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How to add items to the 'user dropdown' menu that members see under username after login?

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Thanks - that worked.

Knowing that the URL exists, I went back to:

ACP>Forms>Simple Custom Forms>Form Browser>View Form

...and found that by clicking on the form name in the View Form column, my newly created form and its URL can be seen and the URL copied from there.

I am using a simple custom form to provide advice on options for leaving my network, and a way for logged in members to act on that advice by stating their choice in the form, and posting it.

See thread here: /the-jamroom-network/forum/using-jamroom/52134/how-to-leave-how-to-delete-or-how-to-remove-own-account.

I'll call the present thread solved, and the Forms module great!
updated by @researchcooperative: 05/25/17 06:10:48AM

Ecommerce and Foxycart - are these intended for one seller per jamroom site, or multiple sellers?

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Some months ago I got keen on trying to set up Foxycart for my site, but it seemed difficult to set up for selling intangible services, rather than actual things (houses, beds and printed books) or digital files (digital documents, films, and music).

And most critically, it did not seem easy to set up as a way for any member of my site to use, if he or she wants a shop front.

I was hoping that Foxycart would be modular shop system that could be replicated ad infinitum whenever members wanted a way to manage selling their services as editors or translators. I want members to be able to hang out their own independent shingles (shop signs) on a street provided by my network.

Instead, it seems like there are lots of ropes to learn just to set up a single shop for me as a site owner. Maybe I misunderstand the purpose of Foxycart

Ecommerce and Foxycart at Jamroom -- are these intended for one seller per jamroom site, or multiple sellers?

updated by @researchcooperative: 08/22/17 08:03:04PM

what is difference Pages with Blog

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A blog might eventually show a series of entries that all belong to one theme or the interests of one author. Basically, a blog is an online serial publication. One blog can have one author (eg the personal blog of a single member) or it can have muliple authors, if it is set up as a kind of online publication for a selected range of trusted or invited authors.

Pages are independent, and can be one-off sources of information provided for visitors to your site.

what is difference Pages with Blog

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Blog entries and pages both get their own URLs, which is very handy for cross-linking inside your site, or from other sites.

Blog entries can also be given category labels by Admin or the author, so that different entries on the same topic can be found by readers looking at blog site within your network.

How to add items to the 'user dropdown' menu that members see under username after login?

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Hi, that looks like it might be simple. I created a custom form setting out the options for account deletion (three different ways). That gave me a template name.

Then I went to the User Menu Editor, and found that I need to enter a URL for a new menu entry. My custom form does not have URL.

What should I do next?

How to add items to the 'user dropdown' menu that members see under username after login?

Using Jamroom

I am now wanting to add an item (a link to a custom form) to the 'user dropdown' menu that members see after login.

How can I do this?

When I search for 'user dropdown' in the support forums, I do not see anything that obviously deals with this matter.

Thanks, Peter
updated by @researchcooperative: 08/24/17 12:09:47PM

How to leave? (How to delete, or how to remove, own account?)

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Thanks... I don't think they will be troubled at all, and that is the paradoxical problem.

I want people to leave if they are not actually interested, but if they are not interested, they won't take the bother to leave.

If I can provide different ways for people to leave, then this will eventually serve as a split test. Split testing is definitely a good idea.

How to leave? (How to delete, or how to remove, own account?)

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They can, yes, but my experience is that most people joining the network are completely inactive after joining, and their most likely decision is to do nothing and let the account sit unused. Such people are naturally not keen to go to the bother of re-establishing a password in order to leave.

I'm thinking to implement Paul's idea of a custom 'delete me' form for logged in members, as well as having an email contact option for logged out members.

Eventually I will need to make unilateral decisions to delete members who have not been active for a certain period of time, perhaps at a rate that is roughly equal to the rate of new members joining...

Hmmm... that could be a nice process to automate, from an administrative point of view, for members who have never added any content at all.

How to leave? (How to delete, or how to remove, own account?)

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A key point implicit in Paul's reply is that the Admin needs to know that it is really the account owner who is requesting that the account be closed. If the Delete me link is only seen after login, in the user's personal dropdown menu, under their username, then their identify is confirmed.

Alternatives are to ask for (i) a direct request (to an Admin email address) to include the username and account email address of the target account, or (ii) a request via the Private notes system (which again requires a login to be used).

Paul's suggestion is most secure, but for members who have forgotten a login password and just want to leave, it may be enough to accept the username and account email address, which are more likely to be known by the owner. Or is this really too insecure?

How to leave? (How to delete, or how to remove, own account?)

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This explanation fits with what I have set up: a quota for regular members as 'power users' who can create more than one profile.

However, the vast majority have not created more than one profile. So none of them can see a delete profile (aka delete account) button. They cannot delete their primary profile and user account themselves.

The main question here is how to let members quit their account completely, not just how to delete a public profile. What we really need is a range of options (settings) that make the process of deleting own profiles and own user accounts smooth for most potential member categories.

I could redefine the quota of my regular members, taking away the power user function, and shift the few power users who really do have more than one profile into a new quota. But then I would need to make a lot of other changes in documentation etc, where I explain the benefits of membership and the potential uses of multiple profiles.

Michael has raised the issue of the need for clarity about content ownership - it may be necessary in the Terms of Use statement to note that:

(A) the overall site owner, any appointed moderators, and individual account holders all have the right to delete an account, profile, or published content that is no longer wanted, including posts by other members on threads started by the account owner, unless

(B) the site owner wishes to keep content that has mixed authorship and that remains valuable for the site and otehr network members.

In the case of scenario B, the name and details of the original account owner could be removed by Admin changing the user account name, address, and profile details, thus essentially 'nationalizing' what was previously privately owned, with permission of the original account owner. [check - is this technically possible?] .

Scenario B is complicated, but might be a solution in some situations where a member wishes to leave, and does not mind the site owner keeping previously published threads and information on the site.
updated by @researchcooperative: 05/21/17 05:08:53AM