Forum Activity for @claygordon

comment back (tip)

Installation and Configuration

Brian and Strumelia -

I am late to this discussion as I have had my hands full elsewhere.

Exactly where on the page does the Comment Back appear, and where in the code do I want to insert it to make it appear there?

TIA.

UX observation - keep tag cloud context

Installation and Configuration

Michael -

This does address the issue of making it very clear what a visitor is looking at:

1) items that are tagged with a particular tag
2) the entire tag cloud

Pagination is another issue outside the scope of my original request but it obviously needs to be taken care of.

When this is done, I would like to add the "All" to the tag cloud header on my home page so having that code fragment would be really helpful.

Profile Page Latest Forums - changing

Installation and Configuration

QUESTION ONE:

The page in question is currently at http://www.thechocolatelife.info/thechocolatelife/clay
When DNS propagates it will appear at http://www.thechocolatelife.com/clay

On the Profile page, the content block header says "Latest Forums" and the text for this comes from the following lines of code, which are found in the skin's profile_index_discussion.tpl file:

[code]

{jrCore_lang skin=$_conf.jrCore_active_skin id="20" default="Latest"} {jrCore_lang skin=$_conf.jrCore_active_skin id="19" default="Discussions"}   {jrCore_lang skin=$_conf.jrCore_active_skin id="30" default="All"}


So, the phrase "Latest Forums" is a concat of two calls to
[code]
jrCore_lang skin=$_conf.jrCore_active_skin id="xx" default="sometext"
[/code]

I have already changed the text of ID 19 to "Forums" so that appears in my top nav so I can't change the text in the language file.

From my prior fiddling, I seem to remember that I can't just replace the default text here to some other text. To make it say something like "Group Discussions" I just replace everything with the h3 tags in the title div:

[code]
Group Discussions
[/code]

QUESTION TWO:

If you look inside the content block for the Latest Forums on my profile page you will see some entries from my GROUP's Discussions.

The display order on this is order_by="_updated desc":

[code]


{jrCore_list module="jrGroupDiscuss" order_by="_updated desc" profile_id=$_profile_id template=$pd_tpl}


[/code]

What does updated mean? The last time a comment was added? If that's the case, then what's being displayed is not correct (last updated in September 2014?) and I know that there is at least one group discussion (in the DIY group) that I have commented on within the past 48 hours.

I want to make sure that this list is updated to reflect the most recently updated discussions in Group Discussions.

QUESTION THREE:

I have already modified the actual description itself to include the last updated:

[code]
@{$item.original_profile_url} - {jrCore_lang skin=$_conf.jrCore_active_skin id="37" default="Comments"}: {$item.discuss_comment_count|default:0}; Last updated on {$item._updated|jrCore_format_time:false:"%F"}; Created {$item._created|jrCore_format_time:false:"relative"}
[/code]

What I would like to do know is include the name of the group the entry was posted in, and it would go in the line above the @name. (Posted in: Group Name) with Group Name being an active link.. I have tried a number of different constructions but I can't format the selection of the group name properly and get it to work.
updated by @claygordon: 03/04/15 11:13:24PM

One of my most prolific members ... missing almost all content?

Installation and Configuration


Paul, it turns out I was thinking the same thing and the stuff is there in the main site forums, not the group forums.

Not sure how I "disable profile forums in all but the 'site profile' quota" but that sounds like it might work. I don't have a site profile quota.

One of my most prolific members ... missing almost all content?

Installation and Configuration

Brian -

Paul and I will be looking into this today. I just noticed it last night (can't check all 10,000 members' records) when someone put a comment on the member profile.

I have NOT done anything with that profile. They must be in the right quota because if were not I would not even be seeing the modules listed in the profile's navigation menu bar.

Missing profile photo on private note

Installation and Configuration

Sounds good all the way around.

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

Jamroom Hosting

@Paul -

Sent you the information you requested via email.

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

Jamroom Hosting

Well, this could have been a real problem - but was patient and I worked it all out.

I initiated the transfer request and got an email back from Arvixe saying that I was using too much disk space (on an UNLIMITED account) and I was storing backups on the server against their Acceptable Use Policy.

It turns out that the directory with the Jamroom install had about 34GB in it and the Softaculous backup folder was about 37GB. I deleted the Softaculous backup and ran the the Delete Media tool (my browser crashed towards the end of that process but everything appears to be okay - I think the process was still running on the server, anyway, by the time I got the browser reloaded and I re-ran the tool everything was clean) and then manually deleted all of the /cache folders and got it down to a tad over 28GB. Crazy. There was only 12GB in my Ning archive.

So, the Arvixe tech support guy on the phone (which is cool - it is almost 02h00 here) got the person who's going to do the transfer on the phone to make sure I wouldn't get another email saying I was still using too much disk space on my UNLIMITED account. I just hope it happens quickly (gigabit ethernet between boxes too much to hope for?) so I can update the DNS soon.

Setting an alarm for an hour from now to see if the email has come that the Xfer is done with the IP address I need. And then it's crossed fingers to hope that performance improves enough to make the whole process worth the effort.

Can I Non Techie Do This?

Installation and Configuration

@Michael -

If you think about the header/menu design I want to move to (there's a thread on this), can I do just the header, footer, and index page using Site Builder?

I need to pull the CSS classes for the profile page menu and use them for the header. I don't want to have to redesign every page.

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

Jamroom Hosting

Thanks @SE for the recco. I don't feel qualified to jump into a bare metal environment where I am expected to manage the server - and they want an extra $40-100/mo for cPanel and, and, and ...

Maybe if I felt I was competent to manage the server, or thought it was important to me to learn how to manage a server I would feel differently. But I want to focus on my community and on chocolate, not worrying about Apache config files and working from a command prompt.