Forum Activity for @paul

test site migrating 3.0 ning site

Ning To Jamroom

The Ning3 CSV also has their location (country, state, zip), gender and birthdate which are also saved in Jamroom.
If you just email them now and ask them to re-register on the new site, at a guess, only 10% to 20% of them will actually bother to do it.
One advantage of doing the import and using the JR Tool to send them their new passwords is that it only sends an email to those who have not already logged in at least once. This means that after a couple of weeks, say, you could edit the email content and use the tool again to resend only to members that haven't yet responded, so hopefully you'll ultimately retain a higher percentage of your current members.

"View All" link in Widget Titles

Using Jamroom

TIP: If you are developing templates directly using a Jamroom skin as a starting point, clone the skin first (ACP=>Tools=>Developer Tools=>Tools=>Clone Skin), then switch to the cloned skin (make it the active skin) and use that for development.
That way, should any of our skin templates get updated, there is no chance of any of your work being overwritten.

updated by @paul: 07/09/15 12:41:53AM

"View All" link in Widget Titles

Using Jamroom

The showcase sites are based on our stock skins and were not created with Site Builder. Skins are created via template files that contain html and css code so using them gives many more options as to what can be created.
If you have basic html knowledge, take a look at these skin (and module) templates via the template editors in your site ACP. Elastic is a good one to start with as its a pretty simple layout and you can easily see its structure in the templates.
If you can develop your site using these templates instead of Site Builder, the options are infinite

Profile ID Numbers

Genosis

Profile ID numbers are unique and are not re-usable if a profile is deleted. The same is also true for user IDs and any other Jamroom item ID number.
These numbers are invisible to users and there is no reason for them to be re-used.
hth

"View All" link in Widget Titles

Using Jamroom

Hi Mark - Welcome to the Jamroom forum.
With SiteBuilder the widget titles are just for plain text and cannot accept any html.
What you can do is create menu items that link to other pages that list 'all' of an item - create the page and an 'Item List' widget on that page.
Hope that helps

birthdate field from Ning backup

Ning To Jamroom

Try this in the user template where you want to show their birthdate -

{$_user.user_birthdate|strtotime|date_format:"%d %b %Y"}

and keep the field as a text field in the user update form.

birthdate field from Ning backup

Ning To Jamroom

I'm not sure if JR can handle negative unixtime, and even if it did, with the current date field calendar entry system a user would have to click the previous month button hundreds of times to get back to pre 1970!!
I wonder if the answer might be using some of the php date functions as modifiers on the field as is in the template(s).
Let me check that out.

birthdate field from Ning backup

Ning To Jamroom

The problem is that in Jamroom, all dates are stored in unixtime format which only goes back to 1-1-1970 so is not suitable for storing birthdays so when developing the NingImport module I just saved the birthday field 'as is' in text format, thinking that I'd look at it again if and when the issue was raised, which is now lol
The date could be split and saved as three fields, user_birth_year/month/day but that is a bit clunky. Do you have any suggestions?
Thanks

Admin Radio

Using Jamroom

Is 'admin radio' a playlist?
Unfortunately you can only add songs one at a time to a playlist.

New Free Module - Annika (Live Wall)

Announcements

Version 1.1.0 release that includes a mechanism to dynamically update live wall parameters (with which one can do pagination).

Documentation at https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/documentation/modules/2703/annika

Download from https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/networkmarket/252/annika#c12829 or from your ACP Marketplace.