Forum Activity for @researchcooperative

Head & Body questions

Design and Skin Customization

Pinterest has the following instruction for Pintererst users who wish to "claim" their own site.

Paste this tag into the section of your site’s index.html file:



Following the above notes, this should go be placed in the Skin meta.tpl template, but exactly how? Can this thread show such a template and how to position the meta.name html inside the template?

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The buried instructions at Pinterest seem to assume that your life is spent on one of the other main social networks, not any old Jamroom site:

"Claim your Instagram, Etsy or YouTube account to let people know where they can see more from you. ..."

So, is there any benefit in putting this kind of "claim" code into the meta-tag area of my Jamroom hosted site?

Can I expect Pinterest to recognise it?

Using Akismet (not Askimet)

Using Jamroom

This note is just a "heads up"...I and others have occasionally spelled the service name incorrectly as Askimet rather than Akismet, here on Jamroom. Don't aks me why!

Today I renewed my sub, and checked the spam/ham blocking history on my Akismet account (see attached image). The service seems to be doing good work.

updated by @researchcooperative: 06/28/20 10:13:09AM

Payments module - seeking examples of this in use

Installation and Configuration

Since I am not familiar with designing sites for sellers of services, I would really like to see how the payments module can be set up to allow this.

I envisage offering to create an individualised quota for each service provider, so that what they do with their seller profile can be customised more easily.

My problem is that I have no models of how this would look from the point of view of the seller profile owner, or the point of view of the buyer (who may or may not be a member of the network).

Can JR provide links examples of the Payments Module in action in a range of situations, so that JR users can visualize more easily what to aim for when using this module?

e.g. for sellers and buyers of services, or physical objects, or digital objects (images, recordings)
updated by @researchcooperative: 07/01/20 07:25:29AM

Decommissioning social sign in - what is the best way to do this, and what are the consequences?

Using Jamroom

In this case, I am the site owner.

In general, it may be good for site owners to compare the actual participation by users who sign up directly to a site vs those who casually join because it is easy to, using social sign in.

A useful metaphor might be fishing nets with holes for different mesh sizes: to catch strong and active fish we need large holes that let all the small fish through (users have to do some work to actually get caught).

If we do not mind having all sorts of fish, then we can use small holes and catch a big bundle of small and big fish (any user who is mildly attracted to our network may get caught).

Of course, our visitors are free and smart enough to avoid the net altogether. I am not saying they are fish! But visitors may think a site owner is fishy if any person is able to join, without any real vetting process.

Decommissioning social sign in - what is the best way to do this, and what are the consequences?

Using Jamroom

Thanks. That's good to know.

Decommissioning social sign in - what is the best way to do this, and what are the consequences?

Using Jamroom

A year or so ago I set up social sign in for my network.

Initially it looked like a good idea, but although many people joined using this method, almost none have been active. Social sign in bypasses the usual requirement to establish a visible public profile, so the result as a large number of blank member profiles with no activity and nothing interesting for other members to look it as a starting point for communication.

If I switch off a social sign in option (via Twitter for example), or decommission all of them, what are the consequences for members who used this method to join the network?

Will they lose access to their profiles?

Will they receive any automatic notification explaining the change?

Is it possible for me to maintain access for social sign in members who have been active in some way? How?
updated by @researchcooperative: 04/04/20 03:09:21PM

Provide documentation for "Adding a second domain to your JR Hosted server"

Suggestions

UPDATE (solved): apparently I did something right, as the following automatic message was sent to my email address (see after the asterisks).

As the first person to login at the new site, using the "create account" tab, my account becomes the Master Admin account, and the password is created by me, manually.... NOT from inside the JR hosted dashboard. See the message below.

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"A new Domain has been created on your Jamroom Server, and Jamroom has been successfully installed!

It may take a little bit for DNS to update so the domain no longer shows as "pending" - once it is online it will be available here:

http://yourdomain.jamroomhosting.com

The first User Account you create in your new Jamroom site will be a "Master Admin" account which gives you unlimited access to the site.


Once your new Jamroom site is all setup you can easily switch the Active Domain on the site to be the primary domain:

[Your domain]

by following this guide:

https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/documentation/jamroom-hosting/2556/making-the-primary-or-secondary-domain-active

If you are new to Jamroom, make sure and check out the Jamroom Admin Handbook:

https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/documentation/jamroom-admin-handbook

Jamroom is a very configurable product so give yourself some time to get up to speed - once you do things will "click" and you'll be an expert in no time.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us.

Have fun with your new Jamroom!

Provide documentation for "Adding a second domain to your JR Hosted server"

Suggestions

I am not sure that the documentation for setting up a domain for the first time is suitable for when we add a second domain (for a second site) on the same server.

Perhaps all that is needed is a single paragraph to explain how adding a second domain is done. The basic steps may not be very different from adding and setting up the first domain.

My first question is: does setting up a second domain mean that a completely new set of software need to be installed?

I understand that a new set of modules will be needed, as the new site will run independently, but I suppose there is some server-side software that does not change: one server should be able to handle multiple domains and sites. So we do not need to wait for our server to be set up, when we add a second domain.

What should I expect regarding password access for Admin of the newly added, second domain and site associated with it?

Will a new Admin password be generated by the system, or should I create a new password from inside my JR hosted dashboard, and then login with this new Admin username and password?
updated by @researchcooperative: 02/16/20 05:08:36PM

"DNS is pending" - what does this mean when I am setting up a new domain on my JR hosted server?

Installation and Configuration

I recently bought a new domain name, and have edited the domain servers in settings for the new domain on the site of the domain registrar. I presume I should put my JR name server names there.

This did not immediately change anything back in the dashboard on my JR hosted account. The message "DNS is pending" is still showing.in my JR dashboard (DNS = Domain Name Server)

It would be nice if the JR system could automatically tell me what to do when the "DNS is pending".

(a) Should I just wait and do nothing?

(b) Should I put JR name server names (from where?) in the name server boxes located on the domain registration site? I chose the domain server names used for my existing JR hosted site. Is this OK?

(c) Should I do something about this in the settings in our JR hosted dashboard, somewhere?


updated by @researchcooperative: 03/12/20 07:41:37PM

Tag clouds for specific content and specific display locations

Using Jamroom

OK - so with these strings we can set up a box and search button to search all tags for either all blogs of a specific profile, or just one blog on that profile. If there are no profiles with more than one blog, then Michael's solution should be fine in every case.

Should the string be added in a new field in the "profile create" form or the "profile settings" form or both, or neither (i.e. somewhere else?). These are the only profile-specific places I know where I can add fields, though not directly "in a template that is showing on a profile"

If we go to ACP>Profile module>Templates we see templates that apply to all profiles and with no option to add a new template. So that also doesn't look like the place for a profile-specific template.

How else can a specific profile be targeted? How can the position of the tag search box be controlled?

These are not matters I would attempt doing on my own, so the questions do not need to be answered here unless the answers are of general interest.

I am just happy to know that in principle, the tag search system within a site can be made more selective.

Note: here are real life examples of what I have in mind: when publishers put the content of multiple journals online, we can search the contents of each journal separately. Or on radio or music sites with different channels, we can search each channel separately. In a JR site, each journal or each channel is likely to belong to a separate profile.

Searching tags for all published content is useful, and so is searching tags for specific content areas
updated by @researchcooperative: 11/14/19 06:34:33AM