Forum Activity for @claygordon

After deleting a discussion, getting returned to the wrong page

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@Brian:

It's not the time, it's the cognitive burden. I don't do any form of coding on a regular basis so nothing is a habit.

It all goes back to one of my first bosses, who wanted me to critique what the code was doing by interacting with the UI and compare it against the functional specs, not critique the code itself. I learned enough to be able to communicate to the developers how I thought the implementation differed from the spec - or if we got the spec wrong, how it could be made to work better.

I think that focus shows in my questions in this forum.

Another home page formatting question

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I am probably asking the impossible as the height of the Activity box is going to depend on the number of entries.

I want to make the bottoms of the Forums box and the Activity box line up. I will limit the number of latest Activities to 10.

updated by @claygordon: 02/19/15 03:44:04PM

Events missing from Top Nav - and home page

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@Paul -

I understand that's it's not a high priority on your end to make this change. I am just happy to know that I can incorporate a workaround without having to pay an extra $70/month to get API access to make trivial changes.

After deleting a discussion, getting returned to the wrong page

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@Brian it does help.

I get the sense that a Skin update will happen soon. I will clone the skin I am working in before I update, and then do as you suggest to transfer the changes I have made to the new skin. I don't think it's going to be as simple as copying and overwriting. Sigh.

:: Clay

Formatting blocks in row on home page

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I've been re-formatting the home page without the aid of Site Builder.

I've moved Groups and Events from the sidebar and into the places where Audio and Videos where (neither are as important as Groups and Events on TheChocolateLife).

I am mixing apples and oranges in this row (Top Profiles, Top Groups, Latest Events) I know.

I have tried a number of options but am having no luck formatting the following:

[ul]
[li]Make all of the listing boxes the same height - same height as Profiles[/li]
[li]Making all of the images the same dimensions -- same as Profiles and Groups[/li]
[li]Aligning the text -- centered on the image, same as Profiles[/li]
[li]Fonts all the same size -- same as Profiles[/li]
[li]Turning OFF the scrolling on Groups and Events[/li]
[/ul]





updated by @claygordon: 02/27/15 08:30:03AM

After deleting a discussion, getting returned to the wrong page

Ning To Jamroom

Can I assume that an update to the skin will overwrite all of the changes I've made?

I need to do a DIFF on all the files I've changed, make note of the changes, and then re-incorporate the changes?

After deleting a discussion, getting returned to the wrong page

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@Brian -

Thanks for letting me know. I am happy to test so looking forward to taking a look at this soonest.

:: Clay

Events missing from Top Nav - and home page

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Paul -

It was inside the {if} for Site Builder, which I am not using, so I overlooked it.

Duh. Of course there is a link to my profile when I am logged in. Was over-thinking things.

After deleting a discussion, getting returned to the wrong page

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Paul: This now works ... to a point. We still need to address the question of Discussions vs. Forums and what that means WRT to discussions that belong to Groups and Discussions that don't - and so are a part of the Main Discussion Forum.

On my profile page, the panel now says latest Forum But when I click on "All" it takes me to

http://www.thechocolatelife.info/thechocolatelife/chocliferoot/group

when it SHOULD take me to the equivalent of

http://www.thechocolatelife.info/thechocolatelife/chocliferoot/forum/my_posts -- with the sort on _updated, not _created

That's what I would expect to happen. I am on my profile (or any other profile) and want to see all of my discussions or the discussions of the member whose proflie I am looking at.

Note that there is no stat for " Discussions ". Adding one in would not solve the UI issue, but I think the behavior is analgous.

Events missing from Top Nav - and home page

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Paul - I can insert an Events menu using the following code, using the examples found in the header_menu_desktop.tpl file

{* Add additional menu categories here *}
Events

This is the best compromise WRT location I can find. This inserts the Events link after ACP (as I am logged in as admin). If the user is not logged in, or is logged in as a member of the regular member group, then the ACP link does not appear and so the Events link appears immediately after Pages.

I can deal with this as admin, but what if I wanted the link to appear between Videos and Profiles? Much of the code in the template uses if_logged_in and sub-tests so it's not immediately apparent - to me - where I would do this.

On a related note, how would I go about adding a link to MY profile (i.e., the currently logged-in member) as a sub-item to the Profiles link - the same way there are sub-menus under Videos for Vimeo and YouTube? There was an editor for adding sub-items to menus - called Tabs in Ning. Again, I am happy to do the work, I just need to know where to find the code.

I think the shortcut link to MY profile (for the currently logged-in member) is something every user of Ningja would appreciate - I know my members did
updated by @claygordon: 01/03/15 08:28:56AM