Thanks a lot @MJ.

Works fine!

@pitaj Thanks! With node v8.7.0 and npm v5.4.2, I was able to run ./nodebb upgrade and now I'm a proud member of the nodebb v1.7.4 club.

If I've understood things correctly, you have to activate the emoji-extended plugin, then the emoji-static plugin.

Once you restart your Nodebb, you should seen under Plugins > an emoji static option.

There you'll find a help file to tell you how to set up your own pack.

You have to create an index.json file.

Nevertheless, I'm trying it out now, but I can get it to work...

Finally made it from v0.6.0 to v1.4.1

This was my upgrade route (hosted on DigitalOcean and with a mongo database - shell 2.6.7, node v0.10.38)

*v0.6 to v0.6.1
git fetch
git reset --hard origin/v0.6.x
git describe --tags
./nodebb upgrade

*v0.6.1 to v0.7.0
git checkout v0.7.0
./nodebb upgrade

npm install touch
npm install minimist
npm install colors

*v0.7.0 to v0.7.3
git reset --hard origin/v0.7.x 
git describe --tags
./nodebb upgrade

node app --upgrade

*install nvm
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.11.1/install.sh | bash
*Restart terminal
nvm install v0.10.39

* Change index.js in /root/"yourfoldername"/node_modules/connect-mongo from
*module.exports = require('./src');
*to
*module.exports = require('connect-mongo/es5');

*edit /etc/mongod.conf, to uncomment auth = true line 

service mongod restart

mongo
use admin
db.createUser({user: "adminname", pwd: "yourpassword", roles: ["readWrite"]})

use *name of the db where nodebb is installed*
db.updateUser( "adminname",
               {
                 roles : [
                           { role : "dbAdmin", db : "*name of the db where nodebb is installed*"  },
                           { role : "readWrite", db : "*name of the db where nodebb is installed*"  }
                         ]
                }
             )

./nodebb upgrade
./nodebb start
./nodebb stop

*v0.7.3 to v0.8.x
git checkout v0.8.x
git pull
./nodebb upgrade

./nodebb start
./nodebb stop

*v0.8.2 to v0.9.x
git checkout v0.9.x
git pull
./nodebb upgrade

./nodebb start
./nodebb stop

*v0.9.4 to v1.4.1
git checkout v1.x.x
git pull

nvm install v6.2.1
nvm use v6.2.1

./nodebb upgrade

*edit /etc/mongod.conf, to uncomment noauth=true line 

This should help to avoid any issue with mmmagic, kerberos, bluebird and the key_1_value_-1 already exist error.

Et voilà !

Thanks again for your help Julian !

I believe that if you go in your profile in the set up page, the first box and option of that page is to force links to open in a new tab.
It would be nice to set up that option as default from the admin panel, but for now that works well.

Hi @jimmyc2018

I had the same issue once upgrading my nodebb installation from v1.4.2 to v1.5.1
The trick that worked out for me was to remplace the ip address in the "url" segment by my domain name in the config.json file.

Have you tried that out?

Check out this topic https://community.nodebb.org/topic/11324/error-listen-eaddrinuse-0-0-0-0-4800-looks-like-your-connection-to-nodebb-was-lost-please-wait-while-we-try-to-reconnect/9

changing for example,

"url": "http://localhost:4800", or "http://124.129.xxx.36:4800"

to

"url": "http://www.yourdomainname.com",

@NoduleJS I believe if you add this in your control panel in the CSS custom section, your .gifs should show up fine.

.emoji-customizations {
    height: 100%;
}

@yariplus You're right sorry! I checked yesterday quickly on my nodebb set-up and didn't think I had activated any special plugin for that. But after double checking, you're right it's the center align plugin that allows me to do this.

https://github.com/Stonebound/nodebb-plugin-align-center#readme

@JsonHive sorry for not being more clear at first.

And if you need alternatives

Installer NodeBB sur Ubuntu 16.04 server FR

@NoduleJS Yes, I believe you can.
If you use this plugin: https://github.com/NodeBB/nodebb-plugin-emoji#readme
Once installed, you'll have access in your control panel to options in order to set up your own emoticons.
I've added only .gifs and then a simple CSS rule to render their layout does the trick.

Great idea! Can't wait to try it out and thanks for the video.

@PitaJ seems to work. Disabled the emoji-pack. Did a ./nodebb build after stopping nodebb. I was able to add a new emoji, then hit the 'build asset' button. Stopped nodebb again, did another ./nodebb build, went back to the emoji panel, no issues, no errors.
Thanks again for the help, sorry I wasn't able to find what went wrong.

@pitaj I believe that's what I did before the upgrade. The emoji-android pack was disabled.
Have you tried to add a new emoji now that you've disabled the pack?
I've just entered our 156 personal emojis, now that it's working again, I'm a bit afraid to play with it.
After your help, I managed to get the errors again on 3 occassions, but once it was working I didn't manage to reproduce it.
I guess that with the clean slate you gave me, I did the plugin adding, build asset, nodebb build in the correct order.

@PitaJ Sorry to bother you again, but is there any chance there's a workaround where we could use the emoji-plugin without having to use another emoji pack like the apple, android, etc... ones?
I only like to use on our forum, our gifs and homemade smilies.

On the frontend with CSS, I hide the toolip bar in the simlies window so only our gifs show up but when you use the search bar you end up seeing the other emoji pack.
If I remember correctly you had made that possible with the old nodebb-plugin-emoji-extended

@pitaj sorry!

For instance, on a first line, you enter a name, then upload an gif, then type the alias, hit the '+' button to validate the alias, then you type the ASCII Pattern but there instead of hitting the '+' button to validate the ASCII Pattern, you hit the Green check button at the end of the line, your ASCII Pattern is moved to a new (empty) line.

So this

Gives you this

And if you save and build this by mistake because, like me, you're not paying too much attention, you get the errors I got.

I hope you appreciate the artistic efforts to illustrate the issue.

@pitaj said in Cannot get emojis to work:

db.objects.update({ _key:'emoji:customizations:emojis' }, { $set: { _key: 'emoji:customizations:emojis:bkp' } }, { multi: true })

Thanks a lot @PitaJ.
As promised the "Build Emoji Asset" works again.

I tried playing around with it again and managed to get the errors back again.
It seems that if you by accident hit the "check" at the end of the line before putting the "ASCII patterns" it messes up the line and the errors are back.

But after a fresh install of everything I can't reproduce these errors.

Thanks again!

EDIT: it seems that if you leave a character in an empty line added by mistake at the end, for example, the errors are back if you save then build.

@pitaj said in Cannot get emojis to work:

db.objects.find({ _key:'emoji:customizations:emojis' })

{ "_id" : ObjectId("603a50a7a1600fa8ea4ebcb9"), "_key" : "emoji:customizations:emojis", "value" : "{\"name\":\"zlatan\",\"image\":\"78682101-8e02-479f-b9aa-254c05ec81b0-zlatan.gif\"}", "score" : 4107924063 } { "_id" : ObjectId("5f6f10a73bac327071ff4b98"), "_key" : "emoji:customizations:emojis", "value" : "{\"name\":\"volet\",\"image\":\"aa0b81cb-93af-4392-9c3a-11089e8773a7-volet.gif\",\"aliases\":[\"volet\"],\"ascii\":[\":volet:\"]}", "score" : 183096193 } { "_id" : ObjectId("603a51c3a1600fa8ea4ebe92"), "_key" : "emoji:customizations:emojis", "value" : "{\"name\":\"volet\",\"image\":\"69eb706a-4bce-4e92-9f59-49187bb3058c-volet.gif\"}", "score" : 4107924065 } { "_id" : ObjectId("5f6f0ed83bac327071ff478d"), "_key" : "emoji:customizations:emojis", "value" : "{\"name\":\"travolta\",\"image\":\"f1f1b840-d747-49ca-9915-6bfee7be9274-ezgif.com-resize(1).gif\",\"aliases\":[\"travolta\"],\"ascii\":[\":travolta:\"]}", "score" : 2013979170 } { "_id" : ObjectId("5ba8b070fba89e16361c51ce"), "_key" : "emoji:customizations:emojis", "value" : "{\"name\":\"tap\",\"image\":\"c7d9ce19-5479-4144-9eb8-c5762cb11d29-taptap.gif\",\"aliases\":[\"tap\"],\"ascii\":[\":tap:\"]}", "score" : 193426144 } { "_id" : ObjectId("5ba82060fba89e16361c50d5"), "_key" : "emoji:customizations:emojis", "value" : "{\"name\":\"sweat\",\"image\":\"89c94d76-333a-4cdd-bb73-71eb42792bcf-sweat.gif\",\"aliases\":[\"sweat\"],\"ascii\":[\":sweat:\"]}", "score" : 182959441 } { "_id" : ObjectId("5ba8b056fba89e16361c51cd"), "_key" : "emoji:customizations:emojis", "value" : "{\"name\":\"shit\",\"image\":\"a0f68a7c-ad32-41fe-b975-2c000f8f1d3d-shit.gif\",\"aliases\":[\"shit\"],\"ascii\":[\":shit:\"]}", "score" : 2087960707 } { "_id" : ObjectId("5ba8b040fba89e16361c51cc"), "_key" : "emoji:customizations:emojis", "value" : "{\"name\":\"score\",\"image\":\"9c4c85c6-835c-4932-aba5-e239ad432af8-score.gif\",\"aliases\":[\"score\"],\"ascii\":[\":score:\"]}", "score" : 165577581 } { "_id" : ObjectId("5ba820a8fba89e16361c50da"), "_key" : "emoji:customizations:emojis", "value" : "{\"name\":\"roll\",\"image\":\"e11c2a80-4b2d-4992-b861-17f9fe31a48b-roll.gif\",\"aliases\":[\"roll\"],\"ascii\":[\":roll:\"]}", "score" : 2087659768 } { "_id" : ObjectId("5ba8ab38fba89e16361c519f"), "_key" : "emoji:customizations:emojis", "value" : "{\"name\":\"rambo\",\"image\":\"569b3ce0-0246-4268-9563-ef8b26569ac5-rambo.gif\",\"aliases\":[\"rambo\"],\"ascii\":[\":rambo:\"]}", "score" : 181302582 } { "_id" : ObjectId("5ba8aff3fba89e16361c51cb"), "_key" : "emoji:customizations:emojis", "value" : "{\"name\":\"ragix\",\"image\":\"a607eb30-7eb4-4735-8cc8-9f685a158a28-ragix.gif\",\"aliases\":[\"ragix\"],\"ascii\":[\":ragix:\"]}", "score" : 196892672 } { "_id" : ObjectId("5ba8afd1fba89e16361c51ca"), "_key" : "emoji:customizations:emojis", "value" : "{\"name\":\"quoi\",\"image\":\"725413ba-e3d8-444b-8ab2-ce8625f77fca-quoi.gif\",\"aliases\":[\"quoi\"],\"ascii\":[\":quoi:\"]}", "score" : 2087834311 } { "_id" : ObjectId("5ba8afb3fba89e16361c51c9"), "_key" : "emoji:customizations:emojis", "value" : "{\"name\":\"prince\",\"image\":\"69ef238a-1c85-4fd8-81d0-eecb4f9f1d4a-prince.gif\",\"aliases\":[\"prince\"],\"ascii\":[\":prince:\"]}", "score" : 1158221606 } { "_id" : ObjectId("5ba8af8dfba89e16361c51c8"), "_key" : "emoji:customizations:emojis", "value" : "{\"name\":\"prefet\",\"image\":\"bb17e2b1-35ee-4453-8db9-9af89a998cae-prefet.gif\",\"aliases\":[\"prefet\"],\"ascii\":[\":prefet:\"]}", "score" : 1747141653 } { "_id" : ObjectId("5bd8d37efba89e16361c8ffa"), "_key" : "emoji:customizations:emojis", "value" : "{\"name\":\"poppop\",\"image\":\"81981a9f-0fc2-4e70-8710-6dc8b6242538-poppop.gif\",\"aliases\":[\"poppop\"],\"ascii\":[\":poppop:\"]}", "score" : 1900822949 } { "_id" : ObjectId("5ba8af70fba89e16361c51c7"), "_key" : "emoji:customizations:emojis", "value" : "{\"name\":\"police\",\"image\":\"f3715bf2-0e15-405e-b926-57512bad6dca-police.gif\",\"aliases\":[\"police\"],\"ascii\":[\":police:\"]}", "score" : 1158055545 } { "_id" : ObjectId("5ba8af56fba89e16361c51c6"), "_key" : "emoji:customizations:emojis", "value" : "{\"name\":\"passe\",\"image\":\"2652e883-9dd5-4d97-aeb6-29b2234f312d-passe.gif\",\"aliases\":[\"passe\"],\"ascii\":[\":passe:\"]}", "score" : 165785681 } { "_id" : ObjectId("5fbcd71e269ac9fb20789ebb"), "_key" : "emoji:customizations:emojis", "value" : "{\"name\":\"paf\",\"image\":\"c9d73d5d-7698-4998-bc97-e73903d5f842-paf.gif\",\"aliases\":[\"paf\"],\"ascii\":[\":paf:\"]}", "score" : 193410802 } { "_id" : ObjectId("5f6f0c3f3bac327071ff417e"), "_key" : "emoji:customizations:emojis", "value" : "{\"name\":\"oo\",\"image\":\"f34d71cc-7f29-45a4-808e-64d33b496616-OO.gif\",\"aliases\":[\"oo\"],\"ascii\":[\":oo:\"]}", "score" : 5861221 } { "_id" : ObjectId("5ba8af35fba89e16361c51c5"), "_key" : "emoji:customizations:emojis", "value" : "{\"name\":\"okay\",\"image\":\"d0771315-c0fa-4849-8620-51977faa691d-okay.gif\",\"aliases\":[\"okay\"],\"ascii\":[\":okay:\"]}", "score" : 2088415001 } Type "it" for more

db.objects.find({ _key:'emoji:customizations:adjuncts' })

Works but doesn't return anything.

@pitaj MongoDB 4.0.13

@pitaj hi! Thanks for the reply on a Saturday.
No custom emoji or plugin installed.
nodebb-plugin-emoji : 3.5.0-0
nodebb-plugin-emoji-apple : 2.0.5

I only had personal emojis added through the nodebb-plugin-emoji plugin with the pencil button.

Other plugins installed, all up-to-date

nodebb-plugin-browsing-users
nodebb-plugin-custom-pages
nodebb-plugin-dbsearch
nodebb-plugin-composer-default
nodebb-plugin-embed
nodebb-plugin-featured-topics-extended
nodebb-plugin-imgur
nodebb-plugin-markdown
nodebb-plugin-mentions
nodebb-plugin-poll
nodebb-plugin-tenor-gif

Hello!
Sorry to intrude, but I have an issue with emojis too.
I can't get them to work since I tried adding new ones since my latest nodebb upgrade.

I'm on nodebb v1.16.2
node v14.16.0

I've had them working in the past without any issue.
Since I've updated to v1.16.2 everything was working fine then I tried adding some new emojis and from there the issue started.

Once I added emojis as usual, I had this error Failed to load emoji metadata on the frontend and the backend.
I tried the 'Build Emoji Asset' button and a new error Cannot read property forEach of undefined showed up.

I had the latest nodebb-plugin-emoji plugin and the nodebb-plugin-emoji-android activated.

I did a ./nodebb build and everything went fine but the issues were still there.

I tried deactivating the plugins, deleting them and installing them again but the issue is still there.

I deleted the nodebb-plugin-emoji-android and tried the nodebb-plugin-emoji-apple since the last one shows to be v1.16.2 compatible but nothing new happened here.

When I run a ./nodebb log I get this:

error: [emoji] Failed to retrieve data for parse ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/var/www/nodebb/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-emoji/build/emoji/table.json' {"errno":-2,"code":"ENOENT","syscall":"open","path":"/var/www/nodebb/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-emoji/build/emoji/table.json","stack":"Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/var/www/nodebb/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-emoji/build/emoji/table.json'"}

So it seems that I'm missing a table.json file but I have no clue where to find it.