Commons In A Box | Dale MacDonald | Activity https://commonsinabox.org/members/mrdale/activity Activity feed for Dale MacDonald. Thu, 12 Mar 2026 23:54:40 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 61d3e906bb7072050884000d37bbfb6d Dale MacDonald started the topic Accessing peer site blogrolls in the forum CBOX Developers https://commonsinabox.org/groups/cbox-developers/forum/topic/accessing-peer-site-blogrolls/ Fri, 03 Oct 2014 14:45:16 -0400 We are in the process of building a “magazine” to live in our commons.  We have a notion of having widgets on the magazine’s front page that would show recent posts in various other sites’ blogs.  Seems like the BP infrastructure ought to make this simple but so far no simple joy so now we’re going to dig deeper. Anyone have thoughts on design p…[Read more]

]]> 4b198f1cabf8c7dbf74bd3edf4157103 Dale MacDonald replied to the topic Slider and slider-related issues in the forum Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/help-support/forum/topic/slider-and-slider-related-issues/#post-3771 Fri, 18 Oct 2013 20:19:22 -0400 Bowe,
Any progress toward a new version?

For those who are interested, once I tamed the bad interactions between posts and the slider it is working pretty well pulling from our blog posts. I have, however, modded the CSS a little to make it a little easier to deal with

.flex-caption { padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom:0px;
background-image:…[Read more]

]]> 4d4681c32e1509330d1d4f81ab30253c Dale MacDonald started the topic Slider and slider-related issues in the forum Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/help-support/forum/topic/slider-and-slider-related-issues/ Wed, 02 Oct 2013 14:19:00 -0400 I’ve transitioned femtechnet.newschool.edu over to using categorized posts instead of Site Features for slider content. A number of issues came up:

It isn’t at all obvious from the documentation that one still has to set a featured image for the post in order for it to appear.
I’m even less clear on the spatial and shape relationship of the…[Read more]

]]> cd6c114522142e35c9ecf9582d1570f6 Dale MacDonald replied to the topic Cleaning up the slider in the forum CBOX Developers https://commonsinabox.org/groups/cbox-developers/forum/topic/cleaning-up-the-slider/#post-3708 Wed, 02 Oct 2013 14:05:28 -0400 A nice bit of research on sliders/carousels’ usability and design

]]> 4b71df7cc235e58019ccf06088af3c62 Dale MacDonald replied to the topic Main Cbox blog page? in the forum Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/help-support/forum/topic/main-cbox-blog-page/#post-3571 Sat, 07 Sep 2013 18:22:40 -0400 I resorted to the Display Posts Shortcode plugin.

]]> adf3566a05c3e7d740c17ea933e74a1d Dale MacDonald started the topic Main Cbox blog page? in the forum Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/help-support/forum/topic/main-cbox-blog-page/ Sat, 07 Sep 2013 15:43:15 -0400 Maybe it’s a bleary Saturday morning.

I want mysite.foo.com/blog to point at a page like https://commonsinabox.org/blog Seems like that ought to be the default behavior but instead I get “Darnit. Nothing found.” Am I missing a checkbox somewhere?

Thanks,
Dale.

]]> ab03998891b1c364e5c9738b772de556 Dale MacDonald replied to the topic Can't create new Docs Upgrade weirdness? in the forum Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/help-support/forum/topic/cant-create-new-docs-upgrade-weirdness/#post-3564 Thu, 05 Sep 2013 05:39:28 -0400 LOL It’s the other super-admins that freak out the most! :-O
I’ve discovered in this process that there are a couple of other plugins that still have if ( WP_DEBUG) statements lurking in them. While I really need to get this problem fixed my server has decided to wedge an httpd process every 12 hours or so and run away with the CPU so I have to…[Read more]

]]> 5d50d681a99ceb226ff10de777a3ae89 Dale MacDonald replied to the topic Can't create new Docs Upgrade weirdness? in the forum Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/help-support/forum/topic/cant-create-new-docs-upgrade-weirdness/#post-3562 Wed, 04 Sep 2013 04:17:30 -0400 OK I’ve poked around a bit indeed is_post_type_archive( bp_docs_get_post_type_name() ) returning false.
I’ve played a bit with wp-includes/query.php and I don’t see anything interesting if I put an else clause on if ( ! empty( $post_type_obj->has_archive ) )
$this->is_post_type_archive = true;

so I’m not sure where above that we are running…[Read more]

]]> 708c29d8286855bfd500540a7d1a06ad Dale MacDonald replied to the topic Can't create new Docs Upgrade weirdness? in the forum Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/help-support/forum/topic/cant-create-new-docs-upgrade-weirdness/#post-3559 Tue, 03 Sep 2013 03:51:38 -0400 bp_docs_template_include() returns from the if ( ! bp_docs_is_docs_component() ) clause with $template = /home/femtechnet/public_html/wp-content/themes/cbox-theme/archive.php

It never gets to line 55

]]> e120ac8d14060aef03bf19eb56b20291 Dale MacDonald replied to the topic Can't create new Docs Upgrade weirdness? in the forum Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/help-support/forum/topic/cant-create-new-docs-upgrade-weirdness/#post-3556 Sat, 31 Aug 2013 16:24:24 -0400 448 runs fine. the $posts_query looks…[Read more]

]]> cd16ad0c59acf4e352c42fb9e1d1cd35 Dale MacDonald replied to the topic Can't create new Docs Upgrade weirdness? in the forum Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/help-support/forum/topic/cant-create-new-docs-upgrade-weirdness/#post-3554 Fri, 30 Aug 2013 20:13:39 -0400 1.4.5

Permalinks reset. No help.

/docs works fine (though the add doc button there suffers the same fate).

I did see this in templatetags.php which smelled funny /**
* Get the link to create a Doc
*
* @package BuddyPress_Docs
* @since 1.2
*/
function bp_docs_get_create_link() {
return…[Read more]

]]> 05634bdb46dcf256ebd4e24df589b3b1 Dale MacDonald replied to the topic Can't create new Docs Upgrade weirdness? in the forum Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/help-support/forum/topic/cant-create-new-docs-upgrade-weirdness/#post-3552 Fri, 30 Aug 2013 19:44:56 -0400 Curiously, Lisa Brundage thinks the buttons on the group Docs page should result in URLs of the form
/groups/groupname/docs/create (which actually does create a new doc in the right place) where what is currently showing up is of the form /docs/create/?group=groupname

Does this ring any bells?

]]> 6850921157a7b634d568b10690550871 Dale MacDonald replied to the topic Can't create new Docs Upgrade weirdness? in the forum Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/help-support/forum/topic/cant-create-new-docs-upgrade-weirdness/#post-3551 Fri, 30 Aug 2013 19:34:56 -0400 Bump!

Any call to /docs/create whether raw or with a group name query results in a “You are browsing the archive for Posts.

Not Found
” page.

Any hints on where to look to debug this?

Thanks,
Dale.

]]> 0275afffbe3d4ad6381deb1edfec8195 Dale MacDonald replied to the topic Better file sharing solution in the forum CBOX Developers https://commonsinabox.org/groups/cbox-developers/forum/topic/better-file-sharing-solution/#post-3503 Wed, 21 Aug 2013 17:11:16 -0400 Daniel,
I don’t think that’s super specific at all. That’s the same sort of functionality my users would like to see as well. Once they’ve wrapped their heads around the groups functionality then having “documents” or “attachments” or whatever one wants to call non-HTML content be first class objects in the CMS (even if not editable) is an…[Read more]

]]> 7b0085e8ac012b2d90ef8b61c0505519 Dale MacDonald replied to the topic Can't create new Docs Upgrade weirdness? in the forum Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/help-support/forum/topic/cant-create-new-docs-upgrade-weirdness/#post-3464 Mon, 19 Aug 2013 17:45:50 -0400 More FWIW the access log entry says
64.79.125.74 – – [19/Aug/2013:13:41:10 -0400] “GET /wp-content/uploads/exports/cbox-theme/dynamic.js?ver=3.6 HTTP/1.1” 304 – “http://femtechnet.newschool.edu/docs/create/?group=commons-committee” “Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/28.0.1500.95…[Read more]

]]> 8842483f57e969d77fb8d711f30c68ca Dale MacDonald started the topic Can't create new Docs Upgrade weirdness? in the forum Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/help-support/forum/topic/cant-create-new-docs-upgrade-weirdness/ Mon, 19 Aug 2013 17:03:00 -0400 Since doing the WP 3.6 CBox 1.0.5 updates I now get a “You are browsing the archive for Posts.” page when I click on the “Create new doc” button in any group’s Doc page.

FWIW I also saw the CBox theme options returning “0” bug but then it went away without my having applied the hotfix.

Help?
Dale.

]]> 56d5f7cf7c00e6a2f7263cc310aabe28 Dale MacDonald started the topic Docs wandering in to the trash in the forum CBOX Pioneers https://commonsinabox.org/groups/ciab-pioneers/forum/topic/docs-wandering-in-to-the-trash/ Tue, 13 Aug 2013 03:26:04 -0400 We’ve been having a spate of users creating Docs (of the BuddyPress Docs variety) and then having them show up in Trash rather than the group where they started them. The users don’t know how to explicitly put something in the trash and don’t understand how this is happening. Is there some known point in the Doc creation process where this can…[Read more]

]]> b068d0aa0117b219d24403cf02492c94 Dale MacDonald started the topic CBox suite and FERPA in the forum CBOX Pioneers https://commonsinabox.org/groups/ciab-pioneers/forum/topic/cbox-suite-and-ferpa/ Fri, 09 Aug 2013 00:36:54 -0400 A combination of the various bbpress/private/hidden discussions and rumblings I’ve heard around campus have raised some questions in my mind about how to get CBox to pass a FERPA-oriented audit. Has anyone who is […]

]]> 6f179a49e9c6d86fa5791c7b31b58774 Dale MacDonald replied to the topic Group Membership Request-->Nothing Found in the forum Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/help-support/forum/topic/group-membership-request-nothing-found/#post-3165 Sun, 14 Jul 2013 16:51:43 -0400 A bit more info. This only occurs if one clicks on “Request membership” from the group page. If we click on “Request membership” from the Groups listing page it works fine.

For the case from the individual […]

]]> d80e4842cbbe470a140bed7b467e4f4f Dale MacDonald started the topic Cleaning up the slider in the forum CBOX Developers https://commonsinabox.org/groups/cbox-developers/forum/topic/cleaning-up-the-slider/ Thu, 11 Jul 2013 18:52:46 -0400 I’m going to put this here but I wonder if it would go better on github. For that matter Matt, how do you see the relationship of this group and things on github?

My first frustration with CBox is the slider […]

]]> 68e1f01eaa59f511e5c966ec80d5e991 Dale MacDonald started the topic Intro in the forum CBOX Developers https://commonsinabox.org/groups/cbox-developers/forum/topic/intro/ Thu, 11 Jul 2013 18:40:22 -0400 Hi I’m the director of Creative Technologies for the School of Media Studies at The New School. I’m in the beginning stages of rolling out two CBox-based sites femtechnet.newschool.edu and smscommons.newschool.edu […]

]]> 67903dcc63280b795cc7d829905c6c4a Dale MacDonald joined the group CBOX Developers https://commonsinabox.org/activity/p/2901 Thu, 11 Jul 2013 18:35:49 -0400 6c68ac7cccafbd951446ad96a637f957 Dale MacDonald changed their profile picture https://commonsinabox.org/activity/p/2893 Wed, 10 Jul 2013 13:44:33 -0400 1a903da587235705fa2972537405fbec Dale MacDonald started the topic Converting a 'mailman' listserv to a group? in the forum Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/help-support/forum/topic/converting-a-mailman-listserv-to-a-group/ Wed, 10 Jul 2013 13:42:56 -0400 I need to migrate a ~300 member listserv into CBox.

I’m guessing that I will want to do something along the lines of

<a […]

]]> b55eadebb170f101f815f76c7a67bcb1 Dale MacDonald joined the group CBOX Classic Support https://commonsinabox.org/activity/p/2891 Wed, 10 Jul 2013 13:33:10 -0400 679d36f173b01088226f5e0ab2109918 Dale MacDonald joined the group CBOX Pioneers https://commonsinabox.org/activity/p/2349 Thu, 09 May 2013 15:39:43 -0400 dd8b67ee9e88cde276cbf33a22f03cc7 Dale MacDonald became a registered member https://commonsinabox.org/activity/p/2348 Thu, 09 May 2013 15:38:51 -0400