Change Cb activity feed date format

6 years ago, we managed to change the date format of an activity.
Current format: 5 months ago
Desired format: 14/12/2023 15:04:51

We used a template override in the folder /components/com_comprofiler/plugin/user/plug_cbactivity/templates/default
In a file called ‘activity-container.php’ we removed a call to ‘timeago’.

In the new version of CB this override causes errors.
We have to change the date format again.

Can you give me a hint, which file / line has the code that has to be changed?

Regard,
Patrick
 

A lot of the PHP got hidden away into layout helper functions, but this is still doable from the template files. Specifically the container.php files are responsible for rendering an activity container. The date output would be the following in those files.

You can replace it with the following to just render the raw date.

Have added a feature ticket to review finding a way to allow customizing the format easily. Probably through a language string override like we'd done for other date format usages.

forge.joomlapolis.com/issues/9425

Thank you very much, for the hint where to change the activty feed time format.

One last similar question.
We want the same format in CB GroupJive Wall.
Could you give us a hint which code / file do we have to change?

Ik found the template folder: /components/com_comprofiler/plugin/user/plug_cbgroupjive/templates

Regards, Patrick

   

I wouldn't recommend using CB GroupJive Wall if you have CB Activity as it can directly replace the Wall tab in groups. Regardless it would be the same process of creating a new template and assigning CB GroupJive Wall to it. Specifically it's the below file.

/components/com_comprofiler/plugin/user/plug_cbgroupjive/plugins/cbgroupjivewall/templates/default/wall.php

You'd need to adjust the following.

FROM: TO:

We do not want to mix cb activity with groupjive wall, so this code is very helpfull to us.

I thought I should create a folder, next to the default folder. To create a custom template.
But in CB GroupJive Wall, there are no parameters to choose a different template.

Can you confirm, that an adjustment of the original wall.php file is the only way to go?
And that means we have te change it after every CB Groupjive update?

GJ integrations match whatever template is selected in core GJ. So make an empty template folder in core GJ then select that template for core GJ. Now you can make some folder for GJ Wall and be able to override fine. Modifying the defaults will result in your changes lost on every update of GJ Wall so I don't recommend doing that.