IP Content Databases - Show Last Contributor!

[Phillyman]

I love the IP Content Databases, but I am not crazy about how it shows data fields that are less than desirable. So what do I mean, well I created almost 95% of the thousands of records in my IP Content Databases. However I don't want the credit for this. I created stub entries in my database, and when my members add information into those stub entries.......MY AVATAR and NAME show up! Here is an example....

 

As you can see I created this database record, and it shows my Avatar and Username, however if you drill into the Database record and look at the record......

You can see one of my members was the last person to update that record. If we are already showing the correct "Updated Timestamp", lets also show who actually was the last member in that record. I want my members getting the credit, not me!

 

It gets worse for the Widgets in my IP Content Databases.....lets look at how those are handled.....

 

 

You can see that just creating a simple feed, its again showing the record authors name and avatar, and it shows the record creation date, which just looks odd. I dont want people thinking the last time that record was updated was 2016.....again if we drill into the record we can see.....

 

Here you can see that record was updated 45 minutes ago and by a different member. If I have to hire someone to fix this, I will do so.....but I really think we should have an option in these areas to give us a bit more control over what data is presented to the public. I want my members to get credit, and I want the updated timestamps to show....not the creation ones.

 

Just my 2 cents 😛
 

 

[Adriano Faria]

Not sure I follow but you can choose who shows up in the last article information:

It’s a database setting. 

[Phillyman]

24 minutes ago, Adriano Faria said:

Not sure I follow but you can choose who shows up in the last article information:

It’s a database setting. 

I dont think that setting shows the member who last edited a record, I believe that setting only changes what constitutes an updatable action. So do you want new comments to trigger a record popping to the top of the recently changed, or do you want to require an edit to be made to the record to move it to the top. I am talking about giving members credit in the databases.

[Adriano Faria]

Edited? No. I thought you were talking about show the last action (last commenter).

[Phillyman]

2 minutes ago, Adriano Faria said:

Edited? No. I thought you were talking about show the last action (last commenter).

Yeah, I want my members avatars and names to show up in the Databases, rather than my name and avatar just because I created the records. I think its more encouraging for my members to see their names and avatars all across the databases.

 

[Adriano Faria]

That setting does this: it will show the last action. If the article has comments, will show the member who made the comment. If it hasn’t, will display the author name. 

[Phillyman]

2 minutes ago, Adriano Faria said:

That setting does this: it will show the last action. If the article has comments, will show the member who made the comment. If it hasn’t, will display the author name. 

Sorry I should have clarified, I have comments turned off on my IP Databases. I am looking for the last person who has made a edit to a record to show up in the database view. All my databases have the wiki feature turned on, and I want to see all my members who are editing records.

 

[bfarber]

This is really something specific to wiki-editable databases ultimately. If you edit a post in a forum, you don't want the forum reflecting you as the last person to comment after all (so it's not "editing" in this case, but using the wiki-editable feature).