Forum Activity for @claygordon

Issues on member Profile Pages

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Again -

I am new to JR and I am still getting used to where things are located.

DIGRESSION. For example, I wanted to change the order that Groups were displayed when someone clicked on Groups in the top Nav. I was able to change the display and size of the images by editing jrGallery_index.tpl in Ningja/Skins. However, the change the display order of the Groups, there's no corresponding Skins template. I had to experiment until I found the right one - Modules > Profile Groups > Group Support > index.tpl.

In the top screenshot, you'll see that the Latest Discussion is from 11 months ago (_created) and has zero comments. I'd like it to be the most recently updated (_updated) and be preceded by the string "updated ". I feel confident I can do this using what I learned reading the jrCore_List documentation and the notes on how to trunc the length of a title in an image gallery. But where is the template? (ON A RELATED NOTE: I want to get rid of the latest music panel.)

In the bottom screenshot you will notice that the list of Groups is displayed. I got here not by clicking Groups from the list of modules, but by clicking "All" next to "Latest Discussions" the URL displayed on the mouseover is, in fact. groups.

My expectation for what **should happen** is that it would show discussions I have created or contributed to, and the display would be ordered to show the most recent at the top.


updated by @claygordon: 02/17/15 03:29:02PM

Image Galleries - Suppress gallery name/length, order by

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@Douglas -

That *does* solve the problem and I will mark it so.

I'd have to run a DIFF to see where the change is, I'm not familiar enough with either the code or PHP to pick it out in a casual read.

:: Clay

Home Page - Replacing Top Discussions with Forum > Newest Posts

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It's a matter of semantics and grouping. Ning does have a Forum module on the home page. The entries (we'll call them discussions) displayed here are not associated with any Group - members have the option of assigning them to a category or leaving them in the default (uncategorized).

Each Group has its own discussions - its own forum - but the entries in this group have no category assignments; they belong to the parent group "category."


@Brian -

I really do need to put the Forum > Newest Posts up on my site before I can go live. I will move Top Discussions over into the right column (under Top Groups) and change the label to Latest Group Discussions or similar.

:: Clay

Changing default image sizes in Home Page Galleries, Profiles

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@Brian -

I was able to change the size of the gallery images but then I ran into the title length issue which was causing really ugly wraps and gaps. If I went down one size the string lengths I could use made everything nonsensical so I ended up going with the default size.

Search helps a lot!
updated by @claygordon: 01/01/15 02:26:25PM

Multiple profiles per user account (?)

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@Brian -

Yes, thank you very much for the clarification.

I had to think about this in more detail in order to tackle the question about which quotas a person looking to create a new account would be shown.

Image Galleries - Suppress gallery name/length, order by

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@Brian -

It would be helpful for me - and maybe others, too, if you included the file to edit and the line number(s) for the original code snippet. I am still learning where everything is. I did find it, in jrGallery_index.tpl near the top. And it does work.

@Douglas - As for the clearing div, that, or something similar, sounds like a more robust long-term solution.

Thanks,
:: Clay
updated by @claygordon: 01/01/15 02:15:15PM

Profile comments appear to be missing on import

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Paul -

Thanks!

:: Clay

404 after update to Forum post

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Paul:

I used to be a pre-alpha, alpha, and beta tester for graphics software companies I worked for early on in my career.

I was known in the engineering groups I worked in for being able to find very subtle (and not so subtle) bugs.

I just posted a similar 404 issue when updating page assignments in page groups. I wonder if they are related somehow?

Pages imported from Ning - viewable, properties editable?

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Ahh,

So I have to assign the pages before they become visible on the site. Makes sense.

On the other hand ...

When I cancel out of this page:

http://www.thechocolatelife.info/thechocolatelife/group_page/group_config

I was sent to this page:

http://www.thechocolatelife.info/thechocolatelife/shekhar-halder/forum/14469/about-chocolate-making

and getting a 404 instead of being returned back to the Tools page in the ACP, which is what I would have expected.

404 after update to Forum post

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Whenever I update a Forum post (as opposed to a group discussion post), the next page I see is 404.

The update DOES get made, though.
updated by @claygordon: 02/16/15 06:26:19AM