Should be a simple module... The ablity for a user to select an avatar from images on the portal, and update their forum (Active Forums) profile to link to that avatar.

We created the ability to select an avatar with XMod, and a AJax call to an aspx page that updated the Active Forums tables. If anyone has XMod, and Active Forums... AND would like this functionality, contact me and I'll share the code.

My Avatar @ GymnasticsMedia

http://www.gymnasticsmedia.com/Forums/MyAvatar/tabid/398/Default.aspx

Screenshot since you need to be logged in to "Select an Avatar".

http://www.gymnasticsmedia.com/portals/9/screenshots/screenshot_avatars.jpg

Lee,

I'm not very good at writing articles, but I gave it a try. I had a hard time with the code, and putting it in HTML, so I created a word doc. Edit it as you see fit.

Yes actually you can upload, or point to a remote image via Active Forums "My Profile". BUT I think you made a good point. A link to where the user can edit their profile should be on the same page as the "My Avatar" page.

Thanks for the suggestion!

You can use the {XMOD_UserId} constant to embed the user id into the url to link to the user's "My Profile" page.

Below is what I used to link to the user id.

<CENTER><TABLE>
<TR>
<TD id="dnn_ctr761_NTForums_toolbar_tdMyProfile" nowrap="nowrap"><a id="dnn_ctr761_NTForums_toolbar_hypProfile" class="CommandButton" href="/Forums/tabid/230/view/profile/uid/{XMOD_UserId}/Default.aspx">My Profile</a></TD>
</TR>
</TABLE></CENTER>

Steve,

Have you added a XMod Form? Only people who added the record,or have permissions to edit/delete records see have the option(s) in a ListView. Do you have a URL, or is this on your local machine?

In the below example on my site I have a list view, and a form view on the same page.

Add Gympedia Entry

On this example I have a two list views, with a link to a form is the user has no Swap Meet profile. Users must enter data through a Form View, while Admins can add through the list view, or for view.

Swap Meet

Hope this helps...

It's been brought to my attention that the selectavatar.aspx file could be suseptible to SQL injection attacks since the sql statment is not using paramters. Here is the updated code. If you have any questions please contact me.

Private Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load

Dim objConn As New SqlClient.SqlConnection("Server=someserver;Database=somedatabase;uid=someuserid;pwd=somepassword;")

Dim objCommand As New SqlClient.SqlCommand

Dim sql As String

Dim PortalID As String

Dim UserID As String

Dim Avatar As String

Try

Catch ex As Exception

Throw ex

Finally

End Try

End Sub