Question Adding signatures to profiles?

I was able to create something similar to what they have here as follows:

1. In the backend Kunena configuration, turn off integration-- tell it that profiles are from Kunena, not Jomsocial

2. Go you your profile in the front end, and go the the edit link. You should be at a URL such as:

3. Copy down this URL

4. In the backend, turn profile integration back on, set it back to Jomsocial

5. In the backend, go to the menu manager, and open the "jomsocial" menu

6. Add a new item to the menu, with the title "Forum", and of type external URL. The external URL should be the one you copied above. I set the parent to "Profile"

If it works, you'll have jomsocial profiles in Kunena. When a user goes to their profile, under the profile menu in jomsocial, they will have a link named "Forum" that takes them to the Kunena profile.

Thanks, Noel. Long time no see.

noelhunter wrote: I was able to create something similar to what they have here as follows:

1. In the backend Kunena configuration, turn off integration-- tell it that profiles are from Kunena, not Jomsocial

2. Go you your profile in the front end, and go the the edit link. You should be at a URL such as:

Code:

http://www.yoursite.com/index.php?option=com_kunena&func=profile&do=edit&Itemid=100120&lang=en

3. Copy down this URL

4. In the backend, turn profile integration back on, set it back to Jomsocial

5. In the backend, go to the menu manager, and open the "jomsocial" menu

6. Add a new item to the menu, with the title "Forum", and of type external URL. The external URL should be the one you copied above. I set the parent to "Profile"

If it works, you'll have jomsocial profiles in Kunena. When a user goes to their profile, under the profile menu in jomsocial, they will have a link named "Forum" that takes them to the Kunena profile.

I followed the above instructions.

Everything seemed fine until I visited my site hours later only to discover that all forum posts gave a 404 error. Didn't understand it. Had to retrace my steps.
I deactivated SEF which had been active for months without trouble.
The forum was fully accessible. Put the SEF back on and it's 404.
But SEF like I said was on for months with no trouble. Could it be the new forum setting link in the jomsocial profile menu?

I disabled that menu item and voila! forum is available again even with SEF. Except now I have to be logged in for anything to show. If I am not I get told that I have to log in to access the forum.

Hmmm.

I re-read the instructions again. I parent the JomSocial Forum menu item to Profile. Also the menu item cannot be external link. It has to be set to Kunena profile and the parameters set to integration off only for that menu item.

Now my site is stable again. No more 404 and no more access exclusions.
Is this a bug? Whose bug Kunena or Jomsocial?

Thank you.

404 errors can nearly always be traced back to your Joomla menu and how you've gone about configuring Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) in Joomla.