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researchcooperative
@researchcooperative
01/06/18 07:05:36AM
694 posts

Ningja vs Ninja and a Cloned Ningja skin used for customizations


Ning To Jamroom

Thanks, I have done that. Have also deleted old cloned skins that were not active.

All past versions of the current active skin are held in the datastore, so I don't need unused clones cluttering up the system.

I suppose I also do not need the current default skin of the JR system, namely Elastic 2.

Or does it have special status as the default skin?

If I happen to ask a developer to modify my skin, would it be useful to have the default skin installed?

What should I do in this case?

Can I delete Elastic 2, leaving just the current jrNinja skin and my active, NingJa-origin custom skin?
updated by @researchcooperative: 01/06/18 07:08:05AM
researchcooperative
@researchcooperative
01/06/18 05:35:09AM
694 posts

Ningja vs Ninja and a Cloned Ningja skin used for customizations


Ning To Jamroom

I think this means I won't damage anything or lose anything by deleting or uninstalling the original NingJa skin from my system, since I have the new Ninja skin installed.

Having it there adds a whole lot of early versions in my compare tool, making it difficult to correctly find and select the current Ninja version that I should be updating to.

So... is it OK to delete the old skin?

Thanks
researchcooperative
@researchcooperative
01/06/18 04:57:51AM
694 posts

Ningja vs Ninja and a Cloned Ningja skin used for customizations


Ning To Jamroom

The customized skin on my site is based on a clone of Ningja, and is my active skin.

In my skin templates compare tool I see a pull-down list of template versions for Ningja and Ninja.

Should I delete the jrNingJa skin from my system, or is it best to keep both the Ningja and Ninja skins installed?

Are updates only happening to the jrNinja skin?




updated by @researchcooperative: 04/08/18 02:24:29PM
researchcooperative
@researchcooperative
01/03/18 07:12:46PM
694 posts

All about changelog.txt?


Using Jamroom

Thanks,

The full route I found is:

ACP -> MODULES -> CORE -> MARKETPLACE -> TOOLS -> RELOAD MODULES OR SKINS -> CHANGES

It's all there!

Now I am wondering what exactly "Reload" means (one of the Tools found on the above route).

Is this what we should use if we need to Reinstall a possibly corrupted module or skin? The label seems self-explanatory, but maybe there is more to it than this.
researchcooperative
@researchcooperative
01/02/18 04:37:11PM
694 posts

Privacy config controls for profiles and accounts that I wish to take offline before eventual deletion


Using Jamroom

Thanks for confirmation about what happens to Privacy settings when profiles are moved.

On re-examination, I found that my particular problem was a non-problem.

Today I found that in the process of shunting accounts into a non-active members quota, the "Profile Active" checkbox has been automatically unchecked, and a red alert banner appears at the top of the profile account page:

"This Profile is inactive and is only visible to admin users and the site owner"

Which I did not see when scrolled to the bottom of the page on my tiny laptop screen.

I wonder if red alerts can be shown top and bottom of a page, just to make them unavoidable? Not pretty but perhaps useful?
researchcooperative
@researchcooperative
01/02/18 04:25:20PM
694 posts

All about changelog.txt?


Using Jamroom

brian:
1) Click on the "Help" tab for any module or skin. You will see one of the options is "View information about this item including detailed Change Log"

When looking for this through my ACP, I found that the full route for a module is:

Module>Help>Product Detail>View Changelog
....
The changelog tells us when and why changes were made, and identifies the Version number, which can be referred to when looking at template versions with the compare tool.
....
brian:
Hopefully it is linked to in enough obvious places that we don't need to add it anywhere else, but let me know.

When I tried the same route for the skin modules (jrNingja and jrSlate_SiteBuilder) I reached the Help level, but was shown a red button with the message "Item not found - please try again"

So it seems this is not the way to find a Change Log for a skin module. Where to go?
researchcooperative
@researchcooperative
01/02/18 07:30:51AM
694 posts

Privacy config controls for profiles and accounts that I wish to take offline before eventual deletion


Using Jamroom

My site has Kickbox screening a small number of accounts each day to check for inactive email addresses.

When an inactive address is detected, the account and its profile is shunted into a quota for which the Profile Privacy configuration is set to Private.

However, it appears that this privacy setting only applies to new profiles created in the quota. All the old profiles that are in this quota still have their original privacy settings, namely "Global - visible to everyone". No one is actually creating new profiles in this quota. It is not a sign-up quota!

It seems that the only way I can make these profiles invisible is to delete them (and the attached accounts), which is what I intend to do over time. There is a chance that some former members will want to reactivate their old accounts, but for very old accounts I am happy to delete them eventually, as a Spring cleaning operation.

Is there any way for Admin to switch all existing profiles in a quota to Private? That is something I would like to immediately, so that the profiles of non-contactable members do not waste the precious time of visitors to my website.

Could such a master switch option be created as part of the Quota Config controls for profile privacy?

Thanks


updated by @researchcooperative: 04/05/18 02:20:33PM
researchcooperative
@researchcooperative
01/02/18 06:45:07AM
694 posts

All about changelog.txt?


Using Jamroom

Today I was advised: "Any time changes are made to a skin, the templates modified will be in the changelog.txt file"

I will look for this, as instructed, but in order to understand the advice, I went to the support forums, glossary and JR documentation and did not find any explicit discussion of changelog.txt files.

The name changelog.txt is self-explanatory as far as purpose is concerned, but does not tell me where the change log is located.

I expect it is easy to find, if one already knows where it is.

Probably I will find it if I scroll around in the skin template files area of my ACP.

Still, it would be nice if I could go directly to a basic explanation of where the changelog.txt is, and whether there is just one or many of them, and how they are used in JR... e.g. in the JR glossary (in the JR documentation).

Knowing how systematically JR has been built, there are probably changelog.txt files automatically created for every area of activity, front and back of the system.

It would be nice to know more about them, if this is the case.

Thanks.
updated by @researchcooperative: 04/11/18 06:19:35AM
researchcooperative
@researchcooperative
01/01/18 07:25:07PM
694 posts

Jamroom 6.1 has been released!


Announcements

Responding to this post (after long absence for fieldwork etc.)

Strumelia:
OK, so today I (finally) updated ....

The only thing that kind of worries me at this point is that my Customized skin, which I originally created from "Ningja"s original jamroom version over two years ago, now has SOOOO many differences from the latest new Ninja skin version that I wouldn't even begin to know what/how to pick things out to apply to my custom skin anymore. But ---am I correct in thinking--- that as long as my custom skin is working and looking as I want it to, I shouldn't really worry about applying Ninja updates to my custom skin? As long as I keep applying core and module updates and the site looks and functions as I like? (and I don't use SiteBuilder, btw) ....Hoping you can reassure me that I'll "be ok" without slogging through the swamp of a thousand code lines that I don't understand anyway in every ninja template.... =:-\

I also worry about managing a custom skin after updates to the original jr skin module.

The existing compare tool is of course useful, but requires manual scrolling through all the templates regardless of whether they need to be updated. And when I compare my custom skin template with the latest jr skin template, I have to somehow determine if differences revealed are dues to changes made by me in the custom template, or a recent change in the skin template, or both. If it is the first, then I probably don't want to revert to the original jr skin version, if it is the second, I need to somehow determine whether the update will interfere with my customization, and if it is the third (both kinds of change), then I will be confused on all counts.

I wonder if it would be possible for JR to provide a more comprehensive skin update tool (or skin management module?), one that automates the process as far as possible.

This hypothetical tool would produce a window with a list of just the affected templates, and the option to update each one individually, manually or automatically, or all of them automatically. And it would distinguish differences that are the result of the new jr skin update, and differences that are the result of a previous customization.

In summary, the aim would be to make updating skins as simple as updating modules.

Perhaps this post should be in different forum, but @Strumelia has described the issue very well, so I have posted here.

Thanks (and Happy New Year to all the JR team).
updated by @researchcooperative: 01/01/18 08:16:11PM
researchcooperative
@researchcooperative
11/12/17 01:28:14AM
694 posts

How to set up and use the Timeline module effectively?


Using Jamroom

In the documentation there is a screenshot of the skin index.tpl page, and the following statement:

"screenshot of the template alterations needed to show the RSS feed."

What does this mean? Should every jrFeed_list item made in the Reader module be manually added to the skin index.tpl page at the particular position shown? How does that result in Feeds being displayed in different positions in our site?
updated by @researchcooperative: 11/12/17 01:29:08AM
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