Forum Activity for @claygordon

Clay Gordon
@claygordon
05/23/23 11:40:45AM
758 posts

SSO Jamroom integration with Ghost
Jamroom Developers

Brian:

I know it’s for node.js – which makes sense given the Ghost stack. My developer has no problem setting up a simple middleware server dedicated to handling these requests.

I have been assuming the user is coming from Ghost and the first time through thus not have a user account. If they are authenticated on the Ghost side we have both unique (email) and non-unique (username) IDs and a gravatar or avatar.

Ghost does not use passwords but IIRC Jamroom can autogenerate them and maybe email them? (It has been a while.)

It would be nice to also set up a Ghost account if someone signs up for Jamroom without a Ghost account.

Small steps.
Clay Gordon
@claygordon
05/23/23 11:15:54AM
758 posts

SSO Jamroom integration with Ghost
Jamroom Developers

Brian:

It has been a while.

SSO is a sore topic on the Ghost side, to be sure. There have been some SSO progress but nothing official. My sense is, according to people in the know, that it is doable using a custom adapter in Ghost and a service that sits between Ghost and the other site. I was thinking of asking my developer to use the OneAll API and Passport to build something for Ghost.
Clay Gordon
@claygordon
05/23/23 10:53:29AM
758 posts

SSO Jamroom integration with Ghost
Jamroom Developers

I have an active Ghost site which is essentially a blogging platform with comments.

I also have a live (but dormant) Jamrom site with about nine years worth of Forum postings. It’s there for archive and SEO purposes.

I am looking to revive the Forums component of the Jamroom site and am looking for a bi-directional SSO solution.

Is OneAll appropriate for this use or are there other recommendations people have?

TIA,
Clay
updated by @claygordon: 10/04/23 07:34:25AM
Clay Gordon
@claygordon
04/06/16 12:26:50PM
758 posts

Custom "spreadsheet" module to display data
Jamroom Developers

blindmime:Sounds to me that rather than creating an Aparna module, you should just make a jamroom website. The profiles would each be chocolate companies. You would have galleries, blogs, videos, store products for each company profile. Everything you've listed above could be done and more. You would just need to customize your skin to display what you want.

I already have a JR site with about 10k members. I want to include the functionality within the existing community rather than create an entirely different site. Part of this is the amount of time in my day and I already know from experience that splitting this content off into another site is problematic for many reasons - only one of which is the requirement for a separate login.

Part of the UI is the ability as I was conceiving of it was to be able to display the data in a columnar format, like the profile browser, but sortable. I could create a new module and the form would collect all the data, and tie it into the existing Search functionality. I would lose the sortable tabular display (and scoped search and export) but I get all of the rest of the functionality "free."

Something to consider. Thanks. I still want to do the tabular display but will think about this approach if I can't end up doing that.

:: Clay
Clay Gordon
@claygordon
04/06/16 11:03:42AM
758 posts

Custom "spreadsheet" module to display data
Jamroom Developers

I want to crowd-source the creation of a database of chocolate companies.

I have a bunch of lists that I can upload to seed the database, and I am looking to enable my members to add to it and to suggest updates.

I know I can use Aparna to create a new database table for a module and then use the form designer to create the "Create" and "Update" forms, but I not a good enough programmer to be able to write the code to display and manipulate the contents.

The page would be visible to visitors (not logged in).
The table needs to be searchable (search scoped to this one table).
The table needs to be sortable.
Not all columns would be displayed.
Hidden content would be shown by expanding and collapsing the DOM.
Some companies will have multiple locations.
Only members who are logged in would be allowed to enter a new company.
All new entries would be flagged for review before being visible.
Anyone (visitor or member) would be able to suggest an update to an entry. The update suggestions are only available to admins.
Content would be downloadable only to members of specific quotas.
It would be nice to be able to interface to a mapping API to display the company on a map.
It would be nice to link this to Rating, Like-It, ShareThis, and Comments modules.
It would be nice if people could upload photos.
It would be nice if we could create a separate table of products each company makes.

Thoughts?

Has anyone already done something like this? I do have a modest budget to pay someone to adapt what they have already done the basics or I would be happy to partner with someone to do this and then rev-share selling it through the Marketplace.

TIA.

updated by @claygordon: 07/06/16 12:20:45AM
Clay Gordon
@claygordon
04/01/16 08:36:45AM
758 posts

Enhancing the Output of Start/End Date in Events
Using Jamroom

Many of the events on my site take place over the course of several days and the default setup does not support the idea of displaying both a start and end date.

I also wanted the ability to display the starting time, but only if the event was not marked as an all-day event.

My event creation form enables me to list both a start and an end date ( item.event_end_date ) as well as to indicate whether or not the event lasts all day or starts at a particular time. YMMV.

The corresponding templates need to have the code necessary to display all of this information.

Following is the code that generates the dates display in the attached. It goes in two templates:

jrEvent item_list.tpl
jrEvent item_detail.tpl

I have not included line numbers because I have modified my templates in other ways and I can't guarantee they'd be the same in yours. However it should just take a few moments to paste it in. I don't remember if the default event form as the end date field, so you may need to use the Form Designer to add it in. I used "event_end_date" for the field name - if you use something else then the code below will need to be modified to accommodate this.

Please note that the event listing entry form itself has no ability to check if the end date for an event occurs after the start date (the default is to set it for the same date). This has to be verified manually.

Pseudocode:
1) Check to see if the end date is greater than the start date.
2) If it is, display both dates.
3) If the end date is not greater than the start date, check to see if "all day" is selected.
4) If it is, then display just the start date.
5) Otherwise display the start date and time.

{if $item.event_end_date > $item.event_date}
     {$item.event_date|jrCore_date_format:"%A %B %e"}  –  {$item.event_end_date|jrCore_date_format:"%A %B %e %Y"}
{elseif $item.event_allday == "on"}
     {$item.event_date|jrCore_date_format:"%A %B %e %Y"}
{else}
     {$item.event_date|jrCore_date_format:"%A %B %e %Y, %l:%M %p"}
{/if}

Thanks to Paul and Michael for helping me work this out. The support from the Jamroom team is nothing short of top-notch.
Composite_EventListings.jpg Composite_EventListings.jpg - 663KB

updated by @claygordon: 07/15/16 06:52:09PM
Clay Gordon
@claygordon
01/09/16 05:38:19AM
758 posts

Create RSS feed for forum/category & member profile
Using Jamroom

I know it's easy to create an RSS feed for a specific module (e.g., Gallery):

www.mysite.com/feed/forums

What I want to do is

www.mysite.com/feed/forums/some_category

I just tried and I know that that does not work (no data error).

I was also looking to see if it worked for a profile (https://www.mysite.com/feed/some_profile and I get a different error (module not active) but I don't see an RSS from profile config option anywhere.

My eventual target is IFTTT. Using IFTTT to cross post forum category/profile posts to my FB page and Twitter accounts.
updated by @claygordon: 04/09/16 08:57:40PM
Clay Gordon
@claygordon
01/09/16 05:28:22AM
758 posts

Forum Auto-Lock by category?
Using Jamroom

Paul -

Great. Please add "auto-lock Forum posts on a category basis" as a feature request - or do I need to?

You are right about the global Forums ban. If a member is going to be abusive they are going to be abusive everywhere. But the kind of abuse I am talking about might be limited to my community, or not be generally applicable.

My Classifieds Forum has a specific use: posts about buying and selling equipment and there are some pretty specific rules about posting to it. It's about banning members who ignore the posting rules in that one forum category. For the most part they are well behaved on the rest of the site.
Clay Gordon
@claygordon
01/08/16 09:56:31AM
758 posts

Forum Auto-Lock by category?
Using Jamroom

Is it possible to set the Forums auto-lock by category? I have one specific forum category (Classifieds) that I would like to set to auto-lock without locking the other categories.

Similarly, ban members from posting in specific categories, not just Forums globally.
updated by @claygordon: 04/08/16 10:26:02PM
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