pepperstreet wrote: Just watched Nant's presentation " Implementation without coding using Community Builder framework tools " and also the written tutorial " Adding your own events to activity stream "

Nice little and crucial infos. Really appreciate any bit of knowledge and help. But its still a cumbersome task to get this kind of infos.

The presentation is a starting point, and the slides and short sample use cases are great. Are you gonna publish the slides on Joomlapolis or SlideShare or in any other format/location?

Currently, there seems to be no real documentation.

For example - Activity tutorial:
My dumb question: Where do those var-name-prefixes come from? How should I know what to enter in the value input fields? I am aware of the actual field names and substitution syntax... but what is var1_* var3_* ?!? And why those particular numbers? Any documentation is badly needed.

I also try to get infos about Integration:
- How to create an Auto-Actions plugin?
- How to integrate a 3rdparty extension into CB Activity stream?

Some rough answers are found in the forum. But that does not give a real good picture. Here one question, there a code snippet and suggestion... I am sure, the original developer is used to everything and knows all coherences and relations... but for people like me... there is no guide.

Looking forward to more documentation, tutorials and articles!

For example - Activity tutorial:
My dumb question: Where do those var-name-prefixes come from? How should I know what to enter in the value input fields? I am aware of the actual field names and substitution syntax... but what is var1_* var3_* ?!? And why those particular numbers? Any documentation is badly needed.

- How to create an Auto-Actions plugin?

- How to integrate a 3rdparty extension into CB Activity stream?

$_PLUGINS->trigger( 'activity_addActivity', array( 42, 'profile', 'field', '3' ) );

public function addActivity( $userId, $type, $user = null, $subtype = null, $item = null, $from = null, $to = null, $title = null, $message = null, $icon = null, $class = null, $date = null ) {

$activity	=	new cbactivityActivity( $_CB_database );

$activity->set( 'user_id', (int) $user->get( 'id' ) );
$activity->set( 'type', 'cbblogs' );
$activity->set( 'item', (int) $article->id );
$activity->set( 'title', 'posted a blog entry' );
$activity->set( 'icon', 'font' );
$activity->set( 'date', cbactivityClass::getUTCDate() );

$activity->store();

What is best practice, if a 3rdparty component offers this kind of Events system:

1. Can you give a hint if this Event System is of any help?

What integration method is to prefer?

2. Cobalt supports basic CB integration (Avatar, Profile-link, Online-Status). Would it make sense to load CB API with this global option? Or does it have a big impact on the site? (memory? performance?)

3. Sorry, what do you mean by "First option; If the extension fires a CB trigger then you can simple use CB Auto Actions to do this"? Why and how should another extension use CB triggers?

4. Basic understanding: If I use CB and Activity on a site... the CB API is loaded on all pages that display CB infos, right?! So, if i would need CB data or trigger... i have to load the API in Cobalt/or template ?