solved Site Builder modules - step by step guide to getting started

1. Install for your site using the Admin Control Panel (ACP)
2. Click on the module, then go to the controls at top of screen... make the module active.
3. Don't worry about the quota system. This set of modules does not have to be configured for each quota. Only Admin is going to use them.
4. Now I am lost... where to from here?!
updated by @researchcooperative: 12/22/16 11:55:59AM

http://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/forum/ning-to-jamroom/23533/soaring-eagles-ning-to-jamroom-and-site-builder-video

Thanks. That's a good demo video as far as it goes, but like the earlier Jamroom video, it jumps right in at the stage where Sitebuilder is already active and in the top menu of the site concerned. It looks wonderful, but how do we get there?

I'm missing some key point in the process. Or else there is something odd with the install at my site.

Ok check to see that yu have everything installed fro site builder
Go to Modules tab...scroll down to SITE tab and open-in here you should have 4 modules
1-Site Builder-Construction Kit
2- Site Builder-Menus
3-Site Builder-Panels
4-Site Builder-Widgets

ALL 4 should be enabled
Then you need to go to Modules tab again and under FORMS make sure you have
1-Editor Embeded Media
Installed- all 5 of these are necessary for the site builder to work
Please Check
Any you might be missing can be installed under the "marketplace" tab
After installing any of these-then run the integrity check to make them show up and work
updated by @derrickhand300: 03/15/15 10:58:36PM

Now checking...

1. Module Active - yes, OK for 1 and 2 (Kit and Menus), but not 3 and 4 (Panels and Widget; these don't display any "module active" checkbox under the Info tab).

2. Editor Embeded Media Installed - yes (but again, no "module active" checkbox under the Info tab)

3. Did Integrity checks with two modules using this label, the system core and profile followers.

4. No change.

5. Reset caches as that seems to crop up as a cure for many problems.

6. No change.

So... is there something odd with modules that do not have an activation checkbox?

Thanks, Peter
updated by @researchcooperative: 03/16/15 12:45:07AM

No-I think you have it correct ( I just checked) Now in the header- click on that gear icon- it will open the menu- add an item here ( maybe call it test) then save it...exit out- go back to the header and click on TEST you just created...when that page opens you should see 3 large tabs down in the bottom left corner of your monitor- these are the tabs that are "Site Builder"
Please check and see if you have them after adding a page
( I think some of the JR default pages dont use site builder so you have to "create the pages to use it on...but Im just going from memory...)

Hi... um.

"that gear icon" = which gear icon?

1. http://publishsciencenet.jamroomhosting.com/ (no gear icon)

2. http://publishsciencenet.jamroomhosting.com/chief-admin/page (something like a gear icon; click on that and it wants to "update profile" and snaps to the Admin Control Panel.

Can you show me the URL of the page where you think I should see a gear icon that does what you suggest?

Thanks, Peter

You will need to be logged in to see it...
I am looking at your skin and trying to remember...
I dont think you have the gear icon in this...I think there is a drop down in the ACP in the header that says something like "Menu Editor"...check and see if thats the case...if so click it then create a page using it called TEST
updated by @derrickhand300: 03/16/15 02:08:23AM

I am in the standard jrElastic skin. Logged in as Chief Admin (for which all modules are enabled, as far as I can see).

1. In the ACP dropdown I can see System Tools, Users, and Skin Settings.

2. In Skin Settings a further submenu gives me a tab called User Menu Editor.

3. Clicking on User Menu Editor leads to a page in the ACP backend where we can edit "user menu" labels. This took me sometime to work out, as I was trying to read this as a control panel for the user "menu editor", not as "user menu" editor.

As a test, I set all the labels to active for "everyone"; this did not produce any gear icon or anything else obviously related to menu management. I'll try to find out later why and how the "user menu" editor should be used.

4. Back in the Skin Settings I found another subtab labeled "Skin Templates". This also led back to the ACP backend, to a configuration page for skin "template" files. I don't understand what these template files do, but currently none of them is active, and there is one called header_menu_desktop.tpl This looks promising, so I'll try to make it active.

5. Pushed the modify button, but here my button pushing comes to a dead-end. All I see as a page of code, which means nothing to me. I dare not touch that.

Where to next?
updated by @researchcooperative: 03/16/15 06:07:01AM

Yeah it's really not this difficult
You create a page and the tools to make it are in tabs on the bottom left of the blank page in3 big tabs
These are the site builder tools
Sorry I could not be more / better help

Log in as admin then click this link
http://publishsciencenet.jamroomhosting.com/test
you should see a big yellow tab in bottom left that says "EDIT THIS PAGE"
if its not there then something is configured wrong

Thanks. Looked at your test page while logged in as site admin. No yellow tab.

Made my own test page again. All I see is a form designing button at top right. No yellow tabs anywhere.

Who can check the configurations?
updated by @researchcooperative: 03/16/15 05:16:46PM

I think Michael will find and address this or you - he has been out of the pocket a few days - I think he will be back tonight
Just my opinion

You need to use a skin that is Site Builder ready. Try jrSlate.

We're working on making it work for everywhere, but its not there yet.

I see your in Kyoto. Next time your up in Tokyo, come by my store and I can answer all your questions if you like. I'm in Nakano-ku.

Hi Michael,

I'd like to visit, sure. Recently I was up in Shibuya at the Bunkamura Art Museum helping with an exhibition (botanical art - Banks Florlegium).

And at last, the simple answer to all my woes:

TO USE SITEBUILDER..

1. Install jrSlate Skin on your server, and make it the active skn.

In the Jamroom Marketplace there is a row of tabs to the right of the Modules that are shown by default. The second tab, which I noticed for the first time just now, is for Skins. jrSlate is in there.

Thanks, Peter

PJ,

What you might be missing is a couple of codes you install in the header and body. It's in the docs somewhere. Read through and you'll find them.


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Ken Rich
indiegospel.net

updated by @ken-rich: 03/17/15 03:54:44PM

Spot on Ken.

Here's the link if your wanting to make a non-Site_Builder skin ready.

"Making a Skin Site Builder Ready"
https://www.jamroom.net/site-builder/documentation/development/2349/making-a-skin-site-builder-ready

I found also that the Ningja skin is Sitebuilder ready, though I have yet to see how make a menu item a submenu. I'll watch the videos asap as I guess/hope they will explain this.

just drag it.