jFBConnect and Jomsocial "My Status"

Currently, JFBConnect does not set the JomSocial status message from Facebook or update Facebook's status message when it's updated in JomSocial. It's 'by design' right now, but we're planning to add this functionality in an update soon. With 3.1, we broke out integration of the profile integration into separate plugins. The separation allows us to add much more specific features to each specific profile integration like JomSocial, Community Builder, etc whereas before we were a little more limited.

Thanks for the feedback on what you're looking for. We agree, this would be a great feature to have.

Shorter than a quarter and longer than a week. A month'ish is a good estimate, but we're not locking it down. The main variable is whether we'll need to make any minor changes to the component to call the plugin at different times. I don't think we will, but we're on a more agressive release cycle for JFBConnect either way, so changes will be made as necessary.

Hope that helps, and thanks again for the feedback!

Howdy Bob!
We're well into development for the 3.2 release. We'll be working on the Social Plugins this weekend to change their functionality a little for the changes we're doing for that release. We plan to be putting the first stab of updating status in at this time, and should be able to release a quick version that's compatible with 3.1 before we make too many sweeping changes..

So, in short, we'll hopefully have something available for 3.1 (the current version) by this weekend to test with.

Thanks!

Howdy,
Just wanted to let you know we just uploaded v3.1.1 of the JomSocial profile plugin. This plugin adds an option for importing the user's status from Facebook.

We investigated pushing updates for various items back to Facebook, and have a good path for how to do that, but it will require a separate JomSocial 'app' plugin. We'll be creating this soon (likely for or just after the 3.2 release), and we're excited for some of the things we'll be implementing. The plan is to allow you (the admin) to push status updates for a lot of the different activities that go on in JomSocial, not just status updates.. so, while it will be a little longer for communication in both directions to be implemented, we think you'll like what we do

Please test the new JomSocial profile plugin and let us know if you run into any issues. Certainly, suggestions and feedback is welcome!

Oh Bob, you're making me blush We love what we do, and we do charge a price.. so try to make sure we make our users happy however we can.

As for 3.2, it's well on it's way. Our best target date would be mid-March, and that's realistic. However, as things happen, it could always be more towards the end of the month.

We uploaded the new JS profile plugin to our demo site (always a good testing/proving ground), and noticed that if you have a New User or Returning User message set, that's what will get imported into the users JS profile. I don't know if we can correct that (easily) now, but for the 3.2 release, we're going to try to import the message first, then update Facebook so that JS would have the last message the user put in there.. not your message. Hope that makes sense, and let us know if that sounds good, right, reasonable or if you have other suggestions on the best way to do it.

Thanks!