Hi everyone,

I recently had to have portal wide user images added to member profiles so I added a field to the user profile to store the url of the user's image and then wrote a custom cotrol to allow user's to upload their profile image.

I then needed to display this same image inside ActiveForums where the avatar would normally be. This had me stumped for a while but was quite easy to solve in the end. I wrote a simple DNN module that retrieves the user's image based on their user id. I added the reference to this at the top of the topicview.txt tempate file:



I was then able to change the template for the forum to include this control on the forum, passing in the userid from the token available in the forum template.

e.g.

[DISPLAYNAME][USERSTATUS]
[USERCAPTION]
[RANKDISPLAY]
[RANKNAME]
Posts:[POSTS]





Heh presto the user's image come up on the forum and is used throughout the site too...

If anyone is interested in more detail on how to do this i can post some more info...

Apologies the copde example fro the topicview.txt has stripped out the tag for the crucial part. it should look like this:

[DISPLAYNAME][USERSTATUS]
[USERCAPTION]
[RANKDISPLAY]
[RANKNAME]
Posts:[POSTS]
< wf:Image r u n a t ="server" id="userImage[POSTID]" maxheight="60" maxwidth="60" theuserid="[USERID]" />

N.B. - i've put spaces in runat so the forum doesn't strip the tag!

If it is stored in the DNN Profile you can use the following:


ProfilePropertyName is the name of the field you created for storing the image.

Does this respect the user-specified visibility settings?

Yes.

Excellent!

If I pull a value that is marked private by the user, it displays 'private'. Is there a way to suppress it altogether?

I added [DNNROFILE:COMPANY] to my AF 4.0.14 ProfileInfo template, but I get nothing. The company is a list type field I have on profiles. [DNNROFILE:CITY] doesn't show anything either. I tried [ASROFILE:CITY] as well which output the tag (which is what you'd expect as it's unknown).

The Visibility of all the fields is set to default in AS and Visible in DNN. The fields are populated with data.

Any suggestions of what I might be doing wrong. We'd really like to see the company of the poster.

Sorry that should have been AF 4.1.14, and the tags should say [DNN : PROFILE:COMPANY] (without spaces)

The tags are case sensitive. It must match the property name exactly.

Thanks that was the solution.

However, my company property is of type list. Is there any way to format the tag so that it returns the actual value rather than the ID (in a similar way to country, and other list types)?

Thanks.