solved Where to view a pending item before approval?

The procedure for viewing a pending item reported in the dashboard is not clear to me.

Here is the JR documentation (from https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/documentation/getting-started/1853/the-pending-items-approval-system):

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Approving an Item

When a user uploads an item that needed to be approved by the admin, that item will be placed into the Pending Items section of the admin's 'Dashboard'.

The admin will receive an email to tell them they have items that need approving with a link to this page.

The admin user, and the owner of the profile will be able to see the item on their profile and listen to it, in the case of an audio file, but the public will not be able to until it is approved.

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The last sentence above is not clear.

There are two profiles (sender and admin). I don't know which profile I should look at to see the pending item.

Should the pending item appear on both profiles (sender, admin), even if the target location is somewhere else?

If a user posts a comment (for example) on a third person's profile, will that third person be able to see the comment before admin has approved the comment? Or only the sender of the comment and admin?


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PJ Matthews, Kyoto
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updated by @researchcooperative: 04/11/16 11:16:02AM

It means that the sites master admin and the profile owner that created an item will see the item on the profiles list/detail page for that item, and only the admin and profile will see it until the master admin approves the item in the pending section.

Only the site admins can approve pending items.

Hope this helps!


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Douglas Hackney
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updated by @douglas: 01/06/16 07:58:52AM

"There are two profiles (sender and admin). I don't know which profile I should look at to see the pending item."

PJ, to see the pending item before approving or rejecting it, click where I have circled in this dashboard screenshot...it will take you to the member's profile area where the pending item sits- in this case, as a pending Event submitted by a test member I have named "The Member":


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"If a user posts a comment (for example) on a third person's profile, will that third person be able to see the comment before admin has approved the comment? Or only the sender of the comment and admin?"

In your User jrComment Module "quota config" tab, you can set "item approval" for each quota. You could set Admin to "no approval needed" for posting comments...and you can set regular members this way too if you like...or certain members in certain quotas.

Do you really want to moderate and approve every single profile page comment your members make on each other's profile pages? Theoretically, you could make a quota of regular members who are new to your site and bear watching, and set them to need approval for comments. Once they are 3 months old you could manually move them to the 'normal' members quota who no longer need intensive comment approval.
I have a quota for members who have failed their Kickbox email validity test- people with failed emails get automatically dumped into my "FailedEmail" quota- and I deal with them later. This unsubscribes them and thus prevents them from going into my mailgun failure statistics.

Members can also have options to set their OWN profile to be private or visible to followers etc, so it can get confusing. And if you're talking Blogs, they have their own member-controlled comment approval setting (I think, right?).


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Dear ST,

Thanks for the great screenshot. All is clear.

Your explanation of how to use the item approval system with quotas will be useful.

For the moment, this thread seems have reached the "solved" state, so I will mark it that way, with thanks to all the above.


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