[Steven Zahm]

@ Age

Keep an eye out for a beta version of the Widget Pack. I’ve added a new widget, just like the Anniversary widget, but allows you to choose the event date type. So you will be able to choose the Membership event date type and list the upcoming membership dates.

Hope this helps! Let me know if it works out well for you.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Frances

RE: is there a way we can post videos with each entry?

Both the bio and notes field support the WordPress embed shortcode for videos.

RE: list of golf courses, with links to their websites,

Each entry can have as many links as your need.

RE: need it to be sortable by name, city, zip, and course type (public, private, resort, semi-private)

The list is sorted by name by default. It does not have a way for the user to change the sort.

I hope I have answered your questions!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Dave

RE: Do you think your connections directory plugin can get this result?

I guess the short answer is, yes, you could do this with Connections. But, not with out of the box addons. I think you could get close though. I’ll try to answer the in more specifics…

RE: The image shows the red part on the left as a directory search, sort, filter area.

The premium template all include the ability to filter by category and do a keyword search. I do have an advanced search addon I do offer to those that request it and have purchased either the Extension Pro Pack or the Pro Pack. YOu can see it in action on this live third party site:

https://sscit.org/directory/

This is somewhat close the search in your screenshot. The keyword field in the premium templates would actually cover the company name the member sells fields (assuming the later is register as custom text fields). So you would not need separate fields for them.

RE: The site also needs to have members only content, so each of the businesses in the directory will have access to this content. I don’t want to have to add each of 200 businesses to a directory then repeat the process for a membership plugin.

Well, I would use the CSV Import addon to do the initial directory population. I would then use that same CSV file and use that to import into you memship plug of choice (assuming it has a CSV import addon/feature).

You would then use the Link extension so when your members log their user/membership account is linked to their directory entry. Afterwards they will be able to manage their own directory.

After the initial ingest, you would setup your membership plugin to handle the user registration and such. After that process is complete, that user/member would then be able to add their own entry and maintain it.

RE: This needs to handle things like video and images too.

The notes and bio fields do support images and videos if you as an admin add them, but for security these are not available to the user. I think, I would have to test, the user could still add their own image tags. But generally this is not something the average user would know.

Note sure if this helps or not, but I hope it does!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Joel

here’s a link to a tutorial on how to disable the developer PHP messages.

Hope this helps, let me know!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Georlitz

Ok, should be resolved now.

[Steven Zahm]

@ mattiasa

If the CSV files exist and are complete, so this issue is occuring between the final CSV export step and right before the CSV download step. I just do not see how this is possible, yet it seems it is occuring. There must be some edge case issue that is causing this.

I would like to track this down and correct. To do this I would need FTP access and access to the database. Basically I need to see what is happening to both both of these when the upgrade message is displayed.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Edwin

Sorry, no, cMap does not include a cluster map. It has the map tray and the map on the entry profile page. Pretty much like it is shown in the live sample and on the demo page.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Georlitz

I need the ../wp-contents/plugins/connections/includes/class.connections-directory.php to be made writable so I can make the required change.

[Steven Zahm]

Good to hear you figured it out!

[Steven Zahm]

@ William

Yes, they will be imported as new entries. The only case where this would not occur is if you have an Entry ID column in the CSV where the value in each row of the CSV file matched an existing Entry ID in Connections. In this case, the existing entry would be updated/overwritten with the new data.

Hope this helps!

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