[Steven Zahm]

@ Adam

Ok, I had to ask. I’ve had several support issues recently which took quite a bit of time to sort out and in each case, the issue was not caused by or a bug with Connections.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Alex

re: A user for whom there is email in their entry. After they register and login, they look at their directory entry and decide that a change is needed. If the drop down at the upper right is an admin…how do they get Form?
You enable an action link on the Settings admin page under the List actions. Think about it this way … all the links in the admin bar always goes to the admin. The action links that you can enable on the Settings admin page under the Display tab will show a link for the user above the directory list. This action link is option is; When this option is enabled a “View My Directory Entry” or “Add My Directory Entry” link will be displayed. when a user click this link, they will be taking to their entry that Link link them to based on email. On their entry you can enable this option; When this option is enabled a “Edit Entry” link will be displayed. When a user clicks this link they will be taken to a page where they can edit entry. When a user clicks on that link they will be able to edit their entry.

This process flow really is not any different from how WordPress does the same thing with blog posts. Example…

When you are logged into your site and go to the blog page. The blog page shows you a list of recent blogs. You click a blog entry to go to the full blog. After you’re in the full blog (most themes) will display an edit. This edit link for a blog will take you to the admin to edit the blog … unless you have a frontend blog editing plugin installed.

re: A user for whom there is email in their entry. After they register and login, they look at their directory entry and decide that a change is needed. If the drop down at the upper right is an admin…how do they get Form?
Explained above.

re: A user with entry, but NO email in the Directory record, they register and login…How do they edit their record?
If the is no email in the directory, Link will not link them. They will be shown an “Add my directory entry” action link (if configured). Since the directory has no email, there is no way to determine a relationship between the user and the entry. If the users adds and entry. In this scenario the user would have two entries … one that is theirs and one that isn’t (well, the one was never there’s to begin with).

[Steven Zahm]

@ Alex

Both Form and Link work together; or separately…

Form allows site visitors, not necessarily users, to submit entries to the directory from the frontend.

Link will link an existing user to an existing Connections entry and allow that user to edit their entry in the admin. If A user does not have a Connections entry, they can add their entry in the admin.

Form allows user to submit their new entry or edit their existing entry when used in conjunction with Link on the site’s frontend.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Alex

That screen is an admin edit screen, it looks like it is from the Link extension. The CSS you found is for the Form extension which allows a user to edit their entry from the frontend.

Does that help clear it up? Sorry I am not finding the right works to make it clear!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Royale

I see exactly what you want to do, with the current version of the Widget Pack, it can not be done … with the forthcoming category widget in Widget Pack 2.0 however you can very easily crerate multiple category widget for the sidebar

oh, wait…. reading this again, I think I misunderstood…

Is this question related to the Widget Pack?

The category widget in the Widget Pack simply output a list of links of categories. If you’re familiar with the category widget for WordPress; same thing.

I have a feeling that you’re asking for multiple category search. For example, cMap has a searchable category drop down … are you actually asking about have multiple searchable category drop downs?

[Steven Zahm]

@ Alex

That CSS will only affect the Form extension, not the edit screens in the admin. There is not an easy way to remove/hide it in the admin edit pages, sorry.

[Steven Zahm]

re: Colin

I just replied back to. You can attached the image to my reply and send the reply back to me. I really need to add a field for attachments to the contact form… I’m going to look into that right now.

[Steven Zahm]

@ chris429

Yea, it presently does not work on all browsers… you can use the required HTML5 attribute.

http://www.html5tutorial.info/html5-required.php

You would have to change this line in the snippet:
$search = cnTemplatePart::search( $atts );

Remove it and echo out the HTML rendered by that function adding the required to the search input text field.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Adam

Well, that pretty, again I can not duplicate that either. When I upload the image the same image, but as a PNG it stays a PNG file. Even if Connections were converting it to an JPG, the image orientation would not exist and the thumbnail would be created as it is seen in the PNG.

No changes were made to Connections or the template was there?

[Steven Zahm]

@ Adam

Oh, yeah, sorry, forgot. WP_DEBUG also needs set to true in the wp-config.php file for the log to be created.

I just checked the image for Lannie, it’s still a JPEG, not a PNG. I think you might have accidentally uploaded the JPEG instead of th PNG.

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