Forum Activity for @brian

brian
@brian
01/06/15 11:07:04AM
10,167 posts

Ningja skin update
Installation and Configuration

thechocolatelife:For each of the items in the 1.0.12 changelog is it possible to know which .tpl files have been changed?

This will help me know what changes I need to apply, where.

This is what the COMPARE tool does in the template tab...
brian
@brian
01/06/15 11:06:25AM
10,167 posts

Images and Galleries - Don't understand the functionality
Installation and Configuration

I think what you need to do is DISABLE the gallery title on create, but leave it ON in the update image form. Then, when a new image is uploaded it will go into the "image gallery" gallery, which can be RENAMED in the language tab of the Image Gallery module. Then you can call it "Loose Images" if you want (just note that that will be the gallery title).

The module is a gallery based module, so there's no getting away from every image belonging to a gallery - we're just going to do our best to "hide" that if needed.
brian
@brian
01/06/15 10:25:36AM
10,167 posts

Meta Tag Mix-up
Using Jamroom

How are you adding the OG meta tags in to the forum post? We're not doing that, so you must be doing that custom.

Note that I'm working on adding ShareThis and Tags to forum posts, so that will be properly supported shortly.
brian
@brian
01/06/15 10:06:30AM
10,167 posts

Images and Galleries - Don't understand the functionality
Installation and Configuration

I have just pushed out version 1.4.0 of the Image Galleries module. After updating, go into your ACP -> Media -> Image Galleries -> Quota Config and UNCHECK the "Group by Gallery" option, and save (apply to all quotas if you want).

Now the profile "index" page for galleries will be all images, and not group by gallery.

Also - if you would rather your users NOT have to worry about a gallery, then you can "hide" the Gallery Title field in the form designer (make it not active, or make it admin only) and all images will go into a single gallery called "image gallery".

Let me know if that is closer to what you're looking for.

Hope this helps!
brian
@brian
01/06/15 09:58:56AM
10,167 posts

Meta Tag Mix-up
Using Jamroom

Yeah that makes sense, and is how it should be working. The ShareThis module does not get any of it's data from the Profile UNLESS it is specifically a ShareThis button that is ON the profile index.

We've not added ShareThis to the forum, so it sounds like you've set that up yourself.

Otherwise if you are on an audio item page, blog page, atc. the Meta Tags for sharing (the open graph tags) will be about the specific item - NOT the profile.

Let me know if that helps.
brian
@brian
01/06/15 09:10:16AM
10,167 posts

Images and Galleries - Don't understand the functionality
Installation and Configuration

thechocolatelife:Paul -

Yes, there are photo albums in Ning. Here's a screenshot of mine:

http://tinypic.com/r/n6c0oc/8

I have no idea why Ning is not including the album associations in the export JSON. My suspicion is that is is to maximize user and data lock-in by making the archive utility less useful.

Can I propose something that I **hope** will be simple? A flag on the import utility that will allow someone to choose between the two ways of uploading the images? I would gladly let you test it on my galleries! I would add a default gallery name " Loose Images " that everything was put into, to preserve the Gallery functionality on import.

For me, having 9000+ images wrongly associated in galleries reduces the utility of the whole images functionality. I don't know what it would take to do a re-import of just the image JSON data as I describe above - and overwrite what's there - but that's the best solution **for my community**.

I don't think this will be needed - I'm working on an update to the Image Gallery module that I think will make it work like you want it to work...
brian
@brian
01/06/15 08:44:10AM
10,167 posts

Default paragraph formatting of Event text is screwy
Installation and Configuration

Developer mode doesn't matter here - all that matters is that you have the BETA channel active in your release channels. Then, when you go into System Update you would see the 5.2.20b2 beta version available for updating.

The issue here is that you're not a yearly subscriber, so you won't see the Beta Core release until it has been out for 30 days (and which at that time it will have been released).

Subscribers get access to new releases immediately.

So this will be fixed in the non-beta of Jamroom 5.2.20.

Hope this helps!
brian
@brian
01/06/15 08:07:41AM
10,167 posts

Page break not breaking
Installation and Configuration

The FIRST way you are talking about is exclusive to the NingJa skin - that's where that would have to be changed. It's important to know that the Blog module does not control the "look" of the "about" blog that gets placed on the NingJa index. It only controls the look on the profile (listing, detail, etc.).
brian
@brian
01/06/15 07:59:31AM
10,167 posts

Images and Galleries - Don't understand the functionality
Installation and Configuration

thechocolatelife:However, on the member profile pages there is no way that I can see to view ** all of the images that member has uploaded**, irrespective of what gallery the Ning import utility thought to put them in. That's the display I want to see when I click on Images:### under Stats. I can click on Gallery in the profile module menu to see the galleries in that member's profile.

This would just require a new "view". I don't think it would be hard, and it seems like users coming from Ning would like to see it work this way by default, so we can check it out.

Quote:However, there is a discrepancy between what albums contained in Ning and what the galleries in JR contain. In particular, I think there needs to be, for each member, a gallery than contains all of the images that were not assigned to Ning albums and therefore should not be grouped into galleries in what seems to be a random fashion. I propose that this gallery be called " Loose Images ".

This would be part of the Ning Import module - I can open a ticket on this for Paul and we can check it out to make sure things are being imported correctly.

Hope this helps!
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