How to get startet with JamRoom?

@torbenj
10 years ago
82 posts

Hi there,

I´m brand new to JamRoom so I woul like to ask a few questions.

What I would like to create is a forum/community where musicians can search for a band in their area. As you can see on my site www.find-et-band.dk - I´m from Denmark.

I´m finding it a little bit hard to get startet. I don´t really know which plugins/modules to buy to get startet.

I want it to be possible for musicians to make a profile, so that bands can find them - and the other way around. I need a searchform where it´s possible to search for a specific musician or band in a specific area.

I think this is enough to get startet

Thanks..!

Torben
updated by @torbenj: 10/04/14 01:44:41PM

@brian
10 years ago
10,148 posts

Welcome to the Jamroom forum!

Jamroom can definitely do this type of setup - pretty easily

Basically what you'd want to do is:

- setup the free Jamroom core - that gets you most of the things you needs
- add in some extra modules (say the Profile Forum, or Audio Support) - basically to cover the additional features you want the profiles to have
- create a custom profile form field called "profile_location" - set it up as a SELECT form element with the options being the areas you want to support (i.e. locations)
- then when someone searches for a specific area, the profile should come up in that search.

Hope this helps!

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

@torbenj
10 years ago
82 posts

Hi Brian,

Thank you so much for that quick respons. That´s nice

I´m glad to hear that it´s possible to create this type of site.

I´m finding the control panel a little confusing, but I´m brand new, as I said

I guess I have deleted the signup form: http://find-et-band.dk/user/signup - I think it happened when I tryed to translate the text. I don´t know why?

I can´t find where to create custom forms..?

I think you know what I want to do. It´s just that I don´t know how to do it

Can you help me a little more?

Thanks..!

Torben

@torbenj
10 years ago
82 posts

Hi again,

I would like to know if there is a simple way to translate all text in frontend into danish? Maybe someone already did this, and maybe there is a tranlation file available..?

Let me know

Torben

@brian
10 years ago
10,148 posts

torbenj:
Hi again,

I would like to know if there is a simple way to translate all text in frontend into danish? Maybe someone already did this, and maybe there is a tranlation file available..?

Let me know

Torben

Yeah there is a pretty simple way to do it - it would take a little bit of time, but it's really straightforward (I don't think we have any Danish translations yet).

Here's how you do it:

1) go into the ACP -> User Accounts -> Tools -> Create a New Language
2) Enter the new language code and select the language to clone (English)

That will create all the language string entries for the new language - they will just all be in English.

Then, each module has a "Language" tab - select the "Danish" language and update the language strings to be in Danish and you're set.

Hope this helps!

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

@brian
10 years ago
10,148 posts

torbenj:
IÂ´m finding the control panel a little confusing, but IÂ´m brand new, as I said

If you're new to JR it can take a few mins to get adjusted to how things are organized. Jamroom is VERY module centered, so each "module" has it's own settings section, Quota config (user groups), templates, language, etc. Spend a few minutes clicking around in the ACP and I think you'll see how it all works.

Quote:
I guess I have deleted the signup form: http://find-et-band.dk/user/signup - I think it happened when I tryed to translate the text. I donÂ´t know why?

That's weird - I've not seen that before, so I am guessing something "broke" in a language string you entered. Try "resetting" the lang strings for the User module and see if that fixes it - that lets us know where the issue is.

Hope this helps!

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

@torbenj
10 years ago
82 posts

Hi again,

I have tryed to reset the lang strings for the module, but it did not help. I would like to know how to get it working, and also how I can make custom fields for the signupform. I can´t find where to modify the forms.

Maybe I should just play a little around with this, but I´m very glad that you can help me

Does the creation of a new language change the whole frontend from english to danish? I think that there must be over 110 words in the frontend?

Let me know if you can help

Torben

@brian
10 years ago
10,148 posts

torbenj:
Hi again,

I have tryed to reset the lang strings for the module, but it did not help. I would like to know how to get it working, and also how I can make custom fields for the signupform. I canÂ´t find where to modify the forms.

Not every form in Jamroom is customizable - most are, but not all. When viewing a form as the master admin, if it is customizable you will see a button in the upper right corner that says "form designer".

To be honest I'm not sure how you made the signup form disappear - I've never seen that before. Can you send me your Jamroom login to brian [at] jamroom [dot] net?

Quote:
Does the creation of a new language change the whole frontend from english to danish? I think that there must be over 110 words in the frontend?

I think there's more language strings then that

It's easy to do, but would take some time - there's no way around that.

Hope this helps!

--
Brian Johnson
Founder and Lead Developer - Jamroom
https://www.jamroom.net
updated by @brian: 08/28/14 01:01:53PM

@brian
10 years ago
10,148 posts

I've got your signup form fixed - thanks for sending that along. Root cause was that it looked like the user/signup fields were not stored in the form designer table properly - I reset them and it looks good now.

Hope this helps!

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

@torbenj
10 years ago
82 posts

Hi again,

Thanks alot Brian for helping me out

I would still like to know how to make a signup form where people can choose their location, instrument and so on. Also I would like to know how to make the search more advanced.

I have been looking on the internet to find an example of what I want to do.

An example of search form: http://www.bandmix.com/search/

An example of the signup form: http://www.bandmix.com/sign-up/

How can I get started. I do know a little coding, but I hope it can be done without to much of coding?

Let me know - anyone

Torben

@brian
10 years ago
10,148 posts

Let's take it one step at a time - first up you can customize the fields of data you want to collection during signup - go your site's signup page while logged in as a master admin - i.e.

http://yoursite/user/signup

and you will see the "form designer" button in the upper right - press that and you will be in the form designer where you can create additional form fields for the signup form, decide their type, if they are required, etc.

Hope this helps!

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

@torbenj
10 years ago
82 posts

Hi,

Thanks alot

Now the fields have been created, but I can´t find where to change "user_type label *change this*" into my own text?

The next step would be how to customize the search form..? Is it possible to have the search form on a page or only in the little "lightbox"?

Thanks again

Torben

@douglas
10 years ago
2,790 posts

After you've created a form field, there is a "Modify" button to the right of it, click that and you can change the settings for that field.

The search form is created using the jrSearch_form function, checkout your header.tpl or your header_menu_desktop.tpl and you'll see where its being used. You could probably add this code where you would like the search form to go.

{jrSearch_form class="form_text" value="Search Site" style="width:70%"}

Hope this helps,
Douglas

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Douglas Hackney
Jamroom Team - Designer/Developer/Support
FAQ-Docs-Help Videos

@torbenj
10 years ago
82 posts

Hi,

When I try to do that it jumps back to "user_type label *change this*"

I have translated some of the Labels as you can see, but I found them in the Translation Section. I just can´t seem to find "user_type label *change this*" and "user_instrument label *change this*".

Also for the search form I would like to make it possible to choose from dropdowns like it is when you create a profile, so that you can search for fx "a drummer" or "trommeslager" in danish

Thanks again

@douglas
10 years ago
2,790 posts

Can you send your admin login and FTP info to douglas[at]jamroom[dot]net so I can check it out?

Thanks!

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Douglas Hackney
Jamroom Team - Designer/Developer/Support
FAQ-Docs-Help Videos

@douglas
10 years ago
2,790 posts

I took a look and I can not figure out why the form field name, subtitle and help fields won't change.

We'll need Brian to take a look at it. Something isn't working right on your install.

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Douglas Hackney
Jamroom Team - Designer/Developer/Support
FAQ-Docs-Help Videos

@torbenj
10 years ago
82 posts

Hi there,

Ok, I see

Let´s wait for Brian to take a look at it. Can you give him the login info? I have changed it since he was logged in last time.

Thanks

@douglas
10 years ago
2,790 posts

I sent him a message.

Thanks!

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Douglas Hackney
Jamroom Team - Designer/Developer/Support
FAQ-Docs-Help Videos

@torbenj
10 years ago
82 posts

Hi,

I found the language strings for the Labels under the en-US (english). I think it´s a little weird that they don´t show up under the da-DK (danish)? But now they are changed as you can see it here: http://find-et-band.dk/user/signup

I have been trying to customize the search form, but I´m finding this difficult because I have to change the code and that a bit complicated - at least for me

I basically want the aearch form to look like the signup form, but without username, e-mail and password. There has to be a "free-text" as well like the one that´s already shows in the search form now.

I guess it´s possible to do this, but for me is´t a difficult one to do.

I appreciate all your help. It´s really nice

Thanks..!

@brian
10 years ago
10,148 posts

I'm checking this out - I made a new language here locally and then created a custom form field, and it's only creating the lang strings for en-US, so that's a bug - I'll get it fixed up for our next core release.

Hope this helps!

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

@torbenj
10 years ago
82 posts

Hi,

Yep, it helps. It looks good in the frontend and I guess that´s most important

Right now I´m trying to do what I thought was simple: To add a menu item to the menu bar. I´m trying to do this: https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/forum/design-and-skin-customization/10972/site-pages-in-jamroom-elastic-template - but it seems a bit difficult to place the code in the right place in "header.tpl".

As you know I would also like to change the search form

Let me know how to change the main menu first...

Thanks

@michael
10 years ago
7,714 posts

Where the code is depends on what skin your using. For example, if your using the jrElastic skin, then when you look in the header.tpl file there is a check to see if the device is a mobile device and if it is then include:
/skins/jrElastic/header_menu_mobile.tpl

otherwise the user is using a desktop, so include
/skins/jrElastic/header_menu_desktop.tpl

Inside header_menu_desktop.tpl you will see all the different menu options for the menu.

Skin designers have a lot of power to change how their skin utilizes the power of the system so changing the skin will change how the site works.

If you like watching videos to learn, then there is a free course about Jamroom 5 here:
https://www.udemy.com/start-your-own-online-community

That you might be interested in. Or pick and choose what interests you from our YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/jamroomdotnet

@torbenj
10 years ago
82 posts

Thanks Michael

I´ll take a look at the videoes. I´m sure they can help me

How to get startet with JamRoom?

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