Forum Activity for @strumelia

Groups: how to receive notification of new member applying for a private group

Ning To Jamroom

Deb, the reason for a notification of new member application is logically so that the person receiving the notification can then approve the new member (or not). Just wondering- do you need all the people who receive such notifications in the group to be able to approve the new applicant? If not, then why would they need to receive such notifications...especially in a private group?
Is there a reason you need to have multiple people be able to approve new applicants to a private group? Forgive me- just thinking out loud here because i'm thinking there surely must be a simple approach or solution to it.

Help! How do I make Private Notes work?

Using Jamroom

Deb, maybe you know all this already, but... the normal/default way to write a message to any member (provided you do have quota permission, are an Admin, or are two members 'following' each other) is not to first go to their profile page (like on Ning). It's to follow that dropdown link from your name at top... to your Private Messages page. From there, you would click the New Message button, and then from there you'd start typing the profile name in the "Recipient" textbox... and autofill would pull up a list of choices based on what you're typing.
I just wanted to be sure you know how the default is set up before you start coding in custom stuff.

How to limit size/number of profile timeline images?

Using Jamroom

Problem #2:
Members are posting on timelines and I don't want them to.
I had to figure out HOW these clueless members are making their way to other people's profile Timelines and posting in them, thinking they are posting in some sort of discussion area.
Again I logged in as a regular member and can see here are the TWO ways it's happening (see screenshot):
They are on the Main page of the site, looking at the site's Latest Activity Timeline.
Someone has posted a comment on something, and when they HOVER over that Activity feed comment, they get the LINK button. Instead of the link taking them to the item that was commented on , it instead takes them to the commenter's profile page Timeline, where they get a Timeline Update textbox they can use. This is not what i want. They can simply click on the hotlink of the item that was commented on, right in the main page timeline... that works just fine and most members use that method, so I want to ELIMINATE that 'hover button' with the chainlink icon that takes them instead to a profile timeline.

The second way they are winding up making comments in timelines (like I DON'T want) is by again on the Main page activity feed, they are clicking on the "Share This" link in the comment. That link takes them to another textbox where they can type in another comment and 'share it'. Again, I am having trouble with confused members who are using these textboxes to ask questions, apparently thinking they are joining in some sort of forum thread or conversation. It's confusing others as well, when they try to answer by clicking and not seeing a discussion thread... nobody knows where they are at that point. lol
So is there any 'bad' consequence for me to remove the "Share This" link from the Timeline? Will it cause problems? Can I remove it only from regular member quota while leaving the Timeline "ShareThis" link usable to Admins, or does it get removed from everyone then? I do have the Admins able to see/use the "add to timeline" checkbox, btw.

How to limit size/number of profile timeline images?

Using Jamroom

OK problem #1:

I log in as a regular member, and I go to my own profile page. I click on my Latest Activity TAB, or I click on my Activities, ALL link... and it brings me to a text input box for a Status Update. I type in the box, then click "save update".... and I get the dreaded "You do not have the proper privileges to perform that action!" error message. See Screenshot.
This has really annoyed some of my more clueless members...they don't know what they're doing wrong, and I never see or hear about it until they complain. If they aren't allowed to post status updates (and I DON'T want them to be able to), then they shouldn't be able to get access to a textbox for typing their updates into. I can understand their being frustrated!
How do I fix this?

BTW, not sure if it has any bearing on this but....As master admin, and also my Moderator quota- we need to be able to delete items from the Main Page Timeline- I have the trashcan/hover button set up there only viewable to admins. I also like the Admins to be able to see and use the "Add to Timeline" checkbox when we post items.

How to limit size/number of profile timeline images?

Using Jamroom

Ok, it's now 3 weeks later and I'm (finally) feeling better... plus I've now updated my two sites to the latest JR version and all.
I'm now re-visiting this issue, and I can understand Brian's concerns as he posted above.
I'd like to approach my issue from a new and different standpoint, with hopefully easier fixes...

I continue to have new members joining and cluelessly posting things on other people's profile Timelines, thinking they are in a forum discussion or group or something- actually probably having no clue WHERE they are on my site. See this one for example from today: ""I am having trouble figuring out how to get around this website, so forgive me."

I started this thread to try to limit the attachments and size of profile timeline 'updates' members could leave for each other, or on their own Timelines. Well Forget that... now I just need to prevent them from posting on Timelines altogether! It's becoming a headache, my moderators are also complainging becasue we can't adequately explain things to these members... it's apparent they don't really know where they are posting- they seem to get there by clicking on links and buttons that I want to eliminate. Then they post something and wonder why nobody responds and why it's not a discussion.
Hope I can explain this clearly, so I'll use screenshots showing the links/buttons I need to eliminate...
updated by @strumelia: 10/03/17 02:23:57PM

Jamroom 6.1 has been released!

Announcements

Have applied all the updates to my main active site. No big issues.
Am currently watching the 'verify videos' do its slooow thing on over 360 uploaded vids. Slow, but it does show progress, so I guess it's working fine.

My one issue I thought I'd mention that happened identically when updating both my sites:
In the beginning, after updating the Core, I would go to do an integrity check and click to start it and nothing happens except the button goes down but then nothing. I tried multiple times, and refreshing page, hard refreshed browser, tried with another browser... all the same. Rather frustrating, because i coudln't proceed. I also tried doing a simple Reset Caches all by itself first, but no joy either- could not get the IntegCheck to activate.
Finally, instead of starting with the Integ Check, I went to ACP->Reset Image Caches, and did that all by itself FIRST. Right after resetting specifically Image Caches (on both sites, doing the updates on different days) I was able to successfully get the Integrity Check to kick in when I clicked it. Smooth sailing after that, and then continued on down the nice update instruction List in sequence. System check all green, mission accomplished. :D
Thanks JR Team!!

Jamroom 6.1 has been released!

Announcements

Yay!
Will proceed with updating my main active (dulcimer) site on Tuesday then. Thanks!

Jamroom 6.1 has been released!

Announcements

I'm now running Video module 2.0.0.

My CUSTOM/active SKIN has only these two:
jrVideo_index.tpl
jrVideo_item_list.tpl

...no jrVideo___ templates that refer to "players".
So I should be ok then? (unless you mean for me to compare the older Video module templates to the new Video module templates...? but I think you meant in my custom skin, right?)

Jamroom 6.1 has been released!

Announcements

OK, so today I (finally) updated my least active of my two JR sites, the pennywhistleclub.com site.
I followed all the steps above, and aside from a few stubborn items that had to be clicked a few times to 'take', all seems well. I got the queue viewer restarted/refreshed and now clear as well. System check is all green. Nothing self-destructed! Looks like I can now aim for a Tuesday update on my main site... fotmd.com


The only thing that kind of worries me at this point is that my Customized skin, which I originally created from "Ningja"s original jamroom version over two years ago, now has SOOOO many differences from the latest new Ninja skin version that I wouldn't even begin to know what/how to pick things out to apply to my custom skin anymore. But ---am I correct in thinking--- that as long as my custom skin is working and looking as I want it to, I shouldn't really worry about applying Ninja updates to my custom skin? As long as I keep applying core and module updates and the site looks and functions as I like? (and I don't use SiteBuilder, btw) ....Hoping you can reassure me that I'll "be ok" without slogging through the swamp of a thousand code lines that I don't understand anyway in every ninja template.... =:-\

video re-conversion queue add issue

Installation and Configuration

Did you see this item in Brian's list for updating JR?:
"9a) You may need to go to the Dashboard and enable workers - on some updates (depending on what you are updating from) the queue worker pause mechanism has changed and you may need to manually re-enable the queues."

...did you try re-enabling the queues? Or pausing and then re-enabling?