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Very Poor Support

By:  John Cook in: Community Forum

voices: 3
replies: 4

3 years ago  John Cook

Membership Levels & Content by ccaps

By:  John Cook in: Community Forum

voices: 2
replies: 17

3 years ago  cassel

Redirect to separate pages on Log in

By:  John Cook in: Community Forum

voices: 2
replies: 1

3 years ago  cassel

Amazon S3 will not Download .wmv files

By:  John Cook in: Community Forum

voices: 1
replies: 0

3 years, 1 month ago  John Cook

Time/Date Specific Conditionals

By:  John Cook in: Community Forum

voices: 3
replies: 6

3 years, 1 month ago  John Cook

Additional Products WITHIN a Membership Level

By:  John Cook in: Community Forum

voices: 2
replies: 1

3 years, 3 months ago  Zechariah Stover

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Posted: Monday Jan 6th, 2014 at 4:25 pm #62470
John Cook
Username: wisehippo

3 Days is a long time when you have Clients breathing down your neck. I’d be happy to pay for premium support if I could get help immediately!

I’ve set up a Membership site and S2M has been ‘ok’ for me overall. It is very intricate and nowhere near as user friendly as I expected.

What am I trying to do?

  • 1. http://www.s2member.com/forums/topic/membership-levels-content-by-ccaps/
    Even S2M Support have got back to me and said that they are having the same issue when they try what I am doing their end! Still not resolve though.
  • 2.http://www.s2member.com/forums/topic/redirect-to-separate-pages-on-log-in/
    This seem like a no-brainer. How do I use the standard ‘welcome’ to have Membership Levels/ccaps pages with different menus, sidebar layouts and adverts etc. A simple’ re-direct to this page on log in’ option feels to me…very much a non-techie…like the obvious, sensible solution! I have currently got a welcome page split using conditionals for three membership levels but have run into issue now as I need to split one of the levels using ccaps. See 1 above.

I am interested to hear your feedback and thanks for taking the time to reply Gary


John

Posted: Sunday Jan 5th, 2014 at 5:30 pm #62461
John Cook
Username: wisehippo

They are not bad people but I feel that they do not really appreciate that their software is not that easy to use for a non coder/techie Their documentation and video tutorials are good but that doesn’t mean that everyone can use it.

All I really wanted this weekend is some support on an issue – that was one reason for going PRO. They have agreed that there IS a problem (S2 is not doing what is should even at their end) but have offered me no resolution or more help than that.

If /when you find an alternative Membership solution I would be interested to know. I am looking at WPMUdev’s Membership – not as big a package ($19) but it might work for me. I have bought it am trialling it now…not because I want to, hell I’ve got s2M set up an running an everything and could well do without having to learn another system, but because of the bad support I need to find a resolution…Clients are not interested in my problems they just want the job done. I have probably wasted about £1000 in time over the last three or four days…I can’t afford that!

Let me know what you find Jim

All the best

Posted: Friday Jan 3rd, 2014 at 1:38 pm #62403
John Cook
Username: wisehippo

I have

Level 0 – Free Subscriber
Level 1 – Client
Level 2 – Instructor ( which I have ccap trainee as a second Level 2 option)
Level 3 – Not Used
Level 4 – Administrator

S3 lead you to believe that its really easy and straightforward to use ccaps for multiple membership levels within a Level.

My scenario does fit into what they ‘say’ it can do but I agree with you my code looks correct but its not working but maybe my frst post when I said “…It’s clear to me that I am doing something wrong here as this cannot be as difficult as I am making it….’ Is correct! Somewhere I Am doing SOMETHING WRONG…it can’t be this hard!

If you can access level two AND cannot access trainee show this content
If you can access level two AND can access ‘trainee’ show this content

Support? Don’t you think you should chip in here…..Cassel here has been working his butt off all day trying to help me! Jason? Anyone? Please!


J

Posted: Friday Jan 3rd, 2014 at 1:08 pm #62401
John Cook
Username: wisehippo

Account Name: Instructor – set as Instructor and has no ‘trainee’ in the ccap field
Account Name: Trainee – set as Instructor and has only ‘trainee’ in the ccap field

BOTH are approved users

What do I do now? SUPPORT are you seeing this? Please HELP….(I’ve had no reply from the direct email I sent to them earlier!)

I am hurting bad!!! Been on this ‘one thing’ ALL DAY…it’s like putting £20 notes down the drain one by one by one! S3 Member may not be financially viable for much longer in truth.


J

Posted: Friday Jan 3rd, 2014 at 12:42 pm #62399
John Cook
Username: wisehippo

I do sincerely appreciate your time here Cassel..but that does not work either (I hope you are seeing that S3 is actually not that easy) and also…we should not have to ‘work around’ these issues – there should be a way for us to do it and easy documentation to boot. This feels like ‘standard’ stuff to me and its the wonderful community spirit in the forums that is actually papering over these issues. I hope they are looking at this post.

Anyway…

This Code:

[s2If current_user_is(s2member_level2) AND !current_user_can(access_s2member_ccap_trainee)]
Instructors' Area
Content A + B 
[/s2If]

[s2If current_user_is(s2member_level2) AND current_user_can(access_s2member_ccap_trainee)]
Trainee Instructors' Area
Content B
[/s2If]

Gives
Instructor displays A + B
Trainee displays A + B + B again

Posted: Friday Jan 3rd, 2014 at 11:46 am #62396
John Cook
Username: wisehippo

Trainee – Sees Content A & B (should ONLY be B)

Instructor – Just sees Content A (should be A AND B)

Posted: Friday Jan 3rd, 2014 at 11:38 am #62394
John Cook
Username: wisehippo

It’s actually the other way round.

Content A AND B is displayed for those Level2s that DO NOT have “trainee” ccap

Content B = is the ONLY thing that is displayed for Level2s that DO have ccaps “trainee”

I’ve tried this with out luck:

[s2If current_user_is(s2member_level2)]Instructors' Area
Instructors' Area
Content A

[/s2If]

[s2If current_user_is(s2member_level2) AND current_user_can(access_s2member_ccap_trainee)]
Trainee Instructor
Content B

[/s2If]

:-)

Posted: Friday Jan 3rd, 2014 at 11:10 am #62390
John Cook
Username: wisehippo

I have separate ‘test’ accounts for Instructor and Trainee.

The Instructor User Account settings has nothing in the ccaps field and the Trainee has trainee in the ccaps field.

As a way around this I have just posted another forum request on ‘Redirection’ here:

http://www.s2member.com/forums/topic/redirect-to-separate-pages-on-log-in/

This may be a better path!

It’s not easy this S3 lark is it?

Your help is much appreciated


John

Posted: Friday Jan 3rd, 2014 at 10:56 am #62387
John Cook
Username: wisehippo

No, that just shows the same Content (A & B) for BOTH Instructor and Trainee Log ins.

:-(

Posted: Friday Jan 3rd, 2014 at 10:44 am #62384
John Cook
Username: wisehippo

Thanks for your reply Cassel…

I’ve still been trawling through the forums to get this sorted, around 6 hours now but have found nothing!

I am using separate logins to test this. It works for other Membership levels, it just this ccap (trainee) for level 2 (Instructors) that has the issue.


When I log in as an Instructor I ONLY get Content A – when all I want Content A & B

When I log in as a Trainee I get Content A & B – when all I only want B


Do you know an easy way to redirect to a specific (separate) page on log in?
This would solve all my problems and be the best solution…the holy grail for me. Again searching the forums and KB has drawn a blank for an easy method of doing this

Thanks


John

  • This reply was modified 3 years ago by  John Cook.
Posted: Monday Nov 18th, 2013 at 6:04 am #61197
John Cook
Username: wisehippo

‘Shortcode Exe PHP’ does do this ‘short coding’ mentioned above but I need to get someone who can show me HOW to write the PHP to allow this to happen. These FOUR timed states!! HELP!

Posted: Thursday Nov 14th, 2013 at 4:08 am #61122
John Cook
Username: wisehippo

Thank for that Cassel, I tried for few hours yesterday but just couldn’t get it to work though – I am not sure why. I am interested to know what you use to put your PHP code into a page/post.

The follwoing DOPES work…I add this code to a the ‘Shortcode Exe PHP’ Plugin and then add the plugins’ short code to the page/post but I am desperate to know how to add S2 Conditionals to the Can Access and Can’t Access areas int he code below. ‘Shortcode Exe PHP’ does NOT require the

<?php  ?>

Using the code below:
If it is BEFORE 10am on 13/11/20013 the Can Access is displayed
If it is AFTER 10am on 13/11/20013 then Can’t Access is displayed

date_default_timezone_set('Europe/London');
$event3 = date('13-11-2013 10:00');
echo date('d-m-Y H:i', time()) > $event3 ? 'Can access' : 'Can\'t Access';

Please help…URGENTLY….S2 Support can you???

With thanks


John

Posted: Saturday Jun 22nd, 2013 at 8:31 am #52378
John Cook
Username: wisehippo

Hi Marco

I’ve tried to email you about this plugin but I’ve not head back from you. Are you still a round? Using S3 and this plugin you’ve developed?

Please let me know

Many thanks

John

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