[Steven Zahm]

@ Eric

Sounds like another plugin is breaking WordPress roles and capabilities if is reoccurring for you. You can not access any Connections admin pages because of you do not have permissions error, right?

I’ll need a temp admin account so I can take a close look.

[Steven Zahm]

@ NetWarden

I apologize, I guess I wasn’t clear enough … with the dev version of Connections, you could create custom fields but you would actually create a new plugin, like Hours, to add them. I was pointing you at the Hours extension because that has all the necessary code, as an example only, to add custom fields. There is no point and click interface at this time.

re: Form and custom fields

I don’t think I realized you were using Form, until the domain question came up. To show the Hours in Form, you would actually need the dev version of Form too. But that is in no shape to be used at the moment. It is going under major changes to support custom fields and front-end use editing when Link is installed.

re: regions

Why not use categories. The you could use links like this:
mysite.com/directory/cat/north-west-ontario/

re: category drop-down in Form

That is likely just a bug in the dev version of Connections.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Eric

Great to hear! Many thanks for your review!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Finch

Right now, custom field support is only available in the unreleased development version of Connections, even then it still would require some coding to enable the specific fields you would want to implement. If you know PHP and feel this is something you would like to tryout, I can provide some guidance on getting setup with the dev version of Connections.

[Steven Zahm]

@ NetWarden

That’ll do it.

Here’s the link to what I have done in the knowledge base so far, which is just importing the FAQs.
http://kb.connections-pro.com/.

My next step will be to import the current doc pages and then migrate the forums. The goal will be to separate the sales and support sites so each can be better tailored to serve their intended purpose rather than trying to cram everything into one site.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Martin

Sorry, no, I’m not available to do custom work. I do have a developer can recommend that can customize the template for you. If that is the path you would like to take, let me know and I’ll ask him to reply to your request so you can get in touch with him.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Bob

When you test… you can tell if the account is linked by visiting the “Edit My Directory Entry” admin page will contain the entry contact details rather than being blank.

Hope that helps.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Jon

There’s not really any way to highlight parent level categories, sorry.

The font size can be adjusted. Here’s the CSS you can use to change it:

#cn-slim-plus .chzn-container ul.chzn-results {
	font-size: 20px;
}

The easiest way to add the titles to the Title and Organization fields is to use CSS.

#cn-slim-plus .title,
#cn-slim-plus .organization-name, 
#cn-slim-plus .organization-unit {
	margin-bottom: 6px;
}

#cn-slim-plus .title:before {
	content: "Title: ";
	font-weight: bold;
}

#cn-slim-plus .organization-name:before {
	content: "Orgnaization: ";
	font-weight: bold;
}

#cn-slim-plus .organization-unit:before {
	content: "Department: ";
	font-weight: bold;
}

Likewise, CSS can be used to change the address layout:

#cn-slim-plus span.adr span.address-name,
#cn-slim-plus span.adr span.street-address {
	display: inline;
}

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ NetWarden

Good to hear. You also now have multiple ways you can use to make the adjustment.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Eric

Right, sorting by category … there is not built in method to do it. Actually, there is no built in method to grouping at all. You can sort by several fields. See the order_by doc page.

The best direction I can give … you would have to modify this function’s query to support grouping. Then you would need to add a shortcode option, here, to tell the query what to group by.

I hope that helps.

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