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andycleff
Re: Finished my first Xoops site - but the clients hate it! (multiple problems)
  • 2006/1/27 14:44

  • andycleff

  • Not too shy to talk

  • Posts: 108

  • Since: 2005/4/29


Quote:

5. They say that frequently, the changes they try to make to articles in AMS don't take and they have to make them over and over again. I asked if they're remembering to click one of the revision options before submitting, since that's the only cause I've ever run into of changes not taking, and they insist they have. Again, I can't reproduce this error. Has anyone else encountered it?


They are lying or mistaken about having clicked the "revison options" before submitting.

We've changed the default setting to "minor revision" so that if the user forgets to click it, their changes are not lost.

Solves that problem easily.
Andy Cleff
Ampersand Design, Inc
Doylestown, PA
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Helping our clients bring great ideas into shape through integrated marketing, creative branding, print and web strategy, online learning and e-commerce.

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andycleff
Re: Stock Portfolio Module
  • 2006/1/5 14:39

  • andycleff

  • Not too shy to talk

  • Posts: 108

  • Since: 2005/4/29


Interested in how far you've gotten on portfolio module.

I'm exploring StockBox and [url]MyHeadlines[/url] - as simple stock ticker blocks, but what you have in mind sounds fantastic.
Andy Cleff
Ampersand Design, Inc
Doylestown, PA
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Helping our clients bring great ideas into shape through integrated marketing, creative branding, print and web strategy, online learning and e-commerce.

www.ampersandesign.net



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andycleff
Re: piCal Event Reminders
  • 2005/9/28 13:29

  • andycleff

  • Not too shy to talk

  • Posts: 108

  • Since: 2005/4/29


We're working on the Event Reminders hack for piCal.

Here is what the piCal module will do with Marcan's modifications :

- A user will be able to subscribe to a new notification allowing him to be
notified xx Days before an event start. (XX will be customizable as a config option.) This notification could be set for all events (Global Reminder), for a specific category (Category Reminder) or for a specific event (Event Reminder).

- A cron job will have to be set to be executed each day, for example at
00:00 AM.

- At that time, a script will be executed.

- This script will list all events starting in the next 24 hours.

- It will then list all users who subscribed to the Global Reminder
notification and will send them a notification for each event listed
previously

- The script will then list all users who subscribed to the Category
Reminder notification and will send them a notification for each event
corresponding to the category they subscribed for.

- Finally, it will list all users who subscribed to the Event Reminder and
will send them a notification for each event.

- The text of the notification will use a mail template that you could
customize in piCal/language/english/mail_template

- Unfortunately, the notification cannot be sent in the language of the user
as the way the notification architecture is currently, this cannot be done.
The notification will be sent in 1 language. (default site language). However, the workaround for this is to put as many languages as necessary in the one mail template. For example :

-----French-----
Voici la notification en français....

-----English Version-----
Here is the notification text in english....

- The XOOPS notification architecture will be used as a base for this so
users can subscribe and unsubscriibed to these notifications as they
normally do.

The above will be accomplished with the budget we have. Hopefully within the next few weeks.

If others are willing to contribute some funds to our budget we could also accomplish the following:

- Users who susbcribed to both a global and a category reminder will receive notifiations twice. This could be prevented in the script. If only we had more budget.

- Add two reminder notifications options, both admin configurable: One for advance timeframe (like 1 day) and one for a longer period of time (like 7 days). Again if we just had some more money.


Did I mention we need some more contributions from the community?

Andy Cleff
Ampersand Design, Inc
Doylestown, PA
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andycleff
Re: Subscription Service Comming
  • 2005/9/14 21:20

  • andycleff

  • Not too shy to talk

  • Posts: 108

  • Since: 2005/4/29


Any progress on a working out the bugs?
Andy Cleff
Ampersand Design, Inc
Doylestown, PA
-----
Helping our clients bring great ideas into shape through integrated marketing, creative branding, print and web strategy, online learning and e-commerce.

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andycleff
mX Directory - Display Customization
  • 2005/9/1 20:25

  • andycleff

  • Not too shy to talk

  • Posts: 108

  • Since: 2005/4/29


I have mX directory running a School District directory. It's great. But there's one thing I want to customize to make it work for one particular site even better.

The main directory is at -
http://www.union-city-nj.org/modules/mxdirectory

I've used the Premium Listing feature to easily enable the display of the main school address separate from all the individuals that work at the school.

So for example, if you go to
http://www.union-city-nj.org/modules/mxdirectory/viewcat.php?cid=18
you see the main address up top (Premium Listing level = 5) and all the individual numbers down below (Listing level = 1)

The problem I have is the "Premium Listing" item is also repeated down below in the "All Listings" area.

Not a big deal for this one page, but if you go to the summary of all the elementary schools
http://www.union-city-nj.org/modules/mxdirectory/viewcat.php?op=&cid=6
all the info is duplicated - it in both the Main Listings (via the Premium Listing summary) and the "All Listings" section - which is confusing for the viewer.

So my question is this:
How can I hack things to exclude a Premium Listing =5 from the "All Listing" area to avoid duplication?

Is it as simple as something like enclosing all or parts of xdir_link.html
with a <{if $link.premium <= "4"}>....</if>??

Sorry for the long winded lead post, thought it would make the issue clear.
Andy Cleff
Ampersand Design, Inc
Doylestown, PA
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andycleff
MX Directory - Add a Coupon
  • 2005/9/1 19:40

  • andycleff

  • Not too shy to talk

  • Posts: 108

  • Since: 2005/4/29


While it is possible that I have simply lost my marbles, I can't figure out how to add a coupon to a directory listing.

I've got one listing with a coupon already, so I knew how to do it at some point in the not too distant past.

I just can't find the Add Coupon button today.

I can see the Add/Edit Special Offer for the one special offer I've got already, but can't see where to Add an Offer and assign it to another, different existing, listing.

I've done some hacks on the module, but thought all were related to the templates and not to any admin functions.

Help.

mX-Directory 2, XOOPS 2.0.11
Andy Cleff
Ampersand Design, Inc
Doylestown, PA
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Helping our clients bring great ideas into shape through integrated marketing, creative branding, print and web strategy, online learning and e-commerce.

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andycleff
Re: piCal Event Reminders
  • 2005/8/30 11:28

  • andycleff

  • Not too shy to talk

  • Posts: 108

  • Since: 2005/4/29


I am planning to have some custom work done to create a "reminder" feature for piCal.

Would build off of the existing XOOPS notification engine adding new features executed via a crontab.

Main function would be to allow registered users to sign up for auto email reminders that get sent in advance of events.

Users would be able to select reminders by "this event only", "all events in this category" and "all events on the calendar"

Admin features would include defining email header/footer text, and the number of days in advance of an event to send the reminder emails.

Estimate maybe 15-20 hours of time to build the feature extensions.

Anyone interested in sharing the development cost with me?
Andy Cleff
Ampersand Design, Inc
Doylestown, PA
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Helping our clients bring great ideas into shape through integrated marketing, creative branding, print and web strategy, online learning and e-commerce.

www.ampersandesign.net



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andycleff
Re: Jobs 1.9 Admin Modification Bug
  • 2005/8/30 11:18

  • andycleff

  • Not too shy to talk

  • Posts: 108

  • Since: 2005/4/29


Thanks for following up, John.

Jobs 1.9 working fine now. Thanks again for a fine mod.
Andy Cleff
Ampersand Design, Inc
Doylestown, PA
-----
Helping our clients bring great ideas into shape through integrated marketing, creative branding, print and web strategy, online learning and e-commerce.

www.ampersandesign.net



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andycleff
Re: Jobs 1.9 Admin Modification Bug
  • 2005/8/29 20:48

  • andycleff

  • Not too shy to talk

  • Posts: 108

  • Since: 2005/4/29


Found the problem.

In my editted index.php, I was missing the "$" on
I had $GLOBALS["requirements"] = requirements;
instead of $GLOBALS["requirements"] = $requirements;

So

echo $wysiwyg_requirements_area->render();
} else {
ob_start();
$GLOBALS["requirements"] = $requirements;
xoopsCodeTarea("requirements",30,6);
$xoops_codes_tarea = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
echo $xoops_codes_tarea;

Does fix the bug.
Andy Cleff
Ampersand Design, Inc
Doylestown, PA
-----
Helping our clients bring great ideas into shape through integrated marketing, creative branding, print and web strategy, online learning and e-commerce.

www.ampersandesign.net



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andycleff
Re: Jobs 1.9 Admin Modification Bug
  • 2005/8/29 20:42

  • andycleff

  • Not too shy to talk

  • Posts: 108

  • Since: 2005/4/29


Think I found the general area of the bug...but not the fix.

In jobs/admin/index.php around line 365:
Code currently reads

echo $wysiwyg_requirements_area->render();
} else {
ob_start();
$GLOBALS["description"] = $description;
xoopsCodeTarea("description",30,6);
$xoops_codes_tarea = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
echo $xoops_codes_tarea;

I tried changing "description" to "requirements" (3x) so that code reads:

echo $wysiwyg_requirements_area->render();
} else {
ob_start();
$GLOBALS["requirements"] = $requirements;
xoopsCodeTarea("requirements",30,6);
$xoops_codes_tarea = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
echo $xoops_codes_tarea;

But then the Job Requirements field only displays "requirements" and doesn't accept edits.
Andy Cleff
Ampersand Design, Inc
Doylestown, PA
-----
Helping our clients bring great ideas into shape through integrated marketing, creative branding, print and web strategy, online learning and e-commerce.

www.ampersandesign.net




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