VERY IMPORTANT!!! Modification of generic word on easysocial to suit our needs
By Michael on Thursday, 07 November 2013
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Hello, this is VERY IMPORTANT to us and we would appreciate a work around.


We would like to refer to each connection (friends) not as friends but CONTACTS.

To put it bluntly, it will be a social networking site but we rather not refer to our individual connections as a friendship. We would rather keep it professional and refer to individual users as contacts as stated above.

Thus the word friend on the site would be replace with Contact and you get things like e.g add a contact and not add a friend, contact suggestions and not friend suggestions, notifications saying e.g Michael and Sam are now connected.

Essentially, the word friend(s) would not appear on the site.


Can this be configured to suit our needs?

We anticipate your usual prompt and optimal customer service
Hi,

If you are using language override technique, then it will stay intact on EasySocial update.
Jason Rey
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Saturday, 09 November 2013 16:41
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Hi,

Unfortunately there is no "easy" way to configure this. You will have to modify the strings in the language file directly.
Jason Rey
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Thursday, 07 November 2013 09:20
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Hello Jason, is this something you could guide me through? Quite new to joomla and easysocial so any assistance by way of guidance given would be highly appreciated. Thank you
Michael
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Thursday, 07 November 2013 10:10
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Hi,

You can find the language files in:

/languages/en-GB/en-GB.com_easysocial.ini for frontend languages and you can edit this file to achieve the output text that you want.
Jason Rey
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Thursday, 07 November 2013 10:42
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Thanks Jason, was really helpful. it's gonna take quite a while to change the word friend on the entire site:) at least it's doable. Thanks again.

Quick question though, is it possible to turn off the 'Everyone ' option on the newsfeed section of a users account?
Michael
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Friday, 08 November 2013 06:45
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Michael,

You need to keep in mind that the language file will get overwritten the next time you update EasySocial. The best thing to do is to put your language overrides in the languages/overrides folder that Joomla provides. You can efficiently add your language overrides one at a time via the Extenstionr>Language Manager dropdown in the Joomla backend. This file does not get overwritten when updating.

- JW
John Whelan
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Friday, 08 November 2013 09:40
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Overrides are the best way to acchieve this I think Mark made a blog article a while ago for this.
lindyhopper
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Friday, 08 November 2013 10:06
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The blog is here : http://stackideas.com/blog/how-to-override-joomla-language-strings
lindyhopper
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Friday, 08 November 2013 10:07
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Hi,

Thanks for sharing Peter.
Jason Rey
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Friday, 08 November 2013 11:12
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Thanks Guys, this surely is an awesome community. The help is simply overwhelming. Much appreciated.

JW, please could you guide me as to where I can find the Joomla language/override folder?

Guidance from other users or stacksupport team is highly welcomed.

Cheers!
Michael
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Friday, 08 November 2013 22:03
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Also, i would still like to know if it is possible to turn off the 'Everyone' option in the news feed section
Michael
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Friday, 08 November 2013 22:21
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Doesnt Joomla 3 now have a pretty good language overwrite component? So you can simply create overwrite rules that won't get overwritten in component updates. Its really simple. You copy the language strings you want to change from the components language file, so it will be something like [LANGUAGE_STRING] and then you enter a new value for it.

If you're not familiar with Joomla you'll either need to be able to log into the server or FTP and look at the language file, or you can get the file out of the component files. I dont know if Joomla has a language file browser actually, that would be handy.
marco deluca
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Friday, 08 November 2013 23:10
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Hi,

Thanks for sharing Marco.
Jason Rey
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Saturday, 09 November 2013 00:07
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Here's the link: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=joomla+3.0+language+overrides
John Whelan
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Saturday, 09 November 2013 05:10
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Thanks guys, i have successfully overridden the desires files, just want to be sure they wouldn't be reset when easysocial is update
Michael
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Saturday, 09 November 2013 05:45
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