Matching a gender w/ "title"

A question, please go easy on me and speak s-l-o-w-l-y, I will catch on better that way from you whiz's.

I am running D7.

I've put some test profiles up - and so far the women are being matched with women - despite it being said it's a "man."Meaning, it signs up as a female - but then is matched with another also a woman, which is supposed to be a man.

I know where the panel is to correct this, however, I do not know how to format it:

A female or male being under the category of "Lesbian, Gay, etc." - along with the straight men and women.

Thanks in advance!

Perhaps your site is trying to tell the members something.  Maybe it knows their preferences better than they do.  If so, then you've got a gold mine sittin' there.

You should just have to go into the Field Builders and adjust the matching percentages and make sure you match them up in the correct spot.

IE:  Sex to Looking for, set it at 100% and that should fix it.

I went to the block of "Looking For" and the only Possible Value(s) are set at "#!Sex" - there used to be a table there with "Female/LookinFemale," etc. Poof-swoosh, the Dolphin ate it. I'm tired of staring at it like it should change on its own. (duh-duh-duh, right?!)

Ha, Datery, I am not getting another domain with the name www.femaleisyouronlyoption.com  - LOL

Hope someone can help with this, I've been pulling my hair out - and bald is just not a good look for me.

The options I need are for gay men, straight men, straight women, gay women. Same 2 genders (well, only genders available , right, lol) - but for different categories. I can't have a straight man pulling up a gay woman or a gay woman pulling up a straight woman.

 Okay, your seeing #!Sex in the field, that is actually correct.  It's calling the Predefined Values List for sex up, which is Male & Female.

Now, you need to line it all up.  Don't try to line it up by orientation automatically.  Instead, on your join/edit pages you have a spot where they select if they are male or female and if they are looking for male or female.  Line those 2 up and set the matching percentage (look at the top of the block, you should see "Matching" up there, click on it and put 100 in the percentage field.  This will line you up so that they are only matched to people of the gender they say they are looking for.

Now, if you have those who are bi-sexual you will need to add an additional field to the Predefined Values Table for Sex, Male, Female, Both so they can select those and get lined up with them.  Of course, then you'll have the hermaphrodites all excited they have for once been included in a site's demographic groups. 

Thank you! And. . I found my Predefined List table again. The Dolphin didn't eat it. My bad. Human error. I was clicking The "change link" and not the linked "sex" next to it. I knew I saw that little booger of a table somewhere in there before. Ok, so that is settled.

So basically. .

Value is what the user sees in their selection.

LKey tells LKey2 what gender to deliver to the gender specified in LKey. (correct?)

Now I have a couple more issues I need to learn. I went into this with zero knowledge whatsoever, but am grasping fast through the forum info, tutorials and what not - the site is coming along smoothly, except for the test members I have that are all Lesbian at the moment that I need to fix, LOL. Some things are still unclear to me. . .

- General CSS. I did do a backup of mine and saved it - after researching that this is a browser/editing program ordeal. I am unclear how to make the new changes stick and how to adhere it to replace the old css that you no longer want.

- Modules/Template. I installed the given modules that were on D7. I do not know the directions on where this module folder is. My confusion is where to find the module and template folder because when I connected via FTP and hunted through each folder and then went through the Plesk panel to check, I came up empty and did not find a thing. I could not even find the Dolphin folder. I checked the admin panel. When I am reading instructions on how to do it - I am reading it through inexperienced eyes, written for the experienced. I need that Dolphin for Dummies Book. . .

Changing your CSS Files properly.  Do the following:

1.  Get the Firefox Browser and install it on your computer.

2.  Get the Firefox Browser Add-On "Firebug" and install it on your computer.

3.  Get WinSCP FTP Program.  Some go for Filezilla, I prefer WinSCP as it's so easy to use.  Set it to use the Explorer set-up.  It is rather cool. 

4.  Get the program Notepad++ and install it on your computer.  Next go into WinSCP and tell it to use Notepad++ as the default text editor.  It's a really sweet program, your going to love it.

Keep in mind, all of these are free and can be obtained from Sourceforge.  With that in mind, I really do recommend that you get them all, if you have the means that is.

Now, to change the CSS we first have to find out what we want to change. 

5.  So, log into your server's dolphin files via WinSCP and just let it rest there.  If you have a problem logging in via FTP let me know, I'll let you know some setting tricks you have to do to get it to go sometimes.  It's an issue with some hosts that are a little uptight and some that have no clue what security is. 

6.  Open Firefox and go to your site.  Find the page you want the changes on.  The background of the main site is a great place to start. 

7.  With IE or Safari or Chrome or whatever, login to your sites Admin panel and turn off all Caching.  Once the Caches are turned off, clear them out and then refresh your firefox browser. 

8.  Go to the firefox browser, see the bug in the lower right hand corner?  Go ahead and click it.

9.  Now, take your mouse and click on the item you want to change.  In this tutorial, you want to just right click anywhere in the background.  A box will open and select "Inspect"

10.  Look at your screen, at the bottom it's split in 2.  Your looking at the right hand side of the split.  There is a heirarchy there.  The files/lines at the top are the most powerful and the ones at the bottom are the weakest.  Go ahead, look for background-color:#xxxxxx; and change it to what you want.  You can use the color word or the html 6 character color code here.  Your site will change automatically to what your doing.

11.  When you get the color to what you want it to be, please hover your mouse over the filename/line # and it will show the full file path.  Write it down somewhere along with the line #.

12.  Go into WinSCP and find that file.  Double click it to open and it should open in WinSCP with all the lines numbered.

13.  Go ahead, make your changes.

14.  Save the file.

15.  Refresh your firefox browser and enjoy the changes.

***Note:  Make sure the caches are cleared and turned off while editing CSS Files.  Do NOT close your Notepad++ file up until you are completely happy with the changes.  You can have a couple hundred files open in Notepad++ and it will neatly arrange them by tabs across the top. 

Enjoy and make that site rock girl!

One last note:  Dolphin never eats Pre-Defined Values Lists.  It prefers to gobble up improperly translated language files, they're like a delicacy to Dolphin.  Yum!

Thanks, Mydatery, that helped a bunch.

One final question about the table. In the predefined table when matching man, woman, lesbian, gay, etc, when it's on the column of say "man" [who is looking for a woman], and where it says, "LookinFemale" in the 3rd column - do you eliminate that - or just fill out the first two columns? If it is gay seeking gay, should it say "LookinGay"? Or - will the system automatically just pull up from the first two columns and match by that selection the person made?

How should it look running across the table in the columns for man, woman, gay, lesbian?

Mine is still pulling females to straight females looking for a man in search and on matchmaking.

can someone fix my matchmaking?,,,