Adding Pages to your network

[Phil McCluskey]

The instructions for adding pages to your network have been moved into the wiki. You can find them here.

[Alva]

Hi Phil, Happy New Year!

I've been successful (thanks to your team's great help!) in creating a couple of new pages. For content, I create a page in the Forum, then link to that page. It's my band-aid approach for new pages since my html skills are basic; it works fine, but I'm limted on what I can do.

My HOPEFUL request is that one day it be possible that when we add a new Tab page, NING would give us the option to drag and drop a page design similiar to when we set up our network. I love the ease of that process that let's me set up 3 columns of text boxes (which also allow me to customize with images and video too).

Should I add this request on the WISHLIST pages?

Thank you!
~alva

[Phil McCluskey]

Hi Alva,

Yes, that's where I'd like to see the Pages feature head too. Feel free to add this to the wishlist.

Cheers,
Phil

[Loren Norman]

What is the URL to get to the edit source screen for my network if i have paid to use my own domain, and thus have no subdomain?

[Phil McCluskey]

Hi Loren,

Even if you've mapped your domain, you still access the code via the ning.com subdomain that you created the network at.

Thanks,
Phil

[Loren Norman]

I see. Thanks for the prompt response.

Sorry for the silly question, I just started looking at Ning in the last couple of days, but i'm really impressed! I spent most of 2007 doing Ruby on Rails development, but Ning looks like a much simpler solution for building community sites. The deeper i dig, the more i realize that this really is an open platform. I can't wait to start on some custom extensions for our company.

Keep it open and keep up the good work!

[Phil McCluskey]

Thanks Loren! Let us know if you have any other questions or if you run into any problems.

Cheers,
Phil

[Loren Norman]

Another question!

When you make use of this source editor interface, this is not the same thing as requesting your code, is it? That is, can i make liberal modifications here and still receive natural Ning updates?

And if so, how are my modified files handled in the event of an official code push?

Still trying to get my head around the environment...

[Susan]

if I change the "any user can create page" from 0 to 1 will that allow all members to create new pages? Or is there something else I need to do?

[Phil McCluskey]

Hi Loren,

If you haven't requested access to the code, then the files that you see are mostly the configuration files for the network; you can modify these, and you can add new files and directories in the root directory for the network (don't add new files and folders that aren't instance configuration files to the instances directory). The rest of the files that your network uses are symlinked but not visible in this view, and when we do a code push, those get updated, so none of the things you change will be impacted. There's a bit more information on the meaning of code access here.

Thanks,
Phil

[Phil McCluskey]

No, sorry Susan; although that configuration switch is there, it hasn't been deployed in the page feature code. It's not a big change to add, but it's not there yet.

Thanks,
Phil

[Loren Norman]

Beautiful.

So, it looks as if i have enough flexibility, just inside the little bit of code that is exposed, to create my own functionality from scratch. It seems as though one can just follow some nice conventions (the PHP API), use the the Content Store for persistence, and essentially just pick up where you guys left off adding features to my network. I am just floored by that...

And it's bedtime!

Thanks again,
Loren

[Shyam Madhavan Sarada]

Thanks for all the answers, Phil!

I followed this thread from the last time I was here and have successfully created new pages and tabs. Am I missing something or is there a way to attach files to added pages, like one could do in the forum and group discussions?

Thanks again, and wish you a happy year ahead!