[Steven Zahm]

@ Cole

re: Question 1

The issue is with the mouseover hover text for an email address, correct? If so, I was able to replicate and fix it. The fix will be in the next update.

re: Is it possible to alter this to pull in the label from the str_note_head instead? Or a way to alter it to display some other information like strictly the email address?

You can use the email_format shortcode option to alter the output. The valid tokens for this option are: '%label%', '%address%', '%icon%', '%separator%' and whatever static text you want. This, however, will not affect the the mouseover hover text for the email link. Alternatively, your developer could hook into the cn_output_email_address filter and change the output to whatever you want.

re: Question 2: where can we find the label outputs for the Vcard?

In the class.entry-vcard.php file. In the same folder your developer found the class.entry-output.php file.

re: When we download a vcard there are several fields on the card itself that display, however the labeling of them in the entry portion of the vcard in Outlook does not display the information. For instance: If we add a link to a website in the manager that link is added to the vcard visual in Outlook, but it does not appear with a label in the left hand field.

The vCard spec is old and pretty rigid, custom labels and such are not directly supported. It is possible to add X- fields to the vCard, however, unless an app is specifically coded to read those, they will be ignored by the app. There are many fields in Connections where there simply is not an vCard equivalent so the data will not be utilized.

re: Also, while we can see that the Address Line 2 is in the code — class.entry-vcard.php, it does not appear on the generated vCard. Address Line 3 is not in the code at all. We at least need Line 2 to show.

Outlook seems to write its own vCard files supporting address line 2, unfortunately it does not seem to support it when importing vCard. The address line 2 imports fine in other apps like Google Contacts which have better support for vCards. It may be possible to finesse the vCard to get Outlook to like it, but I do not have access to it and if I did doing so may likely break apps that have better vCard support. The best I can do is use vCard validators and test in apps I do have access to.

And for the line 3, the vCard spec does not support it. It only supports PO Box, Street Address and Extended Address. Connections does not have a PO Box field, so nothing is mapped to it. Connections will map to the Address and Extended Address fields in the vCard using the data from Line 1 and Line 2. There’s nothing I can do about the lack of support for a line 3 in the vCard as the spec just does not support it, sorry.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Patryk Wezowski

s2member… the first thing to do is this. Just incase s2member wiped the custom role capabilities.

After you do the above, go to the Connections : Roles admin page and check the Reset All Role Capabilities option and click Update.

Now, for the s2member level 4 role, add the following capabilities:

• Depending on if you have the require login option set or not you might have add the View Public Entries capability. If the option is there, add the capability.
• Optionally, add the View Private Entries capability if you want the role to have it.
• All other capabilities should remain unchecked.

After you have those capabilities set, click Update.

That should prevent the Add My Directory Entry from being presented to that role. There is a bug, that if a user can guess the submit URL, they will still be able to submit an entry. This will be corrected in a future update.

Hope that helps, let me know.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Marty

It was the role capability settings for the Author role… you still had capabilities assigned which would let any author still manage any entry. I’ve adjusted them and now the users with the Author role will only be permitted to edit their own entry.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Andrea

Great to hear.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Alexa

re: several premium templates (such as Slim Plus) state that they are the more advanced versions of their free counterparts.

Sorry about the confusion but there are no free counterparts. There never were. If you could let me know what was said that was confusing, I can correct it. Thanks.

re; I am only seeing three free templates (Default, Names and Profile), and they are all basically useless

How are they useless? They show the information of entries. Most use users the free templates to their great satisfaction. Some, purchase the premium templates because they like the visual presentation and/or enhanced features.

Have you clicked the Customize button for either the Default Entry Card or Profile templates? That allows you to visually configure the template such as what to display, the image settings, some colors and other advanced settings.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Richard

My first thought was… huh?!? But I think I understand after reading it few more times… I think :D

You are using the zipcode to apply a custom sort, but this causes the Google map to display the incorrect map pin location. Is that correctly restating the issue?

You could use the Custom Fields Meta Name and Value and apply custom sorts with those rather than repurposing other fields instead. That seems like it would be a cleaner solution. Here’s one example:

http://connections-pro.com/support/topic/sort-by-custom-field/#post-335687

You could create several meta key names and sort on their values.

Would that work?

[Steven Zahm]

@ Support Nevada County

Ok, I took a look…. this is not a Connections issue as the whole site is affected in Safari on OSX. Chrome, it looks just fine. Open the Developer Tools in Safari, look at the CSS errors in the Console. Safari does not like the minified CSS file being created by… well, whatever you are using to minify and concatenate the CSS files in WordPress. My suggestion is to disable it since it is breaking the site.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Support Nevada County

Thanks for the screenshot and link. I’ll fire up the old Mac mini and take a look. But my initial feeling is that it’ll look fine for me… because it looks like the CSS hasn’t been loaded. Connections does load or not load its CSS based on OS or browser, it simply lets WordPress handle it.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Marty

If you can give me a temp admin login and an affecter user login, I’ll take a look, but I am pretty certain all that is need is to adjust the capabilities of the Author role in Connections. Both logins can be posted here as a private reply.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Support Nevada County

re: Its happening again. Questions I’m posting aren’t appearing in the Forums. Am I doing something wrong? I login first.

The only thing I can think of is that they are being marked as spam… but I checked those flagged as spam just now. I do not see any legitimate topics or replies from you or anyone else. I even check the actual WordPress posts db table where topics/replies are saved, nothing.

I post very frequently, many times throughout the day, and I have never had a post disappear. I’m not saying it is not happening to you… just that I honestly do not know what else I can check. The only issue I experience is that sometimes I do not receive the email notification of a new reply or new support topic, but I’m pretty certain that is a failure of Mandrill (email host) rather than bbPress (support forum).

Latest question has to do with Tile Plus template not looking correct on Mac/Safari.

Which forum did you post the question in? The General support or the forum for Tile Plus?

Can you attach a screenshot of the issue? Can you share a link to the page with the issue?

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