Forum Activity for @strumelia

Notes vs Private Notes vs messages...??

Ning To Jamroom

Yes, I figured out to go to the various areas to 'enable embedding' in different features of my site. Thank you Ken! I think that'll work, especially if that arrow/pagination navigation frustration can be overcome site-wide.
Hmmm...a new rock group?: Arrow Pagination Navigation Frustration ? ;D
updated by @strumelia: 12/29/14 09:23:54AM

My 1940s Site So Far

Ning To Jamroom

That's a great start John!
I'm very glad you are here testing/learning along with us.

(I see you have the same error I and sopmeone else is having, on the audio clips that our ning site members uploaded directly to our ning sites. While soundcloud, vimeo and Youtube files seem to play just fine after importing from the ning archive.)
updated by @strumelia: 12/29/14 09:23:54AM

trouble with Smiley Module - thanks for any help!

Using Jamroom

After 'enabling' smiley function everywhere, when I click to "configure Smileys" I get this error page:
CRI: Unable to copy modules/jrSmiley/templates/get_smiley.tpl to template cache directory: data/cache/jrCore
So I can't add any custom smileys. I saw the correct interface page the first time I clicked "configure smileys", but then after clicking on 'download default set' none of this worked anymore and i only get the error. I also uninstalled the module and then cleared cache and reinstalled, but same problems.

Plus, now when I go to add a smiley in a forum post, I get this oddness and I can't click on any of the 4 smiley choices shown since it only opens a drop down admin menu:




updated by @strumelia: 12/30/14 09:46:05AM

some media file types won't play

Ning To Jamroom

Maybe there's a hint in the error message- how it says it has trouble loading the 'media URL' rather than trouble with the media itself...?
updated by @strumelia: 12/29/14 09:23:54AM

some media file types won't play

Ning To Jamroom

I'm having the same error as Isleander, but could not find his thread to add to it, sorry...here goes:

My embedded video from a Youtube video play just fine when clicked on.
However, when I click on either an audio file anyone had uploaded to my ning site (usually into the ning native music player feature), or any video that had been uploaded directly to my ning site's video feature... I get the error and neither of those types of files will play. I should have tested all the types of clips before now, but have been distracted by other stuff on my site.
I'm beginning to think I should simply delete and no longer allow direct-uploaded videos and audio clips.
I checked out the various media on my JR site that got imported from my Ning archive and it seems all my youtube, Vimeo, and Soundcloud files are working just fine. But the ones that had been direct uploaded to my Ning site (the videos and the sound files) from any member- none of those work, they all get the error message attached below.
Happily, about 98% of all the vids on my ning site are simple YT or Vimeo embeds.
Not sure there is much to be done about this issue, as it may have to do with how the media is either stored on Ning or how the ning archive downloaded and characterized it.




updated by @strumelia: 07/09/16 09:21:02AM

Notes vs Private Notes vs messages...??

Ning To Jamroom

OK, so I installed the "Editor Embedded Media" module, and the "Editor Image Upload" module. I assume that's what you were referring to Ken?
I now see how to click on the little video film icon to embed videos and images alike into posts. Thanks!
Unless I set them to allow only the user's OWN media to embed (like the user's site videos, pictures, audio clips, etc... then if instead i set it to allow one to embed any media on the site from any user, I then run into the same arrow navigation issue- I'm presented with several hundred pages of user videos or photos, but no way to navigate except by arrows forward or back ONE page at a time. Ok, so let's just put that arrow navigation issue aside again...
I reset the modules to allow only the user's own media to be embedded, which meant no hundreds of pages to sift through from all users.
The pasting the simple DIRECT Youtube url thing worked fine, so people could do that.

But...
I ran into the same error issue Isleander is having in playing some video/audio files- but I'll post that over on his thread about the issue...
updated by @strumelia: 12/29/14 09:23:54AM

Notes vs Private Notes vs messages...??

Ning To Jamroom

"It doesn't look like you have the jrembed module installed for one thing. That is the absolute "bomb". I am really impressed by it's functionality.
All the content on my network is listed and easily embedded, plus picture uploading, and to top it off I can add an interactive "Google Map" to a post - very sophisticated and easy to use.
The quick code embed we had in Ning is gone but when you switch to HTML view, it is the same thing - embed any external code."

Ken- Ah!- I had no idea I ought to look for such a module outside the JR'Ning Bundle'. I am a bit hesitant to install anything that for all I know might duplicate or conflict with modules being developed right now for ning users. Thanks!- I will seek it out immediately and install it and see how things look or function differently! Will report back here afterwards.

Hmm, but that won't solve how do I embed a video in my profile Timeline here, like Brian just demonstrated can be done....?
updated by @strumelia: 12/29/14 09:23:54AM

Notes vs Private Notes vs messages...??

Ning To Jamroom

and here:

updated by @strumelia: 12/29/14 09:23:54AM

Notes vs Private Notes vs messages...??

Ning To Jamroom

Also-
Brian, I may be incredibly dense here, but I'm not seeing what you are referring to here:

"In the WYSIWYG editor your users can click on the "Embed" button and pretty much embed anything they want. Any URL they enter will be hotlinked to. If you have the URL scan module installed, and a users pastes a URL in, it will also turn into a "click and play" link - i.e.:
Easy Install Jamroom 5 CMS into cPanel server
(all I did was paste in a link for that).
I'm not aware of anything that is needed in the current setup that is not already supported. "

Here are screenshots of the reply boxes within forum discussions. I don't see an 'embed button' or the other ways of reply-with-quote, editing, adding, linking to a post, embedding inline images or videos...
What am i not 'getting'?


updated by @strumelia: 12/29/14 09:23:54AM

Notes vs Private Notes vs messages...??

Ning To Jamroom

"Your users will not lose anything - Jamroom already supports this. For example I just embeded a YouTube video on my timeline: "

I just went to my profile here and I cannot figure out HOW to embed a YT video or an image intop my timeline. I posted a YT link and it was indeed turned into a hotlink. But I posted the YT embed code and got nothing. Can you tell me how to put a viewable YT vid onto my own timeline on my profile here, just like you just did as an example?- sorry, I only get a plain box and the YT embed code doesn't do anything. =8-\ ?
updated by @strumelia: 12/29/14 09:23:54AM