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When using Invision Cloud, is there somewhere in the Admin I can adjust the sender field on user communications to represent my brand? Eric
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@Marc This is about the auto-complete field when you're creating a new PM. The member search when you type a name loads banned accounts: The member you see above is permanently banned. The problem is the code in applications/core/modules/front/system/ajax.php that doesn't skip banned members when loading the results: /** * Find Member * * @return void */ public function findMember() { $results = array(); $input = str_replace( array( '%', '_' ), array( '\%', '\_' ), mb_strtolower( \IPS\Request::i()->input ) ); $where = array( "name LIKE CONCAT(?, '%')" ); $binds = array( $input ); if ( \IPS\Dispatcher::i()->…
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We have a spate of one time posters posting a question, viewing the answer then disappearing and some of the team are getting annoyed by this (rightfully so) A colleague and I have been talking about this for years and I was wondering if anyone had every some a plugin / app to email topic authors to respond to answers to their posts with at least a Thanks? (typically british don't you know lol) Does anyone have a solution how to get round this? how to encourage them in an automated sense? Cheers
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Are there any scaling limits to imports on invision cloud? I have about 200k users I'd to move from my old platform. Eric
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I've enabled site promotion > social sharing in the admin but I don't see it on blog posts for users. Is it something that only works on forums? Or am I missing something? Eric
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Is there a place where I can track how much of my storage on the Invision cloud that have been used?
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I'm testing my new Cloud invision site before I migrate everyone. When I try to create a fairly long blog post using one of my test member accounts (at the member level), it gives me the following error message (see attached) and fails to create the blog post. Is it possible that there is a length limit on blog posts? I seem to be able to create blog post with the admin account no problem. Also, in the blog post editor, when I click the <> for the code box, why is it giving a member the ability to insert all sorts of code into blog posts (see second attached screenshot)? It seems like that is super dangerous?
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Have been trying a way to either remove or change the default RSS feed link, as it doesn't provide any current postings. The link I'm referring to is the /?rss=1 as in my case, it only shows articles made back in May. I created a new RSS feed to give out but, I would like to change the default one to have it include current and future articles.
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Pages Vs Articles - Having a hard time understanding what a Article is ? It almost looks like a article is a form maker ? anyone help so i can wrap my head around this ?
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I have uploaded the .htaccess to my /api folder. However the "In order to use the REST API:" message never goes away. How do I go about enabling this?
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Is there a way to block spammers registering with email addresses like "de.nis.e.go.mez.19.8070@gmail.com"? Email addresses using periods in weird places all go to the same gmail address as if those periods didn't exist but often registration systems treat them as unique. My old system did so spammers abused this. Does Invision have a way to stop it? Eric
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Is there a way to see a "feed" of all blog posts created by my users in one place? And maybe something similar for "status updates"? Eric
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I noticed that subscriptions in Invision are not actually "subscriptions" products in Stripe. Given that, how does changing the price on a subscription in the admin of the cloud Invision affect current subscribers? Also, what if I want to run a free or reduced price first month trial on a subscription where I already have clients signed up on it? I.e. if I lower the first month price on an existing subscription, what happens to current clients? And what happens if I then get rid of the free/reduced price first month? Is each subscriber basically just treated individually? Thanks, Eric
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Is there a way to get a notification email every time someone pays for a subscription? Thanks! Eric
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What input areas do "word filters" monitor in the platform? blog post content, tags, categories, direct messages, status updates, profile bio, display names? I can't find in the manual where the boundaries are. Thanks! Eric
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What is wrong with the Enable Community Hive. Every time i want to enable it, it just start ovwer agin.....I can see this is a common problem for many other communitys....
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If I want to set up subscriptions but no other types of products for my platform, how much of the rest of the "Commerce" set up do I have use? In other words, can I disable Store, Checkout, Billing and Purchase, Support and Referrals in the applications manager in the backend (I'm on the hosted solution)? Or are there some of these that are essential to keep turned on in order for Subscriptions to function properly? Eric
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Everytime I try to download my list of members I only get like 30-40 rows instead of the full list. I have checked all of the filters and it seems to just be downloading the members on the first page of the list. There has to be a way to download the whole thing in one swoop right? I have almost 2000 people in here.
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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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