solved Global Config>Site Index>Forum Profile URL>Help note - what does this note mean?

Hi, I am using a clone of jrNinja skin, and am looking at the help note as identified in the title, and cannot understand its meaning. It has two parts.

"If you have a Site Forum, enter the Full URL to the forum (usually the site admin Profile URL)

Note: If you are using Site Builder, add the Discussion Link via the Site Builder menu manager"

The first part is OK, but then it seems that if we are using Site Builder we should do something with a Discussion Link.

Which Discussion link? And where should we add it?

Presumably this so a Discussion can be linked via a tab in the main site menu, using Site Builder, but which Discussion, and what does this have to do with filling out the Forum Profile URL?


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PJ Matthews, Kyoto
Migrated from Ning 2.0. Now at Jamroom 6 beta and using Jamroom Hosting for The Research Cooperative (researchcooperative.org)
updated by @researchcooperative: 05/19/17 10:20:15AM

The link to your site forum is something like http://yoursite.com/community/forum where 'community' is the profile name.
If you are using SiteBuilder and want a link to the forum in your page header, use the SiteBuilder Menu option to add in 'Site Forum' (or whatever header text you want) with the link 'community/forum'
hth


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Paul Asher - JR Developer and System Import Specialist

Thanks. Your explanation is helpful in itself, but does not clarify the wording of the configuration panel.

So..., if we do as explained, and use the Site Builder, what should we do with the field for "Forum Profile URL" in the Site Index configuration?

Can it be used for something else? Should it be left empty?

In what sense is "Site Index" used in this panel?

Does it mean "Home page" or "Site Index Page "? Or is it a back-end index of the site content?

Does the phrase "Index Activity Section" mean "Activity Section of Index Page"?

or is the word "Index" an active verb: "Index the Activity Section" ?

The Help note "Check to show, uncheck to hide" states the obvious about the check box. It might be better to use this to explain the meaning of the field title, or the context in which the selected action will have an effect.

If we are not using Site Builder, and put the Forum Profile URL here, what then? Does it then become a menu sub-tab under the main tab of the home page, or index page? Or does it become the main tab of the index page?


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PJ Matthews, Kyoto
Migrated from Ning 2.0. Now at Jamroom 6 beta and using Jamroom Hosting for The Research Cooperative (researchcooperative.org)

Some skins provide a field in the config section to add the forum url like jrNinja, however when you enable site builder, site builder's menu system takes over making this option non functional.

Thanks.

When we enable Site Builder, does its menu system also take over the functions of the Config fields for displaying Activity and About sections on the Index Page?


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PJ Matthews, Kyoto
Migrated from Ning 2.0. Now at Jamroom 6 beta and using Jamroom Hosting for The Research Cooperative (researchcooperative.org)

Yes.

What you're seeing here is the pains of flexibility.

traditionally the way to build a skin is to add some config options to collect the desires of the admin, then use those settings to turn on/off sections of the skin.

Site Builder was a method added later that allows the admin user to directly turn on/off sections of the skin without the need to adjust the code.

The config options are still visible in the skin, but Site Builder has taken over as the primary method, so the config options have nowhere to effect. The variables that are set by those config areas still exist waiting to be used, but unless you ARE using them somewhere, they will have no visible effect.

Thanks all. I think I understand what is going on here, now, so will call this solved.


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PJ Matthews, Kyoto
Migrated from Ning 2.0. Now at Jamroom 6 beta and using Jamroom Hosting for The Research Cooperative (researchcooperative.org)