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  • Dan Huff added a new discussion topic Tagging people / notification in the group Elgg Technical Support
    Hi, When I post something on my elgg site, whether is is a group discussion, page, file, image, etc; how can I tag "people/users" (like Facebook) so that a notification is sent to them, so that they know and go read the post?  Right now, the...
    • Any comment is greatly appreciated.  Thanks.

    • That's all controlled by the other users' notifications settings in their settings page. They can control what they get notifications about.

       

    • Trajan, please can you be more specific... please. I have the notification running for almost everything BUT the tagging... somehow I am not getting it to work... thanks.

      My options are
      Notifications --> Receive notifications when actions are performed on your content [Friends/Perosnal]
      Group Notifications         

      How can I view more options that? 

  • Dan Huff replied on the discussion topic elgg editor
    Eclipse PHP is working great for me! view reply
  • Dan Huff replied on the discussion topic Rename fields
    cash.. with your plugin.. can I rename more fields than just the "friends" (to "following")?  can i rename other fields like "group", "profile", etc?  thanks view reply
  • Dan Huff added a new discussion topic elgg editor in the group Elgg Technical Support
    Is there a tool / sotftware out there that support programming / customizing elgg?  I assume it would support PHP, but a little more customize to elgg.  since it has been a long time for me to do any kind of programming, i am very...
  • Dan Huff replied on the discussion topic Bookmark
    oh great.  thanks! just a related question... if i want to bookmark an elgg page, photo album, etc... do I have to copy the full URL (http://......) or can I bookmark a more friendly address?  thanks view reply
  • Dan Huff added a new discussion topic Rename fields in the group Elgg Technical Support
    How can we rename all the fields in elgg?  I am not talking about just "profile fields", but "everything".  For example, I want to rename the field "Friends" to "Partners", "Groups" to "Teams", "Profile" to "Background", etc.  The...
  • Dan Huff added a new discussion topic Bookmark in the group Elgg Technical Support
    I'm not sure how to use bookmark... On the field that says "Address", what can we input there?  A website?  I tried but when I clicked on the site, nothing happened.  A link to a page in Elgg, how do we get the exact link?  Any...
  • Dan Huff added a new discussion topic Page vs. Blog in the group Elgg Technical Support
    Hello, I'm seeing both Page and Blog plugins to my page.  However... I'm not really sure why we would need both of them.  I'm trying to keep my site clean and simple.  Can someone please help me understand the differences between...
    • blog = blog, nice and simple.

      Pages to me = poor man's wiki plugin. Child pages & hierarchy can work in this way. A few enhancements and it could be a very well organized personal wiki for users/groups.

      But then, that's just through my eyes.

    • Elgg is a "framework." We can do what we want with it. Thus both Blog Posts and Pages are available.

      When might both be needed? If a site was close to a typical blog format, with lots of chronological posts and a few important, general-interest pages. Or, on my site, as another example, there have been  some blog posts by "site-wide" users, but within the Groups, I can see where Pages might be useful. So I keep both.

      But if you only see a need for one, feel free to remove the other. (I admit, I cannot give you the 1,2,3 ... steps to remove one of them, but it should be quite do-able.)

    • But if you only see a need for one, feel free to remove the other. (I admit, I cannot give you the 1,2,3 ... steps to remove one of them, but it should be quite do-able.)

      Simply go to the Tool Administration in the Admin Section and disable the one you don't wish to use.