sign up process for blog-forums

[TCVadmin]

 I am a newbie and was wondering if a potential member on my site has to sign up separate for my nabble blog and forum ( will they have seperate logins) ?

[TCVadmin]

I forgot to ask, if they do need separate logins, is there a way to make one application work as both?  If this is premium support question, thats fine, just wondering if it is possible. I want to start with a forum and add a blog  ( or newspaper function). What is the difference between the blog and newspaper?

[GregChapman]

TCVadmin wrote

 I am a newbie and was wondering if a potential member on my site has to sign up separate for my nabble blog and forum ( will they have seperate logins) ?

You don't make clear if you have created two separate accounts one a blog and the other a forum or if one is a  sub-forum of the other.

If you only have one account then members only need to register once and their membership will apply to all sub-forums, regardless of the type of application that sub-forum is, forum, blog or newspaper, etc.

I forgot to ask, if they do need separate logins, is there a way to make one application work as both?

I hope my previous answer answers this one.

If this is premium support question, thats fine,

You generally get quicker definitive answers from Nabble staff on the Premium Support forum. You must sign up for Premium Support if you are requesting Nabble to make special customisations to your forum.

I want to start with a forum and add a blog  ( or newspaper function).

Then you do want to create a sub-application! Only a single login will be required by your users.

What is the difference between the blog and newspaper?

It's just a matter of format of the way the material is presented. Newspapers display a thumbnail of the first image on the page and only show the first few lines of a post, with a "read more..." link to take you to the full post. I have an example at:
http://www.gregafloat.plus.com/blog/index.html
Blogs show the full text (and images) of each post. I switched my blog to a newspaper as my posts are very long and made the opening page unmanageable and slow for visitors. If posts are short and have no images, the two formats are virtually indistinguishable in appearance.
Here's a newpaper:
http://jrp-noticias.980329.n3.nabble.com/
Here's a blog:
http://tiereficker.1065001.n5.nabble.com/

[TCVadmin]

is there instruction on how to have a newspaper and forum in the same application? I understand one will be a sub-forum, but I am confused on how this all works.  this is from one account

On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 6:00 AM, GregChapman [via Nabble Support] <[hidden email]> wrote:

TCVadmin wrote:

 I am a newbie and was wondering if a potential member on my site has to sign up separate for my nabble blog and forum ( will they have seperate logins) ?

You don't make clear if you have created two separate accounts one a blog and the other a forum or if one is a  sub-forum of the other.

If you only have one account then members only need to register once and their membership will apply to all sub-forums, regardless of the type of application that sub-forum is, forum, blog or newspaper, etc.

I forgot to ask, if they do need separate logins, is there a way to make one application work as both?

I hope my previous answer answers this one.

If this is premium support question, thats fine,

You generally get quicker definitive answers from Nabble staff on the Premium Support forum. You must sign up for Premium Support if you are requesting Nabble to make special customisations to your forum.

I want to start with a forum and add a blog  ( or newspaper function).

Then you do want to create a sub-application! Only a single login will be required by your users.

What is the difference between the blog and newspaper?

It's just a matter of format of the way the material is presented. Newspapers display a thumbnail of the first image on the page and only show the first few lines of a post, with a "read more..." link to take you to the full post. I have an example at:
http://www.gregafloat.plus.com/blog/index.html
Blogs show the full text (and images) of each post. I switched my blog to a newspaper as my posts are very long and made the opening page unmanageable and slow for visitors. If posts are short and have no images, the two formats are virtually indistinguishable in appearance.
Here's a newpaper:
http://jrp-noticias.980329.n3.nabble.com/
Here's a blog:
http://tiereficker.1065001.n5.nabble.com/

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[Peter <Nabble>]

You just have to change the application type (under options>application) of a subforum.

[TCVadmin]

possible examples of what the out come would look like?

On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Peter <Nabble> [via Nabble Support] <[hidden email]> wrote:

You just have to change the application type (under options>application) of a subforum.

Nabble staff. We never ask for passwords.

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[Peter <Nabble>]

To be honest I would have to look for someone who have done it already. If you are just experimenting to see what can you do with Nabble I would suggest you to just go ahead and try it. If you already have a deployed site I would suggest you to create some other test application so you can try not only that modification but several others you may do with Nabble because it is too flexible and sooner or later you will want to change things. :-)

[GregChapman]

TCVadmin wrote

possible examples of what the out come would look like?

I gave you three examples in my last message! As Peter says, just play! As he also says, you are quite likely to want to change things once the forum gets used more. For example, I started my blog as a blog, but changed it to a newspaper when the pages got far too long, as the newspaper format only places a few lines of each post on the initial page.

[TCVadmin]

Sounds like someone has a attitude problem!  I asked a simple question and you got bent out of shape.  maybe nabble should help you out more ( more than free support, like some CS training) and teach you to be a wee bit more sympathetic towards new users. I simply asked for examples to see (visual examples, not text descriptions).    But that I guess is not possible. I don't think I will use nabble if the help I get is like this.  I will go with my other choice, they have live phone support  ( about $8/month w/unlimited boards) and don't mind going over it again. It helps with customer loyalty and word of mouth advertising.  Sorry peter for taking up your time,  wish you and Nabble well.

[GregChapman]

Sorry that you misunderstood me. I recognise text descriptions can be difficult to interpret. That's why there were three links in my post (the three examples I was referring to). You were meant to visit them and see them visually for yourself. I thought it was a simple answer to your simple question.

Certainly, I didn't mean to offend. Apologies!

[Harvey]

I had no idea that it was possible to have multiple application types within the same app.  I've always wanted one sign up for both.

I'd like to include a photo gallery as part of my forum too.

[GregChapman]

Me too! However, I had always refused to add a GALLERY to my MIXED forum as all those in the second half of the list of available applications included a sidebar and I felt the sidebar was intrusive in my fairly narrow embedded forum.

Now NAML is available I have been able to remove the sidebar and make my version of the GALLERY app have the conventional horizontal menu (without some of the facilities of the sidebar, it's true).

What surprised me when I installed it was the rather neat horizontal "filmstrip" form that the GALLERY appears as in my MIXED application. Perhaps it's always been like that in an ordinary forum and I have never seen one.

Take a look at:
http://seahawk-forum.968426.n3.nabble.com/Just-17-f3415267.html