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Missing 8 groups on Ning Import

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Paul -

When you get the chance that would be great, thanks.

Missing 8 groups on Ning Import

Installation and Configuration

I have no problem deleting groups I don't want to keep active.

However, I am MORE interested in keeping the content and being able to "close" an entire group so that it cannot be edited or added to. There is some legacy goodness in all of them.

Missing 8 groups on Ning Import

Installation and Configuration

Unapproved? I have no idea what that flag could possibly mean.

The "unapproved" groups are active and visible right now:

discoverhocolate.ning.com/groups
http://discoverchocolate.ning.com/group/homechocolatemakers << unapproved

Home Brew Chocolate has 317 members and was last updated on 12/26/2014.

Sounds like approved to me!

IIRC, it's the first groups I created that did not get imported ... sounds like legacy code to me. Something from V1.x?

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Douglas -

Thanks for taking a look at it. I have no idea where to begin figuring out a solution.

Home Page Latest Forum URLs - all broken

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Brian -

I agree. It occurred to me, but I hesitated to suggest a programmatic solution.

I don't even need to have it on the template page. How about making it work like integrity check and put up a list that compares the working version of module templates against the archive version and the templates in the current skin against the latest updated version? If the two are different then use the red ball symbol. If they are the same, use the green one.

Users can cut and paste the contents of that window into a document for reference - and then keep their own changelogs. That's what I would do - use the list as a framework for keeping track of the changes I make from update to update.

--- edited to fix grammar and typos --
updated by @claygordon: 02/04/15 05:41:45PM

Home Page Latest Forum URLs - all broken

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Douglas:

If I was a coder for a living, then "being able to figure out what templates (were modified by what was done) might be a trivial task.

But I am not. I actually think I am fairly representative of most Ningsters. We know some CSS, we know some HTML, we'd prefer not to have to dive into PHP as it's really not a core competency.

You live and breathe this stuff every day. I don't want to. I make stupid mistakes and I want stuff spelled out for me so maybe I will make fewer stupid mistakes.

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I have a much different problem here - same URL problem as in jrForum on the home page in reverse: maybe.

URL for Groups: http://www.thechocolatelife.com/groups

Click on the top group (Startup Central)

http://www.thechocolatelife.com/clay/groups/3/startup-central

Click on " View All "

http://www.thechocolatelife.com/clay/group_discuss/group_id=3

There are no discussions.

Edit the URL to:

http://www.thechocolatelife.com/group_discuss/group_id=3

And there are now discussions - but they are not limited to the Startup Central Group.
updated by @claygordon: 02/04/15 10:50:00AM

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Debug does not work for me - puts everything in-line, not in a pop-up.

I think the template I am looking for is:

modules/jrGroupDiscuss/templates/index.tpl

Line 11:

If I want to order the display by when discussions are updated (which includes adding comments) I need to replace the

order_by="_item_id numerical_desc ...

with

order_by="insert_the_right_variable_here desc ...

What's the value for " insert_the_right_variable_here "?

updated by @claygordon: 03/07/15 04:56:26PM

Missing 8 groups on Ning Import

Installation and Configuration

Paul -

You should have received these.

Home Page Latest Forum URLs - all broken

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Douglas -

It didn't take too long to merge the above changes into my current working code. All the URLs are now working correctly.

I have to reiterate two requests I've made in the past month to help us understand when changes to a core skin might affect changes we've made in a clone skin:

1) The changelog for a module/skin update should indicate which templates were affected, if any, so we know what we need to compare against to see the diffs.

2) There needs to be a way to review the change logs after we've performed the update so we can refer to specific changes after the item has been installed.

I wonder how many of the other issues I've been having are because I don't know how a module update might affect a template I've edited. Frankly, it's not feasible to compare every template to see if there might be any changes we need to know about.