admin dashboard

I'm new to jamroom and have lots of questions after a day of searching.
How do I find the admin dashboard?
Can members set up their on pages?
Can the shopping cart be removed from members pages?
Can certain pages on jamroom be private?
Can sites be set up as invitation only?
OK..that's it for now. Off to a glass of wine.
Thanks for your help.

updated by @pam-givens: 12/07/14 02:15:01PM

Hi Pam - Welcome to Jamroom.

How do I find the admin dashboard?
When logged in, click on the ACP (Admin Control Panel) link at the top of all the pages. This will take you to all the 'back end' admin pages where you can config and customise your Jamroom site. This is a new installation of JR so on entering every page in this admin area a 'Tour Guide' will popup explaining what the page is all about. Take some time getting to know this admin area - you'll be spending a lot of time there!!

Can members set up their on pages?
Members can create and upload their own content and media. Is that what you are asking?

Can the shopping cart be removed from members pages?
The shopping cart should only show if you have one of our payment modules installed, whack I know you haven't. This may be a bug in the skin templates. I'll check that out.

Can certain pages on jamroom be private?
Jamroom profile pages can be private, and their privacy status can be controlled by the profiles (members) themselves. Options are 'public', 'followers' which means that only the profile and his followers can see the pages, or 'private' which means only the profile owner can view the page.

Can sites be set up as invitation only?
If a profile page is set to 'followers', you can then invite people to follow you.

Enjoy the wine


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Paul Asher - JR Developer and System Import Specialist

Thanks Paul.
Can sites be set up as invitation only?
If a profile page is set to 'followers', you can then invite people to follow you.

I should have said can the entire site be set up as private not public and new members are included by invitation from current members. It's a little confusing for a social media site I know but one of the nice things about my site is that the artists feel "safe" as far as their work being copied. So it's just for mosaic artist but I want to control that not the member )))

It could be done pretty easily with a bit of custom skin template work that checks if visitor are logged in and redirects to a splash screen with signup and login links.
Or maybe with an adaptation of our jrLaunch module.

Does your current Ning site run this way? Is this a Ning feature that other Ning migrants might expect of Jamroom? If so, we'll look into getting it done here ready for them.


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Paul Asher - JR Developer and System Import Specialist

I don't know how many other sites on Ning are private but I'm sure some are set up as by invitation only. Probably because creators want that level of control because of spam, copyright infringement etc. So this is something I want. On my current site it's done at sign in, if the person doesn't have a profile on my site then they can't sign-in (log-in). I then receive an email that someone has attempted to sign into my site that doesn't have a profile on the site.
My ideal would be to have a members section on my site where members need to log-in, in order to see the content and also have a couple of public pages that would allow friends and interested people to see the mosaics and perhaps that could turn into a little "gallery" giving me a bit of profit

This is all doable within Jamroom but will need a bit of customisation to the skin templates to achieve it.
Once we have your Ning site imported to Jamroom I will work with you on this.


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Paul Asher - JR Developer and System Import Specialist

Paul....wow...thank you!!