Forum Activity for @michael

Alternate use for platform

Genosis

There is no look-up functionality in Genosis script. You can import GEDCOM files, but it does not connect to any external database to pull in data. Unless you want it to, and then you'd need to build that module.

Audio Pro - Form Builder

Design and Skin Customization

First off, if your site is only ever going to be in english, you dont need to use the language feature, that will make it simpler.

so instead of:
you can just use:

It really depends on how you like to work. The language strings are there for users who want to be able to customize the site without the need to look at code. If you're comfortable looking at code the best workflow (the one I like) is to keep out of the ACP for all skin customizations. There is an over-ride system for working with templates that allows you to adjust at the coding level.

From the question im making the assumption you're using the TEMPLATES tab to make your changes. The other way to do it is to clone your skin, then make adjustments via SFTP. Which you prefer depends on you comfort level with code.

For web developers the preferred workflow (the one I like) is:
* clone the skin from jrAudioPro to xxAudioProCustom (or any name you choose)
* download xxAudioProCustom into your development environment (I use phpstorm)
* adjust the xxAudioProCustom/profile_sidebar.tpl and upload it back to the site
* (either) run the site in "Developer Mode" so the caches are off, (OR) reset the caches to see your changes.
(repeat)

back to the question:
1. you will need to find out what the correct variable is that holds the quota id, for that adding {debug} to the templates will get you a list of what variables are available in each template, see these docs for more info:
Docs: {debug}
https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/documentation/module-developer-guide/1477/debug

it will probably be something like:

2. add your new form field to the "Additional search fields" section of the ACP then rebuild the search index:
https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/documentation/modules/950/search#rebuild-the-search-index

3. check it for string length

Alternate use for platform

Genosis

Jamroom is designed to be customizable. Genosis is a set of extra modules and a custom skin built on top of jamroom so its customizable too.

The biggest issue you will have will be learning how the platform works because there is a learning curve. In order to do it you will need to look at code.

As with anything there is a trade-off. If we try to make things easier for non-developers to do, then things get more complex for developers. Jamroom comes from being a system for developers and the non-developer stuff is added on as extras, so if you're coming from the perspective of using it as a development tool integrated in a web developers work flow then its just a question of getting things arranged how you want them.

If the question comes from a "Can I change some settings and have this work?" perspective then im not sure, maybe.

How to test as a user while in maintenance ?

Using Jamroom

not a regular user, no. Probably what you're after is the jrBeta module that will allow you to take the site off maintanence mode but block signups and also allow login from beta testers

--edit--
Docs: Beta Launch Page
https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/documentation/modules/2953/beta-launch-page
updated by @michael: 05/04/20 05:56:54AM

Audio Pro - Form Builder

Design and Skin Customization

Are you talking about "Simple Custom Forms"
https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/documentation/modules/2885/simple-custom-forms

or the "Form Designer"
https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/documentation/jamroom-admin-handbook/1275/using-the-form-designer

Its my guess that you're talking about adding extra values to modules using the Form Designer, if its that, then the designer is just the first part. Its the location that the information is collected and put into the database.

From there to get the information to show you need to get it out of the database, that's the job of the skins. Skins format the information from the database in whatever structure you want.

So if you went into the audio module's custom form designer and added a text area to collect "Composer" and saved it to audio_composer then in the skin templates where you see all the other variables like {$item.audio_title} then you could use {$item.audio_composer} and the value entered would show.

Picking up some errors

Installation and Configuration

Try running the INTEGRITY CHECK to fix the play_key error, go to:
ACP -> CORE -> SYSTEM CORE -> TOOLS -> INTEGRITY CHECK
check all the checkboxes, then START.

That should make sure any tables that need creating are created.

The second one is just a warning, its saying that for some reason the process that fires every minute couldnt complete on one particular minute. But thats ok, because the process that fires the next minute will pick up any left over tasks that were queued and do them.

Unable to FTP your software to my hosting

Using Jamroom

I don't understand what you mean by "It wont launch".

Merging two people?

Genosis

There is no "Merge these two people into one" button anywhere. If there was, how you would you desire that it worked? Is this something that would need to be done often enough that it requires a button?

Unable to FTP your software to my hosting

Using Jamroom

not sure how well jamroom will work in a sub-directory, but the site is there:
http://regal-network.com/revelation/install.php

Fixing Errant HTML Content

Jamroom Developers

Is this coming in to the editor? because tinymce has a tidy option built in but is disabled by default because it can cause conflicts with nl2br if the skin is not expecting to get pretty html.

my guess is its not, i suspect you're just scraping and processing then going straight to database. Could "Tidy" be built as a module, if so im sure it could be dropped in.