jFBConnect and Jomsocial "My Status"

Bob,
I just sent you an email with a plugin to push status updates from JomSocial to Facebook using JFBConnect.

We'll likely be releasing this with the 4.0 release later this month, but would love your feedback or suggestions before then. We're planning a few feature additions in the future which we have scoped out, for adding posts to the user's wall for things like new event creation or group activities in JomSocial, but for now, it's just status updates.

One of the reasons for the delay was making sure the privacy settings from JomSocial work... right now, we only post it if it's a public post in JomSocial. Anything more restrictive doesn't get posted to Facebook.

From here, the good news is that further status updates should be pretty easy for different things. There's hooks from JomSocial for most things that get posted to the wall, but it still takes a bit of effort as they don't pass all the information we always want.. but we're handy

Hope this helps, and again, very sorry for the lengthy delay.

Thanks,
Alex

Sent. Meant to say that we'll send it to others. We're not putting it in the download area simply since it hasn't been fully tested.. so please test and make sure there are no unexpected effects.

Really looking forward to feedback and other suggestions.

If anyone else wants this, just let us know.

I removed the email addresses above. Everyone gets enough spam as it is

Matthias, I just sent the plugin to you as well.

All- I got an email response from Bob that it's not working for him, which we're looking into. Just so everyone knows, as I forgot to mention it, this plugin was developed on:
Joomla 1.5
JomSocial 2.2.x

Bob's test site was JomSocial 2.0, so if you're using that version or lower, and it doesn't (or does), please let us know. We'll let you know what we find from our testing. Would love to have the initial release done so we can get more feedback on other things to 'push' from JomSocial out to Facebook.

Thanks,
Alex

Please do report back. Would love to know it works as expected.. again, we have to deal with privacy settings in JomSocial and other aspects, so always possible a certain combination of things doesn't work.. but we also kept this version small and focused as a first test.

We'll be adding more features such as tacking on "Posted from the-tract.com" or posting updates from other activities (group posts, group creation, etc). Suggestions, as said before, are welcome..

However, the next immediate step is to get it to work for JomSocial 2.0. We likely won't make it compatible with 1.8 or lower, unless there's an outcry for those versions though.