Updating the Tabs and finalizing the MyWork section

Yesterday I updated the tabs for MyWorks and MyRoles since Beta 5 had a change to their structure. I have also pretty much finished the display template for MyWorks and I will now just clean some things up in the listings template before it is time to add the content properly. I have made some changes to the connections to other databases and I will add another database later for Reviews.

Changes to ipsTabs

Invison Community Beta 5 introduced a change to the structure of ipsTabs and as such all my tabs stopped working. This is of course the problem with using the standards in Invision Community that if there are changes being released, then you might need to do some refactoring. This obviously happens a lot more when a new major version like V5 is in beta, so it is not a huge deal normally. In this case it was pretty quick to update and the code improved, so I have no complaints.

For ipsTabs I have an article in the works describing how they work and how you can easily build with it in Pages templates.

MyWorks is nearing completion

MyWorks is almost done now, and I just need to change the listings a bit, so I will create a new template for that, or just add some conditional additions to the base templates. I am happy with the structure and I added back the People part from the People profile database. The database itself is hidden, and you can’t access the profiles themselves, but since even guests need permissions to see profiles in order for me to show them on the MyWorks section, I will have to make some adjustments to the People Profiles templates. I will just add a condition so only I can see the content when accessed directly, and then it should work just fine.

After some annoying experimentation I figured out how to get the getReciprocalItems to output several times in different places, which allowed me to control where different fields were output. I am still struggling to get the Forms to work the way I want, but for now that is not a priority as this is not something I will work with every day and no one else will actually see the form anyway.

Reviews are getting updated

I want to add the Reviews back again and include that on MyRoles especially. It is not a big task, but it will take some time so it will have to wait until after I come home from Dublin. I am basically just going to make a new design, and it is pending some information from the Invision Community team since I have an idea that may not be possible due to how the platform stores ratings. If what I have in mind is not possible, then I have some other ideas anyway, so it is all good.

Reviews will probably be split into two as well. One will be for Recommendations and one will be for Product Reviews when I later start working on the Apps database.

There is indeed no shortage of work to be done here, but I love it and enjoy every minute of it!