Forum Activity for @researchcooperative

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Ning To Jamroom

Everything I have read elsewhere tells me that your view of the matter is correct. Personally, that is how I want to work.

Nevertheless, I am curious about whether or not domain names have much consequence for the results generated by search engines.

For people they obviously do, so I should design the site in a way that creates more- rather than less-meaningful URLS for users of the network.

I suspect not using Giggle's Crumb will not help much to make me invisible. I use Firefox, but Giggle is my daily companion. Something like water and air. Thanks.
updated by @researchcooperative: 03/17/15 05:50:38AM

Site Builder modules - step by step guide to getting started

Using Jamroom

Thanks. Looked at your test page while logged in as site admin. No yellow tab.

Made my own test page again. All I see is a form designing button at top right. No yellow tabs anywhere.

Who can check the configurations?
updated by @researchcooperative: 03/16/15 05:16:46PM

Admin Control Panel (ACP) - where should I look for it?

Jamroom Help

Thanks... I'm there now.

Jamnet is where we have a basic account and manage hosting of a server if we have one hosted by Jamroom (What I like to call the Hosting Dashboard).

Our own website is where see the Admin Control Panel for working on a site, inside the server, using the installed Jamroom modules.

Site Builder modules - step by step guide to getting started

Using Jamroom

I am in the standard jrElastic skin. Logged in as Chief Admin (for which all modules are enabled, as far as I can see).

1. In the ACP dropdown I can see System Tools, Users, and Skin Settings.

2. In Skin Settings a further submenu gives me a tab called User Menu Editor.

3. Clicking on User Menu Editor leads to a page in the ACP backend where we can edit "user menu" labels. This took me sometime to work out, as I was trying to read this as a control panel for the user "menu editor", not as "user menu" editor.

As a test, I set all the labels to active for "everyone"; this did not produce any gear icon or anything else obviously related to menu management. I'll try to find out later why and how the "user menu" editor should be used.

4. Back in the Skin Settings I found another subtab labeled "Skin Templates". This also led back to the ACP backend, to a configuration page for skin "template" files. I don't understand what these template files do, but currently none of them is active, and there is one called header_menu_desktop.tpl This looks promising, so I'll try to make it active.

5. Pushed the modify button, but here my button pushing comes to a dead-end. All I see as a page of code, which means nothing to me. I dare not touch that.

Where to next?
updated by @researchcooperative: 03/16/15 06:07:01AM

Site Builder modules - step by step guide to getting started

Using Jamroom

Hi... um.

"that gear icon" = which gear icon?

1. http://publishsciencenet.jamroomhosting.com/ (no gear icon)

2. http://publishsciencenet.jamroomhosting.com/chief-admin/page (something like a gear icon; click on that and it wants to "update profile" and snaps to the Admin Control Panel.

Can you show me the URL of the page where you think I should see a gear icon that does what you suggest?

Thanks, Peter

Site Builder modules - step by step guide to getting started

Using Jamroom

Now checking...

1. Module Active - yes, OK for 1 and 2 (Kit and Menus), but not 3 and 4 (Panels and Widget; these don't display any "module active" checkbox under the Info tab).

2. Editor Embeded Media Installed - yes (but again, no "module active" checkbox under the Info tab)

3. Did Integrity checks with two modules using this label, the system core and profile followers.

4. No change.

5. Reset caches as that seems to crop up as a cure for many problems.

6. No change.

So... is there something odd with modules that do not have an activation checkbox?

Thanks, Peter
updated by @researchcooperative: 03/16/15 12:45:07AM

Site Builder modules - step by step guide to getting started

Using Jamroom

Thanks. That's a good demo video as far as it goes, but like the earlier Jamroom video, it jumps right in at the stage where Sitebuilder is already active and in the top menu of the site concerned. It looks wonderful, but how do we get there?

I'm missing some key point in the process. Or else there is something odd with the install at my site.

Multiple forums

Ning To Jamroom

Setting up forum categories will work for me, as the category shows up with its own URL, and has its own search icon for all the messages inside that category. Wonderful!

/publish-science-network/forum/editing-offers/

= sitename/profile_name/forum/category

Making another profile to set up another forum will also work. Thanks. Eventually I will be able to put titles and URLS for all forums in a text box on the home page somewhere.

I wonder if there is any advantage for search optimisation (Giggle etc.) in having (in the forum URL) a profile name that includes terms related to the forum content, as in the example above.

....

Now I realise I can stucture this more directly..

/editing/forum/editing-offers

Where Editing is now the profile name, and specific topic categories can be hard-wired in the forum under that name.
updated by @researchcooperative: 03/15/15 07:47:44AM

Site Builder modules - step by step guide to getting started

Using Jamroom

1. Install for your site using the Admin Control Panel (ACP)
2. Click on the module, then go to the controls at top of screen... make the module active.
3. Don't worry about the quota system. This set of modules does not have to be configured for each quota. Only Admin is going to use them.
4. Now I am lost... where to from here?!
updated by @researchcooperative: 12/22/16 11:55:59AM

Forum Mising

Using Jamroom


In our Ning 2 systems, we have a tab manager in the admin dashboard. All the existing main menu tabs are displayed. When we add a new tab we can make it submenu or top menu tab, and copy and paste the URL into the tab setup screen.

Then we can drag the tab anywhere we want it in the tab setup display, and this is immediately reflected on the home page when we get out of the dashboard. Its a very easy, obvious and useful feature in the dashboard.
updated by @researchcooperative: 03/15/15 05:43:11AM