[Steven Zahm]

@ Barry

I get error that user has not been activated.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Marty

I suspect that you need to go to the Connections : Roles admin page and take away all capabilities excerpt add/edit entry OR add moderated/edit moderated capabilities. By default, users of the Author role have full privileges to the directory which might explain why all users would see the edit entry link.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Barry

I do know that Connections is compatible with Enfold with no conflicts that I am aware of. To debug, I’ll will need a link to the page with the issue and a temp admin login. The login details can be posted here as a private reply.

[Steven Zahm]

@ John

To change the name, you can use the Say What plugin as described here. The only change would be the Text domain. You would use connections_hobbies instead.

Change the field options, you can hook into the cn_hobby_options filter like so:

add_filter( 'cn_hobby_options', 'cn_hobby_options' );

function cn_hobby_options( $options ) {
    $options = array( 'Acting', 'Dancing', 'Singing' );
    return $options;
}

Hope that helps, let me know.

[Steven Zahm]

@ John

Sorry, but there is no easy way to make this optional there’s underlying code that relies on it. If you want to give it a try, you need to hook into the cn_metabox_name_atts filter and change the last name to not required. I think this might work, untested:

add_filter( 'cn_metabox_name_atts', 'cn_disable_last_name_required' );

function cn_disable_last_name_required( $options ) {
    $options['individual']['meta']['name']['field']['last']['required'] = false;
    return $options;
}

Hope that helps, let me know.

[Steven Zahm]

@ costeeta

I see you have purchased the Pro Pack awhile ago… I you prevent access to the admin, you can use Form to allow users to edit their directory entry. On the Connections : Settings admin page under the Form tab, you can disable fieldsets that you do not wish the users to edit.

Does that help?

[Steven Zahm]

@ Kenneth

I took a look… the Contact extension was still activate. After I deactivated it, the email addresses displayed as they should.

I did remove a few of the unnecessary shortcode options… if is the default, there’s not need to add it. You only add the option if you want to change it from the default.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Kenneth

re: I deactivated Connections; only after I read the description of the product did I say, “I could done this myself”…. sorry….. but it didn’t work though. I still can’t view the e-mail in the card or in the “member’s” record. Other ideas?

You mean you deactivated the “Contact” extension correct? It is possible that the theme or another plugin is hiding them. I would need a temp admin account so I could have a closer look.

The email address are set to public or private and not unlisted, correct?

re: I did try inserting the shortcode to turn on, but that didn’t work either.

The email address are shown by default in Tile Plus. My suggestion. Delete the entire shortcode and manually type just [connections] and see if it works.

re: I turned on the bio and I now get the notes and bio in the “member’s” record but not on the card as you stated. Are there other templates that will display the bio on the card?

The cMap template and the Market template. I recommend the cMap template for one big reason. It can be completely configured via the template customizer, no messing with the shortcodes. The next update to Tile Plus will implement the Template Customizer too until then, I think cMap is your best option.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Stephen

Contrary to many tutorials on the web, adding custom code to the theme’s functions.php file is not a good solution because if you change themes or the theme has an update, the custom code is lost. Which is why I always recommend the Code Snippets plugin.

I installed the Code Snippets plugin and added the code there. I had to use a different shortcode and function name. After I did that, the link showed up like it should.

So, that said, for some reason it is not working from the theme’s function.php file. I looked at the code and it seems right. I’ll leave it to your to delete the code from the functions.php file. I didn’t want to remove it without permission.

As a suggestion, I would move the link to the account page, since it is only a link.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Marty

re: As with many “technical” problems, if you keep banging your head against it long enough (and if your head is hard enough) you will usually make some progress.
I have managed to get things working pretty well with the goals above, so for now I’m OK with that.

Good to hear you’ve got much of it figured out. I am working hard to simply this more.

re: For some reason it gets darker when you follow the “Edit Entry” link after it has been created. It almost appears to be a “contrast” issue as everything is extremely light gray first time around.

Hmmm, very odd, nothing I’ve ever seen before. Form uses the exact same CSS for styling when adding as it does when editing. Perhaps the theme is overriding the styles a little. I would have to actually see the issue in order to provide some guidance.

re: The red “Remove” buttons are cut off just about at the letter “v”.

This is almost certainly due to the theme or maybe another plugin overriding the style of the button. If you can share a link, I should be able to provide a fix.

re: The “Add to Address Book.” link is misleading to me. It sounds almost like you would click this to add another directory entry. I’d very much like to be able to change the text of this to say “Download vCard” (and for that matter I’d like to be able to change the label for all the other links too).

To change the add to addressbook link, see this FAQ.

Let me know what text you do want to change… most text I try to pull as much as I can from the core Connections plugin, but extension will have their “own” stings. The FAQ I linked to will still apply, but you would have to use a different text domain to change them.

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