Forum Activity for @lesrinchen

On-Site Videos disappeared after installing Video (Combined) module

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I installed the Combined Video module so that my users will be able to see all the videos in one list regardless of where the videos are hosted. Before doing so, I had three lists -- YouTube, Vimeo, and "Videos." This last list consisted of a few videos I had uploaded directly to my Ning site, which got migrated over. Now that the combined list is active, I have no access to those few onsite videos. Their titles show up in the combined list, but clicking on them leads to "This page does not exist."

Similarly, if I go to my profile now, click the video button, click the plus sign, and then select "upload video" (as opposed to YouTube or Vimeo), I get "This page does not exist" at the url mysite.com//create.

If I go to the Data Browser for Video, I receive this string on the screen: CRI: Query Error: Table 'stitchingbuddhascom813.jr_jrcombinedvideo_item_key' doesn't exist.

I don't care so much about losing those few videos (though if they ARE lost, I'd like to recover whatever storage space they were using) but I would like the option of uploading or at least not to have a broken link there.
updated by @lesrinchen: 12/20/16 06:07:37AM

How do I lock a topic?

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Tag cloud widget is only displaying 9 tags even though the limit is 30

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I thought this was solved but apparently it's not. Though the specific numbers change, the Tag Limit function in the Tag Cloud widget continues to be buggy.

I have tagged hundreds of images and forum topics. I don't know how many different tags I've used... let's say 30 or 40. Only 14 are currently showing on the home page tag cloud, even when a higher limit is set or no limit is set.

I'm in developer mode so there should be no caching issue, and I've reset the caches anyway. As noted in my last comment, if I set the tag limit to 1, only one tag appears, but as I increase that number, it has unpredictable results. A few days ago, I seemed to be able to solve the problem by leaving the limit field blank, but that no longer works. Only 14 tags appear.

When I click on a tag and go to the list of tagged items, and then click the Tag Cloud button there, a much fuller cloud appears, with 24 or 25 tags. Much better! That's what I want on the home page.

In addition, I just noticed that the Tag Cloud doesn't appear at all when viewing the site on an iPad. Is that just the way it is or something that can be fixed?

No thumbnails on Vimeo private videos

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OK. For now, I'm okay, having entered the images manually. But the solution will be nice for the future and for others. Thanks!

Still struggling with Search option in the JamRoom Forum

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Hi Holly, I can't help you with tags for the Jamroom forum but I wanted to thank you for this post. You highlighted a setting that needed to be changed on my own site to allow tagging in the Forum: I had to go into the Quota Config for the Item Tags module and give my Community quota (the one for the profile that houses my Forum) permission to add tags. Now a Tags box shows at the bottom of every Forum topic, and I and my site users will be able to tag our discussions. Thank you for giving me the impetus to fix this! I know it hasn't solved your problem, but I wanted to express my gratitude. Thanks!

Auto-follow ALL Profiles OR release lists from follow condition?

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Disabling the Followers module didn't help...
There seem to be two different dynamics at play here --
one affecting viewable gallery and video content (this seems to be Profile Exclude excluding things it shouldn't),
the other affecting JrAction results (this seems to be related to Following).

Let's solve the first issue, first:

It seems the limitation on viewing the images in the site gallery is coming from the Profile Exclude module. Here's what I'm seeing: As master admin, when I go to mysite.com/gallery (by clicking what's now called "photos" in my top menu), I see 67 pages of images. But when I do the same as a standard user, I see 44 pages because I don't see the photos posted by profiles in my suspended member quota, which have been made active but excluded from the member list with Profile Exclude. I figured this out by removing profiles from the excluded list and adding them back on, and watching the number of images viewable in the gallery grow and shrink for a standard user. So clearly Profile Exclude is hiding content even though it's not supposed to do so. (The reason I installed Profile Exclude is so that those former members' profiles don't show up on the /profile page but that their content (images, comments, forum posts) remains as available as any other profile's.)

My aim really is just for everyone in my tiny group to see pretty much the same thing as everyone else when they look at /gallery and /video and at an activity feed for the whole site on the home page. And for that "same thing" to include content of all "active" profiles even those I exclude from view on /profile.

Auto-follow ALL Profiles OR release lists from follow condition?

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I would love to leave things like that! I'm happy to hear that's the default, but it's not what I've experienced so far in the lists. SO maybe I did something right out of the gate without realizing it that inhibited the views. Maybe activating the Followers module? Don't know if I did that or it was done in the import. If I simply deactivate the Followers module entirely will everyone see everything in lists of images, videos, comments?

Auto-follow ALL Profiles OR release lists from follow condition?

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Hi Paul. I used the Profile Exclude module to hide suspended members from the Members list so that standard users can see who's currently in the program with them. You and I talked about this in a support ticket: My suspended-user profiles imported from Ning had originally been marked inactive. This made their content unavailable. I re-activated them to reveal their content and used Profile Exclude to hide them from the visible member list. (maybe there was another way to do this, but this worked.)

I did not consciously set any profiles to "followers only" and would love to unset that if I did and if it's possible. I want everyone to see as much content and activity as possible, regardless of who posts it. Looking now for where that "followers only" setting may have occurred and seeing if I can remove it.
updated by @lesrinchen: 09/15/16 12:17:56PM

No thumbnails on Vimeo private videos

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The manual insertion of vimeo_artwork_url in the DataStore is working.

Auto-follow ALL Profiles OR release lists from follow condition?

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My site, just imported from Ning, supports a very small group of learners studying a specialized craft. We rely heavily on photos (member and admin posted) and their accompanying comment threads (as well as on forum discussions). Over the years, these discussions around photos have come to hold significant information. Some members have left the group but their photos and the accompanying discussion remain to teach later learners. So it's important that all users of my site can see all those photos/comments when they view the site's Image Gallery. This goes for other lists as well, videos, etc. When members click on a menu item that says Images, Photos, or Videos, I want all members to see all the items that have been posted on the site. Currently, they only see the photos, videos, etc. posted by profiles they follow.

(I have used Profile Exclude to make suspended members invisible on the profiles list but keep their content visible to current members. But if that content doesn't show up on lists, it is inaccessible.)

I see two ways around this and may like to do both, for good measure:

First, I've installed the Auto-Follow module. Rather than inserting specific profile ids in the "Select profiles" field, is there a way to select ALL profiles there? I would like all new members to automatically follow and be followed by all other members so that they see all activity on the site and view all items in their lists.

Alternatively (or additionally), is there a way to make lists (of videos, photos, comments, etc.) show content submitted by all profiles rather than only followed profiles?

Aside from my specific need for users to see older content posted by former users, these functions would be beneficial for any small groups that want to maximize users' views of other users' content. In tiny groups, the more activity people see, the more engagement can result.
updated by @lesrinchen: 12/17/16 07:56:57AM