Forum Activity for @claygordon

SSO Jamroom integration with Ghost

Jamroom Developers

Brian – I am slowly refamiliarizing myself with Global and Quota config options.

Say, for the Image Galleries module I deselect “Allowed on Profile." This would allow members of the quota to SEE galleries already published by clicking on the Images button in the top nav but would not allow them to upload.

There is also a media upload module so I could turn off uploading, but I want people to upload images into Forums posts.

SSO Jamroom integration with Ghost

Jamroom Developers

Brian -

1) I am wondering, how much of making everything read-only can be done using Quotas? There are many different profile quotas at the moment. I can simplify them all down to one that restricts uploads and postings for historical members. I believe I can do this for image uploading for example.

This would let me keep one or two quotas with posting/uploading permissions for some privileged users.

2) I am also wondering about an email import feature I thought I saw in the Marketplace. (Used with the User Link module?)

I would like to export all of the active email accounts from Ghost and import them into Jamroom ... if the import feature has dedupe capability. There is going to be some overlap between the two collections. I can see a related issue when it comes to quotas unless there is a way to specify a target quota. I could do the import in tranches targeted at specific quotas.

SSO Jamroom integration with Ghost

Jamroom Developers

Brian:

I want the section labeled as Forums (with the classifieds section) to be updatable - that’s the point of the exercise. However, I want to be able to set the other sections as read-only..

SSO Jamroom integration with Ghost

Jamroom Developers

Brian –

As an aside when it comes to disabling signups (I haven’t looked at the code base much since 2017):

I want for visitors to see everything in the archive but disable uploading new photos in the galleries, new videos, not create new blog posts, and the like. I know I can remove nav items like Events and Group from the header template which means visitors can’t navigate to them ... I am assuming that if there is an external link from Google or elsewhere removing the nav element will not prevent that page from displaying.

SSO Jamroom integration with Ghost

Jamroom Developers

Gotcha. I will present this to my developer and if there’s a need for some custom coding on your side we can have that discussion when I get there.

SSO Jamroom integration with Ghost

Jamroom Developers

Brian:

I know it’s for node.js – which makes sense given the Ghost stack. My developer has no problem setting up a simple middleware server dedicated to handling these requests.

I have been assuming the user is coming from Ghost and the first time through thus not have a user account. If they are authenticated on the Ghost side we have both unique (email) and non-unique (username) IDs and a gravatar or avatar.

Ghost does not use passwords but IIRC Jamroom can autogenerate them and maybe email them? (It has been a while.)

It would be nice to also set up a Ghost account if someone signs up for Jamroom without a Ghost account.

Small steps.

SSO Jamroom integration with Ghost

Jamroom Developers

Brian:

It has been a while.

SSO is a sore topic on the Ghost side, to be sure. There have been some SSO progress but nothing official. My sense is, according to people in the know, that it is doable using a custom adapter in Ghost and a service that sits between Ghost and the other site. I was thinking of asking my developer to use the OneAll API and Passport to build something for Ghost.

SSO Jamroom integration with Ghost

Jamroom Developers

There is also now this:

https://www.passportjs.org/packages/passport-ghost/

SSO Jamroom integration with Ghost

Jamroom Developers

I have an active Ghost site which is essentially a blogging platform with comments.

I also have a live (but dormant) Jamrom site with about nine years worth of Forum postings. It’s there for archive and SEO purposes.

I am looking to revive the Forums component of the Jamroom site and am looking for a bi-directional SSO solution.

Is OneAll appropriate for this use or are there other recommendations people have?

TIA,
Clay
updated by @claygordon: 10/04/23 07:34:25AM

Custom "spreadsheet" module to display data

Jamroom Developers


I already have a JR site with about 10k members. I want to include the functionality within the existing community rather than create an entirely different site. Part of this is the amount of time in my day and I already know from experience that splitting this content off into another site is problematic for many reasons - only one of which is the requirement for a separate login.

Part of the UI is the ability as I was conceiving of it was to be able to display the data in a columnar format, like the profile browser, but sortable. I could create a new module and the form would collect all the data, and tie it into the existing Search functionality. I would lose the sortable tabular display (and scoped search and export) but I get all of the rest of the functionality "free."

Something to consider. Thanks. I still want to do the tabular display but will think about this approach if I can't end up doing that.

:: Clay