[@rossagrant Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

@OneUpDave That makes 2 of us then! cheers!

@wpsec Thanks for the offer of that. The developer I had in mind was Peter Anselmo who wrote the BP Group Documents plugin as I imagine this plugin would be an extension of that.

Are you familiar with that plugin at all and if so do you think you could adapt it. It would be great if basically an extra tab was added to a persons profile which could have it’s title customised in the back end. For my site it might say ‘CV’ or ‘Portfolio’ etc.
The tab would then be a file store on a member by member basis that other member’s could then download. File types would have to be able to be set in the back end to what the admin wants to allow also, exactly like the group docs plugin.

At the end of the day it depends on how many people we can get interested in this plugin but it could be used for so many different things. File sharing, attaching particular files to a person’s profile… all sorts.

If we can get 30 members interested in paying $25 we can get this made so COME ON, show us your interest people!

[@rossagrant Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

@travel-junkie Sounds great!

I really can’t wait to get to work with the CV component, the site I am working on now will benefit dramatically!

Keep me posted on how you’re getting on or any test versions etc.

Cheers!

[@rossagrant Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

@travel-junkie Had another idea for the CV component but not sure how hard it would be for you to implement.
I think in the member’s directory in BP there should be a button saying ‘View CV’ next to the ‘Add Friend’ button and also is there a way to add a Print CV button either to the CV in the profile or a way of printing the PDF created on the fly?

It would save a user downloading the CV if they could go straight for the print button.

As I say, not sure how hard that would be to do but I think it would make everything complete on the CV side of things.
What do you think?

[@rossagrant Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

Yeah I would love to test this out and help you get it spot on! I will 100% be buying the cv component asap and if we can tweak jobboard to work as an opt in for only certain groups then I would definately be willing to pay for that also! Keep me posted as I would love to implement the cv component asap! Cheers!

[@rossagrant Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

@travel-junkie I would 100% go with option 2. I have many clients who would love for people to be able to attach their CV to their profile. I do a lot of sites for actors and models and this is absolutely perfect if the actors/ models can post their CV’s to their profiles for people to download as a PDF.

One project I am working on this minute would be made SO much better with just the CV option.

I for one wouldn’t mind at all in buying 2 seperate plugins – 1 for CV’s and one for job board if at a later stage it was necessary.

If you were looking at the full job board experience as a 100 Euro plugin then why not sell just the CV component for fraction of that and then promote the full jobboard add on as a premium upgrade.

You could even give away the CV component as a taster of what can be done with job board. that way it gets hundrerds of sites using it, becoming aware of it and a good percentage of those will no doubt want to expand and buy the full jobboard as a result.

Splitting the 2 components could well be a canny marketing ploy.
People will use the CV component and then realise they soon need the upgrade.

What do you think?
I for one would love the CV component whether it’s free or a paid plugin. How easy would it be for you to create the CV component as a standalone? If you can add in the customisation we spoke about before in terms of editing fields and meta data on the CV I’ll put my name down for it now!

[@rossagrant Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

@travel-junkie Oh, one very last question and then I’ll stop bothering you I promise! Hahaha! Is it at all possible to have JUST the CV creator installed?

Depending on what my client wants it might be to begin with that he just wants members to be able to post their CV’s to their profile for others to browse and download?
Would this be a separate lighter weight plugin that we could buy before going for the full job board if necessary.

I really do love this plugin, I can see so many projects I want to create using this!

[@rossagrant Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

@travel-junkie Cool, I’m really excited about this! Noticed on your site there are no forums. I take it that you can still have full BP functionality with forums but with each group having an optional job board?

One last question. If I only want to give certain users the ability to post jobs in a job board tab say for just one group, is that possible.
For example, I may have a user who I want to create a group for with a job board. Can I give them permission just to be able to post jobs on that ONE job board and no others. I want to give individual companies their own board you see and have them only able to admin that specific board.
Cheers!

[@rossagrant Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

@nuprn1 cheers Rich! I’ll wait for the update then! Hopefully it’s not too long now!

[@rossagrant Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

@travel-junkie Just looked at the CV creator and you know, this could be phenomenal!
The only thing I would need extra really is the ability to change the fields that appear in the CV (in the same way you can add profile fields etc in BP) That would be absolutely superb. Also the avatar doesn’t appear when you download the CV as a PDF. Is that supposed to happen? It would be great to get the avatar also.

Cheers!

If you can make the plugin customisable in terms of the CV profile fields I’ll definitely be buying a copy of this off you!

[@rossagrant Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

@intimez hmm, bit of a bummer! Must be everyone on holiday at this time of year! Oh well, I wait with baited breath! Are there any new developments in 1.2.6 or just bug fixes?

[@rossagrant Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

@jeremyltn Really nice, intuitive looking site! Is that a publicly available template? I think it looks very nice.
What photo upload plugin are you using? I’m looking for a very lightweight one that would enable me to limit how many pics a user can upload.

[@rossagrant Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

@travel-junkie This sounds pretty sweet! Is there a way of modifying what gets filled in on a person’s CV? I am running a website for actors so a CV for an actor is a little different. It includes a photograph and other fields that aren’t typical. Can you customise the CV functionality?

Also Can you make a CV on your test site, I’d like to have a go.

[@rossagrant Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

@jeremyltn It now works like a charm! Thanks again for this, it will no doubt become a BP essential. This should be written into the core code to be honest.

[@rossagrant Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

@jeremyltn Thank you SO much for this! I’ll try it out and let you know how I get on! Great stuff!

[@rossagrant Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

@ceeworld must say, I use cometchat on my site and it works a treat. If you are having issues get in touch with tech support and they will install it for you.

[@rossagrant Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

@gregfielding https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-profile-search/activity/

Check it out mate, it’s exactly what we need!

Just need a way of hiding the form through ajax as the search form can be BIG when you have a lot of profile fields to search from.
You know like the ‘new topic’ form is hidden in the forums directory etc?

We just need this hidden in the members directory and it’s perfect. Lets you search with one or more fields selected.
Let me know what you think!

[@rossagrant Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

@gregfielding Totally agree there! To be able to find members by searching across multiple profile fields is really a feature that I’m sure most would love on BP. Does anyone have anything in the works?

[@rossagrant Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

@rogercoathup Thanks so much for that! Got it sorted!

[@rossagrant Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

bump: anyone out there ever done this. Ideally I would like to add a ‘CV’ tab to the members profile or even a simple download link underneath their avatar where they can upload a CV in PDF format.

[@rossagrant Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

@r-a-y Not sure if you’ll know this r-a-y but does this plugin allow me to search by multiple fields? e.g. Can I search for ‘females’ with ‘blonde’ hair etc?

I am starting work on a site where models will have profiles set up on attributes such as hair colour, eye colour, height etc and really need clients to be able to search for members matching more than one field.
Cheers.

[@rossagrant Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

@travel-junkie I’m desperately seeking a simple plugin which will allow a user to attach a PDF CV to their profile. How do the CV’s work in your plugin or do you know a way I can do this?
Thanks so much!

[@rossagrant Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

@nuprn1 sorry to keep bugging you Rich! I’ve dug around a bit but still having issues with the topic_object_* functions not retirning values on activity pages. Have you had any joy on this one yet? Cheers mate!

[@rossagrant Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

@nuprn1 Hi Rich! Just wondered if you’d had a chance to look at this? No rush but just thought I’d ask! Thanks!

[@rossagrant Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

@nuprn1 Hmm… I just don’t know why it only happens on topics made after the update. Topics made before seem to be fine. It’s all a bit strange, but I really need this widget to bring visitors attention to the community aspect of the site.

Any help you can give me would be so greatly appreciated. I’ll gladly send you some money for a few beers if we can fix it!

[@rossagrant Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

@nuprn1 Thanks Rich that’s great!

So can you replicate this problem in WP 3.0.1?
Is it likely to be changes to core code and not something I might have done my mistake? If you could look into it that would be great!

Can anyone else replicate this too?