Comments on: Running YetAnotherForum inside Sitecore

By: briancaos

briancaos — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:42:11 +0000

Sitecore 5 uses a different security model (a homebrewn model), as opposed to Sitecore 6 which uses the standard .net security model. Therefore it is not possible to integrate YAF into Sitecore 5.
You should read this article instead: http://briancaos.wordpress.com/2009/05/27/using-sitecore-users-in-yetanotherforum/

By: Stefan Hammer

Stefan Hammer — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:00:08 +0000

Hi Brian

the guide to the integration is for sitecore6. Is it possible to integrate YAF into sitecore5? If so, is there a giude for doing this?

Stefan

By: briancaos

briancaos — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:18:11 +0000

The permissions in YAF follow the domain in which Sitecore is running in, even though the domain is not visible from YAF.
Maybe the users or groups you are using does not exist in the correct domain.

To test this, you can use the old YAF login screen that still exists in YAF. As far as I remember you can call it using the ?g=login parameter.

In the old login dialog you can log in any sitecore user. Just remember to include the domain name in the username when logging in (user “brian” in the domain “extranet” is logged in as “extranet\brian”).

You can use the login dialog to test your users against the YAF security setup.

Have you also noticed that YAF collects membership roles (groups) in security profiles, and it is these profiles that sets the security? To add security to a forum, you create a security profile (or use any of the existing ones).

By: TW

TW — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:41:01 +0000

Hi Brian,
I was able to use your code to integrate YAF into sitecore. However, I can’t get the forums to show up for anybody (Anonymous or registered user) except for the admin. Any ideas? I’ve tried setting every possible combination of permissions on the forum through the admin without luck.
Thanks,
TW

By: briancaos

briancaos — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:49:37 +0000

The “object reference” sounds like a null pointer somewhere. Maybe the code compilation has failed, or you have forgotten to put the compiled DLL’s in the /bin/ folder of Sitecore.
I admit that having YAF to tun inside Sitecore is not an easy task, which is why I wrote the Documentation guideline (http://trac.sitecore.net/YAFIntegration/export/7/Trunk/YAF%20Integrated%20into%20Sitecore.docx) which you need to follow very carefully.

By: Jessica Hart

Jessica Hart — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:48:31 +0000

Hello Brian,

I have successfully set up YetAnotherForum inside Sitecore before but this time it is has not gone so well.

I have copied all the files in to my website and was able to go to the install page and create a forum and a new admin user.

I now try to browse to http://mywebsite/yaf and I receive the following error

[NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.]
YAF.Classes.Utils.SitecoreMembershipUser..ctor(MembershipUser innerUser) +41
YAF.Classes.Utils.YafContext.InitUserAndPage() +2733
YAF.Classes.Utils.YafContext.get_Page() +60
YAF.Classes.Utils.YafContext.PageValueAsInt(String field) +46
YAF.Classes.Utils.YafContext.get_PageUserID() +43

Do you have any idea why?

Thanks Jess

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:03:32 +0000

Nevermind i fixed it :)

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:29:13 +0000

Hi,

I recently tried to implement your solution for using YAF in sitecore. I used sc version 6.0.2 and ever since i completed the install through your guide i get the following when trying to login to sitecore backend : Method not found: ‘Void Sitecore.Pipelines.LoggedIn.LoggedInArgs.set_Password(System.String)’.

Any ideas?

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