Forum Activity for @paul

Profile question to Groups

Using Jamroom

If its just one 'multiple-choice' question with relatively short answers, put the question in the User language string ID 59 then make the possible answers the quota titles.

Problem with Forum as group work around

Installation and Configuration

Having the 'forum tabs' for newest, my posts etc. on a group discussion page is doable but would require some custom template work. Not too difficult to do if you've worked with Jamroom templates before and know a little bit of html. I know that maybe doesn't help you Perrie but mentioning it in case any other ex-Ningsters who have done template work have the same issue and may be able to help.

The other thing to consider, that may not have been mentioned here before but is something I've noticed after months of working with Ning archives, is that archived comments on any one Ning item are limited to the latest 200, so if you do have 300+ comments in a group discussion on Ning, you are only going to see 200 of them on Jamroom. It may be that you can ask Ning to lift this capping?
Another thing I've noticed in the archive related to this is that although comments may be threaded on Ning, when archived, they are 'flattened' so that any child comments are archived sequentially after their parent comment, and this is how they are imported into Jamroom. Their is no information in the archive that can allow them to be automatically re-threaded. Sorry, but its yet another anomoly of the Ning archiver that we have no control over!! So the upshot of this is that if choosing to import Ning global discussions to a group and not the forum just to get threaded discussions, they will only start to be threaded as new comments are added.

Just mentioning this now in case it affects your decision about this.

Can't embed youtube using text editor

Using Jamroom

That's good. Marking this thread as solved.

Converting ning urls to JR urls question...

Installation and Configuration

There may well be the same images with different file names in the archive and the importer has no way of knowing about these. However the latest import module does make the most efficient use of the archive that it can. When you come to the 'final import' I'd reset 'resetting' your site (keeping all your work, of course) and doing a full import of the latest archive. Let me know when you are ready for this and I'll help.

Can't embed youtube using text editor

Using Jamroom

Your best bet would be to install/enable the URL Scanner module for all your quotas. That way players will open within the post, as they do on this forum.

Converting ning urls to JR urls question...

Installation and Configuration

Sort of - See my post above for what it actually does.
You should not need to use this tool at all as you are importing directly to http://myothernamesite.com and the NingImport module takes care of this during the import.
Its only needed if you subsequently change the domain.

Can't embed youtube using text editor

Using Jamroom

You didn't have 'object,param' entered as valid tags for your quotas.
Its working now - Check the last post on the 'Wally' thread.

Converting ning urls to JR urls question...

Installation and Configuration

There are two different things being discussed here.

The URL Mapper module is for when you have migrated from Ning but are using the same domain. Ie. if http://mydomain.com did point to your Ning site but now points to your Jamroom site. It re-maps domain folders so if, say, on Ning your page that lists all groups was http://mysite.com/groups but on Jamroom it is now http://mysite.com/group it can handle that and any search engine or external links to http://mysite.com/groups will find their way to the Jamroom site.

The tool in the Ning Import module is used if you subsequently change the Jamroom site's domain after the import. Ie. if you imported to http://mydomain.com/ImportedNingSite then moved it up http://mydomain.com all the absolute references in the imported text/comment fields etc. would need to be changed so embedded images still work. This is what that tool is for.
hth

In "Latest Activity" what is automatically shown, and how can we control it?

Using Jamroom


You can list user activities anywhere on your site, including non profile pages -

{jrCore_list module="jrAction"}

You can then add searches to the call to list just the actions/activities you want -

{jrCore_list module="jrAction" search="action_module = jrBlog"}

or

{jrCore_list module="jrAction" search="action_module IN jrBlog,jrGallery,jrVideo"}

The search/filtering possibilities are endless.

Listing liked items via _user_id - jrLike

Design and Skin Customization

1) Use 'back ticks' around the _user_id variable -

{jrCore_list module="jrLike" search1="like_module = jrAudio" search2="like_action = like" template="wishlist_row.tpl" search3="_user_id = `$_user._user_id`" }

2) The problem with -

{jrCore_module_function function="jrFoxyCart_add_to_cart" module="jrAudio" field="audio_file" item=$item}

is that when listing the results of the Like search, the array variable $item (for each liked audio) isn't available. I'm not near my development PC atm but this might work -

{jrCore_module_function function="jrFoxyCart_add_to_cart" module="jrAudio" field="audio_file" item_id=$item.like_item_id}

If not, let us know and we'll come up with something else.