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NingJa vs NingJaClone - do I need both skins?

Ning To Jamroom

Now belatedly reading the Documentation for Skins.
/documentation/skin-customization/839/creating-your-own-skin

Points to note (with my comments):

1. "Even if you plan to only do minor changes, its a good idea to clone an existing skin and give it a new name before you start. This way your changes won't be lost when the original skin releases a new version."

OK - so I should be good with my NingJaClone skin.

2. Further documentation... gets into coding details I can't handle.

3. Further documentation... doesn't explain the overall strategy here. The compare tool is useful for comparing our own edits with what was originally in our cloned skin. But how do we deal with all the updates that are happening at JR with the original JR modules?

4. My hope (and perhaps my memory of previous conversations here at JR is telling me this) is that updating the JR modules in our personal JR system copy is generally not going to affect the operation of Skins.

It is only when a Skin update is offered that we have compare the updated Skin with our wrinkled version, and figure out how to use the new Skin (I will cross that bridge when I come to it).

When @michael said "NingJaClone will receive no updates. It is your skin totally now" he meant that NingJaClone will receive no (!) NingJa Skin updates.

Time to stop panicking and call this solved.

Thanks everyone.

NingJa vs NingJaClone - do I need both skins?

Ning To Jamroom


@strumelia
Is this how you incorporate JR updates for your site? Or do your changes mean that you can no longer update the JR modules?

@paul
Isn't a certain level of change possible while using the native NinJa skin, and accepting updates, without any need to clone? My goal is to use the NingJa skin as is, as much as possible, so that I can take advantage of the JR updates, which will be far more useful than any small changes I am capable of making.

How can I delete comments on a page?

Using Jamroom

Thanks.

I could disable the comments, but willy nilly the tags are gone too, being bundled together with comments as "item features".

I can show everything again by resetting to "Allow Item Features", but for now I will leave them unchecked, and think about setting up an issue tracker.

How to create a page where all member profiles can be seen and browsed?

Ning To Jamroom


That works, but works too well: now all my search fields - for groups, pages, anything - have the same string.

Still, good to know. Thanks.

NingJa vs NingJaClone - do I need both skins?

Ning To Jamroom

@michael, @paul
[quote="michael"]
You must have created a clone of Ningja and called it NingJaClone.
NingJaClone will receive no updates. It is your skin totally now.

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Thanks. That is what I was afraid of.

So far I have not made many changes within NingJaClone, so I can easily switch the active skin back to NingJa.

Then I can customise with NingJa, and also benefit from the updates.

Is that the best plan?
updated by @researchcooperative: 10/06/16 10:42:08PM

How to create a page where all member profiles can be seen and browsed?

Ning To Jamroom

Great,

That worked well. Two further questions (please)....

(1) If this line is duplicated, will that create two search fields at the top of the member page?

[/quote]

(2) Inside the search field there is a default text "search". How can I change this to "search names" "search locations", or "search all profile data"?

How can I delete comments on a page?

Using Jamroom

@michael, @paul

URL is here: http://researchcooperative.org/page/5/100-companies

Thanks.

NingJa vs NingJaClone - do I need both skins?

Ning To Jamroom

After the recent import, I found that two NingaJa skins in my ACP Skins list:

NingJa and NingJaClone*

The latter, marked with an asterisk, is the active skin.

Was this created at the same time as the import?

Should I delete the NingJa skin to avoid future confusion?
updated by @researchcooperative: 01/08/17 09:23:13AM

How to create a page where all member profiles can be seen and browsed?

Ning To Jamroom

Great! Thank you both.

Adding /profile to the site domain name went straight to the page I need, and all the profiles are there.

There is also a default search field, which is a good start.

This only searches profile names, so it is not very useful as a discovery tool (for finding unknown people). There is probably a relatively easy way to expand the range of information searched - by changing a template somewhere.
updated by @researchcooperative: 10/06/16 07:58:48AM

How can I delete comments on a page?

Using Jamroom

In the comments module, I have allowed all profile owners to delete comments. So I expected to be able to delete comments on pages I have created as Admin.

In Site Builder, I can use the tools menu to browse and then modify a page, but I cannot see or delete the comments when modifying a page.

Its seems as if I need to delete the entire page in order to delete the comments.

Is this drastic method the only easy way to delete comments on a page?

In the comments area, I do see the quote button, but even after refreshing the page, there is no other button showing.
updated by @researchcooperative: 01/07/17 03:43:32PM