Test Site

It has been a few years that I used JR last, and notice almost everything has changed. I signed up for the test server to test a few things, and make some custom work and honestly I am lost. Trying to learn as much as I can and as fast as I can.
1. From the skins that is available, which one is not widget based, and the fastest in terms of loading and not to much java and so on, as I am doing some customization.

2. Instead of using custom form, can I hard code the forms to where I need them or not.

3. For comments, and so on, can I disable tinymce so to keep it simple.

4. If I customize a skin and later update the system, it will over write my customization, how can I prevent this.

Thanks
updated by @msultani: 09/14/16 06:45:56AM

The docs for the system are here:

Docs: Table of Contents
https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/documentation/contents

1. The widgets are part of site builder, dont use them if you dont want to. If you put any file into the active skin it will become a url. so if you add /skins/(YOUR SKIN)/elephant.tpl then you can view it at site.com/elephant

2. yes, but the Form Designer makes things simpler.

Docs: "Using the Form Designer"
https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/documentation/getting-started/1275/using-the-form-designer

3. yes, there is an option in the global settings for that.
ACP -> MODULES -> ITEM FEATURES -> COMMENTS -> GLOBAL CONFIG -> ENABLE EDITOR.

4. You can either clone the skin
ACP -> MODULES -> DEVELOPER TOOLS -> TOOLS -> CLONE SKIN

OR you can make your alterations via the template editor over-ride.
Docs: "Using the Template Editor"
https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/documentation/development/3183/using-the-template-editor

I found the best way to get up to speed was to watch the YouTube videos @michael created.

https://www.youtube.com/user/jamroomdotnet/videos?view=0&shelf_id=0&sort=dd

He did a great job showing most of the core stuff.

Thank you Michael and Jimmy. Still trying to wrap my fingers around this and trying to keep things simple. Is there a way to give someone admin privileges without sharing my master admin info.

Thanks

Create a quote and give access to what you want to whom you want.

You can give any user 'master' admin status. You can also make them 'profile' admins.

https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/documentation/using-jamroom/2982/user

Goto the selected user account page to make these changes to their status.
hth


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Paul Asher - JR Developer and System Import Specialist

I can't see Jamroom Config as per http://archive.jamroom.net/Jamroom3_Quota_System to add more quota. Is it because I am on a 7 test server or something is wrong.

That is Jamroom 3 documentation - you don't want to be on our archive site.

Full docs for JR5 are here:

https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/documentation/contents


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Brian Johnson
Founder and Lead Developer - Jamroom
https://www.jamroom.net

Thank you Brian. Also is there Category and sub-category module for Jr or it has to be developed.

Thanks

No - Site Builder can do this, but based on your requirements that you provided via email it's going to require a custom module to meet your needs since you're not going to want to manually build each page.


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Brian Johnson
Founder and Lead Developer - Jamroom
https://www.jamroom.net

Chained link module might work for cats and sub cats, I use it before for similar