jFBConnect and Jomsocial "My Status"

Bob,
Sorry to keep leading you on. I just added month to your subscription, because I don't know if the plugin will be available in the next 9 days. It has now moved up to the top 3 things for us to work on now (after the VM plugin was released and some updates to the CB plugin are just about out). Now, we're focused on the next revision of JFBConnect as well as updates to JomSocial integration in general.

Hope that helps explain where we are and, roughly, that it should be available ~soon

Thanks, and best of luck,
Alex

Bob,
I'm sure you would, or at least at some point will, re-subscribe. We don't normally extend subscriptions on a whim.. because we love re-subscriptions, of course. However, you've been asking for this for a while and we've actually mentioned that we're close to working on it soon.. and it hasn't materialized.

That's simply not how we like to operate, and therefore, I extended your subscription. I honestly still won't guarantee that the plugin will be available by the time your subscription now expires, but hopefully it will be.

Hope that makes sense, thanks for being a great supporter of JFBConnect, and for all your valuable feedback in the past. We do appreciate it.

Alex

There's no real work-arounds yet, as it will take some code. We're currently working on the JomSocial profile plugin (to add the Terms of Service box for when user's register using Full Joomla Users' in JFBConnect) and are also working on the separate JomSocial application which will let different actions by the user to be posted to their wall. It's a work in progress, and it is actually starting now. I won't give a timeline for completion, but it's one of our focal points right now.

Hope that helps explain, and sorry for the delay!

We agree it's a must, and do recognize the lengthy delay this has gone through. We sat down last month and began implementing the features we wanted, mainly to allow posting multiple types of activites that happen in JomSocial to the user's Facebook wall. Unfortunately, when we first scoped out the work and planned for it, we were planning to use the onBeforeStreamCreate plugin call of JomSocial. According to the documentation on JomSocial's site, that should have sent our plugin the activity name, what would go to the wall, and other useful bits of information. Upon testing though, it rarely was fired with the proper information, and most of the time fired with none of the information.

The doc page for the call is below, but JomSocial's documentation pages are acting strange lately saying they're not the most recent.. but then redirecting to the same page:
www.jomsocial.com/docs/Event:_onBeforeStreamCreate

So, the bad news is that, yes, we've hit another stumbling block, and need to investigate further. The good news is that this is now becoming one of the higher requested features as others have been tackled since the original request. Still not sure how we're going to do it (there are some other 'hooks' we can use, but not nearly as clean as onBeforeStreamCreate would have been). The last thing we'd want to do require any code changes to JomSocial to call our code.

Just wanted to give status on this in that it hasn't been lost or forgotten, just not nearly as easy as we once hoped.