[karin]

Dear Steven,

I’m using cMap as a member-list on a Webpage for the German Vetenarian Acupuncture Society. It works fine, but…

Since it’s a Website in German I need the shown Adresses to look like a German Address. I know there are hundrets of shortcuts to “manipulate” the output. No Problem. But what about the Entry-Form in the Back End? It’s not always me who is adding new members. Some “admins” have difficulties with the English.

I eddited the class_form.php and made some changes.

1. I translated most of the shown elements into German. Still works fine

2. I deleted some of the fields that I do not need (for instance the the field “county” or “Social Media Ids”).

Now my Question(s):

When I open up an empty formular to be filled in, I always have to click on “add address” or “add Email”. Is there a way to have it fully shown right away? Tried to delete the line:

echo  ‘<textarea id=”email_address_row_base” style=”display: none”>’;

but that only works once. When I have made any entries and want to reedit them, the address-block doubles itself up. After several changes of the address, I get five or more address blocks underneath each other. Is there another way of keeping them open, but only one time?

Second Question:

How do I “kill” the dropdown menues for Phone and Email? I only need just simple input row.

Third Question:

I created 12 Categories, that I display on two different pages. On one page I want to show Categories 1-11, on a second Page (for members only) I want to show all 12. What about the Dropdown-menue? It always shows all 12 categories. When I try to open up the 12th (which is excluded) it says “no results”. It would be nicer if it wouldn’t show up at all (in the dropdown). Lets say, on one page I want to show only two categories and only these two shall be displayed in the dropdown-menue. Sorry for my poor English. I hope you understand, what I mean…

If you want to have a look for yourself: http://www.gervas.org/tierbesitzer/akupunktur-tierarzte-in-meiner-nahe

Thank you for your time reading this long Post!

Karin from Germany

[Steven Zahm]

@ karin

Let’s see, I’ll try my best to answer.

1. Sorry no, not with out a major overall in how that works. A unique feature to Connections it does not put any restrictions on how many address/phone numbers and such you add to an entry. And as such the login is based around how many times the “Add …” button is clicked. This is why you get multiple blank addresses.

2. The drop downs to select the type? Those too, can be removed from the class.form.php file. Although, I’m not certain how this affect the addition of those details.

3. Currently there is not a way to select which categories can be excluded from the drop down, sorry.

 

I guess my answers aren’t too much of a help, sorry.

[karin]

Thank you for your answer.

Since I am not at all fit in php I dare not to take out the dropdowns for telephone etc. It doesn’t matter that much.

One last question:

Is it possible (I am sure it is), to show the content of the top line “Departement” in the output-file with the word “Department” in front? (it will be renamed…)

I have tried to fiddle with the class_output.php, but could not fix it.

Can you perhaps tell me the line I’ll have to put in?

Thank you so much for your excellent work. This plugin is really fun, and I don’t see many that are so well explained!

Thank you again for your time

Karin from Germany

 

[Steven Zahm]

@ karin

Doing it with CSS will likely be the easiest way. Add the following to you theme’s style.css file:

.organization-unit:before {
    content: "Department: ";
    font-weight: bold;
}

[karin]

Dear Steven,

thank you very much for your help. Is very much appreciated. Although I could have thought about that myself :-)

Karin

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