Welcome

• About Invision Community

Client Services

• How to apply your own Domain or Sub Domain to a Cloud Community
• Getting Support
• Billing
• Client Area Overview

Getting Started

• First Login
• Setting up your menu
• Setting your default application
• Using The Block Manager
• Getting the look right
• Giving your staff access

• Community in the Cloud

• Migrating From Another Platform

  • Installing the converters
  • Before you start
  • Running the conversion

Members and Groups

• Registration Options
• Adding / Editing members
• Adding / Editing Groups
• Custom Profile Fields
• Promoting Members

• Social Sign In

  • MySQL Database
  • Connect Two Invision Communities
  • Google
  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • Microsoft
  • Twitter
  • Wordpress
  • OAuth 2.0
  • Azure Active Directory
  • Apple

Member Functions

• Account settings
• Sending/Receiving messages
• Viewing and Reusing Attachments
• Reputation and Reactions
• Profile Completion
• Profiles and Profile Settings
• Achievements & Ranks

Staff and Moderation

• Saved Actions
• Creating Administrators and Moderators
• Moderating content
• Moderator and Admin logs
• Adding a staff directory
• The Moderator CP
• Warnings & Restrictions
• Staff Messages

Security and Rules

• Spam Prevention
• Terms and Privacy
• Member Permissions
• Account Security / Two Factor Auth

Promotion

• Email Options
• Social Media Sharing
• SEO
• Social Media Promotion
• Post Before Registering
• Invites and Referrals

Monetization

• Internal Advertising
• Selling Advertisements In Commerce
• Selling Subscriptions in Commerce

Community Enhancements

• About Enhancements
• Adding 3rd Party Content
• Google Map Integration
• Facebook Pixel
• Mapbox
• Giphy
• EasyPost
• Pixabay
• Zapier
• External Analytics
• Google Analytics - GA4

How to use Invision Community

• Managing Your Community

  • Previewing post content
  • Using Clubs
  • Audits & Logs

• Content Discovery

  • Activity Streams
  • Searching your community
  • Notifications
  • Content tags and prefixes
  • RSS feeds
  • Push Notifications - Admin Side
  • Push Notifications - Device Side

• File Management

  • Introduction
  • Managing Attachments
  • Storage Configurations
  • Storage Settings

• Member Preferences and Features

  • Editing your profile
  • Managing followed content
  • Post color highlighting

Community Core

• Live Topics
• Courses & Lessons

Forums

• Basics

  • Your First Forums

• Settings

  • Categories and Forums
  • Global Forum Settings
  • Archiving (On-Premises)
  • Widget Options
  • General Posting Control
  • Forum Specific Settings

• Tips & Case Studies

Gallery

• Basics

  • Your First Gallery

• Settings

  • Categories
  • Gallery Options
  • Group Settings
  • Albums & Upload Features

• Tips & Case Studies

Downloads

• Basics

  • Your First Downloads Section

• Settings

  • Categories
  • Adding Extra Fields
  • Paid Files & Other Settings
  • Files from URLs and the file system

• Tips & Case Studies

Blog

• Basics

  • Your First Blogs

• Settings

  • Setting up and permissions
  • Types of Blogs

• Tips & Case Studies

Events

• Creating Events

• Basics

  • Your First Calendars

• Settings

  • Events from Calendar feeds
  • Calendar Settings
  • Venues

• Tips & Case Studies

Pages

• Core Concepts

  • Introduction to Pages
  • Pages
  • Blocks
  • Databases part I
  • Templates, CSS & JS
  • Databases part II
  • Other Resources
  • Custom Fields in Templates

• Basics

  • Basic Tutorial: Building a recipe section

    • Introduction
    • Creating a page
    • Creating the database
    • Adding the database to the page
    • Setting up categories
    • Adding custom fields
    • Finishing up

• Advanced Tutorial: Recreating the "Release Notes" section

  • Introduction
  • Setting up the database
  • Creating custom fields
  • Field formatting
  • Adding sample data & adjusting sorting
  • Using custom CSS & JS
  • Creating basic templates
  • Customizing our listing templates
  • Customizing our display templates
  • Making it interactive with Javascript

• Tips & Case Studies

  • (Advanced) Building dynamic blocks based on the page being viewed
  • Using Blocks Externally
  • How to create a homepage
  • Creating a robots.txt or ads.txt file
  • Case Study: Different content for different people

• Design

Commerce

• Getting The Basics

  • What is Commerce?
  • Choosing Payment Methods
  • Adjusting Payment Settings
  • Setting up Shipment Rates
  • Viewing/Editing Customer Information
  • Customer Referrals
  • Terminology
  • Understanding Recurring Payments
  • Setting up PayPal
  • Setting up Stripe

• Products & Purchases

  • Adding a Normal Product
  • Gift Cards
  • Invoicing Customers
  • Selling Advertisements
  • Client Areas
  • Coupons
  • Selling Subscriptions
  • Donations

• Providing Support

  • Introduction to Support
  • Setting up your departments
  • Setting up your email
  • Using Stock Actions
  • Adding Custom Fields
  • Severities & Statuses
  • Customer Feedback
  • Working Through Tickets

Themes and Customizations

• Getting Started with Themes

  • Introduction to themes
  • Installing a new theme
  • Setting the default theme
  • Resetting user theme choices
  • Creating a theme with the Easy Editor
  • Changing the logo, favicon and sharer image
  • Exporting a theme you have created

• Advanced Theming

  • What does a theme comprise?
  • Using the template editor
  • Using designer's mode
  • Best practices for your themes
  • Managing theme settings
  • Managing resources
  • Handling right-to-left languages
  • Upgrading themes
  • Upgrading themes to 4.4
  • Email Templates

• Languages and Localization

  • Introduction to languages
  • Installing a ready-made language pack
  • Setting the default language
  • Creating a new language pack
  • Translating using the visual language editor
  • Translating using the standard editor
  • Plural phrases
  • Replacements in phrases
  • Exporting a language pack you have created
  • Changing date formats

• Editor and Emoticons

  • Introduction to the IPS4 editor
  • Customizing editor toolbars
  • Adding editor buttons with plugins
  • Adding custom editor buttons
  • Adjusting editor settings
  • Managing emoticons

• Tips & Tricks

  • Changing FontAwesome icons per-forum
  • Making the community fluid-width
  • Styling CKEditor
  • Targeting elements on specific pages with CSS
  • Creating custom Staff Directory layouts
  • Common logic checks using HTML Logic

• Template syntax

  • Introduction to template syntax
  • if/elseif/else logic
  • Using expressions in logic
  • Loops
  • Variables
  • Using arbitrary PHP in templates
  • Template plugins

• Javascript Framework

  • Introduction to the framework

    • Overview of module types
    • Code standards
    • File structure
    • Controllers
    • UI widgets
    • Mixins

  • Using UI widgets

    • Introduction
    • ips.ui.alert
    • ips.ui.autoCheck
    • ips.ui.autoComplete
    • ips.ui.captcha
    • ips.ui.chart
    • ips.ui.dialog
    • ips.ui.flashMsg
    • ips.ui.hovercard
    • ips.ui.infinitescroll
    • ips.ui.lightbox
    • ips.ui.menu
    • ips.ui.pageAction
    • ips.ui.pagination
    • ips.ui.rating
    • ips.ui.grid
    • ips.ui.sideMenu
    • ips.ui.spoiler
    • ips.ui.stack
    • ips.ui.sticky
    • ips.ui.tooltip
    • ips.ui.truncate
    • ips.ui.selectTree
    • ips.ui.tabbar

  • Using utility modules

    • ips.utils.cookie
    • ips.utils.db
    • ips.utils.position
    • ips.utils.time
    • ips.utils.url

• CSS Framework

  • Introduction to the CSS framework
  • Layout: Columns
  • Layout: Grids
  • Data Lists
  • Forms
  • Icons
  • Dropdown Menus
  • Messages
  • Buttons
  • Typography
  • Miscellaneous
  • Badges
  • Responsiveness

• Sidebar and Widgets

Advanced Options

• Classic Installation / Server Management

  • Configuring Amazon S3
  • Install and Upgrade
  • Purchasing and adding a new IPS product
  • Moving to another server / server transfer
  • License Keys & URLs
  • Improving performance
  • How to switch to Community Classic terms

• Configuration Options

  • Using constants.php
  • IP Address Checking
  • Overriding Default Cookie Options
  • Custom error and maintenance pages
  • Changing where logs are stored
  • Using SSL (HTTPS)
  • Utilizing caching methods
  • Controlling file and folder permissions
  • Task Methods
  • Facebook and Instagram Embedding
  • SEO - Robots.txt

• IPS Connect

Other

• Deprecations