I wanted to change something:

When a user comments on one of the articles, the project allows his email address to be accessed by clicking on the member's name which is allowed to link to outlook mail. I want to disable that or at least add an option in their profile, for the user to check to allow or disallow his email to be visible.

I was looking in the BLL , comment.cs file but I'm not sure which line to look at or how to modify it.

Has anyone else changed this or can anyone tell me how to do this?

Rachel

Rachel,

The most straightfwd place to make the change to not show thew email address would be in the ShowArticle.aspx page. The section below shows the hyperlink section (lnkAddedBy) that exposes the email link. Just make that into a literal representing the username and you're done. Here's the actual section as is:

<b>Comment posted by
<asp:HyperLink ID="lnkAddedBy" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("AddedBy") %>' NavigateUrl='<%# "mailto:" + Eval("AddedByEmail") %>' />
on
<asp:Literal ID="lblAddedDate" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("AddedDate", "{0:f}") %>' />
</b>

Good luck...

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jimi

http://www.originaltalent.com

Thanks again for your help Jimi. After I posted that, I saw that the ShowArticle.aspx page was probably where the change should be done but was still unsure how to proceed.

I will try this. There are two spots where it refers to "mailto"

Thank you,
Rachel

R - i think you'll manage it just fine.

good luck on the final stages of your implementation, this can be the most difficult stage (the 80/20 rule - i.e. 80 of your effort is concentrated in the last 20% of the project - yikes!!)

cheers for now...

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http://www.originaltalent.com

Oh no! ..
Yes, I'm finding the last chapter on deploying the project a little confusing but I'll get there.

I'm back tracking with this other issue right now so put that on hold a bit longer.

I found that if I do this:

<asp:HyperLink ID="lnkAddedBy" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("AddedBy") %>'
NavigateUrl='<%# "mailto:" + Eval("AddedBy") %>' />
on <asp:Literal ID="lblAddedDate" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("AddedDate", "{0:f}") %>' />

(instead of "AddedByEmail" ) then if you click on the user's name which is a hyperlink, it still opens up the outlook e-mail but shows no email address. So that's cool.

But I'd like to allow people to choose whether to allow their email addresses to be accessed if they don't mind. So this is what I'm trying to figure how to do but so far haven't figured it out. This is left over from the little bit of visual basic I learned some years ago which does me no good these days
:

protected void ckEmailOk_CheckedChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (ckEmailOk.Checked == true)
{

<asp:HyperLink ID="lnkAddedBy" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("AddedBy") %>'
NavigateUrl='<%# "mailto:" + Eval("AddedByEmail") %>' />
on <asp:Literal ID="lblAddedDate" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("AddedDate", "{0:f}") %>' />
}
else

{

<asp:HyperLink ID="lnkAddedBy" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("AddedBy") %>'
NavigateUrl='<%# "mailto:" + Eval("AddedBy") %>' />
on <asp:Literal ID="lblAddedDate" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("AddedDate", "{0:f}") %>' />
}
}

Any suggestions would be appreciated! (I still have a hard time figuring how to work the code behind with the aspx page)
Rachel

Someone suggested I write it this way in the aspx page:

NavigateUrl='<%# ckEmailOk.Checked?"mailto:" + Eval("AddedByEmail"):"mailto:" + Eval("AddedBy") %>'

But that puts the url in the form instead of the name w/link. Is there a way to modify this to do it?

Rachel