Thanks Dominik!
Your suggestion comes implemented with release 2.1 - the displaying logic a little changed, though.

Rule of thumb: Whenever it seems necessary to code the same condition again a few lines later - have a break and check your construct again. Most of the times it can be optimized some way. ;)

Thanks for providing the newest version

I added

    ossn_extend_view('css/ossn.default', 'css/shortbio');   

to function com_shortbio_init() {

and changed ShortBio/plugins/default/ShortBio/shortbio-box.php to

<?php
// check if there's a shortbio at all?
if (isset($params['user']->ShortBio) && !empty($params['user']->ShortBio)) {
    // yes!
    if ((ossn_loggedin_user() && ossn_loggedin_user()->guid == $params['user']->guid && $params['user']->ShortBioViewOwn != 'checked')) {
        // if it is our own short bio, but ViewOwn is unchecked
        // then do nothing
        ;
    } else {
        // in any other case display the shortbio
        ?>
        <div class="ossn-wall-container">
            <div class="tabs-input">
                <div class="wall-tabs">
                    <li class="item">
                        <i class="fa fa-info-circle"><span><?php echo ossn_print('com:shortbio:label'); ?></span></i>
                        <?php
                        // Add edit icon if the logged-in user is viewing their own profile
                        if (ossn_loggedin_user() && ossn_loggedin_user()->guid == $params['user']->guid) {
                            // Generate the correct URL
                            $edit_url = ossn_site_url("u/{$params['user']->username}/edit?section=com_shortbio");
                            ?>
                            <a href="<?php echo $edit_url; ?>" class="shortbio-edit-icon">
                                <i class="fa fa-pencil-alt" title="<?php echo ossn_print('edit'); ?>"></i>
                            </a>
                            <?php
                        }
                        ?>
                    </li>
                </div>
            </div>
            <div class="ossn-wall-container-data">
                <?php 
                // using nl2br() for output here
                // because saved textarea newlines need to be converted to html <br>
                echo nl2br($params['user']->ShortBio); ?>
            </div>
        </div>
    <?php
    }
}
?>

Now you have a pencil directly on profil page which leads to edit page:

Correct.
And yes, I intentionally used the PHP error_log function to get an idea of what comes included with a member's record. And if we open our Ossn database with PHPMyAdmin and compare this logged member's record to the ossn_users table we notice that it includes a lot more elements than the table can store!

Then, where else are these extra elements get stored instead? The answer will be found in the beginning of classes/OssnUser : It's an extension of classes/OssnEntities. So if we have a look into the ossn_entities table we can in fact find all these extra member attributes like birthdate, gender, stored here.

Just the extra attribut ShortBio seems to be missing in your ossn_entities table. Thus your next task will be:

Locate the file and line-number where ShortBio gets saved.

errorlog('shortbio-input $params ' . ossndump($params));

in file

ShortBio/plugins/default/forms/ShortBio/shortbio-input.php

Really?
Then, can you try to locate the file name and line number of the logging code and provide it please?

hello, I tested newest release on a complete clean install with paid OSSN but bio is not saved, instead the whole user informations are stored in logfile

[09-Dec-2024 21:15:46 UTC] shortbio-input $params <pre>Array (
[user] => OssnUser Object
(
[guid] => 1
[type] => admin
[username] => MrCrossii
[email] => XXX
[password] => XXX
[salt] => XXX
[firstname] => Dom
[lastname] => Lieger
[lastlogin] => 1733778734
[lastactivity] => 1733778946
[activation] =>
[timecreated] => 1724939451
[fullname] => Dom Lieger
[birthdate] => 04/01/1985
[gender] => male
[passwordalgorithm] => bcrypt
[cover_time] => 1724939545
[language] => en
[data] => stdClass Object
(
)

        [cover_guid] => 0
        [iconURLS] => stdClass Object
            (
                [topbar] => https://XXX.de/clean/avatar/MrCrossii/topbar/eb5e6c9b5ca00aa3161aae39605d8378.jpeg?ossn_cache=13b35b4e
                [small] => https://XXX.de/clean/avatar/MrCrossii/small/d9263a91f1afd55f9d4854055df01885.jpeg?ossn_cache=13b35b4e
                [smaller] => https://XXX.de/clean/avatar/MrCrossii/smaller/9fdfcf68b128d6cb4b8ca260111b383d.jpeg?ossn_cache=13b35b4e
                [large] => https://XXX.de/clean/avatar/MrCrossii/large/6e149ee5056fa24f68239f161db5db58.jpeg?ossn_cache=13b35b4e
                [larger] => https://XXX.de/clean/avatar/MrCrossii/larger/1b2b8692065bc7f2bbc407e7fd1c3613.jpeg?ossn_cache=13b35b4e
            )

        [icon_guid] => 
        [icon_time] => 
        [database] => PDO Object
            (
            )

        [exe] => PDOStatement Object
            (
                [queryString] => SELECT DISTINCT  u.guid, u.* FROM ossn_users as u JOIN ossn_relationships AS r1 ON r1.relation_to =

u.guid AND r1.type = "friend:request" JOIN ossnrelationships AS r2 ON
r2.relationfrom = r1.relationto AND r2.type = "friend:request"
WHERE(u.timecreated IS NOT NULL AND (r1.relationfrom = '1' AND
r2.relationto = '1')) ORDER by u.guid ASC LIMIT 9;
)

    )

) </pre>