Further integration suggestions

Hey

It's been sometime since I last looked at Jamroom, V3 to be precise. Impressed with what I have seen so far.

Hoeever, I'd like to see the likes of flickr module integrated seamlessly with the Jrimages module.

So that pics imported from flickr show with those galleries.

jraudio and soundcloud in a similar vein

jrvideo, youtube and vimeo in a similar vein

Thoughts?
updated by @garymoncrieff: 11/17/14 10:01:42PM

Checkout the jrSeamless module -
https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/networkmarket/59/seamless
Also its documentation -
https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/documentation/modules/289/jrseamless
hth
Pa


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Paul Asher - JR Developer and System Import Specialist

Yeah Seamless should be a good choice here - it would take a bit of tweaking the module templates, but you can "blend together" the results of 2 or more modules into a single listing.


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

Yes I own seamless but editing the modules templates have me worried about updates which happen quite regularly.

If the hooks were prebuilt in it would leave this much easier, albeit not everyone would want it.

There is a basic template included with jrSeamless. Just do something like this -

{jrSeamless_list modules="jrGallery,jrFlickr"}

to try it out.


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Paul Asher - JR Developer and System Import Specialist

Sounds like you might be handling the template updates incorrectly. JR5 has been designed to allow you to customize the templates without worrying about them being overwritten. Make sure you have:

1) Cloned the JR5 skin that you want to customize (say jrElastic)

2) to customize a module template (for example let's say module/jrAudio/templates/item_list.tpl) you create a NEW template in the skins/yourClioneDirectory called:

jrAudio_item_list.tpl

customize that new template to suit your needs. The Jamroom Core will see your new template when it attempts to use the audio item_list module, and use your custom version instead.

You can then upgrade whenever you want and not have to worry that an update to the audio module overwrites your template.

The Core provides comparison tools (in the template editor) so after a module is updated you can "compare" the new updated template and see if any of the changes need to be brought over in to your custom template.

Once you see how that works it's pretty easy and really convenient to completely customizing anything you want, and never have to worry about staying up to date with modules.

Let me know if that helps.

Thanks!


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

Ah

Yes I have cloned the skin already (Media pro 5 light) and making substantial changes to it as I type. I wasn't aware I could copy and rename a modules templates into the skin folder to modify it on the fly.

Let me mess around with that for a bit to see where I get.

Thanks.

No problem - let us know if you see any issues.

Thanks!


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

I should add that if you've not cloned the Media Pro 5 Light skin yet, make sure and install the free Developer Tools module - it has the "clone skin" tool in it which is what you want to use to create your own customized version.

Hope this helps!


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

I have only tried playing around with this briefly and not getting anywhere at this stage.

I see you guys had premade modules to do this for V4, it would be more efficient for me just to pay for those if they were done for V5.

JR4 had "Seamless" as well, and that is how grouped lists were created as well - at least as far as I remember!


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

Yes I believe they did, but when one is not sure about coding it can be difficult to achieve seamless integrations and that's why those were nice modules for V4.

None of the JR4 stuff was "Seamless" out of the box - as far as I remember you had to update your ranking list calls just like you do here (although to be honest at that time the Seamless module was created by Paul at motagator, so I didn't really pay much attention to how it was used).

But I think I hear you here - basically you would like to see an easier way to "combine" multiple module items into a single listing - so that's good feedback

Thanks!


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