Topic-icon Facebook and LinkedIn profiles: which one wins?

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I set up an account called "joe tester" with the same email address I use for Linkedin and Facebook.
Then I logged in with LinkedIn and the site politely referred to me by my correct name.
Then I logged in with Facebook and the site started calling me Joe Tester. It had found me under my email address. (The Linkedin component doesn't have an option to match against my email address).
Then I linked my Linkedin profile and it still called me Joe Tester.
I'm not sure what it was planning to do with my Avatar. I have one on Kunena, another on Linkedin and a third on Facebook.

Sooo.....I think I need an admin option to set which one has priority, or give the user some options to help arbitrate which profile to use when contact info, avatar, web site URL and name can come from 3 different places, or at least warn them that clicking one of those "connect" buttons may overwrite their current profile.

Jeff
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14 years 5 months ago #17346 by alzander
Jeff,
I know what you mean, but need a little more information. There's a bit of thought that goes into all the different connections, so I'll try to explain them as best I can.. if you have other questions or suggestions, we're always up for them.

The SCLogin module will only display the avatar from Facebook or LinkedIn. The priority of which is an option in the SCLogin parameters. If it's set to LinkedIn, but the user doesn't have a LinkedIn account but has connected with Facebook, we'll show their Facebook avatar instead. We don't (but likely will add) an option to display the avatar from one of the 3rd party components we integrate with (CB, JomSocial, Kunena, etc). That will then either be a custom avatar the user uploaded, or the one that has been imported from Facebook/LinkedIn.

As for the name, where are you seeing the name? If it's in the SCLogin module, the "Welcome Joe" text, that's configurable again in the SCLogin parameters as either "name" or "username".

My only guess is that when you logged in with LinkedIn, you created a new account. LinkedIn doesn't allow us to 'see' the user's email address, so we can't match things up automatically like we do with Facebook. Can you check if you possibly have 2 users on your site: Joe (Correct Name) and Joe Tester?

Again though, feedback and suggestions are welcome. While creating JLinked we ran across a lot of priority/precedence issues and tried to do what we could on an automated basis. More work is definitely to come though.

Thanks for your input!
Alex
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