[Jeremy Ward]

I’ve found there have been some minor changes since updating to Tile Plus 3. The images which I had created at 80 x 120 px no longer fill the space – leaving white space on either side of the image (see attached screenshot). The quality of the JPG has also been affected (I had the setting on 100% as I was saving thumbs from Photoshop for web and wanted to maintain a crisp sharpness to the image).

Is there anyway to get around this? Or changes I may need to make to other settings for the new version of the template?

Also, I don’t seem to be able to get anniversaries to display (though I’ve used show_anniversary=TRUE shortcode) anymore and I’m yet to have any success displaying birthdays (with the show_birthday=TRUE shortcode). Any suggestions?

Thanks for your help. Its a great plugin and I appreciate your work!

Jeremy

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[Steven Zahm]

@ Jeremy Ward

One change I did make, primarily do to it being a very common support issue, is that the new version of the template now forces the default image size instead of relying on the settings. You already have your Medium Image settings set at 80 x 120px, right? This forcing of the image size can be turned off so it uses the settings instead by adding both image_width=” and image_height=” to the shortcode.

The template has also been updated so it can show all the dates entered in the date fields. To show the dates, add show_dates=’true’ to the shortcode.

I think that should fix thing up.

[Jeremy Ward]

Thanks Steven!

[Isaac Romero]

I also need to force cropping to a certain size (150×150) for thumbnails on tile plus, but I notice it still displays them with aspect ratio maintained. I do have the cropping showing correctly on the actual event management view, and it also displays correctly cropped when using other templates such as the table entry card. When I switch back to tile plus, however, it displays the images with aspect ratio preserved, not cropped!

Here’s my shortcode to display the tile plus directory:
[connections image_width=150 image_height=150 card_width=160 card_height=180 enable_website_link=FALSE show_phone_numbers=FALSE show_email=FALSE]

[Isaac Romero]

I think I got it on this. the getImage() function in class.output.php (line 80) hadthe ‘zc’ attribute hard coded to 2 for some reason. I set it to ‘0’ and now it shows thumbnails correctly in tile plus. If this change needs to go somewhere else, let me know!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Isaac

I’d have to look closer, but I think that is right. I’ve logged this as a bug as this should not be hard coded. It should respect the setting in the images settings. Likely an oversight on my part.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Isaac

I looked into this deeper. The value is not hardcoded. It is an option that can be passed to the getImage() method from the template.

In the card.php file for Tile Plus you would change this:

$entry->getImage( array(
	'image'    => $atts['image'] ,
	'height'   => $atts['image_height'] ,
	'width'    => $atts['image_width'] ,
	'fallback' => array(
		'type'     => $atts['image_fallback'] ,
		'string'   => $atts['str_image']
		)
	)
);

to this:

$entry->getImage( array(
	'image'    => $atts['image'] ,
	'height'   => $atts['image_height'] ,
	'width'    => $atts['image_width'] ,
	'zc'       => 1,
	'fallback' => array(
		'type'     => $atts['image_fallback'] ,
		'string'   => $atts['str_image']
		)
	)
);

I recommend using 1 rather than 0 though because 0 will not maintain the aspect ratio where as 1 will resize and crop while maintaining the aspect ratio.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Isaac

The next update of Connections will have this setting default to 1 instead. That should make a better default setting.

[slandin]

I have Tile Plus 3.0 and updated my Connections version today to Version 0.7.8.

Yesterday… I had found a tip for setting default images, and also setting image defaults by category id. I was able to edit my CSS show a default image by category like this:

div.cn-list .first span.cn-image-none {
background-image: url(“http://myImageURLhere.png”) !important;
background-position: center center !important;
background-repeat: no-repeat !important;

AWESOME!

However, after my upgrade today – the selection by category is not longer working, and I can not seem to get it working again. I can find the category class selector.

Any suggestions? I REALLY liked that feature!

[Steven Zahm]

@ slandin

Sorry about that. when I was refactoring some code for this release I hit the “3” instead of the “4” in one spot. That little error broke that. I’ll be pushing out an update, 0.7.8.1, later tonight EST that will fix that and several other little bugs.

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