Forum Activity for @claygordon

Ningja skin update

Ning To Jamroom

@Brian -

I am having trouble interpreting compare. With nsNewChocSkin active - this is a clone of nsNingja - I display the template list. Next to index.tpl, I click on Compare.

Above the left-hand column, the header reads nsNewChocSkin/index.tpl (1.0.11)
Above the right-hand column, the header reads nsNewChocSkin/index.tpl (1.0.11)
Above the right-hand column, jrNingja/index.tpl (1.0.11) is selected in the pop-up.

I downloaded index.tpl from the nsNewChocSkin folder.
I made nsNingja the active skin.
I opened up the index.tpl and saved it locally.
I have a text diff utility, so I did the compare.
There is no difference between the two.

I did the same thing for desktop_header_menu.tpl.
The diff utility says there is no difference.

The filesystem (get info on my mac) says there is a one-byte difference between each of the two sets of files; the clone is 1 byte smaller.

Paul has all my login credentials.

Ningja skin update

Ning To Jamroom

Is my problem here that I haven't uploaded the 1.0.12 update?

-- edited to add --

@Brian, can we go back to first principles?

I made changes to the base jrNingja skin.

I want to clone that skin so that updates to the next version 1.0.12 won't blow away any of the changes I've made.

So, I clone the skin and make that new skin the active skin.

WHY are there differences between the default skin and the cloned skin?
updated by @claygordon: 01/07/15 08:06:31AM

Ningja skin update

Ning To Jamroom

@Brian -

Not sure what I am seeing here - I don't see how to get index.tpl from jrNingja skin and nsNewChocSkin side by side

nsNewChocSkin skin -- http://www.thechocolatelife.info/thechocolatelife/imagez/ScreenShot-compare1.png
jrNingja skin -- http://www.thechocolatelife.info/thechocolatelife/imagez/ScreenShot-compare2.png
Compare nsNewChocSkin skin -- http://www.thechocolatelife.info/thechocolatelife/imagez/ScreenShot-compare3.png
Compare nsNewChocSkin skin -- http://www.thechocolatelife.info/thechocolatelife/imagez/ScreenShot-compare4.png
updated by @claygordon: 01/07/15 07:51:59AM

Ningja skin update

Ning To Jamroom

I need to do this manually - the compare function does not enable me to compare across skins, right?

Membership segmentation - feature request?

Ning To Jamroom

@Paul -

Yes, please. But not today or this week. I need to get a handle on images and why my cloned skin is not working properly.

I want to display the profile_location (which could include city/state) and profile_country on the member's profile -- between the profile name and online status. If there's a space issue, just the country is okay.

New member sign up should include asking for this information and stuffing it into those fields if it's not already captured or usable or whatever.

Then, the jrNewsletter module wants to be able to access those fields. It should be pretty easy to find a table of regions that countries are assigned to so that jrNewsletter can use that.
updated by @claygordon: 01/07/15 07:16:00AM

Ningja skin update

Ning To Jamroom

@Michael:

I go here to clone the skin:

http://www.thechocolatelife.info/thechocolatelife/developer/clone_skin

I clone the skin (calling it nsNewChocSkin) and I return to:

http://www.thechocolatelife.info/thechocolatelife/core/skin_admin/info/skin=nsNewChocSkin

I select this as the active skin and save changes and what I see does not reflect the changes I made in the default Ningja skin.

I downloaded one of the template files I know I edited from the cloned skin directory and I can see the changes. I look at the template in the template editor and I see that the changes are there in the template.

The changes I made to footer.tpl show up in the footer.

The changes I made to header_menu_desktop.tpl are in the file - mostly. I modified the word "Discussions" to "Forum" in the top menu nav and that link is missing in the cloned and updated skin.

The logo image has been replaced with the default Jamroom image (resized and relocated, which indicates that the CSS has transferred over).

But the home page is entirely messed up - I made a lot of changes in the index.tpl that mess up the display of the footer on the home page.

I am beginning to wonder if there are some changes in the new beta core that are having an influence?

I will leave the site up with the cloned skin active for a while so you can see.
updated by @claygordon: 01/07/15 07:10:39AM

Thank you

Ning To Jamroom


I have to echo @Strumelia's comments here. The response and support has been nothing short of fantastic. Already this morning I've been back and forth on small points a half-dozen times. It's a small thing but I did sign up for the annual support level yesterday and I've already let some other people I work with know about how pleased I am with the responsiveness here.

Images and Galleries - Don't understand the functionality

Ning To Jamroom

Good to know. I will look through the css for the transform and comment it out to see the effect it has.

Membership segmentation - feature request?

Ning To Jamroom

@Michael -

As I say, it's a feature request.

What I want to do is associate a country with each user, and then for the jrNewsletter module to allow me to target emails by country, and, ideally, to associate countries with regions. I do a lot of traveling so I don't want my "home" country to be updated each time I log when I am traveling outside the US.

I am happy with asking members to update this manually, though one part of my question is whether this was in the Ning member archive export. I can imagine them "forgetting" it.

Because jrNewsletter needs to interact with the db to figure out who to send to, this is not something that should be done on an ad-hoc basis by me (even if I knew where to begin to implement it).

Images and Galleries - Don't understand the functionality

Ning To Jamroom

That explains it then. The option is to go through all the language files and make those changes.

Which raises a question ... do the changes to a language file survive a skin update or core update?