Birthday not showing

blackbat · 6th January 2010, 9:37 PM

I can't see Monkey's birthday on the forum main page. Is there any reason why?

RocketRev · 6th January 2010, 11:16 PM

There are actually 2 birthdays today (Wednesday 6th) and neither are showing.

phazefireworks · 7th January 2010, 7:45 AM

Your date of birth and age are displayed in several places on the forum. Only the administrator will have access to your date of birth should you choose to hide it via the privacy option.
I know sometimes (Optional) Privacy can be used if you dont want your birthday displayed .
I had the same problem last feb when my birthday was in the calender but not shown at the bottom of the forum.

blackbat · 7th January 2010, 11:43 AM

I think it's possibly a technical problem, though, as if you look at Monkey's profile you can see his birthday so it isn't hidden.

RocketRev · 7th January 2010, 1:35 PM

Using the privacy option to hide your birthday should keep it out of public sight in all the places birthdays are shown on the forum. There isn't a facility to allow it to show in selected places, but not in others. Besides, there were 2 birthdays on that day - both were showing in the calendar but not in a "birthdays today" section. So I was thinking a bit of the system was broken...... but I've just changed my birthday to today and that is being shown as "today's birthdays". Now, 'scuse me while I go back and reset my birthday before I confuse too many people!

Pyro Pete · 7th January 2010, 10:01 PM

I've checked the settings for this and everything is switched on, so it should be working. So I would guess one of the custom modifcations I have made to the forum has broken it.

RocketRev · 14th January 2010, 1:12 PM

Something must be broken...... Thursday 14th Jan and there are 2 birthdays showing on the calendar, but there's no "birthdays today" box on the forum home page. Yesterday, 13th Jan, there was 1 birthday on the calendar and it was shown in a "birthdays today" box on the forum home page.

From this thread, it seems I'm not the only one that this is happening to..... Birthday Boys... (boys?)

RocketRev · 14th January 2010, 1:35 PM

Just a thought..... last time we reported this problem it was also for a day on which there were 2 birthdays. At the moment it looks as though when there's 1 birthday it'll show, when there's more than 1 they'll not show. Any way of running a test to see if this is an issue.... or do we wait to see what happens for Sunday when there are 3 birthdays?