V 1.3?

It's feature complete and going through testing right now. There's a bit of a hiccup due to some feedback from LinkedIn on the issue of 'old' apps vs 'new' apps. The scope parameter (and hence, the ability to retrieve emails) is only available in new apps. LinkedIn will be posting, hopefully soon, when 'old' apps can upgrade to using the new scope/email permissions:
developer.linkedin.com/forum/when-will-o...pe-parameter-enabled

So, the new v1.3 JLinked will support the ability to fetch emails and request additional permissions for LinkedIn apps that support it. Unfortunately though, older apps will not be able to access email yet. It's also not really possible to create a new app for LinkedIn and replace the existing one you're using with JLinked either. When LinkedIn returns the member ID for a user, it's unique to each application, so the new app would return a different member ID for the same user, forcing the Login/Register process to start in JLinked.

It's not the answer we were hoping for, but hopefully, LinkedIn will upgrade older apps sooner rather than later. Feel free to pitch in your nickel on that thread above to try to push them along on that.

As for the 1.3 release, we're now currently expecting it to be out on Monday or Tuesday. Sorry for the delay on that!

Thanks,
Alex

The new popup looks like below:
blog.linkedin.com/2012/08/07/platformupdates/

That's *only* for new apps though. The old apps still have the older style. However, LinkedIn did recently change it so the login area is in the center of the screen and not shoved into the corner like it used to be.

You can always delete the app from your user profile to test what the popup currently looks like. Once you sign in, JLinked will auto-detect that you've connected before and just log you right in.. so deleting the app from your profile isn't a bad thing to test. *Do not delete the actual application from the developer area though!*

You can delete the app by going to LinkedIn.com, click your name -> Settings, then "Groups, Companies, and Apps" and then "View your Applications". Delete from there.

Hope that helps!
Alex

We haven't changed overrides for the new version, so they should still work. However, I believe you aren't even on the latest 1.2.3 release, which revamped the Login / Register page a bit. The new version adds even more changes to that page since now the Email field can be hidden (since it can be imported) and the username field can be as well (there's an option to have it automatically generated).

In general, with every release, if you have template overrides, we recommend you doing a diff of your override to the latest version to see what's different and implement those changes. You may also want to diff the 'new' file to the 'old' original file from whatever version you were using as that will directly show the changes that we made. Then, you can decide how to re-implement any changes you've made, if necessary.

The new Login / Register page is much easier to modify now as there is a separate template file for the Login and Registration portions as well as a stylesheet which can also be template overridden in your /templates/xxx/html folder so that you can apply custom styles very easily.

Hope that helps explain, but if you had a different or more specific question, just let us know!
Alex

Oh yeah, if you haven't checked it out yet, the Changelog is available on the page below:
www.sourcecoast.com/jlinked/docs/changelog

We'll be doing a blog post and newsletter soon as well, but we usually wait a few days after the release to get those out.

Alex

JW,
That was something we were actually going to look into prior to some of the changes LinkedIn recently made. The problem with putting the login in a popup/modal/fancybox/whatever is that if LinkedIn changes that dialog box, a hardcoded popup could cutoff part of the window. With the most recent change, they did just that. They both centered the box, instead of in the top left (thank goodness!) and also, for new apps, changes the style altogether.

With that said, it is something we're planning to look into for the v2.0 release, but don't have any great answers now. If there is a way to do it properly, we will. LinkedIn actually has a Javascript popup that can be used.. however, it requires an SSL certificate on the site for some kooky reasons. That's something we initially weren't willing to implement due to the support issues it raises. Between either using the Mootools/Joomla modal Javascript or, possibly, the LinkedIn login popup, we'll probably do something.. just not sure what yet.

Hope that explains, but as always, your feedback is welcome! Before you ask, the 2.0 release is planned for ~November.

Thanks,
Alex