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I have a few users who need to be able to send messages on our forum sooner than the 1 minute delay they have now. How do I change this setting - either on a per member basis, or on a group basis please. Thanks
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Does anyone else have such a big problem with bots and spammer accounts to where it's unbearable, even with trying to combat it? Maybe I am overlooking some things that can help, but it was so bad on one of my sites that I just turned the site offline and I am the only legit member on the site. lol. With me being the only real member, I noticed the ids for the member accounts are in the 9,000s. So that is how many spam accounts kept joining. The biggest issue lately is also the Contact Us form. On one site I got so much spam from it, I disabled it. Well now on the site that I still had it enabled on, someone sent a message with inappropriate content. I coul…
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any ideas why that might be? I already know that nobody should upload gifs that large.. but still, I don't want a 504 error if they try.
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I'm doing some research on the clubs functionality but am struggling to find any examples of any large forums using clubs. In fact it's hard to find any forums using them or having much success with them. Does anyone have any examples of them in use they could share? Thanks.
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When I get the new member registration notification email, I get a listing of multiple fields, but not all of the ones that the member fills out have the answer, I'm fairly sure that it's the custom fields. The weird thing is that the display name, email and IP have the label and value, whereas the first name, and other custom fields only have the label with no data. Thoughts? Thanks
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Is it possible to search download/files by custom field options? Ex - i would like to have option so that user can filter out download/files based on custom fields -
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I was looking here https://invisioncommunity.com/4guides/themes-and-customizations/css-framework/messages-r95/ at using the message code but i need a close button as well. How can i add a close button like the built in announcements that remembers the user closed that notice? I can see that this will create announcement bar with a close button but does not remember the user has clicked close. <div class="cAnnouncements cAnnouncementsFloat" data-controller="core.front.core.announcementBanner" style="z-index: 5050;"> <div class="cAnnouncementPageTop ipsJS_hide ipsMessage ipsMessage_information" data-announcementid="24" style="display: block;"> …
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My licence had expired, just renewed it but in my acp I get this Ive tried resubmitting my licence key but get the same error ?
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When creating a blog post, there is an field called Album. This says: But how does this work? When i click on it, it has not albums, and i can't sellect an album. Ideally, i would want a list of specific albums to show up here, depending on the blog, so that the images posted along with the post, also get posted on the gallery (or maybe visa versa). Any tips or ideas to get this working right?
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Hello, Im not sure is this right subforum, but I will try: I know this is out of scope of usual usage, but we are closer to make it work, and maybe you give some clues. Facts: Our dev (Wojtek) made a new test DB which is copy of current Opinions base. He set at xml field Model (which is related db) as title, and it... works! (it show field type: address, not a related db but its detail). So it can work for sure.... We have problem now to - find this xml (we don't see it on ftp), and upload it for non test db. Maybe you can help where is is stored? We can of course make an new db and upload this xml (there is only option for this when …
Last reply by wegorz23, -
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I'm starting a fiction site and need members to be able to post stories with chapters, and for readers to leave comments on each chapter. Two options I'm looking at are: 1) Pages - Each story is a category, chapters are pages, and readers can leave comments at the end of each page. 2) Blogs - Each story is a blog, chapters are blog entries, and readers can leave comments at the end of each entry. If I have many thousands of stories, will this create a problem? What are the reasonable amount of stories these solutions can handle? Does anyone have a better idea for how this can be implemented? Any ideas or feedback is welcomed. 🙂
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Is there a way to add members to a group from the group? Example: I create a new group and I would like to now add members to that group. That would make it much easier to populate the group with members other then editing the members one by one and adding the group there. I know this from most user management systems, but I don't see the option in IPS. Am I missing something or is this not available (yet)?
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Question: does anyone have large clubs? Like a few hundred members? If so, what happens to the members page, does it paginate or do you just scroll down and down? Thx!!
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Is it possible to put?
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The audience on my main site are of the older generation and the site is specific to recreational aviation. A couple of users have asked if the site could set up some kind of Book and DVD library where a user can post a book or DVD to another user who in turns sends it one to another user that requests it. So we have in circulation Books and DVDs around with the users on the site. I have given this some thought and can't come up with a way it could be done, I have looked in the Marketplace to see If anything could be adopted to suit and can't find anything. Now I know with software like IPS we are only limited by our imagination but in this case I am very much o…
Last reply by Daniel F, -
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Hello, I want delete all profile status updates from all forum users. How I can do it? I don't see any option in AdminCP to mass prune posts-topics or in this case, status profile messages.
Last reply by bfarber, -
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Just discovered that we can import other sites rss feed as topics and start the discussion on them, seems a very good idea to boost interaction. Wondering what are the SEO implications of copying duplicate content, sending backlinks etc.! Any tips to safely avoid them....? How to exclude certain forum (news feed) to get index? How to include some valuable discussion (occasionally) to index based on such news? Thanks in advance
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I moved to IPS from another software solution due to the ability to create many different sections on my site, a complete web site. This great power is now a problem for me in terms of a good nav structure and I am interested to hear your ideas on what I could do. Firstly I so very much believe in: Out of Sight, Out of Mind So if a user can't easily see and access something they may never know it is there plus you add that menu real estate is really a premium and is the 2nd most important component of a site behind the Home Page. My user strongly prefer the vertical navigation system on the side that exists in most apps these days so I had one created.…
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Hello, I know that there is a feature to enable paid clubs where users pay to join a club. I also know that I can set a recurring membership to upgrade a member to a specific usergroup with permissions to create a club. What I don't know is if there is a way (even with the help of a 3nd party plugin), where the user will pays a fix recuring amount any time he wants to create a new club. Thank you Chris
Last reply by ChrisTERiS, -
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Any ideas on how to make collapsible FAQ with WYSIWYG Editor? Something like this here: https://www.netflix.com/ae-en/
Last reply by Lucas James, -
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Which module has been used by IPS marketplace here at /files?
Last reply by Pete T, -
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🙄 Forgive the simplicity... What does 'Tracking' do exactly in the support system?
Last reply by Giray, -
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Is it possible to allow members to withdraw from their account credit without me needing to manually approve? At the moment I have everything set up and working so I just need to click the ✅ once they have requested to withdraw and the money gets sent from my PayPal to theirs, but it would be great if I didn’t need to do that so they could get their money instantly. Is this possible? i already changed the settings to not require approval but it still asks me to approve them
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I'm little lost here that we like to offer free trial for fix days but I am unable to set that unless we toggle renew option. How can we have 1 time subscription for X amount for X days, after which member move to previous group.......?
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Is there any way to merge these and then disable the upvotes? I don't want old upvotes to be removed from legacy posts and content.
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