Forum Activity for @researchcooperative

Can I build a new site and then import members from old site?

Using Jamroom

Thanks. That does look like a better option.

At this stage, I am not sure if I should import anything at all from the old site. It might be better for me to test an entirely new design to see if it is inherently more attractive for newly arriving visitors.

If it is better, then I can ask members of the old site how they would like me to proceed: move them all over in large blocks, or let them move and build new profiles of their own accord.

I will call this thread solved for now.

Can I build a new site and then import members from old site?

Using Jamroom

I am curious about the possibility of building a new site then importing members and other content from an old site.

My old site is cluttered and hardly used. I have enough space to build a new site on my JR hosted server, with a new domain name.

Is the following a feasible approach?

1. Design new and simpler site with no member (signup) quotas, and a limited number of modules.

2. Import the old (remote) site, in its entirety, without deleting the contents of the new site (there is a check box option for this inside the import tool)

3. Delete all the unwanted contents of the old site (note: there is no obvious option for cloning/importing only the wanted contents from an old site).

Further questions:
(a) When this is done, will all necessary modules remain in place, and will unused modules from the old site be automatically removed?

(b) Will members of the old site be able to login to the new site, at the new domain, with the email, username and password details they are using at the old site?
updated by @researchcooperative: 02/12/20 03:42:09PM

How do I put my site into maintenance mode in response to a phishing attack?

Using Jamroom

OK - I found the maintenance mode setting here, in the ACP:

yoursite/core/admin/global

The option to put the site into maintenance mode is under gobal config - general, in the core module, and generates the following message for visitors:

"The System is currently undergoing system maintenance. We are working to get the system back online as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience."

Thanks to JR for this!

How do I put my site into maintenance mode in response to a phishing attack?

Using Jamroom

My JR site appears to be the subject of a phishing attack that targets members when they try to login.

I should put the site into offline or maintenance mode until this is sorted out, but how can I do this?

Have any other JR site owners seen this problem recently?

The attached screenshot shows the fake popup that appears when I go to the login page on my site.

I have put in a support ticket for this issue, but it may be useful for all JR site owners to know about it (and the eventual solution and any explanation that is found)

updated by @researchcooperative: 02/01/20 06:46:12PM

Tag clouds for specific content and specific display locations

Using Jamroom

My understanding of the tag cloud system in JR is that all content can have tags, and different kinds of content can be chosen to see different kinds of tag cloud... BUT each tag cloud applies to ALL instances of a particular content type.

e.g. in the page for all tags
"All tags" button shows a tag cloud for all content of the site.
"Blogs" shows a tag cloud for ALL blogs.

What I am interested in is being able to create a tag cloud for a specific Blog, that is then displayed on that Blog only.

Or a tag cloud for all posts in a specific Group, with a display of the tag cloud in the sidebar of the Group.

This would allow the tag system to be used more creatively to enhance the user experience of a specific Blog or Group (or other specific content).

I suppose one way around this would be to create specific JR websites with just one blog or one group operating under one URL.... but I don't want to have to manage many different websites in order to create specific tag clouds for specific content.

For a music site, for example, all the work of a particular music group or musician could be tagged and followed with a tag cloud that is displayed only on the profile page of that group.

I am sure what I am suggesting can be done inside JR, but is there interest in making this level of tag control a standard feature of the JR system? Or is it already a standard feature of the system?

updated by @researchcooperative: 02/13/20 07:01:35PM

Browser setting or site setting for URL header?

Using Jamroom

Today I noticed that my Firefox browser shows the words "NO LANG FOR ID" in front of my jr based site URL when I go to my site.

When I visit other sites, like my bank, the bank name shows there.

Is changing the language for this URL header something we can do in our jr site admin?

What is the proper name for what I am calling the "URL header"?

If I have can the name, then I can look for it in the JR support pages.

I attach a screenshot.

Thanks


updated by @researchcooperative: 07/31/19 09:25:38AM

Alphabetical member search

Design and Skin Customization

@hello77957

You might like the implementation of this set up for me by the JR team at researchcooperative.org/profiles

I put all the sort and search options together in one place at the top of the page, and the necessary reset buttons are there too.

If you do like the set up, ask further on your support ticket to JR.

Can a "Reset Button" be made standard or available for all search fields?

Suggestions

On my Profile index page, the profile search field is set up with a reset button. This is very useful.

When I search other areas of my site, no such reset button appears above the displayed search results.

As a user, I have to experiment to see whether or not trying a new keyword results in an entirely new search, or acts as refinement within the displayed search results.

After discovering by trial and error that it acts as refinement, I then have to navigate awkwardly back to the starting page where I began the search to make a completely new search with the same search field.

If the Profile page search field can have a reset button, can the same function be added to all search fields as a default, or to selected search fields as an Admin settings option

I imagine an obvious, search-reset button would be useful in all situations! How could it not be useful?
updated by @researchcooperative: 06/24/19 06:43:11PM

not sure where to increase Group Discuss font size

Using Jamroom

This looks simple to do. I am trying this now for my "Normal" CSS setting.

Is there any technical reason to make the other text.css settings all the same font size?

I am not touching them now, but please note the following questions.

Ranking numbers = what are these, and where do they appear?
Hilited (=highlighted?) text - why does this have a separate font size setting from normal text? Highlighting is a color effect.
Media title - this is understandable
Media title link - usually when I make a link using html, the font size is determined by the existing text size. Why does this have a separate setting?
Media title hover - this is understandable.

Thanks all.

Update.... I tried this, but found no effect. This is probably because my forums and group discussions are set up with a full text editor with adjustable font sizes, and this may override a general skin setting. I will revert my .cc setting to 12 pt and leave it alone.
updated by @researchcooperative: 03/26/19 05:23:25AM

Using the template compare tool

Design and Skin Customization

In our Admin (ACP) page for managing skin templates, there is now a template compare button which is described in documentation here:

www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/documentation/jamroom-admin-handbook/2394/using-the-compare-tool-to-keep-cloned-skins-up-to-date

By default, when we look at the skin templates, we will be looking at the following URL

/core/skin_admin/templates/skin="your skin"

When we land on this page, the box at upper right shows the current active skin, and the skins menu at left also shows the current active skin, under the menu category "General". At this point, the skin is being compared with itself. As a result, the compare buttons are all faded out because nothing is different.

(It might be useful, as guidance, if the box at upper right could have a fixed label, such as "Choose other skin for comparison". The skin selected in this box is the skin being used for comparison, while the skin in the menu at left is the skin that will be changed if we decide to "save changes" using the compare tool).

So what is the next step?

In my case, my most recent clone was created on 5th May 2018. When I select the Ninja skin in the "Choose other..." box at upper right, every template is different from the corresponding template of the current Ningja skin, which I have kept up to date.

If I "Save changes" in every instance, using the compare tool, will this convert my active skin to the Ninja skin, and delete all customisations?

The compare tool is certainly useful for highlighting templates that have changed, but it does not discriminate between:

(1) templates that have changed because the original JR source skin has changed (and only because of this).
(2) templates that have changed because the cloned skin has been customised (and only because of this).
(3) templates that have changed because the original JR source skin has changed AND the cloned skin has been customised.

Can the compare tool be color coded to make these distinctions? e.g. (1) = green, (2) = red, and (3) = yellow.

Then, as someone who cannot judge what the template codes actually do, or give time to this, I could safely press the green buttons and save the changes, and ignore the red buttons (stop - go no further!).

In the case of the yellow buttons, I would know that the situation is complicated, and could ask for technical support to decide whether or not to save the changes.
updated by @researchcooperative: 08/14/19 09:11:50PM