Forum Activity for @strumelia

Events approval not working?

Ning To Jamroom

Yay for you guys! You're the BEST !!! :D

I'll mark this 'solved'.

Adding a menu the main menu of Projam5 Light

Design and Skin Customization

I've only made templates before in drawing programs...totally different animal.
Is there a help location where I can learn specifically about the basic steps to CREATE a new template in Jamroom? I have no clue about what program/editor I need to be in to create, name, and edit a new template, or what initial necessary code I would need to start one with.
Thanks!

Call for help to other Ningsters

Ning To Jamroom

There is a checkbox I recall somewhere to 'enable' the text editor in the forum. Or maybe enable it for profiles (and if your forum is owned by a profile...) Maybe the JR Team guys can tell you where it is... i forget!

-you have both 'editor' modules installed and enabled and configured, right? Maybe that check box is amongst the quota config areas of those...




updated by @strumelia: 04/01/15 05:19:02PM

Call for help to other Ningsters

Ning To Jamroom


Not sure what you mean by that- here is the text box/editor I get when I'm in my forum discussions:

updated by @strumelia: 04/01/15 04:25:20PM

Call for help to other Ningsters

Ning To Jamroom

Perrie have you considered asking a couple of your moderators or trusted users to log into your site and just have a look around and give some feedback for you? You could ask them what they think of your forum choices. Maybe...just maybe, they will have a viewpoint you have not thought of. From the mouths of babes and all that... What's there to lose?
But yes, try to get some help, paid if necessary.

Just curious, did you look into inserting or embedding a 3rd party PHP forum into your JR site? I know NOTHING of this or whether people do it...but just saying maybe it's another possibility.

Call for help to other Ningsters

Ning To Jamroom

I hear you Perrie. Wish I could help.

Hey, you could make a panel with your forum/group taking up the whole width of your Home/index page, and be the biggest thing there, up front and center, with other stuff in smaller modules/panels below it if you want. That way, it LOOKS like the forum is your Home Page. You can have (or not have) anything you want in any size, on your site's Index Home page.

Events approval not working?

Ning To Jamroom

Any other thoughts about this particular issue?

Three quick questions about Groups

Ning To Jamroom

Any help on these questions? Thanks

Call for help to other Ningsters

Ning To Jamroom

Perry, I probably don't have a good suggestion to actually help you, but I will give my own perspective.
On my Ning site, we have quite a few very long running threads in our Forums that members enjoy. The Positive Thread (to talk about uplifting things in one's day), The Drifting Thread (to discuss all non-music related stuff as you please), the Show Us Your Pets Thread (to show and tell about your pets).
These threads go on for months and accumulate HUNDREDS of posts...many with attachments or media embeds. And many pages.
I have my whole forum on ning set to NON-threaded, and this works just great for my site. In fact I've chosen non-threaded for my JR forums as well. When members are posting in reference to something previously posted, they simply use the REPLY button which includes the previous material as quoted, which they can trim as needed.
Here is one such long thread, to show how it comes out:
http://mountaindulcimer.ning.com/forum/topics/the-drifting-thread-1?x=1&id=3745489%3ATopic%3A630530&page=12
(note this one is 'only' 17 pages long still, since I wiped it clean a couple months ago during site Spring cleaning.)
I realize your site and my site are different. But I'm wondering if you have considered whether being so attached to threaded discussion style is actually worth all the difficulties you are having to go through to keep it that way? Is having threaded forum posts a thing worth going down with the Ning Titanic over?

While building my JR site, I've come across a few crossroads where I decided to adapt to a slightly different way of doing things....things that I used to think were absolutely essential, but upon thinking further I realized that some were things I was just being too attached to and inflexible about.
I hope you'll get some other responses with more helpful info than I have for you.
I only mention this because I've had to make some decisions for my own site that were upsetting for me at first, but now months later and getting close to launch those things seem less crucial compared to having my new site. My site won't be exactly like my ning site...but now I'm kinda glad about that, and am ready to have a rebirth!
Meanwhile, I watch the undeniable signs of both ning platforms crumbling away, day by day.

How to add a contact link to the profile?

Installation and Configuration

I'm assuming if one put in this kind of send message link on 'all' profile pages, then you'd have to be sure and set your Private Notes module to allow members to send notes to all members, not just to people they are 'following' with.