What's the Difference Between a Blog and a Forum?
Rosemary O'Neill
Community Management
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Tips❤️How to add an image rotator to your home page banner. We will be using a package called Slick. Slick is fully compatible with Crowdstack, can be responsive, and has oodles of fun features, We will be doing a basic setup just to get it installed and working. First, download the files that you need. Go to the Slick website and click Get it now. Click download now and download the zip file to your desktop or downloads folder, whichever you usually use. Once it is downloaded, unzip the zip file.
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Crowdstack DiscussionIs there a way an admin can temporarily mute a member for a designated time period rather than ban them? It would send a clear message of a rule infraction.
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Suggestions👍It would be really convenient to have some "at a glance" shorthand "Permission Notes" in the CP's Forum Topics View showing Who Can View Subject/View Content/Post/Reply --without having to open each one. Invariably we think a permission is set a certain way for something and it's not. Put the shorthand "permission" notes in the wide-open space between the forum's name and the trashcan in a tiny font. ourURL/cp/forum-structure Shorthand examples: View Subj: All; Content: Spec Roles; Reply:...
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Blog Post CommentWhile they don't have your logo, my company hands out those brains occasionally during staff trainings. I have a lapel pin in the form of an IUD - yep, the birth control device. That's probably my weirdest swag yet.
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Blog Post CommentOkay got it - so it's Akismet spam control on crack. Thanks for the explanation!
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Topic Reply❤️Awesome. And let me be the first to request that this be a "point and click option" in the Control Panel, ....when you come up for air.
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Blog Post CommentHi Brad, On the Survey Settings page, you can set the default permissions for newly created surveys (for who can complete the survey and view the survey results). You do not set the actual Create Survey permission there, however. To control who can Create Surveys, you need to go into the Permissions section of your control panel. Select the Permission Circle that you want to be able to create surveys and then click the Permissions tab. For example, for All Members, that URL is:...
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Blog Post CommentHi Chrissanne, For your notifications, you might want to double check that your "comments/replies" notifications are turned on, in addition to the primary content ones. To gather up your latest content for a weekly update, the easiest way would be to go to your control panel, under Manage Content, and do a search by date. Make sure that you tick the box that says "include comments/replies." That will give you a list that you can work with. Then for the email, you can incorporate quotes with...
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Topic ReplyHi Brisotti, The code should go into your Display Settings control panel in the Custom CSS box. You need to make sure you use the permission circle's group ID instead of "premium" if it's not a premium permission group. For your Patrocinador circle, that numeric ID is 350043526109298115, which you can see in the URL when editing the permission circle's details. I changed your selector to .h-member-badge-350043526109298115, which fixed the problem (you also had replaced the 'h' with "webkits"...
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Topic Reply💯✅Love this! How about changing Recipes to something like "Automation Rules?"
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Topic ReplyHi Ted, All of this sounds logical but I do have a question. Right now we assign "roles' to clients and have a recipe that puts them into the appropriate circle automatically. Will that automatically carry over with the new terminology or will we need to make adjustments manually? Thanks! Mary
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Topic ReplyHi @MHK@CS2 - Yes, it's just a terminology change, so you will not have to re-do your recipes. The "circles" you were using before will still apply, just renamed as "roles" instead. 🙂
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Topic Reply💯❤️Yes, I'd suggest this, too. I always thought the word "Recipes" was a very strange choice of words for this automation feature.
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Topic ReplyThanks, Ted! I echo the suggestion above to change the term for recipes as well. And since circles are now roles, what will be the new term for roles?
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Topic Reply@MHK@CS2 - we were not using the term "roles" in any way, so there is no issue there. 🙂
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Topic ReplyI’m confused then about how the recipe will still work… when I register a new client I assign them one of two roles, and that triggers what circle they are added to. If the role goes away, it seems like I would need to adjust the recipe in some fashion so people with “Role A” don’t get permissioned to “Circle B.”
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Topic ReplyHi @MHK@CS2 - The Crowdstack application does not currently use the term "role" in any sense. Recipes do not either. Recipes have triggers, conditions and actions, but not "roles". You can target specific circles in a recipe (as a "condition" and through certain "actions"). But, to reiterate, this is nothing but a terminology change-- all references to what Crowdstack currently calls "Circles" will be called "Roles" when this release is deployed. It wil not change the behavior of any of your...
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Topic Reply🎉@GidgetKat - we're going to make that change, as well. Good idea!
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Topic Reply🤪Yay! We totally get confused internally by that term because one of our site components is actual cooking/food recipe database!
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Topic Reply❤️Just have to come and "pour one out" for Graemlins. It's been a good run old buddies!
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Topic Reply🔥Note: I added "Recipes/Automation Rules" to the list of upcoming changes in the original post above. Thanks again for the suggestion.
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Blog Post CommentI don't see these (bold above). Here's what I see. Here are my home page settings. ST
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Blog Post CommentAlso, another question to better understand how this feature works. You said "There aren't any specific toggles for manipulating the personalized version of the Activity Stream aside from the follow functionality that is built in to the community already (following the blog, clips, forum topics, members, etc.)." My question is: where can people control what parts of the site or who they follow? It's frankly been so long since I followed parts of the site that I've forgotten. Is it under...
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Blog Post Comment❤️Any member can go to their profile and click "notifications." First they'll see the delivery mechanisms (email or on-site alert), and then they can click the tab for Primary Notifications to see all of the options for following content and activities on the site. They can just check (or uncheck) those boxes to control what they're following. Each member also can set their default following behavior...in their profile, under Personal Settings, there's a section for "Default Notification...
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Blog Post CommentAdd me to the group trying to figure this out. What is different here for a user beyond what they have already had within the notifications area? And where do I find this in my Admin Control panel to set it up, if I want to use it?
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Blog Post CommentThe biggest difference is portability. Since it's a widget, you can now put the personalized activity stream anywhere you want in the interface. Also, I think it appeals to people who are more used to the "feed" mentality, where you can see a page with "just your stuff" on it. You don't have to turn the personalized activity stream on or off, it should just be there if your users want to see it (if you are using the Activity Stream at all, which you turn on or off in the Structure area of...
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Topic ReplyHi, Derek! You can create an Automation Rule that comps them a Premium Membership based on their response to a profile field: 1. In Automation Rules, add a new Rule, and give it a name ("Comp Premium Membership for Retired Members", for instance). 2. The Trigger will be "Member Registers". 3. For Condition, choose Profile File Field Value, and then scroll to the appropriate listed field (you can choose more than one value, so here's your chance to choose both "Retired" and "Disabled" if...
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Blog Post CommentI notice my off the cuff comment got a quote in the Seattle PI. I like the reply- "3 day work weeks? Why would it matter so long as they accomplish the goals their boss set for them. Why would it matter if they did it in 5 days vice 3? So they work quicker, and so long as their superiors are satisfied with the quality then seems to me they earned that 3day work week." A good response and in some ways a workable one. However every business needs staff available at all times so there would...
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Topic ReplyIt is the same thing, Neil. I used the term "Top Navigation Menu" to differentiate from the side navigation menu used in the admin control panel (and in our QuestionShark module/product). And in the Theme editor, we also use the term "Top Navigation Menu" as well, to differentiate from the Side Navigation Menu. But yes, the Top Navigation Menu is the same as the Community Menu. None of these menus are "breadcrumbs", however.
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Topic ReplyThanks! (add: you insert the code in the Display Settings / custom css field) How can we control the font in the Nav Bar there? (Not a fan of the all caps and font size)
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Blog Post CommentOh Rosemary! What a wonderful blog. Very honest and heartfelt. I've never done a social network site... and increasingly I'm glad I don't get tied up in the white noise that people seem to have to deal with. I like a simple existence. I like to be in control of anything I say or post. This isn't a puff piece for LC as some may see it, but I'm comfortable here... and I know it's a social network site too!
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Blog Post CommentHi SLL- It is a new admin control panel section. Go to: Manage > Admin Control Panel > Announcements.
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Blog Post CommentHi jpmfan, Yep, you can do that with custom CSS. Just add this code to the Custom CSS section on the Display Settings page in your control panel: #overviewPostingOptionsButtonWrapper {display:none;} Hope that helps, Brian
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Blog Post CommentHi Lhisa, Hoop.la doesn't do any checks based on IP address that would prevent you from sending a dialog to another user. Users can choose to prevent others from sending them dialogs, however (assuming you are talking about dialogs). Thus, the new feature that allows you to register users through the control panel should behave the same way. The only difference is that you will not be logged in as the new user (as you would have previously). Without knowing exactly what error you're getting,...
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Blog Post CommentHi Richard, Yep, that's a bug. It will be fixed tomorrow. In the meantime, you can reopen topics in bulk in the Manage Content section of your control panel. Use the "Open: Accept New Comments" option. Hope that helps! Brian
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Blog Post CommentHi Richard- There is no setting to prevent it, but you could apply some custom CSS to hide it: div.likeReplyColumn { display:none !important; } (Add that to your Custom CSS field in Display Settings in your admin control panel.)
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Blog Post CommentHere are a few more enhancements that were included in this release: We fixed the pagination bug for dialogs and clip sets. In the content management area of the control panel, we added some new search parameters. You can now find clips that have no clip set, or blogs that have no collection, and search for content that is either featured or not featured. There were other behind-the-scenes bug fixes and updates, but nothing else that affects the feature set.
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Blog Post CommentHi Augie, Your site was upgraded last night, so you'll have access to these new options in your control panel right now! Hope that helps, Brian