Tips to get up and running

Yes. Guestbook has more features but I wanted something that would work for people with just core.

Michelle

OK, so how did you create the comment wall ?
I can see the fields on the automaticly created panels page but they are not showing on the user profile.
I am really trying everything including starting over from a fresh install.
Am I missing something ?
BTW, Thank you very much for all the great modules.

As the original poster said, I'm using the regular node comments.

Michelle

Sorry,
Stupid me, didn't understand the node wasn't automaticaly created,
Now that I'v created it, I can see the comments form

You can have them automatically created if you put at least one field on the registration page. That's a content profile feature, though, nothing to do with APK.

Michelle

Hi Michelle,

How did you customize the comment wall on http://socnet.shellmultimedia.com/user/1 ?

Can you post the xxx.tpl.php and/or css?

Thanks,
Rachel

@RachelNY: It's the blue_lagoon style of advanced forum.

Michelle

Michelle: Are you saying that you incorporated advanced forum on the profile page to use as the comment wall? If so, how did you accomplish this? If not, did you apply the theme to the comments section for this page? Thanks for any additional info...
Rachel

I checked the box in the AF settings to theme all site comments as forum posts.

Michelle

Missed that ... very nice!! Thank you...

You're welcome.

Michelle

Well, I have the nice looking comments, but I can't seem to make them show up on the profile page. I have the panel page that came with APK. I know I am missing something simple. Can someone give me the newbie/idiots version of how to make the comment wall show up?

Are you looking at the profile of someone who has created a profile node?

Michelle

If you mean created using /node/add/profile, then yes ...

No... That would create a node of the type "profile" not "uprofile". If you edit the user account, there should be a category for the user profile in there. If the user doesn't have a node, they won't have comments.

Michelle

Obviously I am missing some fundamental understanding of how this functions. I can see how to create a type "profile" and have that as a tab that the user can edit, but I have no clue how to make the "uprofile" type show up. It is not there any I do not know how to enable it. Is there doc somewhere I can look at? I know I must be missing something simple ...

There are no docs for the 6.x branch, yet, as it is in early alpha and not recommended for use, yet. I was willing to answer a simple question about theming but I don't have time to get into detailed support right now.

Michelle

Create user profile node type
If you'd like to auto create the node type for user profiles, check this. The option will be disabled if you have a uprofile node type or do not have content copy (from CCK) enabled.

The "Create user profile node type" box was greyed out. I went into modules and enabled content copy. I came back and click the box and saved and I get the messages that "The configuration options have been saved.", but the box is still unchecked and not greyed out and I don't see a uprofile type anywhere (should it be under content types?) ...

Michelle -- just saw your last message as I was typing this ... thanks for the help, now that I know about the uprofile type, I'll see if I can get it to work ... I understand if you can't support at this level ... thanks again ...

If anyone else if having the same problem I was: I was missing the link module http://drupal.org/project/link, after I installed this I had to take the uprofile.inc file and import it into content types, that was the only way I could get it to install ... still checking to see if it installed properly as I got a time out message ...

Thanks for reporting back. In D5, content copy gave you an error if you were missing a module. I guess it doesn't in D6.

Michelle

The content type creation was only partially successful. I received a message that it timed out and I wasn't sure what happened until I compared the uprofile.inc to the fields in the content type. This happened both when I tried to run uprofile.inc from a new php and when I tried to import directly into content types. For some reason it seems to be choking on the size of it.

Once I have other parts of the site done I am going to go back, cut up uprofile.inc into pieces and try importing it in smaller chunks.

It would not install at all from the admin page.

I'll report back on how it goes. Now that I understand what the components are and how it functions I am fairly confident I will get it going.

Rachel

I had to delete the uprofile content type, override the max_execution_time in php.ini and import uprofile.inc again. It appears to have run properly this time ....

I had to install the dev version of cck, and now everything is working.

Any other newbies to drupal out there who are having trouble with APK/D6, please note you need the dev version of cck (http://drupal.org/project/cck) and the link module as referenced in my earlier post. If you get the DB time-out, you can override in php.ini and the content type should build properly.

Also, you will need to set the permissions which are on a field-by-field level which is pretty neat. I've created a custom role for subscribers, and users with that role can create and customize their profile.

The rounded corners in panels was making certain MSIE pages blow-up (apparently MSIE7 isn't liking the multiple styles statements in the page rather than as links) -- if you have the same problem you can customize the pane in your styles.css using: #user-profile .panel-pane {put-your-css-here}

Michelle, thanks for the help and for a very useful module.

Rachel

@RachelNY: Thanks for your reports. I changed the title and set this active again to make it easier for people to find.

Michelle

Hi Michelle,

Everything is working except Profile Visitors. It shows up, but it says: "No recent visitors." for all profiles. Is there something I need to enable?

Thanks,
Rachel

Just looking for someone to point me in the right direction, I still have this issue: Everything is working except Profile Visitors. It shows up, but it says: "No recent visitors." for all profiles. Is there something I need to enable?

Did you enable the statistics module and page views in statistic's settings?

In the future, please start a new issue for a new question. This issue is about the comment wall and has been taken completely off topic. I only left it active because you had some tips there that could help people until I got the docs written. I will be closing this issue as soon as I get to that.

Michelle

Enabling the proper settings was the issue (/admin/reports/settings). Thank you.

Apologies for taking the thread off-topic, I'll start a new thread next time.

Cool, glad you got it sorted. Yeah, issues aren't like forum posts that can wander all over. They need to stay focused so the title/status makes sense. I'm going to try and get some D6 docs written up tonight and then we can close this one out.

Michelle

\advanced_profile\includes

Please confirm that it isn't listed under your content types. On my system it did not install when I enabled the module and it was only partially created when I first tried manually creating it. I ended up deleting the content type and then added ;max_execution_time = 600 (take out the ; to uncomment) to my php.ini so I wouldn't get the database timeout message. Don't leave that line uncommented when you are done (normal timeout on my site is 30 seconds, not 600).

Don't forget to backup your database!!

Hello,
I have tried the tip you gave me on #5 for automatically create the profile node and it does work, But strangely it creates it with the comments disabled (read only), even though it is set to be enabled by default.
furthermore, the user, not having the administer comments permission, can't even change it to Read/Write.
Can you see why this is happening ?

@waitetom: php.ini should be in the main drupal directory. If you don't have one, you can create one. If you have one, just add that line, if you don't that would be the only line you need. If this doesn't work for you, you may want to contact support at your hosting company ... I had to create one during my initial drupal install to set "register_globals = false", my entire php.ini reads as follows:

register_globals = false
;max_execution_time = 600

Any thoughts regarding #35 ?

Hello,
I know this issue is not related to your modules but I really need anyone who can help to try and fixed this :
Its about the tip you gave on this thread and here also http://drupal.org/node/367370 for automatically (on registration) creating the profile node and, with it, the comment wall.
as posted here http://drupal.org/node/373410 after registration, user profile nodes have "Disabled" setting in "Comment settings" form and not having the administer comments permission, they can't even change it to Read/Write.
The post on "Content Profile's issues" isn't getting any attention so I would really appreciate any help on this.
Thanks.

I'm sorry but I barely have time for my own modules. I simply don't have the time to try and debug someone else's module.

Michelle

Going to close this issue. I really don't want to be encouraging people to get "up and running" on the current version since I'm on the verge of changing it.

Michelle