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On our previous software there was an emoticon screen and when clicking "more", there would be a seperate little popup screen where we could click emoticons or smilies. This way it was easier to choose several emoticons to place in a post. Is there a possibility to do this with Invision too? But now it's click the emoticon, select emoticon and window closes, you have again to click the emoticon to choose another smilie/emoticon.
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Is there a way for Admins/Mods to lock a PM? How can one being as Admin leave a conversation / PM? I am unable to find such an option.
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Hello There was a problem, the security center disappeared from the admin panel How could this happen, and how to restore the tab?
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There are settings for global user notification settings (i.e. email, notifications, disabled) and I can set it so that, by default, users automatically follow content they start or comment on, but I don't see where I can globally set how often users are notified via email of replies, even though this is a setting at the user level (see screenshot). Is there some way to set the default for all users to the one selected below, rather than a notification after each new post? Thanks in advance for any help!
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Is there a way to view file attachments in ACP? Size, date, location of where its posted, etc. I'd like to be a able to find only posts that have attachments and review them.
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How I can make this forum default? Does forum has handle where I am? I mean if i am on homepage, Everywhere makes sense. If I am in category how by default i can restrict it to that category or forum? Wouldn't it make search more faster? Ex - if I am in Google search - I get all. If i am in "News" tab - i get all the News.
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We have added de-activated group on our website but somehow it always show ban message i.e. they are banned. How to show different message for de-activated group when they try to login? Thanks
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Hi, my provider just installed redis on my server. But I'm not really sure what settings are recommended. And what values are necessary. Right now I use the file system as the data storage method. I guess it should be Redis now? Caching Method: Redis? Redis server address, port number and server password? And what happens if I set wrong values, can I lose all attachments or other files? How long is the process in moving the files to the database, will it be server intensive? Thanks.
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I have just bought the "downloads" application from IPS, but how do i add it to my site? Do i need to reinstall the whole suite manually? checking for updates didn't seem to register the new purchase
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For instance, I would like to color links to our Subscriber packages in the store (We do not use the Subscriptions module, but actual Packages because of discounts for longer periods). Is there a way to add an HTML class to these links so that they can be individually colored? I know that they have a data-role:"productlink" type.
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Hello guys so i am trying to edit the link color text. But there is an issue. When i choose the change the color at my theme, the link color changes. But the link in the [hide] [/hide] section doesn't. There is somewhere else where i should make this change. But i dont know how. Any solution guys?
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Hi, I'm very new here and not very technical and will be hiring someone to help me out... but I do have one key question that maybe someone can answer? I am setting up a wordpress based membership site (most likely using AccessAlly) to sell online courses. I want to connect my course to my existing online community and create an area that is accessible to students only. I understand that can be done with Groups and Group Permissions, but how can I automatically assign a student to the correct group when they purchase the course in my wordpress based membership site? Ideally I would do this using tags in Convertkit... Thanks, Erik
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Hello. Since a short time I have an odd issue here on ips. I get a notification of a new reply so I visit the forum, click on the notifications bell and then something odd happens. 1.) the new post on top, is not bold, then a couple of other posts which I already read, are bold again. 2.) Now I read the 2 topics again so they should not be bold (new) again. Just to be sure I read the real new message also (which was not bold) 3.) I started to write this message to show something is going on and look here. Now suddenly the new message which I've read is bold (so stated as new) and the two other ones, which I already read yesterday and today again, al …
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Hi If anyone uses mass payout with IPS to pay contributors, why is it we see it twice on the PayPal side. What happens exactly? (See screen shot)
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We are used to be able to put icons and smilies in topic titles. That way users can express if they post a news topic or a humoristic topic or some idea (lamp icon) etc. But I can't find this in Invision. I kow there is an extension/mod for this but I can't imagine Invision being the only one of the most well known not having some default ones or does not have an option to put them in there some how? Or does Invision really don't have them?
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Hi all, We've come across a spat of spammers and the like. We see that all the accounts registering are using the same Device but different IPs. Is there a way to block that specific device from the Administrative Panel, or would I have to use the Cloudflare firewall? Thanks! Alex
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If I make Pages default application, all forum links changed from https://fearless-assassins.com/topic/xxxxx To https://fearless-assassins.com/forum/topic/xxxxxx How do I make Page default so it's home page and not mess up ALL topic links?
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Afternoon! Someone's just pointed out that on individual profile pages, the member group displayed in the header under the user's name is hard to see. It's fine with the color theme elsewhere, it's just the profile header. I'm sure there's something in the theme colors I can tweak to fix this, but I don't know which color field controls this bit. If someone can point me in the right direction, I'll be grateful!
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As far as I know this is not possible? Or is it? I mean, showing all posts of a specific user in a specific forum? Thanks.
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It happens in the ACP when I click the notification bell and choose the emails not sending notifications. Worst part is I have 8 notifications and cannot make it go to zero. How do I clear it out? [[Template core/admin/notifications/indexBlock is throwing an error. This theme may be out of date. Run the support tool in the AdminCP to restore the default theme.]] [[Template core/admin/notifications/indexBlock is throwing an error. This theme may be out of date. Run the support tool in the AdminCP to restore the default theme.]] [[Template core/admin/notifications/indexBlock is throwing an error. This theme may be out of date. Run the support tool in the AdminCP to res…
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Hi, We've noticed that reports work as a "Live Link" of sorts to the reported content. This means that if the user goes back and edits the post that has been reported, the edited version will update and replace that shown in the report itself. Is there any way to prevent this and have the content remain as it was at the time the report was created?
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Hi, I just have a quick question...will my forum be visible to any internet user, including non-members? Like, will it appear in results from Google or other search engines and therefore be accessible for viewing by the general public? Any answers you can provide would be much appreciated! Thanks!!
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I would like to increase font size across the whole site. I can see where i can set the Body Font on the theme, but not the size. Is there a way to do this?
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I'm trying to make a blog post feed, with posts that are selected/featured, to be listed on the front page of the site. Do you have any tips to let admin or moderators specify what blog posts get featured on the front page?
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I had several accounts sign up for my site and send thousands of PM messages across my site to all sorts of members The messages had a link to a spam site. It was the kind of link where once you click it all kinds of stuff starts popping up and the user can't click out. My members are quite upset. Any good ideas for preventing this?
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