Quick question - what is a profile?

I'm thinking of creating, rather than importing, a Jamroom network that I had been going to do in Ning 3.0. I'm just getting my head round Jamroom (I think!), and I like the style of it.

My question is really about what I'm looking at. Taking 'Ning to Jamroom', with its documentation, forum, sites tabs - am I looking at a profile you've constructed? For example, if I wanted to create a 'box' for every town in the UK, can I create all those, each with an instance of a forum, a gallery (additional module, I know), or is that not the best way to do it?

If it isn't what is the best way to do it?
updated by @iamtimbo: 07/09/16 09:21:02AM

Hi @iamtimbo - Welcome to Jamroom

Yes - you have it in one!! 'Ning To Jamroom' is actually a profile created by admin on this Jamroom CMS installation. A couple of the other profiles here are https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network and http://www.jamroom.net/backstage
Additionally, you have your own profile here at https://www.jamroom.net/iamtimbo as do all other individuals who have signed up.
You now need to checkout the Jamroom quota system - see the docs at https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/documentation/getting-started/693/the-jamroom-quota-system
Different profiles allocated to different quotas give you the mean of assigning different sets of functionality (the Jamroom modules) to different sets of profiles, so profiles on a 'free signup' quota might have limited resources, profiles that are paying you could be moved to another quota that gives them more resources, profiles paying even more money could get even more resources etc. Does that make sense?

So, for what I think you are trying to do, admin could create a profile for every city in the UK - http://yoursite.co.uk/leicester, http://yoursite.co.uk/nottingham (my home town) etc. and each could have its own forum, gallery and other resources. You could even have towns and villages in different quotas. Not sure why you would but that is what the quotas are about !!

Hope that helps


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Paul Asher - JR Developer and System Import Specialist
updated by @paul: 12/29/14 09:23:54AM

I've signed up. I've even got a couple of profiles set up. This is absolutely perfect, I think. Just going to start getting my head round quotas. Brilliant. Thank you.
updated by @iamtimbo: 12/29/14 09:23:54AM

That's great. Don't forget to checkout the main Jamroom forum at https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network to meet up with other helpful JR users


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Paul Asher - JR Developer and System Import Specialist
updated by @paul: 12/29/14 09:23:54AM

I've been browsing already! Just having a problem downloading the site builder modules- they don't show in the marketplace when accessed from the ACP, and going 'round the outside', the seem to be zip files...
updated by @iamtimbo: 12/29/14 09:23:54AM

The Site Builder is still in beta and not part of the Marketplace yet, so yes, when you download them, they are ZIPs and you then have to upload/install them conventionally.
Get them from here - https://www.jamroom.net/ning-to-jamroom


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Paul Asher - JR Developer and System Import Specialist
updated by @paul: 12/29/14 09:23:54AM

R.E. the Site Builder - you should be able to go into your ACP -> Marketplace -> Tools -> Release Channels and click on the "Make Active" button next to the "beta" channel - this will make it so beta releases will show up in your Marketplace.

Then you can install the Site Builder modules right from within the Marketplace.

Hope this helps!


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Brian Johnson
Founder and Lead Developer - Jamroom
https://www.jamroom.net
updated by @brian: 12/29/14 09:23:54AM