Forum Activity for @strumelia

Creating a module to change from the Follow model to the Friend model

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This sounds like something my members would like and be familiar with from ning.
But I need to know how it might effect my site that has been running without it for over a year now.
I get that all members will get their setting changed to require Follower approval....but:
On profile pages, will their list of 'followers' still look the same? Will any language be automatically changed, or NEED to be changed by us (meaning not optional)... from "follow/follower/following" to "friend" ? For example will members still see their usual list of members on the /follow/following page? And even if we change the profile page TAB label from "followers" to "Friends"...clicking on it will still take you to /(profilename)/follow ...correct?
and all this will not otherwise change or lose all the 2-way connections my members have already established with others, correct?
Thanks for clarifying these things.

I forgot where a certain groups setting is...?

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Ok yes maybe Paul had something to do with my groups setup long ago, and/or will guess what was done on my site in particular...since this was perhaps done way back in 'group infancy' days. Will you please point him here?- thank you Brian!

I forgot where a certain groups setting is...?

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Hmm...just noticed something strange...
in my active skin, I have an extra "item_detail" template for groups: one for jrGroup and one for jrGroups.
I think maybe the Groups one is a very old error? But I'd be afraid to remove it now! screenshot attached.
My new half built site which started as a clone off the original live site has it too...so it got cloned over there as well. Not sure if this has anything to do with this thread though.

I forgot where a certain groups setting is...?

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Thanks Brian- that's what i did check to begin with. But as I said above:
"I checked out the 'allow on profile' box in the Group module under quota config, but it seems reg members have that enabled all this time and yet have still been prevented from creating groups....somehow i did it by another means or setting?"

Surely one of my over 3000 members would have created a new group over the past 18 months, because that setting has apparently always been checked to 'allow' for regular users all this time...?

Something else is at work on my site because: it's still checked to 'allow' for reg members quota but when I log in as a reg user, I DON'T get the "+" button to create a new group in my profile page Groups TAB. This proves to me that I must have some OTHER setting or code on my site that prevents non-admins or non-masteradmins from creating new groups...somewhere? That's what I want to find so I can adjust my other site accordingly, and just to know where/how I got that put into place on my site.

I forgot where a certain groups setting is...?

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D'oh! Can't always remember how I set something long ago- hopefully someone can jog my memory...

Seems so obvious, but can't find it now. Two cups of coffee hasnt reset my brain either.
-How/where did I set things so that regular (non-admin) members are not able to create new Groups?
I checked out the 'enable on profile' box in the Group module under quota config, but it seems reg members have that enabled all this time and yet have still been prevented from creating groups....somehow i did it by another means or setting?
Thanks!
updated by @strumelia: 02/14/17 12:03:38PM

hiding profile info on my Profile Forum pages (again)

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Ilker, you are using a profile forum for your site's forums, right?
If so- did you create a profile that 'owns' all the site forums, like I did?
If so- you might want to have that forum profile be in its own specific Quota...and you can create that new 'forums' quota by cloning it off of your Master Admn quota (to give it all needed powers when you log in as that profile). Then you can move the forums profile into that quota and make a few changes to it that you would not want to do on your master admin quota. Such as:
Go to your Youtube module (ACP) and the quota config tab there- and turn OFF "allow on profile" checkbox in the Forums Quota. That would remove the Youtube TAB from the Forums profile page. Do the same with other modules that have TABS showing that you don't want for your forums profile...blog module, Audio, etc. Obviously, do NOT do it for the jrprofile Forum module.

Once all this is done and you've reset cache, log OUT as admin and log IN as a regular test member, and go to the profile page of your forum's profile page. You should see maybe only the "discussions" tab, which is normal. But you shouldn't see any profile tabs or sidebar when you go to a forum discussion.

Remember- once you log back IN as Admin quota, you will again see ALL the tabs on that profile page for forums...because as admin you see everything. If you as admin 'own' that forums profile, you'll see all your own tabs there on the forumsprofile page. You'll see that as the owner of any profile you create from your master admin user account, or if that profile is a member of an admin type quota. If you want to see what your members (nonadmins) see, create a test member by signing up as if you were a regular person browsing the web. Then make sure that test member is in the regular member quota. To see what reg members see, log OUT as admin and log IN as the test member- you won't see all the same tabs that you do as admin.

hiding profile info on my Profile Forum pages (again)

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Bingo! Paul!
I went to double check that on the new site ...and the url in my skin settings had an extra slash in it, like this:
(mysitecom).jamroomhosting.com//forums/forum

Obviously a copy/paste mistake on my part.

As soon as I deleted the extra slash, all is correct now. Feeling a bit dumb but oh well.
Thank you for your intuition! =8-D

hiding profile info on my Profile Forum pages (again)

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Michael, on both sites I already have this in the active skin's item_detail/tpl :

but that's not doing the trick, and I suspect this is not actually about the 'sidebar'?...since the sidebar IS correctly being hidden on both site's Forum Profile's forum pages, likely due to the above code being in place.
Some other bit did not transfer over to the new site when I cloned it for some reason, and is allowing the Forums profile Name and Tabs to continue appearing as in my 2nd screenshot above.

changing background color of menu bar subtabs?

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Douglas, thank you - i've now removed the gradient stuff.


Thanks Michael, I've now fixed the Hover to harmonize nicely as well. (but i left the turquoise font there on hover, i kinda like it). How great is this? Wheee!

I didn't dwell on this dropdown menu detail aside from always finding it vaguely ugly and not having it accessible for changing through my ACP, ....but now that I've changed it right on my server I can see how very much nicer it looks on both my sites. The top menu hierarchy of 3 tones of my header color is elegant and pleasing.

Yeah, this was very cool...I'm like a brain surgeon now. hahaha
Thanks as well to Holly for bringing up this subject.
One thing I've learned (the hard way) is to take five minutes to back up my whole site before doing anything like this, and to make a copy of the original .css file just in case I really mess up...I could just replace the original again via ftp.

Thank you!

hiding profile info on my Profile Forum pages (again)

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...and this is the new half-built site where there is too much "Forums" profile info showing on all the discussion pages. Here is the /forums/forum page there, with the part I want to hide marked in red: