The document summarizes a workshop on integrating Community Builder with uddeIM, Kunena, GroupJive, and CBSubs. It outlines the steps to install each extension and configure their integrations with Community Builder and each other. This allows private messaging, forums, groups, and subscriptions to leverage Community Builder profiles and functionality for a unified user experience.

1. CB Workshop with
uddeIM, Kunena, GroupJive
and CBSubs
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2. Author and other info …
 Nick A. (nant) – CB Team member along with Beat and Kyle
 Matias Griese – Kunena team
 Stephan Slabihoud - uddeIM
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3. Extensions mentioned
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4. References
 Slides will be shared here:
 www.slideshare.net/cbteam/presentations
 Community Builder
 www.joomlapolis.com/community-builder
 uddeIM
 www.slabihoud.de/software/id4001.htm
 Kunena
 www.kunena.org
 GroupJive
 www.joomlapolis.com/cb-solutions/groupjive
 CBSubs
 www.joomlapolis.com/cb-solutions/cbsubs
 Picture-book tutorials
 www.joomlapolis.com/support/tutorials/111-picture-books
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5. Agenda
 Introduction – goals
 Step 1: Joomla (2.5.4)
 Step 2: Community Builder (1.8)
 Configuring CB + Joomla integration
 Step 3: uddeIM (2.7)
 Configuring uddeIM + CB integration
 Step 4: Kunena (1.7)
 Configuring Kunena + CB + uddeIM Integration
 Step 5: CB GroupJive (2.5.1)
 Configuring GroupJive + CB + uddeIM + Kunena Integration
 Step 6: CBSubs (2.0.1)
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6. Introduction
 Three different project teams
 Collaboration – skype group chats
 Clean integration – api extensions
 End-users benefit
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7. 1. Joomla
 Starting with default content Joomla 2.5.4 website
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8. 2. Community Builder
 Install CB component
 Install CB Modules (login, workflow, online)
 Edit CB Configuration:
 General tab:
 name style: First and Last Name Field
 Date format: yyyy-mm-dd
 Registration tab:
 Allow User Registration: Yes, independently of global J! settings
 Require Admin Approval: Yes
 User Profile tab:
 Fields validation in Admin: No
 Allow user to edit his CMS parameters in frontend: ?
 Use new div or old table based views: Use divs
 Moderation tab:
 Allow user to edit his CMS parameters in frontend: CB Moderators
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9. More
2. Community Builder
 Edit CB Configuration
 Connections tab:
 Enable Connections: Yes
 Notification Method: PMS+Email
 Connection Types: Add Contact + Forum-buddy
 CB Login module
 Position-7
 Publish
 Show only on Home menu (same as Joomla module)
 Show avatar when logged-in: Always
 Private Messaging System: uddeIM
 Private Messaging Notification: Show even if no messages
 Connections notification: Show only if pending connections
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10. More
2. Community Builder
 CB Workflow module
 Position-7
 Publish
 Access: Special
 Show on Home menu
 CB Tab Manager
 Enable Connections Tab
 Enable Articles Tab
 User Menu items:
 Create CB Profile menu item in User menu
 UnpublishYour Profile menu (Joomla)
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11. More
2. Community Builder
 Home Menu items:
 Create CB Login menu
 Unpublish Joomla Login menu
 Joomla login
 Unpublish all 3 instances
 Turn-off Joomla Registrations
 Users  User manager  Options: Allow User Registrations
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12. Joomla and CB
 CB registration and login processes can be used instead of
Joomla’s
 CB Articles tab shows all articles published by user
 CB users are also Joomla users (i.e., if you remove CB in the
future your Joomla user table will still contain the users)
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13. 3. uddeIM
 Install the uddeIM component
 Create User menu item to uddeIM
 Configure uddeIM:
 Messages tab: Allow BB code tags: Yes
 Integration tab  Verify that Community Builder has been
detected
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14. More
3. uddeIM and CB
 Enable CB support for uddeIM
 CB Plugin Manager  Private Message System plugin
 Publish
 PMS Component Type: uddeIM 1.0+
 CB Tab Manager  Quick Message
 Publish
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15. More
uddeIM and CB Integration
 You can send a private message to user by visiting his profile
and selecting CB menu item
 Quick message (one-click message)
 You can see number of incoming / unread private messages in
CB Login
 Any CB plugin can use CB Private Message plugin (example
CB Connections, GroupJive, CBSubs mailer, etc)
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16. 4. Kunena
 Install Kunena 1.7.2 component
 Kunena Integration tab:
 Set Community Builder integration items
 Create Kunena entry page menu in Joomla Top Menu
 CB Plugin Management  Forum Integration plugin:
 Publish
 Forum component: Kunena
 CB Tab Management  Forum:
 Publish
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17. More
Kunena and CB Integration
 Forum Tab in CB shows all forum posts and thread
subscriptions of profile user
 Kunena avatar area uses CB Avatar and links back to CB User
profile
 Kunena uses CB Login, registration, forgotten login functions
 Kunena sidebar can be customized to show CB data of poster
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18. More
Kunena sidebar – CB integration
<ul class="kpost-profile">
<li class="kpost-username"><a rel="nofollow" title=""
href="index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userProfile&user=[user_id]&Itemid=
47" class="kwho-admin">[cb:userfield field="formatname"/]</a></li>
<li class="kpost-avatar"><a rel="nofollow" title=""
href="index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userProfile&user=[user_id]&Itemid=
47" class="kwho-admin"><span class="kavatar">[cb:userfield
field="avatar"/]</span></a></li>
<li>[cb:userfield field="onlinestatus"/]</li>
<li class="kpost-userrank">[cb:userfield field="forumrank"/]</li>
<li class="kpost-userposts">Posts: [cb:userfield field="forumposts"/]</li>
<li class="kpost-karma">Karma: [cb:userfield field="forumkarma"/] [karmaminus]
[karmaplus]</li>
<li>[cb:if cb_osm="1"]OSM[/cb:if]</li>
<li>[cb:if cb_jlt="1"]JLT[/cb:if]</li>
</ul>
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19. 5. GroupJive
 Install and publish all CB GroupJive plugins
 Create GJ menu from CB Plugin area of main GJ plugin
 Move item to Top menu and Publish
 GroupJive Forum configuration (select Kunena top category)
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20. GroupJive and uddeIM
 GroupJive notifications can use uddeIM (config)
 GroupJive group messaging can use uddeIM (config)
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21. GroupJive and Kunena
 GroupJive created Kunena forum for private / intra-group
discussions
 GroupJive forum tab shows forum subjects with links
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22. 6. CBSubs
 With CBSubs you can further achieve the following
integrations:
 Automatically add/remove subscribers to/from Joomla Groups
 Automatically add/remove subscribers to/from GJ groups
 Protect Joomla content based on subscriptions
(component, modules, menu items, articles)
 Do not allow users to post on specific Kunena forum categories
without a subscription (URL-Parts)
 Show/hide specific CB Fields/Tabs based on subscriptions of
profile owner and profile viewer
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23. Conclusion
 Community Builder, uddeIM, Kunena, GroupJive and CBSubs
integrate nicely with each-other and are able to support
many different use case scenarios
 With new Joomla UX project, user interface will even look the
same.
 This is an example of Joomla spirit and team-work
 There are many other Joomla projects that also have nice CB
integrations:
 K2 (authors use CB user profiles and K2 tab gets K2 articles)
 AcyMailing (nice integration with CB and CBSubs)
 We are always open
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