Need the help of the Village and the Ninjas...
I have a Fluent community with Business owners. It is subscription based and we add a tradeline to their business credit score. We receive their business credit score monthly via an excel worksheet. Do anyone know of an easy (cheap) way to display this in each member's account or client portal/dashboard in community? Trying to avoid adding more expensive plugins.... Can ninja tables assist in this problem? or is Fluent Cart my answer?
Am I reading this correctly that you want to display the credit score information so it is only visible to the business logged in? Or do you want it to be visible to anyone in the community?
Thomas Oates thanks... to the Logged in Business only.
William Dickson Assuming the Excel file (would likely need to save it as a CSV file) has an identifier in each row that matches to the logged in user, you could create a shortcode using PHP that would pull the credit score from the correct row in the file.
I haven't used Ninja Tables but it may be able to do something similar.
Either way, neither a custom shortcode or Ninja Tables is going to integrate directly inside FluentCommunity. However, you could create a standard WordPress page configured to use the FC page template to house the shortcode or Ninja Table. This page could then be added to the menu in FluentCommunity.
Hopefully this info helps.
Thomas Oates that makes a lot of sense!! Thanks.. will try it soon!
Thomas Oates my brain is now thinking of ways to do this. My mind immediately went to creating a page that displays the credit score of the current logged in user/business (obviously done through code). Then embed that in the fluent lesson or wherever.
Having a function that returns the score for the logged in user is the safest way. I use Ninja Tables for things but since it's only needed for the person logged in, Ninja Tables isn't necessary since you can embed.
Page to be embedded = no header, footer or anything... only returns the credit score (maybe some inline css if you want it styled).
Wendy Shoef mmmmm that might work also...
thanks