"Post As" feature

[DonnaScriptTechs]

From @gsf00001 on February 14, 2017 16:38

This may be more of a 3rd-Party request (ex. SEAO has Groups, Directory/Pages, Directory/Businesses), but even for basic SE out of the box, this would be helpful. When a User Admins a Group (or multiple groups) it would be great if they could choose 'who they are' when posting, and this would be reflected throughout.

Copied from original issue: SocialEngine/phpv4-issues#558

[DonnaScriptTechs]

From @Elshara on February 22, 2017 9:17

I think I understand what you are saying. You want to be able to post updates as a group name, so that they can be distinguished from the updates people post in the group. Facebook and PHPFox have this functionality by default. It's something I am highly against, and don't understand the purpose of. But since its infamous popularity is such that people like it, I can kind of see a use for it. Or, if you want to be more involved, how about being able to post something as a specific member level or category depending on whatever the setting is site wide. In other words, being able to post as the role of the website group or site wide position you carry, not just as you, but as a title you inherit as a part of the group or website itself. Nice idea, I just don't really think it's implemented all that well yet. Social Engine Add On makes a lot of features like this possible as extensions. As you say, an interesting core suggestion. Make the group of users, its own contributor on the website as a prolific one. Good advertising move.

[DonnaScriptTechs]

From @Khushboo016 on February 23, 2017 13:25

Hi @gsf00001, Currently, there are no options available in core SE PHP to be able to log-in as a page or as a group, etc, so the feature to be able to choose while posting that whether you are a page or group, etc. have no significance. So, this feature is more useful in case of third party plugins you're referring here and if those 3rd plugins are missing this feature, you can suggest the same feature to their respective developers.

Thanks & Regards!

[DonnaScriptTechs]

From @Elshara on February 23, 2017 13:28

It isn't something I'd use anyways.

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Hi @gsf00001, Currently, there are no options available in core SE PHP to be able to log-in as a page or as a group, etc, so the feature to be able to choose while posting that whether you are a page or group, etc. have no significance. So, this feature is more useful in case of third party plugins you're referring here and if those 3rd plugins are missing this feature, you can suggest the same feature to their respective developers.

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[DonnaScriptTechs]

From @gsf00001 on February 23, 2017 22:4

@Elshara -->It's something I am highly against, and don't understand the purpose of. I understand where you're coming from, but here's an example: Some sites are 'friends' based (so you either recognize the name or not) others are focused more on Groups (or with some 3rd-Party Plugins, Groups, Pages, Businesses, etc.). In that case, it's often useful to know what 'entity' posted the content, since knowing that 'John Smith' posted something may be meaningless to some people, but knowing that it was posted by 'Pepsi Co' may have more meaning/usefulness. Oh - and your idea of posting as a ML or similar is a great idea - seeing posts by ADMIN or Moderator or whatever is much more meaningful to most than the User-name.

@Khushboo016 I have contacted SEAO and the reply is that since it's not supported internally by SE that they won't touch this. It seems they want something system-wide to build upon (especially since SE Groups could use this - not just 3rd-Party Devs/Plugins).

[DonnaScriptTechs]

From @Elshara on February 23, 2017 23:19

Yeah and I find it kind of concerning that if a third party won't touch this basic feature, let alone give you a similar response to the actual social engine development team, when you ask both for help on this. It kind of makes you wonder who is the real developers of social engine? You don't see them on here. I think pressuring them about it might yield results eventually. Maybe if we got other people interested in the feature, they might touch it. Nothing is impossible. PHPfox has this feature built in and the lead developer, founder and owner of PHPfox now works for social engine. And he built the very same feature for PHPfox.

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@Elshara -->It's something I am highly against, and don't understand the purpose of. I understand where you're coming from, but here's an example: Some sites are 'friends' based (so you either recognize the name or not) others are focused more on Groups (or with some 3rd-Party Plugins, Groups, Pages, Businesses, etc.). In that case, it's often useful to know what 'entity' posted the content, since knowing that 'John Smith' posted something may be meaningless to some people, but knowing that it was posted by 'Pepsi Co' may have more meaning/usefulness.

@Khushboo016 I have contacted SEAO and the reply is that since it's not supported internally by SE that they won't touch this. It seems they want something system-wide to build upon (especially since SE Groups could use this - not just 3rd-Party Devs/Plugins).

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