Forum Activity for @researchcooperative

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

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@michael - I found the smarty function in the tpl code. It is located in a div as below.

Strangely, I see the delete button on my admin profile when logged in as admin, but not on my regular user profile when logged in as a regular user.

There is nothing in the ACP settings to suggest that this should work for some profiles and not for others.

Please advise. Thanks.

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

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Thanks everyone for the discussion.

I would like to second what Strumelia is saying (for a more obvious button in the profile page), but also think, that in my case, Paul's suggestion will be adequate until something better comes along.

On full-sized ipad with Ninja skin, the header hides page-menu tabs

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On my ipad, I cannot see page menu tabs unless I swipe down and hold my finger on the screen. Swiping pulls the page content and top menu down while the header remains unmoved at the top.

Revealed in this way, the menu tabs do not respond when I use another finger to tap them. So they are either hidden under the header, or not usable when made visible by swiping. It is very odd.

After letting go of the swipe, the menu tabs spring back under the header bar.

I can use the main site menu that is accessed using the hamburger (mobile device) menu icon, but not page menus like the menu at the top of a profile page, or the menu at the top of module administration page.

I saw a recent question and thread about this, started by Strumelia, but have not been able to find it again using words I remember appearing in the post. I know the information is there somewhere in the support forums.

I think the solution involved making a change to a skin template code, but cannot recall details. Sorry for being vague, but the problem is real.


updated by @researchcooperative: 08/17/17 05:47:07AM

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

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A previous answer by @paul to the same question gave us the the following reply:

See:

"ACP=>Profiles=>Profile=>Profile Options=>Allow Profile Deletion

This will allow users to delete themselves from a site. Their profile, user account and all their content will be gone."

However, on my site, with Profile Deletion enabled in the ACP, I cannot see any button or link for doing this when I sign in as an ordinary member.

All I can see is a button for the option "Create new profile", as I am allowing members to create more than one profile. Is there something else I need to do to make it possible for members to leave of the own volition?

ps In the title to this post, I have added the same question (how to leave?) in different ways to assist future discovery of the thread. The question is very basic for managing a social network. Would it help to have tags for support threads so that they can be labelled in different ways to assist discovery?
updated by @researchcooperative: 11/06/17 04:21:20PM

Using the URL redirection module "r" to make a shorter URL

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Thanks.

I guess the disadvantages of the outside shortener services is that we then entrust our link management to an outside company that has its own interests in tracking uses of the links, and the links generated are very anonymous-looking and may arouse suspicion.

Home baked shortbread is best. I'll call this solved.

Using the URL redirection module "r" to make a shorter URL

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The documentation for this module is here:

https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/documentation/modules/3601/url-redirection

I have used this module to make a shorter URL for a page on my site that has a very long URL.

My first attempt did not succeed: I put a short URL into the field for "Match View", in the form of "http://yoursite.com/r/pagename" (i.e. I included the URL syntax). Then I put the existing long (target) URL into the field for "Redirected to URL"

Result: Nothing happened when I put the short URL ("http://yoursite.com/r/pagename") into a web browser URL address, even though the module had been activated in the Global Configuration panel.

In the Documentation, the "Match View" example is simply the words "search_engine" without the apostrophes, and without any URL syntax ( http://).

So I went back and wrote "pagename" in the match view, and then tested "http://yoursite.com/r/pagename" in my internet browser. This worked. Now I have a shorter URL for a page inside my own site.

With this module, we can set up a redirect to any site on the internet I suppose, but in this case, I want redirection to a page on my own site.

Questions:
1. Does this module work for any target site regardless of who owns the site?

2. Is the purpose here to allow a JR site owner to monitor how links to other sites are used, when the redirection ("match view") link is placed in our the JR site? (i.e. not just for hiding the target URL).

3. Is URL shortening a legitimate purpose of the r module?

4. Is there a better way to shorten the URL for any page on a JR site?
updated by @researchcooperative: 08/15/17 07:32:34AM

Gmail warns me that message received from my JR group might be a "phishing attempt"

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Hmmm - following the ACP route (thanks @ultrajam) I found that my gmail address is set up as the "from" address, but as things stand, my gmail account thinks this may be a phishing attack (self against self!).

The setting "SMPT Server configured in Delivery Settings (Default)" is shown.

Looking at the domain aliases link (thanks @michael), I find:

peter@[myJRdomain)]
support@[myJRdomain]

These are both listed as "Incoming Email Address" while my gmail address is listed as "Forwarding Email Address".

Incoming to who? Forwarding from where to where? From my actual gmail account to the people receiving messages from anywhere in the JR site? From my JR site pretending to be a gmail server?

It is hard to fathom, without prior knowledge, the significance of these settings for the observed result: the perception - by my gmail account - of a possible phishing attack by my JR site, when the site sends out a message that is sent to me as a member of the network.
updated by @researchcooperative: 04/29/17 07:04:05AM

Gmail warns me that message received from my JR group might be a "phishing attempt"

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Thanks... but how do I find this you@yourdomain.com address?

Is this automatically existing for JR site owners?

Gmail warns me that message received from my JR group might be a "phishing attempt"

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Today I posted a message out to other members of my JR site from inside a group page. It is a convenient system.

However, when the message came to me via gmail, it carried a warning that:

"This message may not have been sent by [my own gmail address!] Learn more. Report phishing".

I have looked at this issue though at gmail (using the "Learn more" link), and it seems I need to tell gmail to show the original address from which the mail is being sent. But I don't know what that is, or even if my JR site has its own address from which it is sending messages.

Below are the instructions from gmail. I can almost understand what gmail is telling me to do, but this part is difficult:

"Enter the SMTP server (for example, smtp.domain.com) and the username and password on that account."

What does this refer to, in JR terms?

Any advice welcome.

Thanks.

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Send emails from a different address or alias

If you own another email address, you can send mail as that address. For example:

Yahoo, Outlook, or other non-Gmail address
Your work, school, or business domain or alias, like @yourschool.edu or youralias@gmail.com
Another Gmail address

Step 1: Add an address you own

On your computer, open Gmail.
In the top right, click Settings Settingsand then Settings.
Click the Accounts and Import or Accounts tab.
In the "Send mail as" section, click Add another email address.
Enter your name and the address you want to send from.
Click Next Step.
Enter the SMTP server (for example, smtp.domain.com) and the username and password on that account.
Click Add Account.

Step 2: Confirm the address

Sign in to the account you added.
Open the confirmation message you got from Gmail.
Click the link.

Step 3: Change the "From" address

In the message, click the "From" line.
(If you don't see this, click the space next to the recipient's email.)
Select the address to send from.
updated by @researchcooperative: 07/29/17 03:19:56PM

Which browsers and browser versions are compatible with which versions of JR?

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I have not heard anything further from the account owner concerned, so will call this thread solved. The points learned are: "Jamroom should work on most modern browsers; i.e. those that support the WW3 web standards". Of course, I may have some members in poor countries using ancient operating systems and browsers, but cannot worry about this too much. If someone has access to the internet by any means, they are more likely than not to have access to a modern browser.