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02/26/2015 at 10:40 am #320855
Alex Botkin
ParticipantForm…” edit their existing entry when used in conjunction with Link on the site’s frontend.”
I have two possibilities:
1) 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?2) A user with entry, but NO email in the Directory record, they register and login…How do they edit their record?
02/26/2015 at 11:17 am #320874Steven Zahm
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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).02/26/2015 at 12:11 pm #320889Alex Botkin
ParticipantThe fog is beginning to fade. Thanks for the “blog” example. So the Directory is a kind of limited access blog posting.
OK “They will be shown an “Add my directory entry” action link ” in the Admin upper right drop down box and also on the Directory?
Since that scenario is my only enemy do you think I would be able to use the Say What plugin to replace that phrase with a blank or a dot?
02/27/2015 at 10:01 am #320993Steven Zahm
Keymaster@ Alex
re: So the Directory is a kind of limited access blog posting.
Not really, but it is the process flow I modeled after to ensure as much uniformity as possible in user experience with core WordPress and Connections.re: OK “They will be shown an “Add my directory entry” action link ” in the Admin upper right drop down box and also on the Directory?
Yes. The admin bar will always go to the admin. The link on the directory will depend on if Form is installed or not.re: Since that scenario is my only enemy do you think I would be able to use the Say What plugin to replace that phrase with a blank or a dot?
Nope, what you have here should work fine:
http://connections-pro.com/support/topic/link-interupted/ -
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