Testimonial Manager Support Thread

[bonheddwr]

Thank you very much for this, it works great.

One thing. I already have a page containg many testimonials that have been emailed to uour company over the years. I don't want to lose these, so I have been adding these to Testimonial Manager through 'Admin>Tools>Testimonials Manager'.

The only thing, there is no way of changing the date for these entries to correspond with the correct dates that they were sent to us.

I have changed the options in 'Admin>Configuration>Testimonials Manager' so that the date doesn't show any more, but I'd really like it if I could change the setting back to show the dates, but before doing this I will need to edit the entries that I have submitted to include the correct dates.

I would appreciate any advice.

[clydejones]

Thank you very much for this, it works great.

One thing. I already have a page containg many testimonials that have been emailed to uour company over the years. I don't want to lose these, so I have been adding these to Testimonial Manager through 'Admin>Tools>Testimonials Manager'.

The only thing, there is no way of changing the date for these entries to correspond with the correct dates that they were sent to us.

I have changed the options in 'Admin>Configuration>Testimonials Manager' so that the date doesn't show any more, but I'd really like it if I could change the setting back to show the dates, but before doing this I will need to edit the entries that I have submitted to include the correct dates.

I would appreciate any advice.

A couple of things come to mind.

First would be to use phpmyadmin and edit the individual entries in the testimonials table with the original dates of submission.

Second would be to write a specialized sql script for these testimonials (using the original date of submission) and then run that script . (this would be the equivalent of running a "bulk" upload of the testimonials.) Depending on the number of testimonials you have, this would probably be the eaisest way to go.

[bonheddwr]

Thank you very much for this. Is there a way of including a field to edit the date in 'Admin>Tools>Testimonials Manager' where it is possible to change details such as Author's Name, Email, City, Testimonial Title, Testimonial, Image etc?

[clydejones]

Thank you very much for this. Is there a way of including a field to edit the date in 'Admin>Tools>Testimonials Manager' where it is possible to change details such as Author's Name, Email, City, Testimonial Title, Testimonial, Image etc?

I'm looking into that right now.

It will require some recoding of that particular section and may take a while to complete.

If you'd like some help on doing the "bulk" sql statement, you can always PM me. I'd be glad to help.

[daneh]

Hi Clyde,
I tried to search and read ALL the posts in this thread, but I fell asleep at the comp and bashed my head on the keyboard on the way down, so I figured I would just ask instead....

In the admin/configuration/testimonials manager, when I try to increase the number of testimonials that show up in the sidebox to anything above 5, the sidebox "loses" its left and right borders. Well, not all of it's borders, but the upper part disappears.

I have quite a bit of text on my main page, and want the testimonials to flow down the page to eliminate the "dead space" on the right.

Is it a CSS thing, or an image thing?

The site is http://mistkits.com , but I have set the # to display back to 5 so it doesn't look too funky to the customers.

You make some awesome mods and are very graciuos helping everyone. Thanks.

[clydejones]

Hi Clyde,
I tried to search and read ALL the posts in this thread, but I fell asleep at the comp and bashed my head on the keyboard on the way down, so I figured I would just ask instead....

In the admin/configuration/testimonials manager, when I try to increase the number of testimonials that show up in the sidebox to anything above 5, the sidebox "loses" its left and right borders. Well, not all of it's borders, but the upper part disappears.

I have quite a bit of text on my main page, and want the testimonials to flow down the page to eliminate the "dead space" on the right.

Is it a CSS thing, or an image thing?

The site is http://mistkits.com , but I have set the # to display back to 5 so it doesn't look too funky to the customers.

You make some awesome mods and are very graciuos helping everyone. Thanks.

I'll be guessing here, but from the way you are describing what is happening, I'd have to say that the content of the sidebox is breaking the height of the sideboxContent graphic.

in other words - the graphic has a height of 750px and if your content exceeds that height then you would get what you describe.

The solution would be to edit the graphic for the sideboxContent and increase the height to 1200px or so.

[daneh]

That was pretty much as I thought. I wasn't sure though.
Thanks for the reply.