Adding personal and private "Blog" for member

Hello all,

Any idea how I can impliment a personal and private "blog" on the users page so they can jot down notes and thoughts that will be private and personal, i.e. sort of like a private diary for their eyes only.

Thanks,
Maurice

Not 100% sure what you want to achieve, Maurice, but here are a couple of areas to look at to see if they meet your needs:

• Admin Zone » Security » Permissions Tree Editor » Zone: CMS » Module: cms_blogs … uncheck all the 'View access' boxes
• Members » [the member's] profile » Edit » Profile … box called 'About me' where one can keep personal information that cannot be viewed by other users

Hope that helps …!!

 

I was thinking that you could add a Custom Profile Field from the Tools>>Members area with type set to "A paragraph of text (no Comcode support) and the "Publicly viewable" option unchecked. The member could then maintain it as part of their profile.

I am not sure if this would allow creation of multiple paragraphs which it sounds like you might desire but it seems like it might be worth  shot.

Bob

Hi Fletch,
Thanks, I was sure I was on the right track, but I don't have cms_blogs in the list.  I did do a test install to experiment with and I was sure I saw it there, but now that I am doing a valid install, I can't find it.  Do you know how I can activate the blog code again?

Basically the users would have a link that would take them to their personal area to enter daily activities.  I work with ADHD/ADD, Aspergers and Autistic folks and the process of writing down thoughts and ramblings is a very good tool, especially if they can review it later in privacy. 

Thanks,
Maurice

News & Blogs are activated by default.

Have a look in the drop down menu in Admin Zone » Contents. It is listed alphabetically.

 

Ahh, yes, I must have deselcted it during the initial install.  I have tried to install the add-on, but it returns an error...

PHP NOTICE [8] Array to string conversion in sources/lang.php on line 923 (version: 8.1.1, PHP version: 5.3.13, URL: /cubeuser/adminzone/index.php?page=admin_addons&type=addon_install&file=news.tar)

I guess now, no news is not good news

Maurice 

The Cube Guy said

Ahh, yes, I must have deselcted it during the initial install.  I have tried to install the add-on, but it returns an error...

PHP NOTICE [8] Array to string conversion in sources/lang.php on line 923 (version: 8.1.1, PHP version: 5.3.13, URL: /cubeuser/adminzone/index.php?page=admin_addons&type=addon_install&file=news.tar)

I guess now, no news is not good news

Maurice 

This issue has been filed on the tracker as issue #682, with a fix.