Question Shorten text in activity stream.

Based on the high demand and my wife letting me spend my night on this, I have some good news for you guys...

I was able to add an activity stream limit into the config (0 for unlimited, otherwise number of characters) in addition to a new Read More... link at the bottom of that message.

This has been committed into the 1.6.1 trunk and will head to our testers shortely. Expect to see this out there within a week or 10 days - as long as we don't find any more serious 1.6 issues.

Hope this helps!

Go check it out (for new post and replies only): www.kunena.com/people


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That's great! looks forward to trying it out!

fxstein

Just a small thought
How is possible to generate the exact link in "Read More" but not in the activity item itself?

WinuxFF wrote: fxstein

Just a small thought
How is possible to generate the exact link in "Read More" but not in the activity item itself?

Very good question. This is the essence of what many have asked before.

We use something that is called Activity Stream Aggregation in JomSocial. The aggregation allows us to pu multiple replies against a single topic into a single line of the activity stream, with all the names of the repliers listed. You can see that on our own activity stream with topics that have multiple replies in a single day. This is important for all larger forums as replies to a single topic would otherwise 'spam' the stream with the same topic.

The logic for doing that requires a very specifc syntax inside the activity stream, as the aggregation is performed by JomSocial and not by Kunena - we just supply the data.

We basically have to provide the user data seperate from the Activity header and detail text. It is that activity header that is being used by JomSocial to perform the aggregation. We can embed a link or anything we want,

BUT

that header must be EXACTLY identical for all entries that we want to get aggregated. If you vary the entry by a single byte or a different page number or post id, the aggregation will not recognize this as the same topic. There for the embedded link to the topic must be the same for all entries.

That all is for the header of the activity stream entries.

Now the body of the activity stream can contain any text - the actual text used to display the item. It has nothing todo with the aggregation and will vary from entry to entry. JomSocial displays the latest one of these under the header in the activity stream. Because of that, we can stick anything we want into that activity body, including a Read More... link to the exact location of the post - not only the thread - like it is in the header.

With the implementation of the activity stream body character limit, we combined it with that new Read More button... (an by the way we use the JomSocial read more css class to make it follow the styling of your JS template).

Hope this clarifies a few things.

That is incredible. fxstein, you ARE the man...

This will end that nasty little compromise of limiting all of the JS activity feeds by hacking the default template activities.index.php file.

P

So basically, header must be the same for all activities that will be cumulated into one.
It makes perfect sense now.
Thanks for clarification @fxstein
Although its not the time and place, i must admit your rather useful insight just helped me to better understand JS activity stream and problems i had while trying to use it with other components