[Steven Zahm]

@ Rick

This is not a bug, just not a feature. It is on the to do list already though I can not commit as to when it’ll come.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Rick

I would say not bug or feature, just by design…

Using the “Submit New Entry” function of Form is to allow, anyone, site visitors to submit entries to the directory. Link is what allows one to submit “their” entry to the directory which, if given the permission, will be able to edit. That link would initially show as “Add My Directory Entry” and then change to “Edit My Directory Entry” after they submit their entry.

You can have both enabled to allow submission by a third party as you explained but that individual would have to have a user account and log in for Link to link the entry and account so that user could edit. Or, that third party would have to have multiple user accounts.

Connections already keeps track of who added an entry, if the user is logged in when it is added, which at some point will allow the concept of entry “owners”, if you own an entry, you can be given permission to edit it. It is on the to do list, but honestly not very high and when it does come, it’ll likely be added as an extension so it only works for those who specifically want the feature.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ James

Can list 5 examples, just name and title, in the order the shortcode gives and then the desired order. It is likely the sort is correct, it is just that when the DB does it, it is not doing the way one thinks it would. One example would be, some try to put numbers in fields and expect it to sort correctly numerically. That will sort of work, but not really because the fields are text fields not numeric fields so they’ll be sorted as string, not numbers which can make a big difference. Any way, that is why I need the list of 5, so I can test.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Kathy

That is correct, but I have not received the login details. Do know why … I know the form is working fine because I have received many emails thru it before and after. It’s not even in the log that the form keeps for me.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Kathy

I never received the login details…

[Steven Zahm]

@ Robin

Larger images will be scaled and cropped to fit the dimension set in the settings. If you worried about the auto crop, then select the “Resize proportionally adjusting the size of scaled image so there are no margins added.” option, then it’ll just scale down to fit the dimensions set. The only thing you need to communicated is that uploading those 100 megapixel images from their brand new camera is not a good idea. An image 1024×1024 will likely always be large enough.

Does that help?

[Steven Zahm]

@ Kathy

Use the contact link at the bottom of the page. Please paste a link to this forum thread so I can relate the two. Thanks!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Lee

Connections is not really setup to handle paid entries. Other users have used membership plugins like Restrict Content Pro to create paid member who can maintain their own entry. I imagine using a membership plugin you could have a role assigned to a user after being paid that are permitted to edit their own entry and unpaid can not … not sure how else you would distinguish paid vs. unpaid.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Zachary

Well, the exclude_category option was never intended to simply hide categories from the drop down, it was meant to complete exclude them and their entries. Basically, it was buggy.

What you can do is create a “Specialty” category and move categories ‘1,2,3,4,5,57’ to be children categories and then Create a “Countries” category and move the countries to be children categories. You can safely make these changes. It will no affect how the entries are assigned or the parent child relationship you already have, ie, the states as children categories of the United States.

After made those changes, you can use the method outlined in this FAQ. The FAQ is for cMap, but it works with Tile Plus too.

Your shortcode would be something like:
[connections category='X'enable_category_by_root_parent=true]

X would be the category ID of the “Regions” category.

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Now that I think about it more…

You do not even need the “Specialty” category or move the specialties. you just need the “Regions” category with all the regions under it for the shortcode to work.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Robin

Adjust the medium image settings to the desired size. The defaults listed above the settings is a good start. Then chose either “Crop and resize proportionally to best fit the specified dimensions, maintaining the aspect ratio.“, the default or “Resize proportionally adjusting the size of scaled image so there are no margins added.” crop mode options.

Hope that helps!

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