[Steven Zahm]

@ Craig

Thanks for the kind words and the recommendations. Truly appreciated!

re: ALL entries are forced to use it, and by default the business is marked as closed unless the fields are filled out.

This shouldn’t be the case … if all fields are left blank nothing should show for that entry … even the closed message. Can you repeat this issu reliably? And if you can, can you let me know the exact steps you take? That’ll help me track down where the bug may lie.

re: Additionally, it would be great if there was an easier way to fill it out instead of using the very limited slider input method.

I agree that slider isn’t the best. The alternatives are worse. I spent a fair amount of time researching. They’re either too restrictive in the time selection, ie fixed intervals or more difficult to use. Free text input isn’t much of an option either because I need valid time formats in order to reliably determine time ranges for the open/close messages.

re: copying and pasting hours for multiple days
I do want to add a way to copy but I can not think of an easy/elegant way to do this. Maybe adding a copy previous button after the +/- buttons? Suggestions welcome.

re: it doesn’t appear to account for time zones, so for any directory which has listings in multiple time zones (Which I’m assuming is most), there needs to be a way to establish what time zone the business is in.
Since I’m working with real times and not simple strings, I might be able to come up with something. Honestly though, with my experience supporting users of Connections needing timezone support would be the exception, not the rule.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Leonid

Since you have cMap, take a look at this FAQ. The complete list of string options can be found on this page for cMap.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Craig

fyi, I did add to my feature request tracker to add a method for configuring the page title. Any other suggestions on that topic?

[Steven Zahm]

@ Craig

re: page title

This is actually non-trivial too. Well, change it to just the name should be a bit easy, adding the address is not.

The change to make it just the name can be done on line 254 in this file:

../wp-content/plugins/connections/includes/class.seo.php

Change it to:
return $entry->getName();

Adding the address is non-trivial due to the fact Connections support adding n-number of addresses to each entry. So you would have to check for addresses and then pull just the first one and then check that there are values for each address part before adding it to the title.

That should do it. Hope that helps.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Craig

re: image link

Changing how the image/logo works will be non-trivial. Likely the most simply will be to add an else statement on the following two lines 210 and 255 in the following file:

../wp-content/plugins/connections/includes/entry/class.entry-output.php

Within that else statement, create a link to the entry like it is done on line 521.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Tom, @ Matthew

Judging from the screen capture you are not using Connections 0.8.11 or newer which Link 2.0 requires. The current version is 0.8.12. Upgrading should resolve the issue. Let me know if it does not.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Sarah

I’m thinking any template with a category drop down could meet your requirements…

One option could be to put your sponsors in the category description on the Connections : Categories admin page. When a user selects a category, the category description would be displayed above the category the user chose. YOu can decide it this option will suit you by directly visiting a category. Load you site in a browser and type in a URL something like this:

http://domain.tld/directory-home-page/cat/category-slug

The category slug can be found on the Connections : Categories admin page. Make sure you have the Category Description option enabled on the Connections : Settings admin page under the Display tab.

In regards to the option you suggested, yes, there is a way to limit based on category. See the doc page for the category shortcode option. If you decide to go this route, This FAQ for cMap may be of interest. This FAQ will work with any of the templates with a category drop down.

I hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Elaine

Can you please share the link to the two pages that the directories are on and the exact shortcodes you are using on both pages? You can post the details here as a private reply.

Thanks.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Gary

Sorry, no, not out of the box. That would have to be a custom coded solution.

[Steven Zahm]

@ brent

Looks like you’re running Connections 0.7.9.3, Connections 0.8.9 or newer is required. Likely that is the reason for the crash. There have been many significant changes to Connections many of which Form 2.0 requires to work. Please update and then install and activate Form. That should resolve the issue.

Hope that helps!

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