@hcted : have a look at 

• http://community.elgg.org/pg/plugins/project/384903/developer/DementiaArmand/riverdashboard-with-user-menu
• http://webgalli.com/pg/groups/1340/webgallis-three-coloumn-riverdashboard-for-elgg/

I just installed the first one. It did not work as planned and somethings are messed up. Where can I redownload the original river dashboard? Thanks :)

It will be available with full elgg pack download @ http://elgg.org/download.php

Hi Hcted,

We are trying to do the same thing. Please let us know if you could manage to do so!

thanks!

as i believe in being a good community member, in return for all others hard work here's a little contribution of my own


create copies of thewire/actions/add.php - thewire/views/default/thewire/forms/add.php -

rename the form and action to whatever you wish - I chose pushtodash.php and riverdashadd.php respectively to differentiate between them while I figured out how it was done.

in your theme edit views/default/thewire/css.php to add:

    .dashboard_wire-container {
        background: white;
        -webkit-border-radius: 8px;
        -moz-border-radius: 8px;
        margin:0 10px 10px 10px;
        padding:10px;  
        width:500px;
        }

    textarea#thewire_dashboard-textarea {
        width: 545px;<?/*size text area here*/?>
        height: 40px;
        padding: 6px;
        font-family: Arial, 'Trebuchet MS','Lucida Grande', sans-serif;
        font-size: 100%;
        color:#000000;

    }

    textarea#thewire_dashboard-textarea:focus {
    <?/*add text area focus styles here*/?>
    }

in riverdashadd.php

find the first <div class

change the class to dashboard_wire-container

    <div class="dashboard_wire-container">

which you defined in the css earlier :)


next you will find :

    <form action="<?php echo $vars['url']; ?>action/thewire/add" method="post" name="noteForm">

change the action to :

    <form action="<?php echo $vars['url']; ?>action/thewire/pushtodash" method="post" name="noteForm">

next you will need to find where there are 2 display variables defined ($display),

the first one contains the line:

    id=\"thewire_large-textarea\

change this to:

    id=\"thewire_dashboard-textarea\

now we're done with that file.


open up pushtodash.php

find the line :

    forward("mod/thewire/add.php");

and change to :

    forward("mod/thewire/pushtodash.php");

there will be another line that is the same a few lines down, repeat the process there. this is necessary, do not skip this step


at the bottom there will be

    forward("mod/thewire/everyone.php");

change this to

    forward("pg/dashboard/");

   
   
   
   
   
next up is /mod/thewire/start.php


at the VERY bottom of this you'll find a global configuration variable
        global $CONFIG;

copy :
        register_action("thewire/add",false,$CONFIG->pluginspath . "thewire/actions/add.php");

and change it to:
       
        register_action("thewire/pushtodash",false,$CONFIG->pluginspath . "thewire/actions/pushtodash.php");


       
Next we'll need to actually put the wire text area into the dashboard

in mod/thewire/index.php you'll find

    //add form
        $area2 .= elgg_view("thewire/forms/add");
       
what we do with this is copy it into a new file and give it a quick little change to

    //add thewire dashboard form
        $area2 .= elgg_view("thewire/forms/riverdashadd");
       
lastly we can head over to /mod/riverdashboard/index.php and add that sucker in there:


        $body = '';
        if (empty($callback)) {

            //set a view for the menu
            $area = elgg_view("riverdashboard/usermenu");

            //set a view for the wire to extend
            $area1 = elgg_view("activity/thewire");
   
            //set a view to display newest members
            $area1 .= elgg_view("riverdashboard/newestmembers");   
           
            //set a view to display a welcome message
            $body .= elgg_view("riverdashboard/welcome");
   
            //set a view to display a site wide message
            $body .= elgg_view("riverdashboard/sitemessage");
           
            //add thewire dashboard form HERE!!!!
            $body .= elgg_view("thewire/forms/riverdashadd");
        }
       
       
       
       
       
and there you have it :) the wire on your dashboard. every post you make will push you back to the dashboard to update.

of course this should be made into a plugin, but this was mostly to give an explanation of where one would start, when looking to add functionality from two plugins into one.

I don't know if this is exactly what the original post is talking about, but I have placed a add to
wire form at the top of the river (I call the activity Stream on our site) so you add wire posts to
the stream without leaving the page.

Here is a link to a page where I posted a screen shot of the our "Stream" (dashboard). Screenshot

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