Forum Activity for @brian

brian
@brian
02/13/15 11:44:29AM
10,167 posts

How Are You Editing Your Files On FTP?
Jamroom Hosting

1) Deleting skin files - yep. You can delete any skin you don't want to use

2) I don't think you need to download your entire public_html directory - that's BIG. We run nightly backups here for you already, so if something catastrophic happens to your site (let's hope not - keep fingers crossed) then we can restore your site to the last nightly backup.

Mostly what I think you'll want to download is just a copy of your skin customizations.

Let me know if that helps.

Thanks!
updated by @brian: 02/13/15 11:45:02AM
brian
@brian
02/13/15 11:16:25AM
10,167 posts

How Are You Editing Your Files On FTP?
Jamroom Hosting

That's not a bad way to go about it - keeping backups is always a good idea. I think the primary thing is to find a system you're comfortable with and stick with it.

Personally I use phpStorm and VIM for all my editing - but both are geared towards developers and really overkill for most users.
updated by @brian: 02/13/15 11:16:42AM
brian
@brian
02/13/15 11:09:15AM
10,167 posts

Audio - Set item order
Using Jamroom

xmafax:sorry, I don't see the items being draggable

I've just tested here and on our Demo and it is working - Go to your developer tools in Firefox and click on "Console", then reload the ordering page and see if you see any Javascript errors.
brian
@brian
02/13/15 10:59:31AM
10,167 posts

Audio - Set item order
Using Jamroom

xmafax:yes thats it.

OK - which of the 2? Thanks!
brian
@brian
02/13/15 10:59:07AM
10,167 posts

Changelog Request / Suggestion
Suggestions

jimmyk:I'm not messing with the module template files. All of my template files are inside my skins directory.

Though I haven't run into a problem as of yet, I could see what I issues happening in the future.

I'm not asking you to outline what variables have changed. I'm asking you to put a "Yes" or "No" in the changelog to indicate that there has been a variable change in the template or not. I wouldn't expect you to list every variable that has changed. I only want to know if I need to spend time looking over the JR template changes to see if I need to change something in my custom template.

Can you let me know what issues you think you might run into? Maybe that will clarify it for me so I better understand what you're hoping to avoid happening.

Quote:As for the security (number 1 above) it would allow me to set a priority to know what modules I need to update first. Most of the software I use, including the CentOS repo has a security level determination like in this example notice: "CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2015:0164 Moderate" adding something to the changelog about security I think would be helpful.

Sure - if we have a security update I can mark it "high priority" or something - most likely you'll see a forum post about it too.

Thanks!
brian
@brian
02/13/15 10:52:34AM
10,167 posts

Private Notes Bug?
Using Jamroom

Root cause here was that she had created her name with a space at the beginning - I just removed it so it should be working now.

I'll update the user module so it "trims" the user name before storing so we won't see this again.

Hope this helps!
brian
@brian
02/13/15 10:39:01AM
10,167 posts

CometChat Question-Add IP Addresses To Whitelist
Design and Skin Customization

derrickhand300:Cometchat is asking me:
"please add following IP addresses to your white/trusted list"
Anyone know the specific place in ACP to do this?

You don't need to do that if hosting here - ignore it.

Hope this helps!
brian
@brian
02/13/15 10:38:23AM
10,167 posts

Private Notes Bug?
Using Jamroom

I get a TON of spam, so I just removed my email address from your post.

Thanks!
brian
@brian
02/13/15 10:37:33AM
10,167 posts

Changelog Request / Suggestion
Suggestions

jimmyk:I'm in the process of creating a custom template. One of the things I'm worried about is the updates to the modules. Everyday there seems to be an update to a module and I fear that I'm going to update a module and break my site's template.

This tells me you might be going about the customization incorrectly - you should:

- make sure you are not using a default skin (sounds like you are not)
- make sure you are OVERRIDING the module templates in your skin.

For example if you have customized the modules/jrAudio/item_list.tpl file, then you DON'T want to change it there - instead you need to make this file:

skins/YourSkin/jrAudio_item_list.tpl

that will ALWAYS be used before the one that comes with the module, so you never need to worry about the module template changing due to an upgrade and changing your site.

As for outlining what variables have changed, it's not something we're likely to do - that's "too much information" in our changelog, and frankly one that would take us A LOT of time to manage.

Make sure you have a development site you test everything on BEFORE you roll it to your live site - that way you can test everything out before going "live" with it.

Let me know if that helps.

Thanks!
updated by @brian: 02/13/15 10:37:41AM
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