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yea you need to set up a jr5 dev site.

Many of those could be done by configuring your jamroom and quotas. If you really need a feature set like that though, you have a very old style community and should stick with IPB for as long as possible.

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Go for it jimmyk, you know you want to.

Concentrate on essential features, get people using it early, and at least double all time estimates

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Also, important to note that a few months ago the forum was missing a few features, and I did prefer the old phpBB on the old jamroom.net.

But now that the features (search, my posts, etc) have been added in, I prefer the jrForum way of doing things. And having my own forum on my profile is a killer feature imo, nothing like that in phpBB.

I did a bunch of work on a VanillaForums integration back in the jr5 beta, it is possible (but you are right, not easy, and 2 skins to write and maintain). Once the jrForum module arrived though, it didn't seem worth the work - I wouldn't be able to make it anything better than the jrForum, and couldn't touch it's killer feature.

I really like the simplicity of jrForum (simplicity in use is what I liked about Vanilla as well). I think the simplicity will be THE key feature when it comes to building communities over the next few years: The less barriers to conversation the better.

Why not go with JR5 for your new community for a year or so, then compare your community results to your existing IPB sites, and then jump into the JR boat if your experience proves it to be the better option?

Brian said "Are there specific features missing from JR's forum that make it unusable for you? "If you could accurately describe the features from IPB which you think to be essential and which would improve jrForum - I'd be very interested in that too.

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I came to the new jamroom.net because of the forum, not too interested in my profile.

But now I find myself using my profile for writing documentation, selling modules, tracking payments, tracking bugs in my modules, my own forum on my profile, etc.

Michael has been busier than that - he's also a profile owner of the-jamroom-network, and most of his documentation, support tickets, forum posts are as part of the "jamroom network" profile rather than on his "Michael" profile.

If you can develop on both platforms and don't want to bridge, why not try starting with a clone of the jrForum module, and then add the missing IPB features into that? If there is a very large group of users out there in need of it and you can reach them, you might have a big selling module to recoup on your time investment.

Custom form field attributes in form designer

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I'm working on a color picker custom form field and need a bit of advice.

I can pass in attributes when writing the color picker field into another module.

If I wanted admin to be able to configure the color picker's js options in the form designer on a field by field basis, I guess I'd need to pass those in using the options field in form designer.

I'm pretty sure that would work, but how would I get those config options into the options "see help for what is allowed here" help? Can I replace that help, or add to it, or should I try a bit of jquery to replace the help text after the form loads?

Or is there a better way of adding configurable attributes in the form designer?

Thanks

updated by @ultrajam: 05/15/14 03:32:22AM

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Looks good, Thanks Brian!

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And another bump

Play list problems

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Agreed, and that's funnier.Cool.

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Use css to change the color of the text.

Cool that it isn't a bump. But please make it funnier, you know you can.

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After rereading that, I have a better suggestion:

Bridge, integrate, then enforce some account changes which require your core users to pay some attention to their profile. Hope that your other users follow, and then adjust from there.