investigating Custom Header for Signup Only

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kccomedy
@admin8514
10 years ago
12 posts
Is there a way to add custom text to the top of the Signup form?
In the area it says, "Create a New Account". I would like to have a paragraph of text explaining who I would like to be registering an account and who should not be registering an account.
updated by @admin8514: 04/20/15 03:06:49PM
brian
@brian
10 years ago
10,149 posts
kccomedy:
Is there a way to add custom text to the top of the Signup form?
In the area it says, "Create a New Account". I would like to have a paragraph of text explaining who I would like to be registering an account and who should not be registering an account.

I was thinking there might be a way to do this in the form designer, but I just checked and there is not. Right now you'd have to customer the header.tpl and "watch" for the /user/signup URL and put your note in.

I'm going to look into adding a "note" type ion the Form Designer though, as I could see that being useful.

Hope this helps!


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Brian Johnson
Founder and Lead Developer - Jamroom
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kccomedy
@admin8514
10 years ago
12 posts
Another way to work around this would be for me to create a page that is displayed before the actual signup form. I have create a page called Sign Up and on that page is the text I want. At the bottom of the page is a link that says click here to register.

Now I have gone to edit the index.tpl file trying to modify the url. For some reason it isn't changing the link. I have a check mark in the active box.

User Accounts / index.tpl / line 86 has been changed to
<br><a href="http://kccomedy.osjam.com/admin/page/3">{jrCore_lang module="jrUser" id=111 default="Click Here to Create an Account"}</a>


Is that the only location of the "Create Account" url? I have searched for the string and that was the only location I had found.
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kccomedy
@admin8514
10 years ago
12 posts
I found the template in the Skin. I have made a custom Signup Alert Page that users see before they actually register.
brian
@brian
10 years ago
10,149 posts
Just a note that the latest Core (5.2.28) now has support for a "Notice" custom form field type, so you can do it that way now.

Hope this helps!


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Brian Johnson
Founder and Lead Developer - Jamroom
https://www.jamroom.net
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kccomedy
@admin8514
10 years ago
12 posts
Thank you Brian. I appreciate your hard work.
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kccomedy
@admin8514
10 years ago
12 posts
HTML doesn't seem to work. I tried adding a img and also line breaks.
brian
@brian
10 years ago
10,149 posts
Yeah HTML is likely not going to work - I can look into that for a future release though.

Hope this helps!


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Brian Johnson
Founder and Lead Developer - Jamroom
https://www.jamroom.net
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kccomedy
@admin8514
10 years ago
12 posts
No prob. At least I don't have to do my custom page work around anymore. Thank you for your support!
brian
@brian
10 years ago
10,149 posts
kccomedy:
No prob. At least I don't have to do my custom page work around anymore. Thank you for your support!

No problem - this shouldn't be hard to add.


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

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