Simplifying EasyDiscuss
By fred appleton on Saturday, 21 March 2015
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I am trying to set up a feedback forum for my community. Keeping it simple will be the key to my success. I want to seed the EasyDiscuss forum with a very few questions and have the members supply responses to these questions. I have used the EasyDiscuss Categories Layout to seed the conversation.

I am having trouble with the page for member posting. First, there is some type of slider that shows my top level category, but will not slide to another category. I would rather not have this slider. I just want the "what is on your mind" input to appear below the subcategory as a post. I also want all posts to be treated the same so I do not need a post type.

I have just purchased EasyDiscuss and it may not be simple enough for me to use.
Hello Fred,

I am really sorry for the delay of this reply as it is a weekend for us here. Hm, sorry but I am not really sure about which "slider" are you referring to here. Would you mind elaborating more on this and perhaps provide us with the link to the page? A screen shot would also be much appreciated.
Mark
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Sunday, 22 March 2015 13:56
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I have attached a screen shot showing the "slider" (probably wrong term). It does not appear to be functional as it is not the subcategory that I have selected to get to this page.

I had included the site URL and credentials on the previous email. There are also included here. If I am not doing that right, please let me know.
fred appleton
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Sunday, 22 March 2015 21:29
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Hello Fred,

I am sorry for the delay of this reply.

It seems like you are using multi-tier option to display the categories listing thus returning the slider layout. I've change the option to "Select Listing" from your backend > easydiscuss > settings > layout > general > Editing, http://screencast.com/t/suuxVi3NveQ and it should be displaying properly now along with the subcategory selection that I have selected to get to this page.

Hope these help
Ezrul Fazwan
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Monday, 23 March 2015 12:21
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That worked fine, but now I have another question to help simplify these further. This time it is the single category layout.

I have included an attachment that shows a couple of items that I do not need and that will confuse the member. Also I have shown a spot where there is too much white space. Can you help me make this more presentable?
Thanks. I appreciate your help.
fred appleton
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Friday, 27 March 2015 08:40
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Hi Fred,

Here I give you a css override code. Please put it in your current Joomla template.


div#discuss-wrapper .discuss-admin-bar{

    height: 1px;

}

div#discuss-wrapper .discuss-story .discuss-story-hd{

    min-height: 1px;

}

div#discuss-wrapper .discuss-users-action, 

div#discuss-wrapper .discuss-comments,

div#discuss-wrapper #dc_share{

    display:none;

}

div#discuss-wrapper .discuss-replies .discuss-item-right{

    min-height: 70px;

}

div#discuss-wrapper .discuss-story .discuss-story-bd{

    padding-bottom: 1px;

}

div#discuss-wrapper .discuss-story-bd,

div#discuss-wrapper .discuss-list > li{

    margin-bottom: 1px;

}


Hope this helps.
Yasser Ibrahim
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Friday, 27 March 2015 11:20
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