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Strumelia
@strumelia
10/27/16 08:21:09PM
3,605 posts

Inviting 2000+ Ning members to log in - anything I should know before jumping in?
Ning To Jamroom

Good luck! I know how exciting it is. :)
Watch the number of remaining invites slowly go down to 0 in your "Queue Viewer" TAB of your Dashboard. Also watch your "users online" tab in your Dashboard to see who is logging in.
You can keep track of when members logged in in your User Account Browser (/user/browser).
Yaaay!
Strumelia
@strumelia
10/27/16 06:22:24PM
3,605 posts

Help Understanding User & Profile Questions/Information
Ning To Jamroom

Deb, I 'think' what happens then is:
if you set up a new 'required' question AFTER a user is already approved (i.e. logging in and not using the signup form anymore)...then when they go to their Account settings and change 'anything', when they hit SAVE they will be required to fill in a response to any new 'required' fields before they can Save their settings changes. If you do the same but don't set it as 'required' then they can go in their account settings to make changes, they can see the new question, but they can choose to ignore it and save their account settings without answering it.
As admin, make several test questions in the Profile and Account form designers- test different settings and then log in as a regular member and see if you can see them on your profile page, in your Profile TAB and in your Account TAB.
updated by @strumelia: 10/27/16 06:29:04PM
Strumelia
@strumelia
10/27/16 03:30:35PM
3,605 posts

how to keep "Now following" out of "latest activity" feed on main page
Ning To Jamroom

In addition to removing the "following" notices from my main page activity feed (soooo boring!), I also eliminated profle page comments. Your sites may be different, but I have like 6 or 8 "greeters' who welcome new members with a friendly greeting on their profile page comment wall. It makes new members feel at home, but it would be excruciating to have 20 or 30 variations of "Hi ___, welcome to our friendly site! Glad you could join us!"... every day on the activity feed. Plus many profile page comments tend to be somewhat personal, like "Just stopping by Bob- it was great to meet you and your husband at the festival on thursday." Don't need those on the main page either. Just a thought since you're removing the 'following' notices.

Deb, do you have an index_activity_pager.tpl ? If not, then Joanna's code might not work, because it refers to it. In that case you could try my code there in your skin's Index instead, since mine refers simply to index_activity.tpl

updated by @strumelia: 10/27/16 03:31:03PM
Strumelia
@strumelia
10/27/16 12:42:26PM
3,605 posts

Inviting 2000+ Ning members to log in - anything I should know before jumping in?
Ning To Jamroom

Yes!-
1) assuming you have tested 1 email address thorugh your Mailgun tools to make sure mailgun is set up right.
2) Assuming you have checked the validity of all your member emails using the Kickbox validator tool, so there won't be a lot of bounces which could trigger a Mailgun preventative action. Invalid email members can be filtered into a separate quota- and you won't select that quota when sending invitations.
3) In your JR Email Core module, under Global, set the Max Send Rate to "5" or at most "10" per minute. This will throttle the emails going out so that Mailgun does not view it as a spam sendout and shut you off. with 2000 members, it'll take 6 or 7 hours to send them all out...not a big deal. You can WATCH the number of remaining invites slowly go down to 0 in your "Queue Viewer" TAB of your Dashboard....cool to do. :) Be sure to set the MaxSendRate throttle back to "disabled" when you are done sending out all the invite emails.

Remember there will be members who cannot mangae to log in for one reason or another with their temp passwords- be prepared to reset their account to a NEW easy PW yourself, and then email them your instructions and the pw you manually created for them...they can then log in and change thier pw again if they like.
Strumelia
@strumelia
10/27/16 11:46:24AM
3,605 posts

Help Understanding User & Profile Questions/Information
Ning To Jamroom

Deb, from your own Profile page as admin, click the gear settings.
Then you see the two tabs for Profile and for Account.
In each of those tabs, there will be a Form Designer button.
The form designer in Profiles TAB will show various profile page stuff - for ProfileCreate and Profile Settings.
The form designer in Account TAB will show a dropdown menu for User/Account and User/Signup.

In those four areas, you can go through and Modify each data input field and choose who gets to SEE the info...whether it's info that is asked when a new member wants to SIGN UP for your site (set the "Display" to "all users including logged out since they won't be a logged in user yet. -BTW you must choose the "display to all including logged out" to allow applicants to your site to SEE a "user/signup" field question that you want an applicant must answer before you approve them).
Or.... under User/account -> you'd set the display to "Admins" because you want you and your mods to be able to still see the member's answers to sign up questions even later on when they are a member...but you don't want regular members to see those questions or answers, ever.

In the Profile TAB form designer, you can modify what input data shows on the profile's sidebar, and to whom it is visible. For example, you'd probably set the profile_image and profile_name in the "display" menu to "Normal Users"...which means to allow ALL site users (admins and regular members etc) to see it when they are logged in.
Go through all your form designer settings under both your Profile TAB and your Account TAB, and include going through the drop-down menu at upper right while in any form designer, to see all your options. (for example, that's how you move between the Form Designer fields for user/signup and user/account.)

updated by @strumelia: 10/27/16 11:50:52AM
Strumelia
@strumelia
10/26/16 04:33:48PM
3,605 posts

Putting videos and members into grid (site builder - combined video)
Ning To Jamroom

Oh, and here I was not posting on this thread 'cause I thought my suggestion would not work for anyone using SiteBuilder. So it worked fine, Deb?

Do you have your (combined) /video page grid the way you want it as well?
Strumelia
@strumelia
10/26/16 04:16:56PM
3,605 posts

Putting videos and members into grid (site builder - combined video)
Ning To Jamroom

When people are using SiteBuilder, I never know whether my posts might actually be helpful, or maybe they'd just confuse things even more. I never tried SB (it was still in beta for a long time while I was making my site).. and at this stage of the game SB might change up my site and mean a whole new learning curve for me.
Strumelia
@strumelia
10/26/16 02:03:26PM
3,605 posts

Putting videos and members into grid (site builder - combined video)
Ning To Jamroom

I have this in my SKIN's : jrProfile_item_list.tpl (hoping I have the right template you guys are wanting...I don't use SiteBuilder) :
<div class="item">
    <div class="container">
        {if isset($_items)}
        {foreach from=$_items item="item"}

            {if $item@first || ($item@iteration % 6) == 1}
            <div class="row">
            {/if}
                <div class="col2{if $item@last || ($item@iteration % 6) == 0} last{/if}">
                    <div class="img-profile">
                        <a href="{$jamroom_url}/{$item.profile_url}">{jrCore_module_function function="jrImage_display" module="jrProfile" type="profile_image" item_id=$item._profile_id size="medium" crop="portrait" class="iloutline img_scale" alt=$item.profile_name title=$item.profile_name}</a>
                    </div>
                    <div class="center mb10">
                        <a href="{$jamroom_url}/{$item.profile_url}" class="media_title">@{$item.profile_name}</a>
                    </div>
                </div>
            {if $item@last || ($item@iteration % 6) == 0}
            </div>
            {/if}

        {/foreach}
        {/if}
    </div>
</div>

That gives me this: http://fotmd.com/profile

Curtis- notice the code has 'size' and 'crop' for the images. Also that 'name' is centered, and comes after the image.

updated by @strumelia: 10/26/16 02:04:01PM
Strumelia
@strumelia
10/24/16 06:44:51PM
3,605 posts

signup validation - what do you use?
Ning To Jamroom

I absolutely use Admin validation. Plus a few anti-spammer type signup questions. My members put a lot of value in feeling very safe on my site.
Plus, when you get an admin validation notification, it gives you the applicant's IP address, so you can run a quick check to see if they're actually located in some dubious country when they claim to be located somewhere else.
Strumelia
@strumelia
10/23/16 09:54:51AM
3,605 posts

where are my custom smileys stored?
Using Jamroom

Micheal, I did all this and it worked like a charm. Thank you so much!! Having about 180 smileys, this saved me a chunk of tedious one-by-one work adding them to my new site. :D I'll mark this thread Solved.
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