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A Few Suggestions/Questions

Suggestions

Hey Ken - thanks for the suggestions - it's appreciated! Let me try my best to answer things one at a time:

1) The meta tag editor should work here no problem - it's definitely a little more "advanced" tool, but if you already know how to add tags in manually then it should be no problem to use once you see how it works.

- within the Meta Tags "Global Config" you can define the valid Tag Names - so go there and add "OG Image" to the list and save.
- go back to the Meta Tag Browser and in the form at the bottom:
- Select "OG Image" from the Tag Name select
- enter the URL to your image in the "Tag Content"
- select the pages you want this meta to appear on

2) The TOS works this way (we run it here on Jamroom.net for our developer accounts) and I'm not aware that it is not working. Once a user "accepts" the TOS, a key is set in their account. The next time they log in they will not have to accept it again UNLESS you have modified the TOS. If you modify the TOS it will make users accept it again.

3) Iframes can be very problematic - thus the module. First up let me say that embedded iframes are one of the highest risks to your site's security that you can have - most 3rd party attack vectors start off with a hidden embedded iframe. So out of the box Jamroom specifically checks for any iframes and removes them. Once you have installed the iframe module, then only URLs that have been configured in the module will be allowed. If you see an iframe that you have allowed being stripped, let us know and we can check it out.

"Resizing" an iframe to fit content is problematic as well, as there really is no "size" to an HTML file (which the iframe src is referencing) - it could be 400px wide on a mobile device and 2560px wide on a desktop. Let me know if that makes sense.

Hope this helps!

How to get startet with JamRoom?

Using Jamroom

Let's take it one step at a time - first up you can customize the fields of data you want to collection during signup - go your site's signup page while logged in as a master admin - i.e.

http://yoursite/user/signup

and you will see the "form designer" button in the upper right - press that and you will be in the form designer where you can create additional form fields for the signup form, decide their type, if they are required, etc.

Hope this helps!

How do I create the update form for polls and gallery?

Using Jamroom


The form designer initialization is located in the form display functions - it basically checks to see if the form is "form designer enabled", and if it is, it gets any custom fields from the DB. If no fields are found, it knows it has not been initialized and so it initializes it.

Its done this way since ahead of time we don't "know" what fields are part of a view - that view function has to be run before the fields are registered. I did at one point look into loading the views "offline", but had some issues (it's been awhile and I can't remember now what those were), but I can revisit it to see if this can be made easier.

Thanks!

How to get startet with JamRoom?

Using Jamroom

I've got your signup form fixed - thanks for sending that along. Root cause was that it looked like the user/signup fields were not stored in the form designer table properly - I reset them and it looks good now.

Hope this helps!

How to get startet with JamRoom?

Using Jamroom


Not every form in Jamroom is customizable - most are, but not all. When viewing a form as the master admin, if it is customizable you will see a button in the upper right corner that says "form designer".

To be honest I'm not sure how you made the signup form disappear - I've never seen that before. Can you send me your Jamroom login to brian [at] jamroom [dot] net?


I think there's more language strings then that It's easy to do, but would take some time - there's no way around that.

Hope this helps!
updated by @brian: 08/28/14 01:01:53PM

How to get startet with JamRoom?

Using Jamroom


If you're new to JR it can take a few mins to get adjusted to how things are organized. Jamroom is VERY module centered, so each "module" has it's own settings section, Quota config (user groups), templates, language, etc. Spend a few minutes clicking around in the ACP and I think you'll see how it all works.


That's weird - I've not seen that before, so I am guessing something "broke" in a language string you entered. Try "resetting" the lang strings for the User module and see if that fixes it - that lets us know where the issue is.

Hope this helps!

How to get startet with JamRoom?

Using Jamroom


Yeah there is a pretty simple way to do it - it would take a little bit of time, but it's really straightforward (I don't think we have any Danish translations yet).

Here's how you do it:

1) go into the ACP -> User Accounts -> Tools -> Create a New Language
2) Enter the new language code and select the language to clone (English)

That will create all the language string entries for the new language - they will just all be in English.

Then, each module has a "Language" tab - select the "Danish" language and update the language strings to be in Danish and you're set.

Hope this helps!

How to get startet with JamRoom?

Using Jamroom

Welcome to the Jamroom forum!

Jamroom can definitely do this type of setup - pretty easily Basically what you'd want to do is:

- setup the free Jamroom core - that gets you most of the things you needs
- add in some extra modules (say the Profile Forum, or Audio Support) - basically to cover the additional features you want the profiles to have
- create a custom profile form field called "profile_location" - set it up as a SELECT form element with the options being the areas you want to support (i.e. locations)
- then when someone searches for a specific area, the profile should come up in that search.

Hope this helps!

modifying an existing module in JR into a TO-DO list module

Design and Skin Customization

Yep - it stores the issues in a DataStore just like other modules, so you can jrCore_list it however you like.

Hope this helps!

modifying an existing module in JR into a TO-DO list module

Design and Skin Customization

The issue tracker would work well for a TODO list without any modifications:

https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/networkmarket/117/issue-tracker