shops/power user/multi profile question

i have the signup setup to sign up into 1 of 3 quotas regular user or shop or featured shop
both shop quotas are power users with 2 profiles available

now heres what im a lil confused about
it seems that the profile u post as is always the 1 you make as you join, and the secondary profile is more of an info type profile
now im thinking that they would want the profile they create when they join to be a user profile to post under
and the secondary profile to be the shop

i set it up so they can have the second profile as a regular member
but wouldnt thatmean they would have to set up the shop on profile 1 the 1 they make when joining they can make a regular member profile but when posting in the forums (not the profile forums the main site forums) theyd be posting as the shop profile

when a user account has multiple profiles... shouldnt there be a "post as" option or a switch to profile option that doesnt just show you the profile but makes your identity that profiles

what i mean is
say
user john doe has a shop
johns shoplifters tools shop
and a profile
john doe
and just for arguments sake another profile
john smith

and he wants to comment on a profile or post in the main forums he should have an option to post as john doe or john smith or as the shop

i know jamroom didnt have a main forums so youd post in your own profile forums as the profile you are actively on (i assume)

but now moving to a ninglike structure but still alowing multiple profiles those profiles have to function as your posting identity in the main site

(was working on my site till 6 am so that might be rambling and unclear)

as it is now when u click your profiles then choose a profile it doesnt switch you to that identity it just lets you view that profile an d edit it

with multi profiles like multiple personality disorders you should be able to switch to a whole diferent identity to be posting as

itherwise as i have it now i think they will have to post as thier shop name and thats not desirable


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soaringeagle
head dreadhead at dreadlocks site
glider pilot student and member/volunteer coordinator with freedoms wings international soaring for people with disabilities
updated by @soaringeagle: 07/09/16 09:21:02AM

Almost everything you do on Jamroom is as a 'user'. The fact that in your setup, one user has two profiles is irrelevant. It is the 'user' that posts on forums, makes comments etc.


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

yea so then that brings up the other idea if they sign up as a user that wants a shop i guess the power user settings should alow both profiles to be shop profiles so they set the shop up as the secondary profile and use the 1st as the personal 1


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soaringeagle
head dreadhead at dreadlocks site
glider pilot student and member/volunteer coordinator with freedoms wings international soaring for people with disabilities
updated by @soaringeagle: 12/29/14 09:23:54AM

semi related question but i added the quota terms of service module but where and how do i define the tos as the dropdown list to select thems blank
and didnt see any tools for creating them


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soaringeagle
head dreadhead at dreadlocks site
glider pilot student and member/volunteer coordinator with freedoms wings international soaring for people with disabilities
updated by @soaringeagle: 12/29/14 09:23:54AM

I've just created two quotas, 'shop', and 'shop owner' with signups allowed for 'shop owner'.
Gone to User Accounts and selected the 'shop owner' quota and allowed signups, enabled Power User, Max Profiles = 1, and selected 'shop quota'.
Registered new user 'shop keeper' into the 'shop Keeper' quota.
I now see the 'shop keeper' profile with the option to create my shop profile.

Is that what you are trying to do?


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

i kinda did the same i made a shop owner profile that alows signups then they are a power user and alowed a shop as the 2nd profilke then a featured shop owner and a featured shop as a second profile

it was just backwards from what i was originaly thinking but i get it now

and ill have to create a help faq explaining it all


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soaringeagle
head dreadhead at dreadlocks site
glider pilot student and member/volunteer coordinator with freedoms wings international soaring for people with disabilities
updated by @soaringeagle: 12/29/14 09:23:54AM

oh and 1 more semi related question
howthe heck do i edit the signup form
i know i did it once and i believe i logged out and for some reason there was the form designer button but now i logout and its not there while logged in ive tried createnew profile modify profile create user account modify user account and i just cant seem to figure out how i edited the signup form last time


and also i see theres a signup questions browser in the ning importer
i assume i should be able to create signup questions with the matching names
and edit the templates (or use the site designer when ready) to add those questions into the profiles/


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soaringeagle
head dreadhead at dreadlocks site
glider pilot student and member/volunteer coordinator with freedoms wings international soaring for people with disabilities
updated by @soaringeagle: 12/29/14 09:23:54AM

If you go to http://yoursite.com/user/signup when logged in as master admin you should see the Form Designer.

The tool in NingImport shows the original Ning signup questions. There's a section in the N2JR docs on how to translate these to your imported JR site -

https://www.jamroom.net/ning-to-jamroom/documentation/ning2jamroom/2073/step-4-importing-the-ning-archive-to-jamroom


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

thnx ill make that the project of the day


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soaringeagle
head dreadhead at dreadlocks site
glider pilot student and member/volunteer coordinator with freedoms wings international soaring for people with disabilities
updated by @soaringeagle: 12/29/14 09:23:54AM