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Hey so I have been seeing these types of staff ranks in other communites and I would really liked it added to my own one. Is there a plugin for this or does it need to be custom scripted? examples: Thanks for any help! Also sorry if I posted this on the wrong part of the forum!
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I'm new to IPS and I made a rookie mistake. A red notification popped up at the top of my forum telling me an upgrade to 4.4.6 was available. I clicked on it to hide it thinking the notificaton would still be in the AdminCP. Apparently I got rid of the notification completely because I can't find it in the AdminCP. Is there a way to get it back so I can run the automatic upgrade? Thanks
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Hello, When I paste a YouTube, Vimeo etc link to the editor, it shows fine the video inline. But when I paste a local video link (.mp4), it shows nothing. Is there any setting that I must activate? Thank you Chris
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Hi so i want to create a custom hompage listing topics kind of how fluide view does. I tried just using topic feed but there is no pagination and i have to set the exact number of topics to display. Could i use pages to achieve what i want and if so how? Thank you.
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This is my first time using Invision websites. I am looking to change the domain name to one I recently bought from GoDaddy.com and wondering how do I apply it to my forum. I know this may seem simple to you but any help would be greatly appreciated :)
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In my previous site with a different software I had an addon developed about 8 years ago which was an Aviation News Reader. Using the rss feed from News sites I used the rss importer to create threads in an Aviation News forum. When each one was created it used the template: {content} [parsehtml]<hr /><iframe style="margin-right: -10px; border: 0px;" id="view" name="view" src="{link}" width="100%" height="3000px" scrolling="no" frameborder="1"> Feed from Recreational Flying </iframe><hr />[/parsehtml][url="{link}"]Continue reading...[/url] This used the feed content, which is a small snippet at the top of the post and then it created an…
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Hello, if the registration is only through the server site, how about with the group setting of the members in the client site? Both sites have differents groups.
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How can I show HTML that is added to usergroups (through groups ACP) to usernames if the group is a secondary group? I want to add a glow to subscribers, but my subscriber groups are secondary groups for a reason. How can I go about doing this?
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Is there a way to take the content from the "All Activity" feed and turn it into a block widget? I would prefer a feed that shows everything rather than the current options that force me to create a separate block for each feed, like topics, posts, etc.
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Anyone knows how we can add similar "Ask a question" popup in our IPB sites? Core or plugin or app - any ideas are welcome. Thanks in advance
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Hello, I'm having trouble finding information on how to create databases. Using the adminCP is somewhat confusing because there's no explanation of how things will display or behave without actually spending hours and hours experimenting. The feature also seems to display records like a forum, rather than like a real database with rows/columns, database-like tools (such as sort orders and filters) and search (within the database only). I'd like to use the database feature for a few different things, such a product datasheets (Name, brand, description, price, datasheet pdf, specsheet pdf, type) and services (type, model, brand, price, description, options,…
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I really dislike this working without bbcodes and having to use the editor. Now have a look at this post: Now something went wrong with one or more quote signs I made in there. Yes I just type the quote and /quote bbcodes, works faster for me. But when posting, it dus not say for example [/qoute] if I made a typo, it just quotes the complete post including my responses. So then I want to go back and fix the code. But it looks as this can't be done anymore. On my own forums I'm admin and using the source code editor to fix this. How can I do this on a forum like this as a user? Fix wrong quote codes so the post looks correct again?
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Hey, Is there a way to deselect 'see forum' in forum permissons but still allow write access? You can do this and still allow replies but not new topics. Im pretty sure I seen a mod for this...
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Hello, Just wondering if any of you have experienced this error when upgrading the suite from 4.2 to 4.4 [[Template core/admin/system/upgradeDeltaThemeConflicts is throwing an error. This theme may be out of date. Run the support tool in the AdminCP to restore the default theme.]] Ive disabled all the plugins, application and deleted the themes beside the default generated? How do I get passed this issue? Thanks in advance!
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In my old forum software that I used I had the ability for users to click a Donate button which took them to my own Shopping Cart system (CS-Cart) that was already linked to my Bank with credit card payments or direct bank transfer. When a payment was made the shopping cart system would email me. If they donated more than $50 I would then manually add them to a "First Class Member" usergroup that has extra privileges for 1 year. One week prior to the 1 year was up, the user would receive an email from my forum site saying that their First Class Membership was going to expire and they could renew it, by clicking a link to my Shopping Cart system and the process would start…
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I would like to have members fill in some profile fields (for example, one could be their website address) and then I'd like to include a list of all the info from those custom fields on a single page on my community site where I'd have a heading of "Member Websites" (and then the website address links -- with member names/links to profiles, too). I want to do it automatically so that if a member is no longer a member, their information is no longer displayed. How would I go about doing something like this? (I come from the WordPress world, and I know how to tackle things there, but I'm just not clear on how to do things here yet.) Thanks.
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Hey just abit of a noob question how do you guys create your privacy policy’s do you use a privacy policy generator or do you have tips on drawing one up? I need to create a privacy policy and guidelines any advice or template to use would be appreciated. Cheers,
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I remember a math teacher told us that in the United States they started doing the exercises before studying the lesson. And I think for me it would be more motivating, easier and profitable to learn the PHP language by trying to solve some coding exercises that will be useful immediately. Which way do you advise me to take for this? Knowing that the hard part is not knowing the language but finding the algorithm and that often these algorithms are all ready on the internet Take a simple example, I want to add a link sharing on viber. I found this: https://invisioncommunity.com/files/file/9311-whatsapp-share-service/ and this : …
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Hi Attachments Issues specifically PDFs Our forum recently converted to Invision and we do have a very large community. I have searched high and low in the community for a way to display our PDFs (front cover) as we have a few hundred spread throughout our forum and can't find a solution nor a specific plugin. At present our PDFs display a follows: Its how to get the front cover to display on our forum Next Question we have the facility to create flipbooks and feel this would be a fantastic addition to our forum but it is how to do this. The best way to describe what I am trying to achieve is I found this community link: (go…
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We are using few header advert with multiple links in one placement and wondering how to track the clicks?
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I've been experimenting with pages and databases and have a few questions. I've searched the forums and the help sections, but I couldn't really figure out what I need to do. I'm setting up a web site that will have different sections that use databases. Here's an example of what I've done so far. I created a Contacts page that holds a contacts database and has required fields for phone numbers and names. I created a Help page that holds a help database and has different required fields for URLs and downloads. Is this structured correctly? If it is, then how do I create a page that has links to both the Contacts page and Help page? …
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After upgrading to version 4.4.4. disappeared covers in the list of blogs. When you go to the blog itself - there is a cover, but not in the lists. I tried to update the cover - it did not help.
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Title says it all. Can we set things up so that new records can default to not having a trailing record number? Instead just the article title (and only a record number in case of a duplicate)?
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Is there a way to remove or hide the category title? On my friends forum they would like to use images instead of titles. This works now when the images are centered. Unfortunately he wants them left-sided but the category title is there. We could maybe choose to cover the title with the image. But we're just curious if there's also a way to hide the title. FYI I don't know any css and if anything need changing we don't want to change core files, only custom.css if really needed.
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We've been running version 4.1.x for some time now without any issues, but finally decided to bite the bullet and install the latest version because we wanted to improve our spam protection. So I used the auto update feature within the ACP, and this did a little work then prompted me to download the update and manually install it. Okay, fair enough. On arrival to my account here I see that the latest version requires a PHP/MySQL version that our server doesn't have, so I sent a service request to my host asking them to update. At this point I figured the update was on hold and thought nothing of it. But on trying to load the site it's now returning a 500 error. …
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