Hello Sean,

were you abble to achieve the avtaars and the other step where admin designates an icon or an image - i want the same thing..

MY POST - http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Community/Forums/tabid/795/forumid/7/threadid/170531/scope/posts/Default.aspx

here is a image of somethign what i need - http://www.bluishkarma.com/test/sample3.jpg and

http://www.bluishkarma.com/test/sample4.jpg 

i think this is being done in joomla...

thanks

I feel there are two very different things being covered here, although both are around avatars.

User avatars & 'System' avatars

User avatars are avatars assigned by the user. If enabled, users can manage their own avatars but only get a single one. This is stored via the user's forum profile. (Not site profile) Admin can also edit a user's avatar if need be.
System avatars are avatars assigned by forum admin. These are the ones like you see here, DNN Core Team, MS MVP, etc. The actual user cannot edit unless they are a forum admin. Unlimited # available.

In Forum versions up to 3.20.9, this capability is built in but had some serious bugs due to Gallery integration. In Forum 4.4.3, this was completely re-written and doesn't require the gallery. Seems to be working pretty well so far.

Display Avatars in Threads View

This take a user's avatar and show it in threadview. (This is what you see in the screenshot from here: http://www.bluishkarma.com/test/sample3.jpg)
This is not available in any forum versions available. I don't see this happening unless the forums integrate their own skinning/templating engine, which I have been considering for a future version.

I tried using Avatars on the forum I have installed and I couldn't get it to work. It stated that I must install the gallery module for the avatars to work so I did this. The gallery works and it allowed me a couple of preset options but I still cannot get the avatar option to work. Is there documentation on the process to get this stuff to work properly, does anyone have a link to it? I also can't get the search engine to work properly on the forum. I keep getting the error message "ORDER BY items must appear in the select list if SELECT DISTINCT is specified. 0" I think it has something to do with the database but am not sure? Any documentation for this solution as well?