Topic-icon Social Meta Tag and Create Post menu

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10 years 2 months ago #41402 by VolkerG
After updating JFBConnect 6.0.1 and newest
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SCLogin I found a small little menu on the left of my website showing "Social Meta Tag | Create Post" I deactivated all Comment and social functions and deleted the cache but the menu still remains there.

How can I deactivate that?

Kind regards,
Volker
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10 years 2 months ago #41404 by alzander
That menu shows for all super admins. It will not show for standard users.
* The Social Meta Tags let's you easily see the Open Graph tags that JFBConnect is setting for your site.
* The Create Post menu lets you post the current page to a Facebook Page or Group or Twitter Stream or LinkedIn Company profile.

If you'd like to disable, you can do so in the Permissions area of JFBConnect. Set the "Post on Social Network" option to "Denied" for whatever user groups you don't want it to display for.

I hope that helps explain,
Alex
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10 years 2 months ago #41521 by davbra
Thanks for this post & answer. I too just did the same as VolkerG & was about to post the exact same thing.... It took me a while to search & find this post as I wasn't sure what to search for.

If it doesn't already exist, you might want to put a picture of the menu on the product page so it doesn't surprise site owners. Or at least a note on the actual menu saying it's only visible to Super Admin, or even a title of what the menu is... It's hard to find out what plugin is creating that menu.

Thanks, though. Great products.
-David
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10 years 2 months ago #41534 by alzander
David,
Yup, we're realizing a few ways we could make things more clear/configurable. This is the first release with that social toolbar. We took great pains to put a lot of information there, but make it compact and as out of the way as possible. However, we can see where some confusion can definitely come into play.

Expect some minor updates to make it more obvious what is adding that toolbar and other options to control it as well. We have plans to add more buttons to it, to make social features even easier to access from the front-end, so it won't go away.. just improve with time.

Thanks for the feedback!
Alex
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10 years 2 months ago #41535 by alzander
Oh yeah.. we put up a blog post about the 6.0 release which explains the social toolbar a bit more:
JFBConnect v6.0 Released

We'll have more documentation for it and the new posting feature soon as well.

Thanks again,
Alex
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10 years 1 month ago - 10 years 1 month ago #41862 by fb_100000422516398
Hi Alex,

The "Social Meta Tag and Create Post menu" is causing us trouble. It overrides some of our CSS and javascript, making some problems with different components including Jomsocial (obviously for Super Admins only).
I have tried to disable the "social meta tags | create post X" toolbar, according to your instructions (permissions -.Set the "Post on Social Network" option to "Denied") with no luck. The setting has changed, I have cleared the browsers cache, joomla cache - its still there. Please help me get rid of it!
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10 years 1 month ago #41867 by alzander
Sorry for the trouble. We've realized that there is no way to set the Super Admin group to 'Denied'. It works for all other groups.

To completely disable, please edit the /components/com_jfbconnect/libraries/toolbar.php file. Around line 17, you'll see:
public function onAfterDispatch()
    {
        if (JFactory::getUser()->authorise('jfbconnect.channels.post', 'com_jfbconnect'))
        {
Update that by changing the if statement to 'false' like below:
public function onAfterDispatch()
    {
        if (false)
        {
Do the same for the onAfterReturn function at line 44.

That will disable the toolbar altogether.

As for the CSS issues, the problem is because we're loading the jQuery UI CSS file for the Toolbar. We've already stripped out additional code that we aren't using in that file, but will look to see if we can namespace things further to ensure it only affects JFBConnect features.

Thanks,
Alex
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Hi Alex, thanks for your reply.
I have tried the hack, but strange enough it hides the toolbar while leaving the X button, which pops up after every page load despite closing it (kind of irritating).
Are you planning to add an option within the component admin to hide the toolbar, so one doesn't need a hack?

Regards,

Artur
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10 years 1 month ago #41930 by alzander
Artur,
We have a task to add an option to remove the toolbar altogether, however, it's not in the latest v6.0.2 release that came out yesterday. It should be in the next release though.

For the hack above, please make sure you made the change for both the onAfterDispatch *and* onAfterRender lines in that file, as described above.

Sorry again for the inconvenience. We'll make things easier in the next release.

Thanks,
Alex
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Thank you, I'm looking forward to the next release then!
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