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So a member required Account Deletion via the (Account Settings > Privacy and Security tab), which I accepted. However, although the user name is gone from posts he has made, an edit he made to one of these posts still shows "Edited x hours ago by..." and his name. Is this intentional? If user data are deleted, why not the edit info?
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Does the site map that is automatically generated include user/member profiles? What about tags? It seems like it doesn't but maybe I'm missing something. If the answer is no, can you please help me understand the rationale? Also, if no, are you marking all those pages "no index" or just not producing a site map for them? Thank you for all your help! Eric
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Is there a way to import blog entries for a user?
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I could not find a setting for these in ACP. I intend to allow these only for logged-in users. (saw such restrictions on other IC sites)
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I've got a massive amount of system log errors which I would assume are slowing down my site. How do I deal with them? Is there a way to delete these logs? I don't think its that serious as all the errors are the same surrounding guest or something. Or do I need to fix whatever is triggering this log entry and how do I do that when I'm not a coder.
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I would like to display a list view of upcoming events instead of just for the current month. The Help Guide shows an option for the Calendar default layout that includes 'Stream of upcoming events.' Yet in the ACP, that option is gone and instead there are radio buttons for Overview, Current Month, Current Week and Current Day. What happened to the stream of upcoming events? Was it replaced by the sidebar block 'Upcoming Events' which looks as elegant as lima beans mixed with cottage cheese?
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Where is the best place to put Google Adsense in for the auto ad feature to work? Is it the header? Do I just use it an advertiser block and it will work all over? Thanks.
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I have a members group that is free and the default when someone registers. And I have a paid "premium" members group at $9/month. If I want to move a user manually via the ACP into the paid members group so they get those benefits, will they get notifications that they need to pay? Or will they just basically be in the paid group for free forever?
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I'm about to send my monthly newsletter. Log Statistics in AdminCP/Email Settings are deactivated. Just sent a test e-mail only to me, and all links in it are click.pstmrk.it-links. Has anything changed here, are e-mails send with Postmark now and clicks analyzed? I haven't seen any announcement for this, also in the Release notes, and it is also important because of GDPR. Do you have any information about this for me? Thanks, Markus
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I've just migrated my site to Invision cloud and I have a significant number of 301s that will need to be implemented. What's the best format to submit those to support in so that it is easy for you to simple import into the backend for me? Thanks!
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No button to create a table? What about heading?
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I see this option in my ACP, and I've received some requests from users already, but honestly, I'm not sure how to direct users to do that. I searched here, with Google, asked AI, and checked documentation to no avail. Thank you! Search terms: data erasure request, delete account
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Ive tried contacting sales department about this question but i have not gotten a response from them. I figured id ask the community. I am thinking of moving to moving from cloud to self hosting due to budgeting, but before i do i wanted to make sure that api is available for the self hosting option.
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Can someone from IC look into this and help with optimizing them, please? Under Meta Tags in ACP, we find 3 entries - / /forums /forums/* Not sure if these 3 entries came with default installation or if we need all these 3. We've added a new meta tag under each of the above as under to prevent auto zooming-in of the screen on mobile devices which happens when tapping on the Language dropdown in our header - <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, height=device-height, initial-scale=1, minimum-scale=1, maximum-scale=1, user-scalable=no" /> However, this tag is getting rendered on only the homepage/forums but not bl…
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I am currently looking at building connections between two communities but do not know where to start for this project. Both are niche sub-cultures in the same hobby and look to bolster the other in focused topics primarily as a information sharing knowledge base. Essentially one site is a "Wikipedia " and supported forum whereas another is a product focused community. One site needs to have data available on the other, how can I go about automating this? Does anyone have any examples? If I want users that sign up to one community to be able to access the other, I know this is possible but given one is self-hosted and another is cloud would that make any difference …
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For notifications I enabled “follow content” after I made the first post in the club. As a test another person replied to that post but I didn’t receive any notifications. The option for follow discussions send me: a notification when new content is posted is selected. The aim is we want to test the following: If all members will be notified when a discussion is started within a club If all members will be notified when someone comments on a post or will it only be the author of the post within a club If all members will be notified when a document is uploaded within a club GMP support is enabled and there doesn't seem to be any issues …
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Hi, I received such info from PayPal. Is current IPS compatible with PayPal complete payments? if so, do I need to activate anything in IPS to run it?
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Hello , I need to create a simple pop up windows for general messages purpose on the main page of the board. It's possible on Invision boards without modify code or skin? thanks
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I have attached and embedded an .mp4 video to a post in the forum. Now I want to embed the same video to another post. I try to paste the link to the video (the link starts with https://content.invisioncic.com/u324175/monthly_2024_07/ etc...), but the video is not embedded, it just pastes the link. Is there a way to embed it? Thanks!
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Been trying to migrate from Wordpress wpForo 2.3.5 on mywiseguys.com to my Invision Community 4.7.17 with domain mywiseguys.net In short, I'm leaving the wordpress for some frontend BS work that have custom apps but anything community I want on invision community. of course it would be pretty awesome if you could register on one site and use the same username and password on both sites BUT not necessary. I do, however, need everything in wpForo moved/migrated to Invision Community to include attachments. I tried the conversion but it keeps failing with wrong upload path but I tried full path, just public_html path
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We would like to send bulk mail to all members except those that have purchased a specific product. Is this possible? I don't see this option, but maybe I am just missing it.
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I have been trying to follow your documentation https://invisioncommunity.com/4guides/getting-started/migrating-from-another-platform/running-the-conversion-r211/ it doesn't say both installations need to be on the same (localhost) but trying to do the convert (migrate) from a remote to localhost doesn't seem to work but I would like confirmation before I go through all the work of trying to move my remote host (eventguyz.net on scalahosting) over to my preferred localhost (mywiseguys.net on a2hosting). Can you convert from remote Invision Community (4.7.17) to local Invision Community (4.7.17)? Another another question I hope I can find the ans…
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I'm currently building a new website which lead me to trying out a bunch of different CMS systems including wordpress joomla drupal typo3 woltlab suite (articles) xenforo + xenaddons article management system winter cms I came to the conclusion that invision community despite originally being a forum software ironically has the best content management system. (Pages Application) Paired with the "Axen Article System in Pages Plugin" + some custom Tweaks it allows me to run multiple independent article/blog sections, each with different custom fields and blocks on my website. Something i simply cannot do with some of the other contenders. With ot…
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Having a bit of an issue that I'm pretty sure is just something that I'm missing in settings somewhere, but for the life of me can't find it. 😐 We have banned accounts in a member group with specific settings (denying access), and it is set to not allow filtering by that group. But when you start typing a username in a Private Message or a tag, the banned names are showing up. Here's an example that shows an active username followed by a banned user. How can I get any name in the banned user group to not show to the public in this way? Thanks!
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Are there any available settings for the NSFW filter Invision has now? Once you click "view anyway" on one image, it removes the filter from all images marked NSFW and it doesn't come back unless you clear your browser cache. It would be preferable to have the filter pop back on once the user refreshes or leaves the page, so they can still browse the website safely without worrying about whether or not they remembered to clear their cache or if they recently viewed a NSFW image.
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