Forum Activity for @claygordon

Events missing from Top Nav - and home page

Ning To Jamroom

@Strumelia:

I am not using the Site Builder. I started out using it but was having problems with it and was told not to use it until the developer could get back from holidays.

@Paul:

I found the top nav menu text in the Ningja skin language files. Video appeared once and Videos appeared twice so it was pretty easy to figure out what was what without context. There was only one Discussions, so finding the right context was not an issue.
updated by @claygordon: 01/03/15 07:58:00AM

Events missing from Top Nav - and home page

Ning To Jamroom

Understand. Happy to do the work. Are there instructions for modifying the top nav this way? (On a related note, for consistency's sake, should Video be Videos in the top nav)?

I have hidden the row on the home page that contains profiles, audio, and video. I would end up modifying it (and displaying the row) to include profiles, groups, and events.

Events missing from Top Nav - and home page

Ning To Jamroom

Activating other modules and importing content meant that a navigation link appeared in the top nav and the content was displayed in a panel on the home page.

I see events on my profile page.

I see the block in index.tpl. Nothing is turned off that I can see. I'd like to display only future events, up to 7 with a page turner.
updated by @claygordon: 02/12/15 11:23:26PM

After deleting a discussion, getting returned to the wrong page

Ning To Jamroom

From my profile page I click on a discussion in the "Latest Discussions" panel.

On the discussion page I delete the discussion.

The return URL is .../username/group_discuss and the path in the header pane is:

Discussions
ChocLifeRoot » Groups » » Discussions

And there are no discussions on this page. You can sense confusion over the issue of group discussions over forums here because of the gap in the breadcrumb.

What I REALLY want to do is one of two things:

A) go back to my profile page

OR

B) Go to a Discussions page where all of MY discussions IRRESPECTIVE of what group or category they belong to OR to my Profile page where they are presented inline, i.e., in the fashion that Pages are presented.

updated by @claygordon: 02/14/15 08:56:23AM

Issues on member Profile Pages

Ning To Jamroom

@Paul -

I have to mention again that I appreciate all the support I am getting - and how quickly things get turned around. There's also a willingness to consider our (meaning the people migrating from Ning) perspective on things given our experiences moderating our communities.

Paginating Profile Comments

Ning To Jamroom

It was a simple fix. One challenge with Jamroom is its richness. There's so much you can do -- the question is figuring out where the changes need to be made. This is very low on my list of priorities ... I'd far rather see Forums > Newest for Latest Discussions into the right-hand column on the home page.

Issues on member Profile Pages

Ning To Jamroom

@Paul -

This took care of things except for one small formatting issue:

{$item._updated|jrCore_format_time:false:"M d y"}; Created

The "M d y" are displayed literally as M d y.

If anyone else runs into this same issue in the future, I took a look in the documentation and what's missing is some % signs

{$variable|jrCore_format_time:false:"%Y-%m-%d"}} // 2009-02-05
OR
{$variable|jrCore_format_time:false:"%F"}} // Same as "%Y-%m-%d" << this works perfectly

Paginating Profile Comments

Ning To Jamroom

On my profile there are hundreds of comments dating back all the way to early 2008 - and all of them are displayed every time the page is loaded. Not a very friendly thing to do to members and visitors on slower connections.

Is there a way to paginate them? I am totally okay with displaying a configurable "n" count of comments or paginating them by year.

updated by @claygordon: 02/16/15 06:50:32PM

Issues on member Profile Pages

Ning To Jamroom

WRT the way the discussions are being listed within the Lastest Discussions panel. I can change the sort as shown here - from " _created " to " _updated ".

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

The resultant displayed text is:

@chocliferoot 2 years ago - Comments: 9

What I really want it to say is:

@chocliferoot - Comments: 9; Last updated ## on MMMDDYY; Created 2 years ago

Taking a closer look, it might be in the foreach loop above but, again, I am not familiar enough with the core to know how to get the output I am looking for.
updated by @claygordon: 01/02/15 12:18:44PM

Issues on member Profile Pages

Ning To Jamroom

With respect to the Discussions/Groups issue raised above, the issue is even larger and - I think Paul and Douglas - will provide the reason to make the change I ask for. If you read this Strumelia, please chime in.

What's important is context, and that context is complicated through conflating " group_discuss " and " forum ".

On the home page, a mouseover on "All" next to Latest Discussions has the path conclude in " group_discuss ". The path for Discussions in the top nav is " /username/forum ".

This is a problem given that the same word - Discussions - is, to my mind confusingly, used to describe different destinations. I would address this issue by explicitly using the label "Top Group Discussions" and changing "Discussions" to "Forums" in the top nav, As the prototypical user of the site is someone familiar with Ning that differentiation in wording reduces the cognitive burden of switching platforms.

Again, thinking about context. If I am on MY profile page, then clicking on "All" next to Latest Discussions should show MY discussions - the discussions I created and I contributed to - ** IRRESPECTIVE of whether they belong to a group or they are part of the Forum **. They are all discussions with different properties (group ownership or category).

Following through with the home page usage and the wording Latest Discussions, " /group_discuss " would be more logically consistent than " /groups " even though all discussions belong to groups.

Taking this to the next step, if I am looking at any other member's profile clicking on "All" next to Latest Discussions should display all of the discussions that member created and/or contributed to.

:: Clay