Forum Activity for @strumelia

Forgot how to rename cloned skin...again

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Ah ok, wonderful!

So if I am understanding it right... I will have to wait until my Developer Tools is updated before I can clone a real customized clone of my currently customized Ningja skin then. In other words, i can't update my Ningja skin until I can make a clone of it that retains all the customizations i have made over the past several weeks.
I don't trust my current knowledge and abilities to copy over all my various changes into templates on my server end in the meantime- I think i'm liable to screw it up and then lose everything I've done.
updated by @strumelia: 12/29/14 09:23:54AM

Looking to very migrate soon - process and json and media files

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"Once that's all taken care of I will re-archive my Ning community. I am thinking of just deleting the .json files and starting over with them. Hopefully it will then ask me to retry to download the media so I don't have to start from scratch there."
ChocolateLife, I would suspect you will have to start from scratch because the Ning Archiver seems to reset itself every 24 hours on each feature- I wonder whether it will 'play nice' with the prior folders of media you have in place already on your computer. If your plan works I'd love to know it for myself, so please let us know if it works!

I assume you realize that existing private inbox messages will not carry over from Ning. Also, if you want your new JR site to support private messages between members, you'll also need to install JR's "Private notes" module, which is not in the Ning bundle.
Best of luck. (-eating some chocolate right now!)
updated by @strumelia: 12/29/14 09:23:54AM

Forgot how to rename cloned skin...again

Ning To Jamroom

Micheal, I hear what you are saying, thanks.

When you say "Yeah, its done."- what do you mean?

I just tried cloning my customized Ningja skin again and (again) the new clone did not exhibit all the header template changes, links, logo, colors, etc that I had customized over the past couple of weeks.
Am I not understanding something, did you change something?
updated by @strumelia: 12/29/14 09:23:54AM

adding language strings

Design and Skin Customization

Michael, thanks, I think I understand what you said.

Problems importing members

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Yes I mean the auto login. But yes like I said I'd like to see at least a 90 day option- or 'something' that's in between 14 days and eternity (!).
updated by @strumelia: 12/29/14 09:23:54AM

a few things i still need to figure out

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"i got a forum list by _updated (assumming that actualy will list by most recently replied to) but.. is there a way to add an excerpt from each forum post below the title link"

SE did you get a main page module for Latest Forum Discussions?
I'm jealous!
updated by @strumelia: 12/29/14 09:23:54AM

Problems importing members

Ning To Jamroom

ok i understand Brian. I still think an option for 90 days is good to add- since the difference between 14 days and 'forever' is awfully huge. Plenty of folks go on trips or vacations for 14 days- it's not very long. I would def set my network for the 90 day option, to give people a nice break from annoyances, but not keep long departed folks logged in forever. None of these settings is actually 'needed'- one could sign in every time they visit- the whole idea is about making it easier on people...less annoying to keep signing in too often. Thanks for considering it, it would be nice especially for all my older members who take life at a slower pace.
updated by @strumelia: 12/29/14 09:23:54AM

Forgot how to rename cloned skin...again

Ning To Jamroom

Brian, you mean I'll do better in future by making changes to my custom skin templates while in my SERVER cpanel, rather than through the JR ACP?

Michael- I agree, "clone" should mean clone, and if cloning doesn't actually result in an identical skin (with its modifications) then that's going to cause a whole lot of problems and confusion for people like me.

My goal here was to clone my customized ningja skin and name it Lisa1, then when the new Ningja update came out I would update my original Ningja skin, not worrying about it overwriting my customizations because I had my Lisa1 set aside. After the Ningja skin updated, then I would 'compare' the new Ningja to my cloned custom skin and:

Add my own customizations to the new updated Ningja? and then 'clone' that to a new Lisa2 and activate Lisa2. Then after Lisa2 seemed good I could delete Lisa1 which lacked the Ningja update... is this the sequence how I should go about it?
-of course this assumes that a cloned skin will keep the customizations I created on it in JR ACP...which you say you are going to make it function that way?

Should I attempt to go into my server cpanel and search out all the tweaks I've done in my Ningja skin and apply them in the custom skin folder templates now, or should I just wait until you change how the cloner functions? I know you guys are working on a new ningja skin update soon, so I'll need to know how to save my custiomizations properly before I update Ningja.

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

2 tiny questions bout new search version

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My husband and i are all about bicycles too. Lugged steel.
updated by @strumelia: 12/29/14 09:23:54AM

Forgot how to rename cloned skin...again

Ning To Jamroom

Hmm, are you saying that any edits to the skin within the JR ACP need to be also done from my server end, or INSTEAD be done on my server end, where the skin templates are? Are you saying that skin edits within JR acp are sort of temporary and not sticky? Not quite understanding, but I had better understand it darn well before the next Ningja skin update, fer shur! =8-*
updated by @strumelia: 12/29/14 09:23:54AM