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I have noticed that in 4.3 I have to set up the sidebar for each application, is there a way to basically create a master sidebar and save it to everywhere?
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Hi! there ? Q01: Is it the re a way to limit access to a Support Department to a given Non Admin Group? i.e. : Members in Group A could submit tickets only to Support Dept X and Members in Group(s) B and C could submit tickets only to Support Dept Y Q02: Is it possible to setup / limit public access to the profile of either a user or all users within a group? any help would be greatly appreciated - regards ...
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When I paste a link to a video on Ted.com it gets embedded in the preview and I get the " Your link has been automatically embedded." message, but when I post it, all I get is a big blank space where the video should have been. Videos from youtube work correctly. Is it a setting somewhere? Or does it not work with ted talks videos? EDIT: I see that it's the same issue here. So maybe it just doesn't work with ted talk videos, or am I doing it wrong? Test:
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I'm currently planning the migration of a large-ish forum from vB4 to IPS. Inevitably there is going to be a hit on SEO and a drop in organic traffic. Could anyone give me some advice on how to mitigate the hit as much as possible. For example, is there a redirect script/htaccess that will redirect requests from the old vB4 topic URLs to the new IPS URLs? Obviously, I'll be requesting that Google re-crawl the site via Webmaster Tools but, beyond that is there anything else I should be doing?
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Hello All, I am a complete beginner. I just purchased the suite and would like to install it locally so I can learn. Is there a guide I can follow? I have no clue whatsoever. thank you
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I thought we had one here. no?
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Can I, as an Admin, somehow be free of seeing all of the new content from Clubs, in my activity streams? (except those where I am a member myself of course)
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Hello, after a night long conversion from 3.4.2 to 4.2.7 and solving a dozen of problems I'm stuck with translations. Problem #1: I have no idea how to enter a translated text. I see the original text in the column English and empty space in my destination language column. And that's all, clicking the emtpy space does nothing, right click doesn't work as well. How it's supposed to work??? Downloading the language data doesn't work, I get just a funny xml file with 5 lines at all. Problem #2: It's not possible to change language or displaying user dropdown menu on Firefox 59.0b5, as none of the #el anchored links works. Strange is that MS Edge work…
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Hi, Is there a list of email tags anywhere? I can't seem to find it in the guides, I assume there are more tags than just what is displayed on the email form? I want to send a welcome email which has a link for the user to edit their profile. Cheers
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Hi there, I was wondering if IPS has any feature to manage attachments. Something like Wordpress has called "Media". Some place where administrators can upload images, etc. Does this exist? Or is there any plugin for ACP to manage static files? Cheers, Ibai
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Hi Guys, How to I remove ads only from only one ou two forums. Is there any plugin, code, or any other tool that will help me solve this problem? Thanks in advance!
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I think I may have asked this before and was recommended to something that wasn't exactly what I wanted. Does anyone know how to use the subscription system to allow multiple subscriptions to different secondary groups where it won't revert all the secondary groups (just the one that they subscribed to) at the end of the time?
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I have a busy site with lots of static content that currently includes a vB forum in a sub-folder. My long-term aim is to convert the entire site over to Invision Community, using Pages for the homepage and much of the non-forum content. However, this is a massive job and needs to be phased. There is an imperative to migrate the forum first and the only sensible option seems to be to install Invision Community at mydomain/forum. My question is, how easy will it be to subsequently move Invision Community to site root when the time comes to port content to Pages and make that the primary application? Are there any considerations I should be taking into account now, before I…
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Is there a way to set the edit time for specific database entries to an unlimited value? Thanks.
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Looking to make a script that will transfer subscriptions from a system of mine to the new subscription system. Is it possible to add a subscription via some sort of php as a credit that can't be repurchased?
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Hello, I have looked all over the forums under help guides to find out how to add content to our picks? How in the world to you add content to it? or even in fact how to use it ?
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Hi, is there any way to limit the amount of text that is shown in the recent posts block/widget? We'd want to limit it to show only a couple of lines per post, as a preview. Thanks
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We have to Invision forums that we would like to merge into one. Is this possible to merge users, admins, and threads into another forum account? Thank you for the help.
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I just noticed recently that main menu (top) highlight option to show on which page you are is not working consistently in all tabs Working: https://carnity.com/ https://carnity.com/business_listing/ https://carnity.com/advice/ Not working: https://carnity.com/clubs/ https://carnity.com/classifieds/ https://carnity.com/blogs/blog/2-carnity-hub/ Is there any specific reason for this or is this a bug.....? NOT WORKING WORKING
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In one of IP pages database in listing view, im truncating the company description text to 3 lines, but in IE (edge) it shows only 2 lines whereas in chrome it shows 3 lines. Any reason for this and how to fix this browser compatibility issue? https://carnity.com/business_listing/ CHROME EDGE
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How do I add tables to the editor toolbar? I can't seem to find any plugins
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If there is a poll in a club topic is it a normal behavior that a member isn't able anymore to post in that topic after he gave his vote? Thanks.
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Is it possible to edit the report feature for users?
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Hello, iam hawing trouble to set up correct links for SEO. Iam hawing: mmo2go.com/forum/4-mu-online-private-servers/ i need: mmo2go.com/mu-online/ friendly urls have index.php? after my domain, and if adding link: https://mmo2go.com/mu-online it goes to forum directory not to the correct forum https://mmo2go.com/index.php?forum/4-mu-online-private-servers/
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Okay, so I'm no dummy. I know WP and Joomla and ecommerce. I don't understand what I'm doing on setting my articles. 1. I want to add a 'summary' custom field to show teaser text on my main articles. Okay, add a field, no problem. Figure out the template later. 2. I run a large pet care site with a big forum (1M posts) that I'm migrating over from vB and a big Photopost Gallery (20K images). Migration is done, now I'm testing. 3. I want my main menu to be, for example: Home | Pet Care | Pet Cages | Forum | Gallery | Other stuff (for example). 4. Under those main menu options are primarily ARTICLES with my new summary field (among others). The secondary…
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