Forum Activity for @michael

How Easy Is It to Move A Ning 2.0 Site to JamRoom?

Ning To Jamroom

Hey @catman, The size of server you'll need is not determined by the number of users you have, but the space they take up on the server. So if you have 1000 members who mainly write forum post and text its going to use way less space than if you have 1000 members who upload video to your site. (because video takes up more space than forum posts )

With the videos, videos that are uploaded to youtube but shown on your site are very light weight. So the heaviest things that take up the most space will be uploaded audio files and uploaded video files, then after that large images. Less of those means less cost for the server.

I can see a few things in your sites design that will require HTML customization, so a custom skin, so if you wanted to keep the exact same look a bit of coding would be required. Jamroom's flexibility comes from the skins being very customizable, but not drag-n-drop customizable. You'd need to learn the standard web development way of doing things. Its something new to learn, but its fun once you start to get it and it gives you complete freedom to do whatever you want.

Query Error

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"MariaDB server version" ??? You're using a custom setup using a non-standard database.

The requirements outlined here

Docs: "Requirements"
https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/documentation/appendix-about-jamroom/774/requirements

Call for MySQL database, I'm not familiar with MariaDB and am sure we have not done any testing with it.

So you're question is "How do I fix this custom module running on a custom server?" so the issue could be hard to isolate.

Under a normal system the error your seeing is saying that your missing a value for your WHERE clause, which you are.

Its probably because there is no value for [module] => . Its empty.

Without detailed steps to recreate the issue its hard to say more than that.

Keeping SEO links: /forum/topics

Ning To Jamroom

Sure.

You'll want to add the URL Mapper module to your site:

Docs: "URL Mapper"
https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/documentation/modules/2956/url-mapper

That will allow you to redirect the existing URL's to where their new location is.

To help you understand which URL's exist but are hitting 404's turn on "Log 404 Not Found" option under
ACP -> MODULES -> CORE -> SYSTEM CORE -> GLOBAL CONFIG

Docs: "System Core : Global Config"
https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/documentation/modules/2857/system-core#global-config

Then any time a 404 url is hit by someone you will see it in your "Activity Log"

Docs: "Activity Log"
https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/documentation/jamroom-admin-handbook/4290/activity-log

Once you know what URLs are hitting 404's you can then map them to where they should be going to.

--edit--
Q: Does it keep the same slugs?
A: no, jamroom has its own system that relies on numeric id's to identify the topic, eg
https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/forum/new_posts/43023/keeping-seo-links-forum-topics

The format is:
(domain name) / (profile name) / (module name) / (category name) / (group id) / (seo url)
updated by @michael: 09/05/16 04:58:06PM

how to set tags so only the owner can add tags?

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Tested the tags on discussions: its working as expected.

Checking the "Tag Own Items Only" makes the tags box on the discussion only appear for admins and the profile owner.

System Generated Emails have junk like this in the subject: !-- BEGIN jrUser/email_new_device_subject.tpl --

Installation and Configuration

You have a developer feature turned on.

Go to:
ACP -> MODULES -> DEVELOPER -> DEVELOPER TOOLS -> GLOBAL CONFIG

and uncheck the checkbox marked "Template Name In Source"

Jamroom updates - to overwrite own things

Using Jamroom

Nice one, let us know if you get stuck. what it is is a way to tap into the flow of other modules stuff and change things.

Thoughts on new functions Jamroom

Using Jamroom

no not upload to youtube.

On the youtube module you can use the youtube module to bring in youtube videos from anywhere to the profile, or you can choose a channel to sync to and keep your profile in sync with that channel.

Jamroom updates - to overwrite own things

Using Jamroom

What you want is this:

Docs: "Events and Listeners"
https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/documentation/jamroom-developers-guide/1011/events-and-listeners

Make a module to make the changes then you wont need to do anything when modules are updated.

Thoughts on new functions Jamroom

Using Jamroom

Thanks a lot for all your thinking about Jamroom, I will help make jamroom better.

Some other things to think about, Facebook like to change things so that their code stops working. We have built things many times in the past to what Facebook wants, then they change it and make it either not possible to work or needs fixing. It takes a lot of effort to try to keep facebook working.

So to think about, if musicians want to post to facebook is it better that jamroom is not the central location but rather PULLS from facebook, or do you want musicians to stop posting to facebook and rather post to jamroom that then PUSHES to facebook. Both are different ideas.

The Youtube module works in both PUSH and PULL methods now, but for facebook it will be much easier to break, so which one is desired is important.

Instagram

Jamroom Developers

I've not used instagram, so haven't thought about building a module for it. How do you envisage the module would work?