Forum Activity for @ultrajam

SteveX
@ultrajam
04/11/14 12:27:09AM
2,589 posts

Custom form field attributes in form designer
Jamroom Developers

Yes its the help text IN the Form Designer.
Quote:
• If this field is a select, select_multiple, radio or optionlist field, you can enter the form options ONE PER LINE, in the following format:

Option Value|Option Text

You may also enter a valid module FUNCTION name that will return the options dynamically.

• If this is a file field, you can enter the allowed file extensions as a comma separated list - i.e. "txt,pdf,doc,xls" - only files of these types will be allowed to be uploaded.

• If this is a chained_select field, the options are created using the Chained Select module - set this to the Option Set Name you have created in the module.
SteveX
@ultrajam
04/11/14 12:18:06AM
2,589 posts

categories in custom module
Jamroom Developers

No, ujCategories wont do that for you.

Look at jrBlog to see how its done.
SteveX
@ultrajam
04/10/14 10:57:15AM
2,589 posts

How do I Query action_data?
Jamroom Developers

action_data is stored in the db as a json array. If you are searching that unexpanded (and you know the number of licenses already) you could do something like this:
{$zid = $_items[0]['audio_distrib_lic_count']} 
{assign var='search5' value='action_data like %"audio_distrib_lic_count":"'|cat:$zid|cat:'"%}
        
{jrCore_list module="jrAction" profile_id=$_profile_id search5=$search5 order_by="_item_id desc"}

But you probably don't know the number of licenses, so, does the audio_distrib_lic_count field exist of there are 0 licenses?
If it doesn't, you could just search for the existence of the field name:

{assign var='search5' value='action_data like %"audio_distrib_lic_count"%}

If it does, maybe another search for not like would work, although I haven't tried that.

{assign var='search5' value='action_data like %"audio_distrib_lic_count"%}
{assign var='search6' value='action_data not like %"audio_distrib_lic_count":"0"%}

updated by @ultrajam: 04/10/14 10:59:14AM
SteveX
@ultrajam
04/10/14 07:46:14AM
2,589 posts

Cannot Install
Installation and Configuration

You should either choose a host which meets the requirements for Jamroom or change to a different cms.
updated by @ultrajam: 04/10/14 07:46:33AM
SteveX
@ultrajam
04/10/14 07:21:06AM
2,589 posts

Custom form field attributes in form designer
Jamroom Developers

Thanks Michael.

The form designer help is the standard help for the options field, so it mentions the optionlist format, and that the chained select module accepts different options. I couldn't see any way to alter the help in form designer from the module, probably a bit of jquery will do the job - its admin only so no need for it to be language aware. I've got to do something with it though, otherwise it is the wrong help/instructions the admin will see when they click on the help button (like they do ;)).
SteveX
@ultrajam
04/10/14 12:53:59AM
2,589 posts

Forum
Suggestions

No, I guess I mean the simplification thing, so forums like vanilla rather than forums like phpBB. Never seen IPB so I'm not sure where that falls on the spectrum.

I should probably have used "traditional" rather than "old style", or better "forums where an insignificant number of people use mobile devices". Where I live its around 90% mobile devices.
SteveX
@ultrajam
04/09/14 04:22:53PM
2,589 posts

Forum
Suggestions

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.
SteveX
@ultrajam
04/09/14 01:39:46PM
2,589 posts

Forum
Suggestions

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 ;)
SteveX
@ultrajam
04/09/14 01:01:47PM
2,589 posts

Forum
Suggestions

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.
SteveX
@ultrajam
04/09/14 12:12:49PM
2,589 posts

Forum
Suggestions

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.

Quote: I'm looking at Micheal's profile on this site right now.
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.
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