Forum Activity for @michael

profile playlist - how to add music to it

Design and Skin Customization

The playlist module stores lists of things. You can store a list of things from other peoples profiles. The limitation of it is that only you can add to your playlist.

Other people can't add to your playlist.

Can I Non Techie Do This?

Ning To Jamroom


The header and footer are the parts that aren't handled by Site Builder. You add the header and footer and use Site Builder for the body.

As for other pages sure. Site Builder will only turn on if there is nothing there already.

So if you have a template fondue.tpl in your skin folder, then your-site.com/fondue will use that page.

If you have the audio module turned on then your-site.com/audio is already taken by that module so that module will show. If it was going to show a 404 Not Found page, then you'll see the "Edit This Page" button.

-- edit --
As for redo; you can use any templates you've made already, just add them to the TEMPLATE field of the widget.

If you had this code in your template:
then you can use my_custom_template.tpl in the widgets and keep on using it.
updated by @michael: 01/20/15 11:38:19PM

Can I Non Techie Do This?

Ning To Jamroom

yup, you got it. The jrNingja skin has a check built into it "If Site builder is all active, show it, if not show the default layout."

--edit--
The difference between a standard template and the Site Builder system is where the code is stored.

In the traditional system users edit the code in the skin .tpl files to create their custom Jamroom layouts and skins. With this method, to get a list, you use the {jrCore_list ...} function in the template you want the list.

With Site Builder, the code for the templates is stored in the datastore, so the skin just has the outter layout, then that big box in the middle where all the content is is just a blank pad. You add a layout to that, then add widgets to the layout. But if you view the .tpl code for that section in the skins all you will see is:


That one line of code is the panels activating. It says "Go and check the database for this page and see if any widgets have been added here, if there are some, show them.".

Its un-related to the code you have in the /skins/ directory. So your site will be blank when the system is just started because nothing has been added.

--edit edit--
Turn it on, try it out, if things get weird, let me know and I'll help you get setup.
updated by @michael: 01/20/15 09:45:28PM

photo page (custom) not paginating

Using Jamroom

Can you give us some steps to get setup to where your at to check it out?

Getting started

Using Jamroom

This is is what your after Jeff:

"Start your own online community"
https://www.udemy.com/start-your-own-online-community

That will get you grounded in the basics of Jamroom.

The super short version:
Jamroom is a module system. You add modules to the system to increase what the site can do. Its also Profile centric, meaning that content is added to profiles. The content that is added to the profiles can be showcased on the top level. Site Builder operates on that level.

This site right here jamroom.net is powered by Jamroom CMS. You are on the profile 'the-jamroom-network' in the forum on that profile. There are other profiles on this site too, some of them have their own forums.

A forum on a profile is an example of an active module. When you add a module to your system, you're usually doing so to give the profiles more features.

What features a profile gets is determined by what QUOTA they are in. Each module will have a setting to turn it on and off for each group (quota.).

Its hard to go on without knowing where your stuck. Have you seen our youtube channel?

"Jamroom's Youtube Channel"
https://www.youtube.com/user/jamroomdotnet

UX observation - keep tag cloud context

Ning To Jamroom

From this page:
https://www.jamroom.net/tags/documentation/modules

Click "Tag Cloud".

UX observation - keep tag cloud context

Ning To Jamroom

The right alignment was intended to differentiate the level.

Tag Cloud
⤷All
⤷Documentation
⤷Marketplace

but its displayed

Tag Cloud | All | Documentation | Marketplace

So its hard to understand that "Tag Cloud" is one level higher than the other 3.

UX observation - keep tag cloud context

Ning To Jamroom

Like this?

updated by @michael: 01/20/15 04:56:13PM

UX observation - keep tag cloud context

Ning To Jamroom

Perhaps from this level:
https://www.jamroom.net/tags/documentation/modules

Move the "tag cloud" from the tabs to be a floating button on the right? That would visually move it out of the tabs and leave the ones that are connected to this level there.

UX observation - keep tag cloud context

Ning To Jamroom


See what your saying, just not how to implement it other than taking the "Tag Cloud" tab out of there. The tabs are the secondary level to whats been selected in the tag cloud. Removing "Tag Cloud" takes away the ability to go back to the top.