Forum Activity for @iamtimbo

Trying out groups...

Ning To Jamroom

That's great - I've canned my old experiment, and I'm now playing around with the SiteBuilder, which is excellent, and much more fits my tiny mind. I have got my cities quota, and I'm playing around......if yuo have any more thoughts about overcoming the issue above about being returned to the user profile, let me know!

We're hoping for a launch at Who Do You Think You Are Live (I know!) in a couple of months...!

Trying out groups...

Ning To Jamroom

Hi Paul,

I assumed as much as regards a dedicated module. I'm not quite sure what the Group module 'does' to a profile - I assume you can still have all the other functions available to JR, which probably cover all other bases.

With the prototype, as far as videos were concerned, we've left them on YouTube and just pulled them in like that - no-one uploads anything, and I guess the same sort of thing would happen. Blogs we don't have by town - I guess people could upload their own stories in their profile and link to them, if they needed to, but I anticipate most interaction being in the town forums and galleries.

I think we have enough on our plate with those, so don't see much expansion beyond that in the near future!

Trying out groups...

Ning To Jamroom

Hi Brian,

Yes, I guess that would do it! As long as (moon on a stick moment) the galleries were just as functional (ie with the Google geotagging option which could not have been more designed for what I'm trying to achieve - it's location, location, location with us!) and the forums just as customisable.

If you had an inkling that this might come to fruition at some stage, as I have around 1000 town profiles to create, I would happily start doing that now so that I'm ready for it (no time like the present, and all). It's quite an ambitious project......!

Tim

Trying out groups...

Ning To Jamroom

Hi Paul,

Happy New Year! I'm back after a bit of a break, and trying to pick back up where I left off. I've looked back at your suggestions, and although I see how that would function (if not how to achieve it technically!), ot would ultimately keep taking the casual browser away from the town profile. I want people to be happy in their 'place', and come to know each other.

What I'm trying to emulate from Ning 3 (and indeed improve on, as galleries are so much more powerful in JR, with the enhanced descriptions and geotagging)) is a gallery a bit like this - http://wimbornerec.org/Places/wimborne/general-photos - where the contributions have come from lots of different people but are held in the same place (multiple galleries would be even better, like we have in Ning 3 and that link is just one of).

I feel like there could be a drop down in the quota view for image galleries, along the lines of 'Allow profiles from X quota to post galleries'. That would get the desired result, without allowing people to post into each other's own personal galleries. This would surely be one of the very points of the quota system.

Anyway, it's great to see how many Ningers have come over - I'll bring my Ning 2 when it looks like they've finally thrown in the towel. All looks great!

Tim

Adding to another profile's gallery...

Using Jamroom

Hi, all,

Very new to Jamroom, and PHP in general. I want to create a way that any site user can post in any profile's gallery, but I'm not sure it's possible.

The best analogy I can think of is having a load of predefined profiles, as if each one was a venue. I then want normal users to be able to add to the galleries of that venue, with each gallery being a concert at that venue.

So, Bob can go to the Borderline profile, and upload his pictures of the It Bites gig to the It Bites gallery in that profile. That's not exactly what I want to do with it, but it's a good analogy.

Any thoughts...?!
updated by @iamtimbo: 01/17/15 12:27:47PM

module creation form creator and smarty interaction questions (re building a chat)

Ning To Jamroom

Hi, se, I think they're using phpStorm. They have a udemy tutorial on how to set it up, but you'll have to be quick to follow it!
updated by @iamtimbo: 12/29/14 09:23:54AM

Trying out groups...

Ning To Jamroom

Not at all! I've been working through Udemy, and will continue to. I added the Google Maps module earlier - got that working a treat, and I've learned a fair bit in the process.

I will stumble on and get back to you! Things seem to have moved on since my Commodore 64!
updated by @iamtimbo: 12/29/14 09:23:54AM

Trying out groups...

Ning To Jamroom

I'm not giving up, but my brain's melting a bit. Bearing in mind I have no prior experience of coding anything (apart from simple html and a bit of css), I'm struggling a bit here. Tried to use the forums, etc, so here's where I am:

i) I already had a Quota for cities (id = 2), so that's good.
ii) Got lots
iii)Creating templates. I think I see the principle of what JR needs to do. Initially, I couldn't see where you create a new template. Looking around, I found Aparna, and created a new module. In that module I adapted the item_list template to include the following:

{jrCore_list module="jrProfile" order_by="profile_name asc" search1="jr_profile_quota = 2" return_keys="profile_name"}

What I have no idea about is how to find out if this does anything like what I need it to/what you're suggesting. How can I test its output?

iv) Next to each profile name where?

v) Done

I'm sorry to appear so dim. It is clear to me that once I have my head around this - essentially I have to learn some coding - this is very powerful, and from the things that I can see from the jrCore_List tutorial, will be an excellent way to manage what will become a large database.
updated by @iamtimbo: 12/29/14 09:23:54AM

Trying out groups...

Ning To Jamroom

I'll try this out now!
updated by @iamtimbo: 12/29/14 09:23:54AM

Trying out groups...

Ning To Jamroom

A light bulb may be coming on. Do you mean tag the galleries with a City Profile like their @town-name tag?

I completely misunderstood the dynamic nature of the tagging - as I'm the only person on my network I haven't had much need to 'mention' anyone else, so didn't really realise what it could do.

This sounds very interesting - if I'm getting you right! If you have time to jot an idea as to how it might be done, that would be extremely helpful. I have just about got my head round the Form Editor and the options within it (I think).
updated by @iamtimbo: 12/29/14 09:23:54AM