JAB 2012 presentation featuring CB, uddeIM, Kunena, GroupJive integration

1. CB Workshop with
uddeIM, Kunena, GroupJive
and CBSubs
@ J and Beyond 2012

2. Author and other info …
 Nick A. (nant) – CB Team member along with Beat and Kyle
 Matias Griese – Kunena team
 Stephan Slabihoud - uddeIM
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3. Extensions mentioned
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4. References
 Slides will be shared here:
 www.slideshare.net/cbteam/presentations
 Community Builder
 www.joomlapolis.com/community-builder
 uddeIM
 www.slabihoud.de/software/id4001.htm
 Kunena
 www.kunena.org
 GroupJive
 www.joomlapolis.com/cb-solutions/groupjive
 CBSubs
 www.joomlapolis.com/cb-solutions/cbsubs
 Picture-book tutorials
 www.joomlapolis.com/support/tutorials/111-picture-books
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5. Agenda
 Introduction – goals
 Step 1: Joomla (2.5.4)
 Step 2: Community Builder (1.8)
 Configuring CB + Joomla integration
 Step 3: uddeIM (2.7)
 Configuring uddeIM + CB integration
 Step 4: Kunena (1.7)
 Configuring Kunena + CB + uddeIM Integration
 Step 5: CB GroupJive (2.5.1)
 Configuring GroupJive + CB + uddeIM + Kunena Integration
 Step 6: CBSubs (2.0.1)
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6. Introduction
 Three different project teams
 Collaboration – skype group chats
 Clean integration – api extensions
 End-users benefit
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7. 1. Joomla
 Starting with default content Joomla 2.5.4 website
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8. 2. Community Builder
 Install CB component
 Install CB Modules (login, workflow, online)
 Edit CB Configuration:
 General tab:
 name style: First and Last Name Field
 Date format: yyyy-mm-dd
 Registration tab:
 Allow User Registration: Yes, independently of global J! settings
 Require Admin Approval: Yes
 User Profile tab:
 Fields validation in Admin: No
 Allow user to edit his CMS parameters in frontend: ?
 Use new div or old table based views: Use divs
 Moderation tab:
 Allow user to edit his CMS parameters in frontend: CB Moderators
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9. More
2. Community Builder
 Edit CB Configuration
 Connections tab:
 Enable Connections: Yes
 Notification Method: PMS+Email
 Connection Types: Add Contact + Forum-buddy
 CB Login module
 Position-7
 Publish
 Show only on Home menu (same as Joomla module)
 Show avatar when logged-in: Always
 Private Messaging System: uddeIM
 Private Messaging Notification: Show even if no messages
 Connections notification: Show only if pending connections
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10. More
2. Community Builder
 CB Workflow module
 Position-7
 Publish
 Access: Special
 Show on Home menu
 CB Tab Manager
 Enable Connections Tab
 Enable Articles Tab
 User Menu items:
 Create CB Profile menu item in User menu
 UnpublishYour Profile menu (Joomla)
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11. More
2. Community Builder
 Home Menu items:
 Create CB Login menu
 Unpublish Joomla Login menu
 Joomla login
 Unpublish all 3 instances
 Turn-off Joomla Registrations
 Users  User manager  Options: Allow User Registrations
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12. Joomla and CB
 CB registration and login processes can be used instead of
Joomla’s
 CB Articles tab shows all articles published by user
 CB users are also Joomla users (i.e., if you remove CB in the
future your Joomla user table will still contain the users)
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13. 3. uddeIM
 Install the uddeIM component
 Create User menu item to uddeIM
 Configure uddeIM:
 Messages tab: Allow BB code tags: Yes
 Integration tab  Verify that Community Builder has been
detected
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14. More
3. uddeIM and CB
 Enable CB support for uddeIM
 CB Plugin Manager  Private Message System plugin
 Publish
 PMS Component Type: uddeIM 1.0+
 CB Tab Manager  Quick Message
 Publish
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15. More
uddeIM and CB Integration
 You can send a private message to user by visiting his profile
and selecting CB menu item
 Quick message (one-click message)
 You can see number of incoming / unread private messages in
CB Login
 Any CB plugin can use CB Private Message plugin (example
CB Connections, GroupJive, CBSubs mailer, etc)
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16. 4. Kunena
 Install Kunena 1.7.2 component
 Kunena Integration tab:
 Set Community Builder integration items
 Create Kunena entry page menu in Joomla Top Menu
 CB Plugin Management  Forum Integration plugin:
 Publish
 Forum component: Kunena
 CB Tab Management  Forum:
 Publish
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17. More
Kunena and CB Integration
 Forum Tab in CB shows all forum posts and thread
subscriptions of profile user
 Kunena avatar area uses CB Avatar and links back to CB User
profile
 Kunena uses CB Login, registration, forgotten login functions
 Kunena sidebar can be customized to show CB data of poster
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18. More
Kunena sidebar – CB integration
<ul class="kpost-profile">
<li class="kpost-username"><a rel="nofollow" title=""
href="index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userProfile&user=[user_id]&Itemid=
47" class="kwho-admin">[cb:userfield field="formatname"/]</a></li>
<li class="kpost-avatar"><a rel="nofollow" title=""
href="index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userProfile&user=[user_id]&Itemid=
47" class="kwho-admin"><span class="kavatar">[cb:userfield
field="avatar"/]</span></a></li>
<li>[cb:userfield field="onlinestatus"/]</li>
<li class="kpost-userrank">[cb:userfield field="forumrank"/]</li>
<li class="kpost-userposts">Posts: [cb:userfield field="forumposts"/]</li>
<li class="kpost-karma">Karma: [cb:userfield field="forumkarma"/] [karmaminus]
[karmaplus]</li>
<li>[cb:if cb_osm="1"]OSM[/cb:if]</li>
<li>[cb:if cb_jlt="1"]JLT[/cb:if]</li>
</ul>
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19. 5. GroupJive
 Install and publish all CB GroupJive plugins
 Create GJ menu from CB Plugin area of main GJ plugin
 Move item to Top menu and Publish
 GroupJive Forum configuration (select Kunena top category)
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20. GroupJive and uddeIM
 GroupJive notifications can use uddeIM (config)
 GroupJive group messaging can use uddeIM (config)
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21. GroupJive and Kunena
 GroupJive created Kunena forum for private / intra-group
discussions
 GroupJive forum tab shows forum subjects with links
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22. 6. CBSubs
 With CBSubs you can further achieve the following
integrations:
 Automatically add/remove subscribers to/from Joomla Groups
 Automatically add/remove subscribers to/from GJ groups
 Protect Joomla content based on subscriptions
(component, modules, menu items, articles)
 Do not allow users to post on specific Kunena forum categories
without a subscription (URL-Parts)
 Show/hide specific CB Fields/Tabs based on subscriptions of
profile owner and profile viewer
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23. Conclusion
 Community Builder, uddeIM, Kunena, GroupJive and CBSubs
integrate nicely with each-other and are able to support
many different use case scenarios
 With new Joomla UX project, user interface will even look the
same.
 This is an example of Joomla spirit and team-work
 There are many other Joomla projects that also have nice CB
integrations:
 K2 (authors use CB user profiles and K2 tab gets K2 articles)
 AcyMailing (nice integration with CB and CBSubs)
 We are always open
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