Forum Activity for @strumelia

Strumelia
@strumelia
01/22/18 07:56:03PM
3,605 posts

deleting cached images too often?


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Ok, thank you! I guess I was thinking it would only delete the cache every two days- but now I realize the 'two days' setting means 'images that have not been accessed in two days'.
No problem then. :)
Strumelia
@strumelia
01/22/18 06:46:02PM
3,605 posts

deleting cached images too often?


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I have my "Image Support jr module global settings set to delete cached images not referenced to: every two days. But in my Activity Log, I see cached images getting deleted about every hour (see screenshot). This goes on in both my sites.
Is this normal? Seems kind of excessive, and I don't remember seeing this as much in my Activity Feed a while back.

delete-cached-images.jpg delete-cached-images.jpg - 329KB

updated by @strumelia: 04/23/18 12:53:27PM
Strumelia
@strumelia
01/20/18 11:50:44AM
3,605 posts

DB and System Backup module now requires the AWS SDK module


Announcements

Thanks for letting us all know about this. I installed it and my DB Backup module seems to be continuing to do its job afterwards just fine.
Strumelia
@strumelia
01/20/18 10:14:34AM
3,605 posts

Helping my members see their 'pending' Followers


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OK, I changed my skin's menu.tpl to read this:
{foreach from=$_items name="loop" item="entry"}
    {if isset($entry.menu_function_result) && strlen($entry.menu_function_result) > 0}
        {if is_numeric($entry.menu_function_result)}
        <li><a href="{$entry.menu_url}">{$entry.menu_label} [{$entry.menu_function_result}]</a></li>
            {else}
        <li><a href="{$entry.menu_url}">{$entry.menu_label} <img src="{$entry.menu_function_result}" alt="{$entry.menu_label}"></a></li>
        {/if}
        {else}

{if $entry.menu_label == "Private Messages"}
       {* CUSTOM CODE for pending followers in menu HERE *}
    {if jrUser_is_logged_in()}
    <li><a href="{$jamroom_url}/{$_user.profile_url}/follow">Pending Followers: {jrCore_list module="jrFollower" search1="follow_profile_id = `$_user._profile_id`" search2="follow_active = 0" return_count=true no_cache=true}</a></li>
    {/if}
{/if}

    <li><a href="{$entry.menu_url}">{$entry.menu_label}</a></li>
    {/if}
{/foreach}

...and that works swell!
Short of inflicting a popup notification to my members (and who doesn't hate that), this is the best option to make my members AWARE of the fact that they have pending followers. I found so many members weren't even aware of it- even some of my moderators and some of my most active members. =8-\

THANK YOU Michael (and Paul) for patiently helping me with this. I suspect it might be handy for other site owners in the future.
The inserted code now gives me this dropdown user menu (see below screenshot), which is what I wanted and in the proper link hierarchy that will stimulate members to check on their pending followers (which will facilitate their private message connections):
pending-followers-menu.jpg pending-followers-menu.jpg - 99KB
Strumelia
@strumelia
01/18/18 07:18:48PM
3,605 posts

Helping my members see their 'pending' Followers


Using Jamroom

So, I need to add the line you have there with "Private Messages" in it, as well, right above my custom code? That tells it the spot where it goes, ABOVE the private messages link?

(sorry- must go to bed now... will do more tomorrow)...
Strumelia
@strumelia
01/18/18 05:20:52PM
3,605 posts

Helping my members see their 'pending' Followers


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Hmm, I'm a bit confused as to what my results mean...
I modified my skin's menu.tpl with 'position #s' as you suggested, like this:
{foreach from=$_items name="loop" item="entry"}
    {if isset($entry.menu_function_result) && strlen($entry.menu_function_result) > 0}
        {if is_numeric($entry.menu_function_result)}
        <li><a href="{$entry.menu_url}">{$entry.menu_label} [{$entry.menu_function_result}]</a></li> ( position 1 )
            {else}
        <li><a href="{$entry.menu_url}">{$entry.menu_label} <img src="{$entry.menu_function_result}" alt="{$entry.menu_label}"></a></li>  ( position 2 )
        {/if}
        {else}
    <li><a href="{$entry.menu_url}">{$entry.menu_label}</a></li>  ( position 3 )
    {/if}
{/foreach}

{if jrUser_is_logged_in()}
<li><a href="{$jamroom_url}/{$_user.profile_url}/follow">Pending Followers: {jrCore_list module="jrFollower" search1="follow_profile_id = `$_user._profile_id`" search2="follow_active = 0" return_count=true no_cache=true}</a></li> (position 4 )
{/if}

and what I got was this- (see screenshot). What do i do now? Am I futzing with the correct template?
position3.jpg position3.jpg - 25KB

updated by @strumelia: 01/18/18 05:21:59PM
Strumelia
@strumelia
01/18/18 11:25:23AM
3,605 posts

auto-approve followers checkbox not doing its job?


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Ceri, I tried to log in there via Goggle to comment on his blog, but Discus insists I create an account first, sorry but no.
Perhaps you can pass along to your friend that he should join my site and I can then guide him to a Welsh member we have and to areas where we do discuss the old tunes and ballads that came across the ocean to America so long ago and were preserved in rural pockets of the Appalachian area. My site often discusses such related topics as your friends is investigating, because the mountain dulcimer was used in the 1800s by early settlers/immigrants to accompany very old ballads from Scotland, England, Ireland, etc. Send him our way, we may have some folks who can be helpful. https://fotmd.com/
Strumelia
@strumelia
01/18/18 07:15:18AM
3,605 posts

Text in email notification of Support Ticket needs change


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Yes, it's handy to know that you can edit emails' subject and content of notification emails by modifying the module's 'email_' templates.

For example, I've edited the email notifications my members get when they 'follow' someone to include a more detailed description of the reciprocal 'follow' system- those email templates are in the JR follow module.

One might naturally tend to think all email notification wording would be found in one of the communication modules, or in the Core. But when you think about it, it makes sense that a particular module would use its own notification email templates when a function of that module is triggered...

such as the YouTube module, when a member comments on someone else's video... the video owner would get a notification with wording about their YT video- that somebody commented on it or Liked it. It's fun and useful to customize many of those emails for various modules! :)
updated by @strumelia: 01/18/18 07:35:59AM
Strumelia
@strumelia
01/17/18 01:16:47PM
3,605 posts

Text in email notification of Support Ticket needs change


Using Jamroom

Are you using the jamroom "Support Tickets" Module for this?
If so, look in that module's templates for one called something like: email_(somethingsomething)_message.tpl ...that would have the wording you could then change to what you like. (if you want to change the wording of the email's subject line, look at the sister template with: email_(somethingsomething)_subject.tpl
Strumelia
@strumelia
01/15/18 07:35:06AM
3,605 posts

auto-approve followers checkbox not doing its job?


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For the benefit of folks in the future trying to address this issue and finding this thread, I continued this subject in a newer thread here:
https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/forum/new_posts/55796/helping-my-members-see-their-pending-followers
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