About User Download 7.3

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German Michael Zülsdorff 9 years ago

About User


This component adds an additional profile subpage named About showing some basic member information like gender, age, etc. retrieved from the member's account data.


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The accessibility of the About page depends on the mode which was chosen on the account settings page. The three available options are public (visible for everyone), friends only, or nobody (except of the account owner and administrators).


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Note: About User can NOT be used in parallel with the Custom User Fields component. Whenever Custom User Fields gets enabled, About User will be disabled automatically.



Changes

V 7.3

V 7.2

  • removed unnecessary debug code (displaying 'BLA' on mobile devices)

V 7.1

  • added Hungarian language file
  • adapted display of non-default user fields of type dropdown and radio to profile settings page

V 6.1

  • Ossn 6.x support
  • verified PHP 8 compatibility
  • removed Textarea Support dependency
  • added check to prevent enabling with Custom User Fields component in parallel
  • new 'tabbed' layout of About page
  • moved accessibility settings to extra tab of account settings page
  • fixed wrong or un-translated country names provided by the Country Selector component

Outdated Ossn 5.x releases:
V 4.3 (supporting Ossn 5.4 up to 5.6, requires TextareaSupport 2.12)

  • adapted requirements to Ossn 5.4

V 4.2

  • completed set of language files
  • adapted to TextareaSupport 2.8

V 4.1

  • adds configurable privacy to about tab
  • automatic disabling of About User component if Custom User Fields component is enabled

V 4.0

  • support added for dynamically displaying additional profile field's data as provided by components like 'CountrySelector' for example.

V 3.1

  • translate gender
  • rewritten age calculation function

V 1.0

  • initial release
Comments
German Willi da SIlva Borges Replied 3 years ago

Unfortunately, the menu item is not displayed for me :(

How can I make it appear?

German Martin Korn Replied 3 years ago

how can i export the birthdays and mobile phone numbers of the users to the respective users

German Michael Zülsdorff Replied 3 years ago

@Sarah
Actually, User Fields and About are not really conflicting, but since User Fields offers its own and even configurable About section, it wouldn't make much sense to see 2 abouts in parallel. :) That's why this one disables automatically (see release note 4.1 above) in case User Fields is running.

us Sarah Giddings Replied 3 years ago

@~Z~ Man My apologies, I should know better than to leave such a comment without an error log or something.

I resolved the issue, I had installed a commercial component 'user fields' once I removed this one and then disabled and re-enabled 'user fields' it worked fine.

I believe they were simply conflicting, my mistake.
Thank you so much for the quick response.

German Michael Zülsdorff Replied 3 years ago

I'm sorry Sarah,
but without knowing further details (see https://www.opensource-socialnetwork.org/wiki/view/1101/how-to-report-a-bug-error) I can only guess that you installed the component indeed - but forgot to enable it.

us Sarah Giddings Replied 3 years ago

The 'about user' page doesn't seem to work for me. I'm using GreenByGreen theme unmodified. The 'about' text never appears on the profile.

If I append /about to the end of my username in the URL I get a blank profile page without any 'about' info.

German Michael Zülsdorff Replied 3 years ago

Thank you for your feedback, Philip.
But excuse me if I'm not too surprised. ;)
Actually, this component IS coded to display an About page whenever you're calling a link like YOURSITE.COM/u/USERNAME/about.
Thus, as long as you're not tweaking a theme in a way that links like that will become unavailable or are no longer available because of a bug in the theme About pages will be displayed.

us Philip Lozier Replied 3 years ago

@~Z~ Man ... I am using a heavily modified version of your greenbygreen theme here, and about user works just fine.

German Michael Zülsdorff Replied 3 years ago

@Scotty maturin
I can confirm your issue now. But it's not caused by this component but by an incompatibility of several themes with the latest Ossn. I left a note on those theme pages and I'm looking foreward there'll be fixes available soon.

Component

Developer: Michael
License ossnv4
Type: Communication
Requires Ossn Version : 7.3
Latest Version: 7.3
Last Updated 4 weeks ago
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