In "Latest Activity" what is automatically shown, and how can we control it?
Using Jamroom
researchcooperative:
This note relates to a profile established with a quota that has Forums and Groups assigned to it.
When "Activity Timeline" module is made inactive for this quota, the profile created with this quota still shows a "Latest Activity" panel.
So it seems that the "Latest Activity" panel is not related to the "Activity Timeline" module (which might therefore be better called the "User Timeline") ("Timelines" by definition record historical events aka activities).
They are the same. The Timeline is the "Default" page for profiles, and is not designed to be disabled. You CAN disable it, but you will need to them customize the profile_index.tpl to show the content you want.
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If a group is part of the profile, and has had a discussion posted, then a "Latest Discussions" panel also appears. i.e. If there is no discussion, then no panel appears.
In contrast, whether or not there have been forum posts, the "Latest Activity" panel is displayed and stays blank. Maybe that panel has nothing to with the Forums.
Latest Activity is not related to the forum - it's related to the user timeline.
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If so, then what activities should we expect to see in the "Latest Activity" panel, and is there any simple way to control what appears in the panel?
Yes - think of it as Twitter. Users can:
- manually add an entry to their Timeline
- performing "actions" in the system (create a new song lets say) will add an entry to the users timeline.
Think of the Timeline as "this is what this profile has been doing" and will appear on followers timelines.
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If "Recent Discussions" can be displayed for activity in a Group, why don't we see "Recent Forum Discussions" for activity in a Forum?
You do - it's called "Newest Posts".
Hope this helps!
