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I thought it might be useful to have a thread dedicated to reporting things we find that don't work so all the info and feedback is in one place. Probably best to keep 'wish list' type items elsewhere so as not to muddy the waters here but there is likely to be some overlap. Anyway, here's a couple to kick off with:

1. I have just discovered an area under my 'Your Network' tab for invitations received to join communities. http://eduspaces.net/terry/communities/invitations. Is this new? I found an invitation there that I did not know about. Could or should invitations issued in this way generate a notification in some way, say via email?

2. When listing 'View all posts' and selecting the 'with comments' filter you only get one screen full. If you click on the 'back' link <wishlist> which would be better as 'previous'</wishlist>  the next page produces a 'page cannot be found' message. I think this is a known problem.

No sweat. Life goes on. Just thought it would be useful to collect these things.

A slightly weird problem, which may be not showing by the time you read this (so I'll do some screen shots!)

The background: I have an external blog which I use to feed my blog here. It had a talkr podcast embedded to it (which generates an mp3 file of the text automatically. That imported to here fine. Then I decided to experiment with VozMe - a similar package, which works slighltly differently. 

On my blog page, the icon for VozMe isn't coming through, the link is slightly corrupted, and it won't play. However, on the http://eduspaces.net/emmadw/feeds/all/ page, the icon is there & it plays as expected. I'd switched back to the Talkr on my main blog, once I realised it wasn't coming through here. I'll switch back to VozMe for a while, as I suspect that as I've changed back, the RSS feed will alter, so you won't see what I mean!

I'll take some screen shots as it currently is:

 1: Post withVozme embedded.

2: post with Talkr embedded.  

3: in the aggregator.

Suggestions?

Emma  

Another query about imported posts. I've realised that imported posts used to be "public" & now seem to be "logged in users".

It struck me that it was related to the default posting, which seems to be "logged in users". I'm sure that it used to be possible to set it so that the default posting was "public", and users could over ride it.

Or, was it a case that the default was always "logged in users", and it couldn't be altered, but that imported posts defaulted to public?

I've hunted through things like "Account Settings" & "Edit this profile", and I can find how to set the default for comments & the wall, but I can't find anywhere to set the default post settings. Is there one? Was there one in the past?

Hi Emma

I notice that embedded videos in imported posts don't work in Graham Attwells's Eduspaces blog either. Presumably the code in the original post is not liked by Elgg. I have no idea what Talkr and Vozme are! I'll google them.

Now you come to mention it, looking back over posts I have imported, all but the last one are public. The last one is 'logged in users'. Maybe the default access (which I think is set for the whole system) has been changed from public to logged in. It would be interesting to find out and, if it has, the rationale. It's not a problem other than you actually have to login here and change to public manually. Perhaps with a future version of Elgg we will be able to set default access restrictions for personal blogs and owned communities.

Hi Misja

Is it possible for individuals to set their default posting level? I suspect that quite a few would like it to be logged in users. While I personally prefer public, I suspect that manyn't be the choice of everyone...

On a somewhat related note; the imported posts seem to be a bit all over the place. The last post that I actually made to my external blog was on April 8th (about Facebook chat). however, the Elgg blog seems to have picked up some older posts, and reposted them....

My email notfication has not worked for months. I have checked that the details in my account settings are correct and they are. What can I do? I was grateful that the email notification did not work during the last month since I have been inundated by spam. So I have changed the settings to alow comments only by logged in users but stil it would be nice if the email notification worked.

Also has anything happened with regards to spam? You incorporated some clever widget to prevent it about 18 months ago but maybe it doesn't work anymore or some setting has been reset and I need to reactivate it.

I'm still getting the older posts; they seem to arrive a month less a day after the original posting. So, the one that I made on April 23 has just re-appeared.

The feed that I've subscribed to ( http://userweb.port.ac.uk/~duke-wie/blog/wp-atom.php ) doesn't seem to have the posts sneaking back in)

Has anyone else had this problem? Or noticed it in anyone else's blog? 

Hi everybody,

Probably not serious for most users right now - but some of the "yes" "no" translations in the Chinese language settings are a mixture of German and Chinese. Instead of 是 (yes) 否 (no), it gives Ja  否

Brian 

Hi Misja,

This morning, I added a posting to my blog page and set it to be "public."  The posting did not appear on the Eduspaces main page,  as it has in the past.  Has the main page display changed somehow?

Lately whenever I look at the main page,  all postings are in foreign languages.  I have not seen an English language posting for some time now.  Is there a new setting of some sort for me to view English language postings?  Please advise.

Rick Lillie (CalState San Bernardino)

Hi Terry...

Mine's a WordPress blog ... so it can't be just that. (It's 2.5.1 & I've selected the  wp-atom.php feed)

Hi Rick

I've done some investigating, as I too saw lots of posts in Portuguese (all the same) on the home page. I think that what's happening is that a class has signed up to republish posts from a fairly active news source. For example, yesterday, that particular service generated 20 posts. So, a class of x students, all re-publishing 20 posts = a lot of posts. Hence, that's what tends to dominate the home page.

Quite what can be done about it, I'm not sure, unless posts that are generated from feeds are excluded from the home page; and I suspect that would take a bit of coding. (It would also mean that none of my pages would show up, unless I made the effort to specifically post here, rather than my WordPress blog!)

(I even tried changing the default language from English (UK) to Portuguese hopefully, but all the buttons changed ... [other than Your Presentations], and the posts were still Portuguese. I reverted to English, it being easier for me!) 

Hi Emma,

Thanks for the feedback.  From time to time, I like to read the blog postings that appear on the main page.  However,  lately everything has been in something other than English.  I guess that I need to learn more languages.

The current situation is unfortunate.  I agree with you that there may not be a simple solution.  I wish people would not use the "public part" of Eduspaces as an alternative LMS.

Rick Lillie 

Hi all,

I have been trying to play around with the CSS for themes. The problem I seem to be having is that if I re-edit my theme the changes do not seem to be saving. Any suggestions?

Hi Craig

Which sections of the theme have you been editing? I've just tested with "Body" which I was able to edit. I just altered the alignment from left to right to test.

In the event, all that moved was the links in the menu bar on the right, but looking at the whole CSS code, there are elements later on that apply just to posts/ comments/ etc., and I didn't have time to find all the "align:left" & switch them.