Hi,

A version before the most recent, I had code working that displayed the picture and display name at the top of my social summary for a given user. It doesn't seem to work anymore. I noticed that there is new code posted (which includes registering a control) that is suppose to do this, but I can't get it to work either. Does anyone have a summary that includes the user's picture and display name that still works so I can figure out what has changed?

thanks

I would also like to know what happened. Here is a backround thread for this issue: http://www.activemodules.com/Commun...fault.aspx

I really need to see a template of how you had this working before. I believe what happened is that the way you were using the tokens in the template before wasn't actually intended. There was another thread about this as well where I believe I even questioned how it was actually working. If someone could post the template that was working before we can probably provide another solution.

Will,

Here is the code snippet that I was using to display the profile picture before. I think you are right about the tokens. They were not documented anywhere that I could find, but I came across them in another template and did some experimenting until I got it to work:

<a href="[AS:SOCIALUSER:USERURL]"><active:ProfilePicture ProfileUserId='[AS:SOCIALUSER:USERID]' ImageAlt='[AS:SOCIALUSER:DISPLAYNAME]' LinkToProfile='False' PicSize='md' runat='server'/>a>

I have attached the summary template that I was using, but this the profile picture is the only part that stopped working. I'm still using the same template in 1.7.3 minus the profile pic and edit link. Thanks.

any ideas on this?

The code posted by R1ckJon3z is the same one I was using. He had kindly posted it in answer to someone else s question about how to do this and when I tried it, it worked. Now it doesn't seem to.

Does anyone have a suggestion about this? I still haven't figured this out.....

I tried just taking the snippet from the profile view that displays the user's picture and it doesn't display anything. Why wouldn't that work?

I've tried the same thing and can't get it to work either.

You can try...

The only thing I can't get working is the token to get the userid. It works if I hardcode it in, so I know we are on the right track. This is also the code that Rod from Poker DIY uses on his site, but I'm not sure why that token is not working. I have tried a couple different ones and no luck so far.

Try using [DNN:PROFILE:UserId] or [DNN:PROFILE:USERID].

Will,

I tried those (found them in the profile template), but they are not working either. I am using [AS:PORTALSETTINGS:PORTALID] to get the portal ID and it is working. [AS:SOCIALUSER:USERID] was what I was using before. Can I make my own token to retrieve the user ID?

Will,

I am a little confused as to why the token [DNN:PROFILE:USERID] works on the profile view template but doesn't seem to work on the journal summary template. Any thoughts on this?

Well, the profile view template is a profile view control where it has proper context of a user. A journal summary template doesn't need user context to render which means it was never intended to parse profile tokens.

Ok, that makes sense. So does that mean that there is no way to get the userid from the summary template? Some tokens are working, just not the one I want!! (laughing)

Ok, since the userId doesn't seemed to be able to be exposed by token anymore, there is a work-around for anyone looking to have the profile picture/edit profile link on the journal summary page. Page Blaster from Snapsis, has a great token replacement feature that can be used to retrieve the userID from DNN and used with the code that Will posted above can be used to accomplish the goal. I am posting the code I am using below as well as a screen shot of my journal summary.