Forum Activity for @tatiana-dokuchic

Working on "look & feel" & eager for suggestions.

Ning To Jamroom

That's an excellent point, Strumelia.

Thanks for the link; I was thinking of digging it up but you definitely saved me some time. I do intend to post there right before I give my notice to shut my old site down.

Did you see that the sale by Cyndx fell through and they're waiting on an announcement of the new new owners? I feel so sorry for people that (for whatever reason) are sticking with Ning. I have a feeling that one day they could wake up and all their data will be gone -- shudders --

It certainly was an incentive for me to move as quickly as I did! Thank goodness that Jamroom made it so easy & painless for me.

Working on "look & feel" & eager for suggestions.

Ning To Jamroom

FOLLOW UP:

Less than three weeks later my site is up and running! I'm sure there will be more tweaking to do along the way but I'm delighted with the initial results. I thought I would post this "Follow Up" for other people wondering about converting form Ning

As it's relevant to some of the decisions I made, I'll mention that I have an IT background but haven't coded in ages. I have limited interest in writing code and NONE in maintaining code for this project.

I decided to go with the Lucid Skin instead of Ningja and I committed to using Site Builder whenever/wherever I could. I had a good idea what I wanted the site to look like (which was quite a bit different from what was offered in Ningla) so I went for a cleaner look to start with.

I did the data import myself as I wanted to understand the process. The tools provided worked really well though I must say that the import service offered is very tempting, especially if you are pressed for time.

I wrote a bit of SQL to transfer a Forum Category over to another Profile and have added a Suggestion for this new function to be added to the JR toolset.
I asked questions when I got stuck and found the JR Team to be extremely helpful with their responses. Their service is first-rate; thanks guys!!

All-in-all a wonderful experience.

Help Understanding User & Profile Questions/Information

Ning To Jamroom

Thank you, Michael. I'll be sure to keep that handy.

Help Understanding User & Profile Questions/Information

Ning To Jamroom

Thanks, Paul! I'll check it out

ETA: Looks great!! Thanks for everyone's help on this.
updated by @tatiana-dokuchic: 10/05/16 05:40:00PM

Help Understanding User & Profile Questions/Information

Ning To Jamroom

A bit of a follow-up to this.

I have my user information all set up including reassigning user_signup_question_1 to something more understandable. So now it's time to output the data.

Does jrUser work with jrCore_list right now? I'm guessing not (though I hope I just missed something).

Where do I begin in my effort to display user data information?

Thanks!!

Order Groups by Member Count

Ning To Jamroom

Excellent, Michael. Thank you very much.

Help Understanding User & Profile Questions/Information

Ning To Jamroom

Thanks, Paul!!

Help Understanding User & Profile Questions/Information

Ning To Jamroom

Thanks, Brian.

First my apologies for deleting the post that you responded to. I zigged when I should have zagged

Your reply makes sense. I'm going to look at storing it all on User. As my site evolves I'm not always going to have a single user to a profile.

I appreciate your insights
updated by @tatiana-dokuchic: 10/04/16 01:48:04PM

Help Understanding User & Profile Questions/Information

Ning To Jamroom

I need a bit of help understanding where I should use Form Designer to place certain questions.

During the Ning Import I believe that:
Location became profile_location
Country became profile_country

These fields are not required.
Should I use Form Designer to add those two fields to the profile/settings form?


I have another field that is required called "Second Life Avatar Name".
Should I use Form Designer to add this field to the user/signup user/account and profile/create profile/settings?


Am I missing anything here?

Thanks!
updated by @tatiana-dokuchic: 01/26/17 08:44:49AM

Moving a Forum Category to Another Profile Forum.

Suggestions

I'd like to suggest a tool that would move a Forum Category and all of its associated topics to another Profile Forum.

I have a very popular category that has grown so much over the years that it needs to be further sub-categorized. A first step would be to transfer that category over to the new profile and then work on manually sorting it into the new sub-categories.

When I created this category, seven years ago, I never would have anticipated it's growth but I certainly want to encourage it

Thanks!
updated by @tatiana-dokuchic: 01/02/17 04:10:02AM