My install version is 12.1.0 (I'll upgrade to current when I'm finished configuring my site, long story) I've installed Posts, Developer and Persons apps. The site is not intended to be a "normal" community.
I'm going to be running an TV AD campaign with a call to action to sign up on my new website for Sports Videography.
I need a landing page where visitors can input their contact information and location info (address), select from a pick list what type of video they want produced, hard date for when they need it completed by, and possible dates for filming, and if they have any existing game footage. (I'll need a page where they can upload the footage at a later date, and the upload should not convert the video. It needs to stay in it's native format. The video uploaded will not be for display / sharing, but for me to download and edit.)
I've figured out how to create a pick list in the Navigation app.
I've figured out how to create and publish custom pages.
Is this something I can do in the Developer App or do I need to go to the Database and create a new table, then write the code to access that table for insert / update / delete actions?
I installed the Events module and was going through every page setting the visibility and ran across this. Everything seems to work fine, but thought I would let somebody know.
Apologies, I'm an old man trying to learn new tricks.
I'm on my 2nd, shared hosting account. Each advertised they support UNA in shared environments. I'm now on day 6 of being down because we're running into a variety of issues. Ffmpeg was the biggest. I can't afford a vps, nor do I have the experience with any type of VPS environments.
For the site I envision, I won't need the UNA app to convert media per sey. So far, the most I'll need is to be able to post photos in either a blog/ post. Any videos will be posted as youtube embeds in blog/post. I was planning on using LivePeer video streaming.
Many Shared hosting plans advertise they support UNA, but when it comes to Ffmpeg, all that I've check say they can't or won't allow it on shared hosting, then I get the up sell routine for a VSP.
So my question is, what Core Apps / System App or free Apps use Ffmpeg?
Do I really need it? Will UNA work without it?
Thanks for your patience.
OK - DIARY OF A NEW CUSTOMER !!
Today 2nd June. AM
Just signed up for the $50 + 50 plan (Apps & Hosting)
Impressed with the slick stripe payments. Its very good btw!
But apart from a 'Red Dot" in the Licence Field, I'm totally lost as to what to do now, or where to even look / go now !
I've so many questions now. I want to get started, i'm excited for sure, but I'm not been pointed in any specific direction.
First impressions - there are no obvious instructions to follow for a new user! At least nothing apparent to me, at first glance.
Like -
Where - do I go to "see' the back end of my potential new website?
Can - I start to experiment, build an "off-line' version, get my toes wet, see how it look and feels before going live?
What - happens now?
Today 2nd June. PM
Launching the launch window!!!!
OK - Licence Bought - Go to activate / Launch said Licence, and ran into problems with the correct naming of servers, again I feel the fact that I needed to summon Help to even activate the site was not good. Should be a case of; [ imput company name here ] & Click GO!! That said, getting help here, was super quick, through the UNA site. The new message alerts on my phone were also impressive, ditto for the UNA - device APP itself.
Overall
I feel the whole UNA "shop window' is very confusing indeed. I mean - I'm never quite sure whether I'm actually on my OWN SITE, or UNA's !!!! at any one time, it's very confusing, seriously. Suggest colour code, UNA have a different back round colour to own site.
Pricing
Probably be happy paying $100 p/m ok, (if I was actually making progress building a site) I'll talk about this in a while. In my opinion, having your 'business plan" priced at $800 a month (as it stands), when you can not tell me definitively, what exactly i will get for it!!! is plain pointless, to a small business, with a budget in mind!! Mind the Gap!! Big jump from $100 p/m to $800 p/m !!! My site could take anything from a few hours, to months to implement, and there is no apparent tangible way of telling me in advance, what it's going to cost me???, come on! and that's not workable for any business. Consider offering a "white label, ready to go template, out of the box, design and implementation for a set fee, payable per month, all I need to do is change the logo, up-load some pic's turn on/off the modules i want or need, and i'm LIVE!! A "definable feature package' memberships, forum, live chat, blog, photos etc for $xx per month, designed and implemented. That would interest me!
The Software itself
For sure, there is evidence of brilliance everywhere, Seeing how the template it looks and functions on my various devices, it's very impressive, the notifications everything, (on your own site that is! - UNA!) But the Achilles heal of the software is that it is designed by; Expert Tech geeks, for Competent Tech Geeks. If your not a programmer, your lost here. Its not for any "Idea Person" in my view. It's for a Competent Tech Geek, with an idea! In short - as it currently is - the software is not 'user-friendly" enough for the mass market your after. I've stated THIS as the standard you need to aim for ;-
http://www.vistaprint.ie/websites
The CMS is as easy to edit as a word doc, and modules and pages are simple ON/OFF options, money back guarantee, and outstanding tel support.
I feel, UNA would need to offer some form of "support" at the start in order to "be at the races" as a product. Assign each new customer of UNA, to an "angel" initially as part of the deal, supported via a "P.C anywhere" type support / with chat. Get um up and running with a revenue generating prod, and you have a good shot at retention. But after 1- DAY on this, I'm so far a little disappointed, I thought I would be able to do more for myself. I'll try again tomorrow!!
Just wondering, if anyone actually got a site up an running on this platform yet? TEST POST as well!
Hey,
I was never able to use the payments-module by Boonex on both platforms (Dolphin and UNA). I get the following error after a successful payment via PayPal (sandbox): TRANSACTION VERIFICATION FAILED.
In the logfile there are entries like:
05-16 16:18:26: Finalize Checkout Failed
05-16 16:18:26: array (
'r' => 'payment/finalize_checkout/paypal/2',
'payer_email' => '[...]',
'payer_id' => 'FENPWQVPCCSNN',
'payer_status' => 'VERIFIED',
'first_name' => 'test',
'last_name' => 'buyer',
'txn_id' => '6GE18003HN457640W',
'mc_currency' => 'EUR',
'mc_fee' => '0.45',
'mc_gross' => '5.00',
'protection_eligibility' => 'ELIGIBLE',
'payment_fee' => '0.45',
'payment_gross' => '5.00',
'payment_status' => 'Completed',
'payment_type' => 'instant',
'item_name1' => 'Test',
'quantity1' => '1',
'mc_gross_1' => '5.00',
'num_cart_items' => '1',
'txn_type' => 'cart',
'payment_date' => '2017-05-16T16:18:16Z',
'business' => '[...]',
'receiver_id' => 'JY8CUJ6TM2SSE',
'notify_version' => 'UNVERSIONED',
'custom' => 'MnwyNQ%3D%3D',
'verify_sign' => 'AFcWxV21C7fd0v3bYYYRCpSSRl31Au6BB2RbbA7UgkNTVOzxDv8a0ZWj',
)
Same error on different UNA and Dolphin installations. May it be a server thing?
I added a product here on UNA and created a new profile. I purchased my test product and it displayed the following message: PAYMENT IS NOT COMPLETED.
Is there something wrong or is it intended this way?
Currently:
NOT a favorite: filled heart
In favorites: empty heart
Imo it would be better to have an empty heart for "not favorites" and a filled heart for favorites (switch them).
So, if you like something it will be filled. If you don't like it, it'll be empty.
Or is there a reason for the current state?
