 January 2019 20:13
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Hey Diane,

I am really sorry for the delay of this reply as it is a weekend for us here. Do you mean the items highlighted here, http://take.ms/hO77T ?

There is currently no configuration for this but you may modify the template file /components/com_easysocial/themes/wireframe/profiles/default/default.php and remove the codes below at around line 61 onwards:

[gist]
<?php echo $this->includeTemplate('site/profiles/default/widgets/members'); ?>

<hr class="es-hr" />

<?php echo $this->includeTemplate('site/profiles/default/widgets/albums'); ?>
[/gist]
Mark
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Saturday, 26 January 2019 13:22
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