Forum Activity for @brian

Using the research options in Genosis

Genosis

Thought I would kickstart the forum here with a quick post on using the "research" profile menu option in Genosis (note that you must be logged in as a "researcher" (i.e. admin user) account in Genosis to see the research menu option).

If you haven't checked it out yet, it's a really nice way to quickly search the internet for records - just click on the "research" button and your search options will drop down. Clicking on the "search" button will automatically initiate a search on the selected site, saving you the time of having to enter it by hand.

Here's some tips:

- FamilySearch is probably your very best bet for census records, and general birth/marriage/death records going back to ~1800 or so - this includes both US and Canada.

- Be wary of what you find on Google - unless the site lists it's sources (typically not likely), it very well could be wrong. There is a strong tendency in new genealogical researchers to try to link their family to famous ancestors (such as European royalty), and often will do so with the littlest evidence. Try to avoid that - a good "rule of thumb" is don't add anyone to your tree you aren't absolutely sure of. This means you want to have sources that prove the lineage.

- If you can afford it, Ancestry.com has the best collection of records online. However, just because it is on Ancestry.com does not make it guaranteed. Ancestry.com allows their users to submit "corrections" for many of their records (Millenium files, Ancestry.com Birth/Marriage/Death/Individual records and the IGI record). So make sure you are looking closely at the record to see if it has been modified - if it has, try to find a second source to validate the modification.

Feel free to post here with any questions you have - I can do my best to answer.

Hope this helps!
updated by @brian: 02/02/15 07:03:14AM

Images

Genosis


Awesome - that makes me really happy to hear Let me know if you have any feedback after having used for a bit. I've been using it here for a couple months on my own site, so many of the "actions" should be pretty streamlined and intuitive, but let me know if you think something could be better.

Thanks!
updated by @brian: 12/29/14 09:23:55AM

mp3 importer

Design and Skin Customization


Would you be interested in sponsoring the development? I'd be willing to work on this over the weekend if you'd sponsor it (basically moves it to the front of my dev queue). I'll add it in to the Audio module as a tool and can release it next week.

If interested, let me know at support [at] jamroom [dot] net.

Thanks!

Adding a button in user login page

Jamroom Developers

So when you say "new tab" I'm guessing you are talking about a new menu entry on the user's profile page (like what you see at the top of the page here) - is that correct? If so, those are tied to modules. A module's "views" are located in modules/ModuleName/index.php - i.e.

view_ModuleName_create()

If you're already looking at the jrBlog module, look inside it's index.php to see the create/update/delete views that handle the actual forms.

For what you see when you click on the actual menu item, that is the module's "item_index.tpl" file - i.e.

modules/ModuleName/templates/item_index.tpl

Again, check out the jrBlog one to see how that is setup.

Hope this helps!

whats the html tag for audio and video (JR5)

Using Jamroom

Almost the same:


Hope this helps!

Images

Genosis


Yeah - images and files are handled by the respective JR modules. I just sent you a license for it - I realize the front page here doesn't specify that, so I will get that fixed up.

Hope this helps!
updated by @brian: 12/29/14 09:23:55AM

Lessons and Articles

Using Jamroom


Jamroom is setup to do this well - it's really how almost all modules work. "articles" should be easy - just grant the profile quotas access to the "Page Creator" module (or even the Blog module if you would like it to be blog style).

For "Guitar Lessons" it depends on how those would be delivered - would a lesson be a "file" or a page of content? If a file, you could just use the File Downloads module. If it's a page of content, you could also use the Page Creator module (maybe use the Blog module for articles and the Page Creator module for lessons?).

Either way, you can 100% customize all the language strings so everything says "articles" and "lessons" everywhere - that's no problem.

All the entries can be listed, searched, sorted, etc. anywhere on your site using the jrCore_list template function - it's extremely flexible and can be thought of as the "swiss army knife" of listing anything on your site, in any way you want, with any restrictions you want:

https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/documentation/howto/1080/howto-using-jrcore-list-in-a-template-step-by-step


No worries - JR works a bit different than a lot of other frameworks/CMS's you might be used to, but once you see how flexible it is you'll see you can really do almost anything you want with pretty minimal work.

Hope this helps!

Threaded/Nested comments with upvote/downvote function

Suggestions

Just my 2 cents, but I'm not a big fan of threaded comments - not that they don't have their place. However, I find that threaded comments tend to encourage "comment discussions" - i.e. users responding to comments, rather then commenting on the actual item itself. In other words, comment threading encourages users to go off topic.

I know some really want it though, and like Paul has pointed out the vote up/down is already doable with the jrLike module, but real comment threading requires a "respond to this comment" setup, which the comment module does not support at this time. However, the Disqus module supports threaded comments:

https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/networkmarket/13/disqus-comments

Hope this helps!

Meta Tags Not Working

Design and Skin Customization


If this is on a profile page, you need to use $profile_name - not $item.profile_name. $item is only used when looping over a "row" template.

Let me know if that works.

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Where may I find the following on vimeo and soundcloud.

Installation and Configuration


Jamroom 4 is still available here:

http://archive.jamroom.net/

If you would rather use JR4, there's no reason not to.

Hope this helps!