Forum Activity for @michael

jrCore 6.0.5 error

Installation and Configuration

nothing.

You could run the integrity check and try again after that, but the most likely cause of the issue is your server trying to communicate with jamroom.net and not being able to.

If you like you can send me the login details for an admin account to support at jamroom dot net and i will login and attempt the upgrade. See if I can see any reason its not working.

(enter suggestion for you to use Jamroom Hosting here)

Aparna - Audio Module - Song ID Link.

Suggestions

if you have the jrAudio module in the system, then it adds its own field to the Form Designer. From there you can add as many audio fields as you like to a form.

Once the fields are there you can use them any way you like in the template.

Aparna - FormDesigner

Using Jamroom

oops, sorry.

Fantastic news, that makes everything even more simple.

Aparna - FormDesigner

Using Jamroom

Yeah, I didnt think that would be it either, but to test, I added another image field to the page and it worked, so that might not be the issue, but it does seam like something is up with that field.

Hope you get it sorted.

How do i add a login box to my index page.

Design and Skin Customization

there are a couple of ways to do it. If that design is part of the Site Builder system, then you can do it with a widget.

Otherwise there is code to do it here:

Docs: "How To add the user login for to any page"
https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/documentation/jamroom-developers-guide/603/howto-add-the-user-login-form-to-any-page

Docs: Site Builder (table of contents)
https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/documentation/site-builder

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The Follow Me skin has a login box in a similar location, you can use that for a guide.
updated by @michael: 01/06/17 10:31:27AM

New Meta Tags

Using Jamroom

see any places that could be better, let us know.

New Meta Tags

Using Jamroom

If you make the changes via the TEMPLATE EDITOR in the ACP the changes will survive module updates.

If you make a skin override template for whichever module you want that too will survive upgrades eg /skins/YOUR SKIN/jrAudio_item_detail_meta.tpl

More details here:

Docs: "Altering a Modules Template"
https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/documentation/jamroom-developers-guide/1051/altering-a-modules-template

The way I've been trying to think about and setup the meta tags is so that they make the most sense to the reader on wherever they are shared.

So for something like a blog post, if it has an image that represents the post, that is used, if not then an image indicating its a blog post is used.

I've tried to avoid any profile or user information being used, because these may not be relivant to the READER wherever the item is displayed.

Example. Me (michael) shares an audio file from your site, and your profile. The audio file is a song by METALLICA and the title of the song is "and justice for all". When I share that on MY facebook page, the name 'Dazed' and your profile pic really have nothing to do with the content being shared at this point.

My thinking is in order for Dazed to make any sense to the reader on Facebook who probably has never visited your site, they need to have prior knowledge of where the content has been shared from. Which is really not relivant to the reader. If that reader then shares that piece of content, neither 'dazed' or 'michael' are important. The only thing that is important is the content, not that that conent came from dazed and was shared by michael.

I think this is the most efficent way of getting the content dispursed and the interested viewers back to your profile which is when they will first learn about where the content came from.

Aparna - FormDesigner

Using Jamroom

got it.

check this one out:
YOUR-SITE.com/promotion/update/id=13

The thing causing the image not to show is the name you have given to the form field. you've chosen promotion_Image with a capital I. It shouldnt make a difference, but in this case it is.

The easiest way to fix the issue is delete the promotion_Image field and re-make it with lowercase I, so promotion_image.

You can see the other field i added there is working , just delete that once you've got it sorted.
updated by @michael: 01/05/17 07:56:19PM

The phases are
* get the site installed
* make sure the SYSTEM CHECK has no orange lights on it.

Then the real decisions come. What do you want your site to do? How many DIFFERENT types of profiles do you want? Because if you want different types of profiles, then you have more work to do. What each profile gets is defined by "Quotas" so the most basic site is only going to have 1 quota and all the profiles will be in that quota.

So if you go for that setup, then all you have to do next is decide which modules you want your site to have, then turn them on for everyone in the quota tab for each module.

If you explain what your thinking about setting up as a community we can help you make some of the design decisions.

New Meta Tags

Using Jamroom

What you will see in the modules themselves is a new template item_detail_meta.tpl which will populate the meta details on the details page.

So view an audio item on someones profile, then hit ctrl+u to see the source code and you will see the page has og:tags in the header section. You dont need to do anything.

If you want to do something, check out how the pages look in the facebook debugger and the twitter debugger for each of the content types and offer suggestions here as to how they could be better.

Facebook debugger
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object/

Twitter card validator
https://cards-dev.twitter.com/validator