Forum Activity for @strumelia

Is the importer tool ok to use now again?

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I can't remember who on the JR Team was fixing it last week, but they said not to do any Ning archive importing until it was tweaked. (sorry tried searching but no luck). Did that ImportTool fix get completed yet?

Is it now ok again to do a Ning archive content import again?
I'm planning to import a fresher archive over the old one, to see how that tests.
Thank you!
updated by @strumelia: 02/12/15 12:02:21PM

Dumb but easy-to-answer question! :D

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Ok, this is quick but I want to be sure...
I now have two Ning Archives in separate folders on my server- the fiorst one from two months ago that has been imported into my JR site already.
The newer one is only one month old (fresher) and I am about to use it to import over my older ning content to see how that goes.
(I have safety copies of both on my computer by the way)

My server provider Arvixe is not happy with the space I'm currently using on my (cheap for now) shared server, so I want to delete the older archive. Then I'll import the newer content and leave the newer archive only on the server.
On my server, I have already moved the older archive to a folder called "Older", and the new (not yet imported) ning archive is unzipped and sitting in a folder called Ning_Archive....ready for import later this week.

Is it ok to now delete the older ning archive? In other words --> Does my JR site still need to currently reference the older ning archive stuff in any way? Deleting it is not going to mess up anything that's already been imported and working fine on my jr site, right? I just don't want some weird meltdown to occur because I was clueless.
Thanks!
updated by @strumelia: 02/16/15 02:06:51AM

Issues on member Profile Pages

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Well said Chocolate....

Paul- I had to go look up what "WRT" meant, and found that... it's short for "Water Restoration Technician". Who knew?? But glad you're going to fix the leak. l o l

Events missing from Top Nav - and home page

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Chocolate, are you using the jr beta Site Builder, or not? Just curious, thanks.

Unwanted line-breaks

Off Topic

JR team scores again! :D

Home Page - Replacing Top Discussions with Forum > Newest Posts

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Choco- I agree with your summation. It's pretty important to make this happen.

Issues on member Profile Pages

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ChoclateLife says:
"With respect to the Discussions/Groups issue raised above, the issue is even larger and - I think Paul and Douglas - will provide the reason to make the change I ask for. If you read this Strumelia, please chime in.
What's important is context, and that context is complicated through conflating " group_discuss " and " forum ".
On the home page, a mouseover on "All" next to Latest Discussions has the path conclude in " group_discuss ". The path for Discussions in the top nav is " /username/forum ".
This is a problem given that the same word - Discussions - is, to my mind confusingly, used to describe different destinations. I would address this issue by explicitly using the label "Top Group Discussions" and changing "Discussions" to "Forums" in the top nav, As the prototypical user of the site is someone familiar with Ning that differentiation in wording reduces the cognitive burden of switching platforms.
Again, thinking about context. If I am on MY profile page, then clicking on "All" next to Latest Discussions should show MY discussions - the discussions I created and I contributed to - ** IRRESPECTIVE of whether they belong to a group or they are part of the Forum **. They are all discussions with different properties (group ownership or category).
Following through with the home page usage and the wording Latest Discussions, " /group_discuss " would be more logically consistent than " /groups " even though all discussions belong to groups.
Taking this to the next step, if I am looking at any other member's profile clicking on "All" next to Latest Discussions should display all of the discussions that member created and/or contributed to."

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Strumelia says: This is the same GroupDiscussions vs ForumDiscussions confusion issue that we've been discussing with Brian over here:
https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/forum/new_posts/20131/home-page-replacing-top-discussions-with-forum-newest-posts#last

This is something that is really going to need to be sorted out because it's causing various confusing issues in terms of navigation and expected content. I have noticed the same issue Chocolate is describing- in a profile when clicking on the member's 'discussions'...we get taken to Groups....when in fact we want to see the forum discussions that the member has most recently started....OR, as Choc suggests, we should see the latest Forum AND Group discussions that that member has started. (perhaps with the option of also seeing that member's latest POSTS in Forum Discussions or Forum AND group discussions.

Long story short: We can't keep by passing FORUMS on our sites and pointing only to the discussions within Groups.
updated by @strumelia: 01/02/15 01:00:11PM

Profile comments appear to be missing on import

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Paul da man. :D

Home Page - Replacing Top Discussions with Forum > Newest Posts

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Ah, thanks for the detailed explanation Paul- good to know how it actually works.

Home Page - Replacing Top Discussions with Forum > Newest Posts

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"OK - I thought in Ning there was no forum - just discussions? That's likely the source of the confusion. "
I thought so. That's why JR created the whole newer jrForums module after the initial bunch of modules- to receive the FORUMs discussions from our Ning archive...which are completely separate from the GROUPS' discussions.