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Its great that they consulted you John, and indeed were able to help.
It’s good to keep the Register just for the 5013 Jaguar built Cabriolets, but a the same time good to see that some of the specialist built cars are still around. The distinction enables sellers and purchasers to know what they are selling and buying – folk themselves can decided on the value of the car in front on them then on the full facts.
I’m hoping we’ll see more owners of these specialist built cars (Convertibles and Cabriolets) join the website and be active members – it will be interesting if they share similar issues with their cars as owners of Jaguar built cars do.
I am intrigued about the tilting Targa Panels – lets see if anyone knows more details of these
Laurence
Hi Robin – great clips. I’ve rotated the one that was sideways on for you.
Bleasie – if you actually click the photo in the album it opens into a full size photo – just presse The go back button on the left to return to the Gallery.
As posted elsewhere, I will be adding ability for members to add thier photos into posts, but relying on a supplier’s release date for some code they’ve changed for me.
Laurence
hi Bleasie,
I am in the process of testing the ability to add photos to Topics and Replies, so occassionally you will see some posts where I’ve added a photo.
We will have to wait a release of one of the website’s background components before I can give everyone access to this capability – sorry but that’s out of my hands.
Once it is available I will publish something in the Site News section, giving some instructions on how to do it.
Thanks in advance for your patience and understanding everyone
Laurence
Hi Helge
Problem solved – It would appear that when you created your account you filled in all the details as a Convertible 🙁
I have transferred everything across as a Cabriolet now, and so you will appear in the Cabriolet Owners list of members now 🙂
No harm done.
Laurence
Hi John,
It might help if I explained the process that has gone on in the background
1/ I transferred the membership list across from the old site to this site
2/ I deleted any Vehicle details that were obviously incorrect, such as VIN number of 123456 etc – but left the member record in place
3/ I have then sent out a number of emails to the whole membership list, the lastest one was last night entitled “Jaguar XJS Soft Tops -One week old”
4/ From the feedback I get, I then delete any accounts were folk have requested me to – because they are no longer interested in this site’s content. I preserve details of members accounts where there was a genuine Cabriolet recorded against them, but set the account itself as a non-participant. I will supply you with this detail in a maintainable format in due course (when I write that part of the website).
5/ As members decide they’d like to log in and have a look around I set up their Photo Albums ready for their use.
6/ If the member has a Cabriolet recorded against them, I put them in the Cabriolet group which gives them access to the ICR – and they appear on the ICR Members List that you see. The appear on that list in the order that they were first loaded into the website – I will look to see if I can find a way of including a date/time of when they were added to the Cabriolet Group.
- Completely New Members
A/ Once approved I write a Welcome message on the appropraite Discussion Forum.
– For Cabriolet members I write this on the ICR forum, and include thier Cabriolet’s VIN
– For Convertible and other members I write this on the General Forum (these members cannot see the ICR Forum).
Helge
To prove all rules there is always an exception, or two.Helge set up a new account, rather than continue with the account that was imported from the old ICR website. To handle this I deleted the old record (which wasn’t easily possible on the old site) and realigned the appropriate photo albums etc.
The result will be that you saw Helge one day in one position in the list (old member record) then he appears today in a different postion in the list (new member record).
Hopefully this sort of thing should happen that often once the membership has settled down.
Cheers,
Laurence
Hi Bleasie,
That’s a very good question, and one I think I have an answer for.
The website does have the capability to send out notifications, but for the moment I have it turned off.
I did have it turned on while I was working on developing the site, and inadvertently sent an email out to a few dozen members while I was doing some testing 🙁
Now the site is live, and folk are actively joining in the various discussion forums I guess it would likely be a good time to turn notifications on. When I get time I will do some testing of this facility to see what is and what isn’t possible – it would be nice if it could be configured so it didn’t send out an email every time someone posted a reply maybe – I think the members and my website hosting company wouldn’t thank me for sending out 10 emails a day to 300 – 400 folk around the world.
It might take me a week or two to sort out, so please bear with me – in the meantime I’m happy to take suggestions and feedback from our members (probably based on their experiences with other forums/websites).
Thanks for the question,
Laurence
Hi Neil,
Did you get any response to your enquiry ?
Have you tackled the job yet – I’m very interested as its a job on my to-do list that I’m unsure about how to tackle.
Laurence
Unfortunately its not cured my problem The car will start ok when its hot but seems to take longer than it should when firing but I will just manage until I think of something else to try