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Whilst talking about toggling individual features on or off, it would also be very useful to be able to turn off the border around the product description. This would make it much easier to incorporate the button in places where the background isn’t plain white. I am using Elementor to build my pages, which has a shortcode widget that I use to add the WP eStore product / category listings. With the widget you can at least assign some properties such as a background colour and border. Being able to turn off the border in the WP eStore product / category listing would give me more options within Elementor.

Thanks

Angus

[KnowledgeMappers]

PS – I have now added a 3rd product to the category which has an empty description field and placed the individual product listing below the academic map displayed with style 11 on the right of the page. I think you can see that “fancy#11 is not the same as #10 sans description”.

Angus

[KnowledgeMappers]

Hi

Not exactly, as you can see from this section of my staging site http://staging.knowledgemappers.com/map-store/time-maps/#Time-Calendars-Generic. The ‘standard Calendar’ on the left is style 10, the ‘Academic Calendar’ on the right is style 11.

Style 10 is responsive ie. it fills up the whole column width and expands to fit the contents ie. the longer the description, the more space it takes up (you can see this where I have listed the category contents below the individual).

Style 11 is an absolute height and width so the longer the content (eg. title) then the less space there is for anything else. I hope you can see from my page that style 11 is unusable.

Angus

[KnowledgeMappers]

Documentation sows the following for displaying the price…

Price Display Modifier (show_price)
0: Do not show the price of the product
1: Show the price of the product

What I am after is a Description Display Modifier.

Thanks

Angus

[KnowledgeMappers]

Thanks. I’ve now done that successfully with no issues with the downloads. “Easy peasy” as they would say in this part of the world 🙂

[KnowledgeMappers]

PS – Forgot to include a link to a download page on my site. This one has the download image removed [staging.scotlandthemap.info/sdm_downloads/uk-parliament-scottish-constituencies-general-geographic-electoral-knowledge-atlas-14-oct-2019-v1-0-html] , this one has both [staging.scotlandthemap.info/sdm_downloads/scottish-local-councils-general-geographic-knowledge-atlas-19-sep-2019-v1-0-html]

[KnowledgeMappers]

Admin

Many thanks I will give it a go.

Best regrads

Angus

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Hi admin

Apologies fr the delay in responding to your reply, I was diverted onto other aspects of the site. Thankyou very much for your quick responses to my queries so far.

I really only have 1 remaining issue from this thread, and that is the fact that when logged in as a FREE member and I try to access a downloaded avavilable only to a paid member, the message displayed in the page simply says “!You do not have permission to view this content”, with no link to an upgrade page.

I have followed the advice and downloaded the English language PHP file with a view to changing this message, however I see that on the next line of the file (line 5) there is a message that says “Your membership level does not have access to this content.” That would be the more appropriate one to display for the situation.

So I could just change displayed text part of line 4 – R_CONTENT_RESTRICTED”,”You do not have permission to view this content.”) – to read “Your membership level does not have access to this content.” However I am concerned that the fact that the EMEMBER_CONTENT_RESTRICTED (line 4) message is displayed rather than EMEMBER_HIDDEN_CONTENT_MESSAGE message means that there is a problem with the logical path.

If I am already logged in as a free member and am trying to access paid member content, I would expect to be told “Your membership level does not have access to this content.” along with a link to the membership upgrade or edit profile page. Not to be just left hanging with an access denied text message with nowhere else to go.

Also even if I alter the text of the message displayed in the PHP file it will just be a different text message. I do not have the ability to insert a link into it as well (not within the langauge PHP file anyway).

I am thinking that this task – the upgrade pathway from a free member to a paid member – is just a normal part of the operation of a membership site, rather than something that requires bespoke customisation over and above the range of tasks that I can do involving altering the text in an individual file as directed in your support pages.

If it is beyond what you would expect a “non-techie” user like me to do then that’s fine too. Just don’t want to spend any more time on trying to do something I can’t.

So for reference my site is still [staging.scotlandthemap.info] (still not implemented on the live site yet). Within a blog post such as [staging.scotlandthemap.info/scottish-local-councils-general-and-geographic-knowledge-atlas-19-sep-2019/#Embedded-Map-Buttons], Free membership allows you to download the knowledge map as an HTML file, whilst paid membership allows you to download it in MindManager format.

Thanks.

[KnowledgeMappers]

Apologies fr the delay in responding to your reply, I was diverted onto other aspects of the site. Thankyou very much for your quick responses to my queries. A step too far right now, but I’ll keep the dropbox integration functionality in mind for the future.

Best regards

ANgus

[KnowledgeMappers]

I have implemented this on my site here – [staging.scotlandthemap.info/governance-and-politics/local/scottish-local-councils-electoral-wards-and-local-councillors-political-knowledge-atlas-2-feb-2020/] Download link buttons will appear at the top of the page after a few seconds.

Feel free to create a free account if you wish.

Angus

[KnowledgeMappers]

Hi

Thanks for the swift replies to my query. OK I’ll keep your customisation service in mind, but I’ve still got to get to the end of the basic learning curve first.

I have encountered another problem however. Now that I can upload MindManager (.mmap) files (see other query) I have set up a test download for it and assigned membership level access to it (basically MindManager file downloads will be the premium content). I have also created another elementor button on the content post linking through to the single download page for the .mmap file.

So the problem is when a Free member is logged in and clicks the Download .mmap file button they go to a page with the only the following message “!You do not have permission to view this content”. Nothing more so the user is left hanging.

I can’t see any options to change this in the settings of either eMember or SDM. I am thinking that a message along the lines of “Your current membership level does not allow you to access this content. Upgrade here” with a link to either the Membership renewal Page.

I have just looked through the support documentation again on upgarding but all I could find was this article https://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wordpress-membership/allow-members-upgrade-add-new-level-profile-free-1508. This tells you how to create a meachanism to upgarde – specific payment buttons embedded in pages only members of a particular level can see – but I can’t see anything about how to control this in the settings panel in a way that would direct the logged in free member to the upgarde page when they have tried to access the restricted content.

Guidance would be appreciated. Thanks.

Angus

[KnowledgeMappers]

Hi

Thanks, the update has worked and I can now upload .mmap files to my site. I just had to update the plugin via the usual plugin interface rather than upload the new zip file. A list of accepted file types somewhere in the documentation, and what to do if the file type you want is not listed, would be useful to everybody I think.

Could you answer my query on the Dropbox addon and file types – does it only work with ‘accepted’ file types ie. is the ‘More File Types For SDM’ plugin an essential intermediary for it to work with my .mmap files?

Best regards

Angus

[KnowledgeMappers]

I am working on the staging version of the beta site, which is why it’s a bit of a mess. Trying to nail down the functional moving parts in the backend before I finish off the frontend design. The staging site does have an SSL certificate supplied by my host.

As you can see from my PPPS post above I have come to a compromise solution that means I will no longer need to control the whole download process from an elementor button. A bit of control over the formatting of the single download page (either in settings panel or support documentation on coding tweaks) would make this solutin perfect for now.

Thanks.

[KnowledgeMappers]

PPPS – Having now become more familiar with the way SDM works “in anger”, I can see how trying to get a non-SDM button designed using Elementor to completely control the download is going to be too much trouble.

I have now successfully got reCAPATCHA v2 integration sorted out on the site, enabling the “I am not a robot” tickbox to be displayed beside the download when enabled in the settings panel. Obviously this will not happen for an Elementor button just with the download shortcode. Furthermore when it is enabled, I get a “reCAPTCHA failed” error message when clicking the Elementor button so the user has nowhere to go.

I have been too hung up on trying not to interupt the users flow from the content post such that they just had to click once to initiate the download, and then click one more time only to open the downloaded file.

A more sensible compromise is to not have the SDM download widget in the content page but instead have the elementor designed button, but linking to the single download page (permalink shown in the settings page for the individual download).

Even if the user is not logged in the flow isn’t really interupted much as with the ‘Fancy Login Widget/Popup’ enabled in the eMember settings the user will not be taken away from the single download page during the login process. Also once they’ve downloaded, they can just click the browser back button to get back to the content page they just left. Neat

So….. the only problem now is changing some things on the single download page. I would like the content to be centre justified within the page for example. I can change the colour of the button to one from the usual range (SDM General Settings), and change the button text (individual download settings), but that seems to be about it.

As far as I can tell it is using it’s own page template when generating the page so I can’t control any appearances by adjusting the template file (without coding, I am not a that technical).

All I would like to do right now is change the appearance of the button to mimic the style of all the other buttons on my website (10px border radius for example), and to make the page centre justified. Can I do that in a similar way that have you have posted shortcode parameters / additional CSS code for the download fancy widgets?

Thanks and apologies for the slight “stream of consciousness” nature of this post (might be useful to other users).

[KnowledgeMappers]

PPS – Sorry if the ‘Redirect Users to Download Page’ setting is enabled then clicking on the “You need to be logged in to download this file. Click here to go to login page.” message takes you to the download single page and you are able to download the file. If the setting is diabled it just takes you to the Member Login page where it shows I am logged in. Thus it seems to be aware that I am logged in, but just isn’t taking me to the right place when I first click the download button.

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