Forum Activity for @claygordon

Broken URL in Forum listings on Home Page

Installation and Configuration

@ultrajam:

This is in the home page on a live site.

I appreciate that you're trying to help me figure out how to use debug.

But - it doesn't work for me. No pop-op. TheChocolateLife.com is in the exceptions list of the popup blocker.

I have a test template http://www.thechocolatelife.com/test -- I posted the source yesterday but I can repost here if you want.

I put the debug directive just before the href.

I did search the page "item._profile_url" and it's not there.

I searched the docs for it as well -- https://www.jamroom.net/docs/search?q=item._profile_url

At this point I am at a loss to understand why the call is not working.

updated by @claygordon: 01/23/15 10:02:41AM

Broken URL in Forum listings on Home Page

Installation and Configuration

On my Home page, I added what I think is a nice touch in my Latest Forum Posts listings. In addition to the direct link to the post, there is a link to the category in which the post resides. I swear I tested this before moving from my old server to the new one, but the URL is now broken.

Clicking on a link takes you to ::
http://www.thechocolatelife.com//forum/where-to-buy

It should be:
http://www.thechocolatelife.com/clay/forum/where-to-buy


I think it should be getting my profile url (because all of the forum categories belong to my profile) in {$item._profile_url} but it's not. Unless I am misreading this code - which is entirely possible.
updated by @claygordon: 03/17/15 02:22:53PM

Have to move off Arvixe NOW -- Linode? Digital Ocean? Other?

Jamroom Hosting

@Strumelia -

One thing I will say is that my site is now faster than Arvixe's support site, which is pretty ironic.

And thanks to the suggestion from Brian I am noticing that the site is much more responsive seeming in Firefox than either Chrome or Safari. I will keep them around for testing, but I will be using Firefox for my day-to-day moderational duties.

Editing member comments

Installation and Configuration

@Brian -

One thing I recommend to make this approach easier would be to make the comments field in the datastore browser for user comments a textarea.

The existing field only displays less than 100 chars and many (most?!) comments are much longer - making it hard to edit them here. The alternative is to copy and paste into an editor and then paste back in. Another couple of unnecessary steps.

Editing member comments

Installation and Configuration

@Strumelia -

I can see how you might think so, and it would be a real pain if you had to do this multiple times per day. I've installed the ACP menu module that displays across the top of the screen, so grabbing an ID and going to the User Comments Tools menu is easy. Enter the Datastore browser, type in the ID and click modify.

I noticed one thing, which is when I take the extra steps, is that it forces me to take a pause and think just a little bit more about what I want to do. I find I am less likely to do something that I will regret when I have this little extra pause.

Creating a test template

Installation and Configuration

I tried this yesterday and instead of popping up a window the options were being written into the page. I guess I was inside a foreach loop (?) and so I had to crash the browser to exit.

New Ning To Jamroom Support Forum

Installation and Configuration

@denisdnt -

I am on a Mac and I have the latest version of Filezilla installed (3.10.0.2)

Once FileZilla is launched, go to the FILE menu and select Site Manager.
Create a "New Site"
Enter the information you got from your hosting service provider.

Host is the name of the ftp server.
You probably do not have to enter the port number unless it's not the default FTP port.
Select the protocol. Probably FTP but could be SFTP if you asked for that in your account setup.
Ask to use Encryption if it's available.
- (It is at Arvixe, but because I am on a shared server when I log in I get a warning about it which I dismiss.)
Select the logon type. If you select Normal the password you enter will be used. If you select Ask you will be asked for it each time.
- Anonymous is probably not an option.
Enter your username
Enter your password
Click on Okay.

You will now have saved a site configuration and it will appear in the panel at the left (in this case, Test).
When you want to log in to your FTP server, click on the name of the account to connect to and click on Connect.

If all of the information you provide is correct then you will see the back and forth between Filezilla and the server in the top left panel and the server directory listing will appear. If there's something wrong, the dialog in the top panel will let you know what it is.

updated by @claygordon: 01/23/15 07:50:58AM

Latest Ning Import module released.

Installation and Configuration

@Michael and @Paul (who I know is taking a long weekend but is still checking emails):

Is the category structure in the Ning "Forums" that is preserved when imported into the Site Forum (nothing in the import box) preserved when imported as a group (something entered into the import box)?

This is one of the key questions in the above thread that has not been answered, yet.

Latest Ning Import module released.

Installation and Configuration

Yes, searching within a subset of results is also very cool and, as I mentioned, adding search fields. This is something I am going to explore a lot and write an extensive FAQ for my members.

Latest Ning Import module released.

Installation and Configuration

Perrie -

It turns out that Site Search (in the top nav) searches within Group discussions and other areas of the site and it is really, really powerful because it organizes the results by the type of item found. It's not the category structure, but it is SOOOOOOOOOOOO much better than the Ning search and at the same time, supports serendipitous discovery.

I searched for FAQ and it found it in Forum Topics and Tagged Items (i have a tag w/ FAQ in it).

It is WAY WAY WAY cool.

Just click here for an example:
http://www.thechocolatelife.com/search/results/all/1/4?search_string=Pod

--- edited to add ---

The search feature alone is worth so much. I am going to be writing a special FAQ to let my members know about it. I can see using it for many, many, things, especially because I can add my own database fields to search.
updated by @claygordon: 01/22/15 04:51:21PM