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I created a user group by the name of "Advisory Board". I granted two members access to this group via the secondary group functionality. The search tool shows the group below: When I click on "Search Members" nothing shows up. How can I get a list of everyone in this secondary group?
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How do I cancel the renewal for Classic Invision ($200)?
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How do you allow users to vote on items in a pages database and sort items by the number of upvotes?
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I am the owner of a community on Invision that is at the core of our entire business. We run a network of sites and this one is our most vibrant. We have an employee who was a development admin and has been let go from our company. Unfortunately, they left on bad terms and we need to restrict their access immediately while also getting ROOT access back to us. What is the best course of action for us here? We are in a spot where I am afraid to delete the former employee's account because we don't want to lose back end access permanently. I am afraid if I merge their account with mine they might get more control. Who do I call here? I need a Ghostbuster.
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Hello, I have a forum and I'm currently on the beginner plan, is there a way to monetize my forum with google AdSense? I need to add the ads.txt file to my forum, but I can't figure out how to do it even after following the robots.txt and ads.txt guide. There is no "pages" area in the admin control panel for me to add the ads.txt file to my forum. Do I have to upgrade to another level to add it?
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Hello, Our Host will be upgrading MySQL to MariaDB in August. Can somebody confirm that MariaDB is fully compatible for the Invision Community? Can I expect any issues? Most regards, Walter
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Hello, I will be doing a domain transfer in the next few days. My question is: I can't keep the old offline until this migration. I can activate the 30-day trial on the new domain, for the configuration and customization of our forum, and then transfer my license that is active on the domain that will be deactivated. If this is not possible, I need guidance on how to proceed, because my license is very old, I pay a nice price and we would not be able to make a new subscription, even because the other domain will be deactivated. I await guidance
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Dear Invision Community Support Team, We are currently in the process of upgrading our Invision Community installation from version 4.2.1 to the latest version. Due to numerous custom modifications made to our current installation, it is essential for us to have access to the original distribution of version 4.2.1. This will enable us to accurately track and manage the changes made over time, ensuring a smooth and successful upgrade process. We have already purchased the latest version of Invision Community, and our intention is to maintain the integrity of our existing customizations while benefiting from the latest features and security enhancements. Unfo…
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Hello, I'm working on a mayor redesign and migration for my website. I think I'll start a my community again on a subdomain, is it possible that I can do a fresh install without deleting my current community forums while I'm working on this? I think I'm about 1 month from have this ready so during that time, I'll have both versions live. I'll keep my current domain name so there's no change on my current domain name. Can I do that? Thanks
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Hey Invision Community, This is probably rather unorthodox but I need to ask for a potential business partner in what they want to do a "cloud security assessment" of the site -- in this I am asked for a C4 Model of the site which I am hosting with Invision Cloud. Without going into the fine details is there any official high level documentation regarding this? They want to specifically know how information is kept secured. If necessary, I can be reached privately I am sure or start that conversation but I figured maybe other people are interested to know so here's the topic about it! A C4 Model has been explained to me as a model for visualising software arch…
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I keep having a smaller and smaller Max total size of files I can attach to my posts in this community. It's currently at 40 kB which is becoming challenging when trying to post images, especially in the Alpha testing forum. Can my attachment Max total size be increased? Thanks!
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I keep getting the cron error. My site is in the development stage. I can't shake the cron error I have been getting over the years, so I decided to go with EasyCron. Still no luck. Here is what I get. I might mention it is totally Greek to me. Latest Execution Failures Cron Job Setting (Show) Lastest Execution Failures (Up to 20 logs) Schedule Time Start Time End Time Execution Time (second) HTTP Code Status Output 202…
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For changing friendly URL’s from clubs to committees, is it just a case of updating the friendly URL and that is it, the real URL just stays the same? Or would I change both? Are there any issues with this IE breaks in the site. The plan is to change the word club in the URL to committees across the site. I am not worried about SEO as its a fully private site.
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Hi! Working through some of the settings for subscriptions, and I'm wondering if there is an auto-renew option for members? If so, will that be default? Thanks!
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I recently upgraded from 4.7.13 to 4.7.14 and soon after my server began sending me "Excessive Resource" warnings--a couple of dozen per day, which the task exceeds 600MB. I know I can change the memory level on my server to a higher warning level to stop receiving them, but before doing so I wanted to mention this, and ask what with the recent update my cause this sudden change? Some of the warnings are also about excessive time to complete the process. Has anyone else noticed this?
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Hello Everyone! I am terribly sorry for kind of double-posting, as I've asked this question in another topic (about connection to elastic.co elastic search), but I am a bit desperate, and since that topic marked as resolved, I thought that maybe a new question topic is in order. I need to define an elastic username and password as defined in this topic: But I am using the Invision PB service invisionservice.com - cloud service forum hosting. And I searched everywhere, tried everything, which I thought of, and I cannot find a way how to upload constants.php or define these settings in the cloud version - invisionservice.com I assume it may be very simple, …
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I want to create a community with a homepage that opens Invision Forums. My home page should display information about the site and links to my Invision forums. Is this possible? All the examples I have seen display a forum. My site is not ready as yet. . I'm just looking for ideas. I would like to see some sites that display my ideas. Bob home2000.com
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Hi all, I can find no information about this at Invision. As I work through contacting old members, according to when they were last active, the bounce rate - of course - slowly increases year-by-year. I am still well below 1%, but what is the point where where I will encounter problems with Invision? Similarly, at what point (trickier to estimate, I expect) am I likely to experience problems with email providers? I've been sending out email over the past couple of weeks - there are no apparent problems with domain reputation so far.
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I have to switch my Elasticsearch provider, so I decided to give elastic.co a try. I have: Endpoint User Password Private API Key Public Search Key What exactly do I have to enter in the IPB admin dashboard? username:password@endpoint didn't work – resulting in an error message: Any suggestions? Andreas
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Hello Invision Community, I'm encountering an issue with my permissions on the Marketplace, and I hope someone can help me resolve it. Despite being a paying member, I am unable to download any plugins. This situation is quite perplexing, as my subscription should grant me access to these downloads. Here are the details of my issue: Account Status: Active, with a current subscription. Issue: Unable to download plugins from the Marketplace. Expected Access: Full access to Marketplace downloads as part of my paid subscription. I've checked my account settings and everything appears to be in order. Has anyone else experienced a similar iss…
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Hi everyone I am attempting to remove members who are in particular main group and haven't been active for some period of time. The issue is that search function is giving me results where the group is secondary group which is unwanted. To clarify, say you have a members that are either: main group A secondary group B or main group - B secondary group - none Seems it is not possible to filter to find only members which have main group B and ignore secondary group in results? Doing this by hand is not an option (over 50000 members) Is there particular plugin / addon to achieve this? Running v4.7.16 here Thanks
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Background: So today I had a member say he cannot find another member, and wonders if this is due to being on that member's Ignore list. I haven't asked for the name of the member yet, but I was wondering about the Ignore function: Questions: 1) If A puts B on his ignore list, A can no longer read B's posts, but I assume B can still read A's posts? 2) Is it possible to see for a particular member whether anyone is ignoring him/her? Thanks!
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I have a problem with a user that is abusive and keeps coming back is there anyway to get more details from the ip address to stop him from re joining apart from keep deleting each account as they re joins I have tried to get email address ip but it is done via gmail so only shows gmail data centre Any help with this would be greatly appreciated
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I just purchased pages application and went to my cp admin refresh the license, it does show pages is included but I have no idea where to download it and install it, any help would be appreciated
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Hi everyone. Since physical products are being deprecated in the upcoming v5 version, I would like to know if there will be any improvements to the subscriptions feature in the Store app. In my community, we are using a custom application as a replacement for the default store application because there are some unavailable features for subscriptions that we need to support, such as: Possibility to add a description to a subscription. Different subscription durations with different prices for each. For example: 7 days -> $X, 15 days -> $Y, 30 days (and subsequent renewals) -> $Z Custom fields for each subscription ty…
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