Can we please make better use of the user id (uid) instead of the profile id (pid). As this is more compatible with other DNN modules.

I second you on this one. I think that this is the biggest improvement you can make to My profile right now.
I use lots of other modules (UMG, UVG, forums etc...) that use UID and integration with PID (that just don't make any sense to me really) is such a pain...

Can you give me some better examples of how this is a problem? As far as I can tell, the UserId is used to access the profile.

Ok, then let's say you register on the site. You get a UID that you will always have. Then you create a profile (I'm obviously talking about DNNFusion My Profile 1.4). Your profile is referenced with a PID that is different from your UID.
Ex:
registration > UID = 50
create profile > PID = 45

then for some reason you delete your profile, in the meantime other users create their profile, you decide to create a profile again.
Your UID is still = 50 but now your PID = 67

There is no corelation whatsoever between the two (UID & PID). So with most other modules that use UID, if you use the UID in a querystring to link to the user profile, you'll most likely end up on somebody else's page (that is, whoever's PID matches the UID in the querystring).
The hack I've used so far is to link back to /[DISPLAYNAME] with the 404 redirect on. But there are right now so many ways a user can accidently mess up with their profile name (e.g change the displayname in the Myprofile settings so that it is different to their DNN Displayname and then you are not redirected to their profile but to the directory eventhough they do have a public profile).

You can check on bizmodules.net forums, they have a few posts talking about integration with DNNFusion my profile. Since Ultra Media Gallery offers a "profile integration" mode that uses UID, you can put it on the same page as the profiles so that you can see their pictures. It doesen't work so far because of the UID Vs PID issue. It works with Smart Thinker profile since they use UID.

Thanks for the clarification. We are reviewing this part of the code. I would expect this to be resolved next week.

Actually, I may need further clarification. After looking through the code, it appears to be able to accept UserId or ProfileId. Please let us know what version of MyProfile you are using. I know that we received code that had a few updates which had not be released just yet. I'm thinking this may have already been fixed.

Thanks,
Will

Hi Will,
Now I'm beginning to doubt... Am I the only one having this problem ?
I have double checked my site and 1) I am running version 01.40.00 and 2) I still have this problem w/ UID and PID. I have checked several users and their UID don't match their PID. If this has already been fixed, this is great news and I want the update.
Look in the old DNNFusion forums. This issue is discussed and as far as I remember, there was no fix.

keskiya, the UID doesn't match the PID But you can use the UID to get to a persons Profile
as such www.laserdome.tk/tabid/117/uid/3/Default.aspx
as where http://www.laserdome.tk/Forum/Laserstorm/tabid/117/PID/59/Default.aspx points to the PID.

I also use UID to get to a profile. Take a look at http://mymagiczone.com/videos.aspx In the list of videos you will see a link to the user's profile. This is a link from Ultra Video Galley to Active Profile

Thanks guys for your input. The truth is I didn't know it could use both UID & PID.
It still only solves half of my problem because what I actually want to do is the opposite:
Look at somebody's profile and see their pictures (from UMG in "profile integration mode"). This doesn't work because the URL contains the PID and not the UID. Or is there a workaround ?

Hi Guys,

The issue we found here is that if you add an external module to the same page of the profile that requires the user id to be passed to show that users content - everytime you click on one of the myprofile modules links it passes the pid (not uid).

EXAMPLE:

If you click on a friends link it will take you to the friends page via the pid. This means that any additional modules that are setup on the profile page will not work as they use the uid to get their data.

Hope this makes sense - just let me know if you require any more info or a better explanation.

The problem is:

The old version of DNNfusion MP used its own SQL table to assign a userid and is not populated from DNN. Thus when interacting with other modules, the profile could be linked to other modules with tokens, but you were unable to plugin other modules using token replacements into the profile templates on DNNfusion MP. Because of it using it's own table for userid, PID, UID or whatever you want to call it. In the previous DnnFusion forums, I've shown a lot of plugins with other modules I've used but have come across this problem (cross-display) on several occasions and have resorted to PageBlaster with url rewrites and replacements to get other modules to display in DNNFusion MP. Because of it's lack of recognition of the core DNN userid, amoung support, etc. I've scrapped it. I'm now interested to see what Active Modules has to bring to the table and hope to see MyProfile WELCOME!!!!!! other module integrations by the simple use of tokens.

Time will tell...........Hope there will be a trial version too as my previous subsription has run out........................

That's what I was trying to say, thank you !

In your example though, the module waiting for UID will interpret the PID passed-in as UID. And display somebody else's data.

This is one of the main reasons I didn't go with MyProfile. (I found out by reading the forums) What would really be great is for this and (MyMessages) to integrate with the Smart-Thinker products for Events, Groups, and Wall modules. It's obvious that Will and Nic have thought this out, but it's also very encouraging that they are listening to the users that have integrated other products into their solutions. Rongers at BizModules thinks big picture as well - he's integrated storage with S3 on UVG (and hopefully UMG) to allow for major growth with reasonable prices. I think it's safe to say that UID has become the unwritten standard when it comes to integrating modules in a community setting.
That's my .02!
Steve

Hi Everyone,

I have bumped into this issue already after a couple of days playing around with the module. Hopefully Will is able to tackle this issue as one of the first by using the [UserID] token we're familiar with from Active Forums.

Looking forward for the first update

Hi,
I am interested in this topic.
I would know if you can use UID (USERID) instead of PID.

My version of Active Profile is 1.4.1.

Thanks a lot,
Antonio

Has there been any update on this subject?  We have recently purchased My Profile but really really need this to be run using the UID instead of the PID so that we can integrate it with Ultra Video Gallery and Ultra Media Gallery.  Currently , if we map the User Videos and User Photos modules to the PID, it screws everything up and it actually connects those galleries and any links to the profile to the UID of the user.  Is there any way to make it so that it'll relate their profiles to the UserId?

Hi Travis,

I had the same problem but currently this is working for me by using the following code in the postinfo template, within the control panel of AF 3.7

 

< img src="http://www.activemodules.com/desktopmodules/dnnfusion_myprofile/controls/profileimage.aspx?userid=[USERID]&w=80" border=0>
< a href="yourdomain.com/tabid/82/uid/[USERID]/Default.aspx">My Profile
< a href="http://www.yourdomain.com/Profile/Messages/tabid/83/ctl/MessageAnon/mid/416/sendto/[USERID]/Default.aspx">Send P.M.


Make sure that when you try to copy/paste the code you delete the space just after the opening brackets. 
 
Good luck!!