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Hi Team, Was asking if there is a way to enable email notifications to admin when someone posts on forum. ( Just wanted to make sure that we have one place where we can check without logging into forum that someone posted so we could reply to same in case we didn't login to forum ) Also for notifications to users on forum as well e.g. there is 'Holiday Closure Read more...' on the pages in easy way.
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So recently i updated my server to Centos 7 on Cpanel/WHM. I set up my homepage with WordPress. I want to setup my IPB forums at forums.domainname.com but i dunno how to. I have never had problems with domain.com/forum but than the link duplicates forum/forum. Can someone explain how to install IPB forums in a subdomain? I will highly appreciate that
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Hi! I'm making a site that's going to have a system where members will be making articles and as such, we're going to get quite a bit of them! Is there any possible way to have the articles they've authored displayed on their profiles or have a tab in the articles page to sort by author?
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Hello, Just recently relaunched a pretty big forum on IPS after being a Xenforo user for a really long time. I purchased the Commerce module as we'd been using a third party help desk service and figured this might be a smarter way of handling support requests. Bummed that guests cant open support tickets, but do have all support emails going into the system via pop3, so that goes a long way to solving it. Anyhow, starting to explore the features of the Commerce module and had a few questions... --------------- 1. Firstly, I noticed there a "subscriptions" option. Seems self explanatory and assume its most often used for premium membership upgrades on the f…
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Hello, On my website I want to create a boardgame database so people can add it as favorite product. The website is about boardgames and I am not selling boardgames but give the users the ability to add their favorite boardgames to their list and give reviews. So with the "bought" products they have their own boardgames list that they own. I also would be happy if it is just possible to create products that cannot be sold but generate a Top 10 products or so. Thanks! Regards, Rob
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Hey, I can't seem to find too much information about the referral system, which is why I'm here hoping to find more answers. Ideally it would be great if we could possibly "trial" the Commerce application to see whether it suits our requirements. However, can the referral system still be used if there are no products being sold on the site - for example we're looking to encourage more users to sign up to our forum by getting current members to send referral links to others to encourage new sign ups; we're also looking at adding incentives for the referrer as well, but are these only available for use on products that are being sold in the shop? Or can incentives…
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Hi i have several themes on my forum and want to see how members are using each theme, is there an option in the ACP? Also if i wanted to move all members using one particular theme to another, is there a way to do this from the ACP Thank you in advance for any help
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I cannot seem to get my post attachments from Xen 2.0 to import. Could someone verify the exact url to use? I have tried several different variations with no success, everything else looks good. Also, can the importer be used more than once to import data? In regards to question 2, I eventually want to purchase the gallery app and get my media imported from my xen site. Thank you.
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I'd like to sell items to members of a private club, but initially limit the sales to two of each item per member. I am concerned with limited availability and some items are expected to sell out quickly. After a number of months I'd like to be able to remove the limits. Can I accomplish this is the IPS Commerce app? I see an option to allow each member to buy only one of each item, but how to limit to any other number. I saw the Group with Parent option, which I suppose would allow me to sell two of an item if I treat the second item as an association. However, I don't see how this would accurately keep track of the stock given the two different items required. …
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Hello, Our community has an external calendar with a lot of events. I would like to be able to automatically sync that with the Calendar in our forum. I don't see an option to do this in the Calendar settings, but I thought I might be missing something. If it is not a built-in feature, can anyone recommend a plugin/mod that does it? Thanks!
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Kind of like a WYSIWYG Editor but with HTML/CSS instead.
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Is it possible to block all emails from signing up besides the ones I select for a whitelist?
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As per title, Is it possible to zoom out a cover photo? The height being less than 200px is quite short (maybe this is just my theme) I can adjust the css for cover photos which is okay but ideally it would allow users to resize (based on zooming in and out as well as moving around) the photo.
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Is there any manual way to reset or display most user online numbers in IPB.?
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Is someone already using it and can explain to me on how to set it all up. Generally im asking for 1) Do i constantly need to run a server so someone can buy it, or can they "start/create" it with an API call? 2) Do i have to take care of something when i want to sell domains, or can i just sell them without thinking about it?
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Hello, Is it possible to schedule recurring events as follows (examples only): "every 2nd Tuesday" "every 3rd Monday" I'm not seeing an option for this in the calendaring system. Thanks!
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One of my users made me aware of this, does anyone know if this is normal (and if so, what the story is)? When copying an image on a website (i.e. using "Copy Image" instead of "Copy Image Location"), and then pasting it into CKEditor, the behaviour differs in Firefox (have tested FF/Chrome/Edge). Firefox: Upload a PNG of the image via plupload and insert it into the editor. Chrome (screenshotted)/Edge: Insert an HTML image into the editor with the original URL as src.
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Not sure what has to happen to trigger this notification. Can someone help?
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So is there any difference when setting up a IPB forums? For example, if I set them under forum.[domain].com vs [domain].com/forum ? Is there an actual difference or how does it work?
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Is there any way to bulk email everyone except people with a specific secondary group?
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Is there a way for plugin updates to be checked to see whether new releases have become available like applications?
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Hi, I have a pages database with categories. In the categories I want to show to a specific usergroup the topic titles but not the topic content if they click on the topic. Seems it doesn't works this way on pages, I have checked every single permission available. Any idea? Right now members of that usergroup can see on the front page all categories and the first topics but an empty page if they go to the category. Any help will be appreciated.
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Hello, I can't find these phrases in the language database. Is there another place where I can change the content of this page? Thanks, Markus
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Hi guys, I successfully ported my bbpress content into Invision Board using the conversion tool. However, after the whole process I'm only seeing two groups with actual users, administrators and members. Is there a way to map my WordPress User Roles during the conversion process? Thanks!
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Well, I feel like an absolute idiot, but there ya go! I have two sites, both for roleplaying, so being able to share specific post links for tagging the next person to post is pretty important. My first site has this enabled so we can grab the link and post the tag in our Discord. However, on the new site, I cannot, for the life of me, figure out how to enable it. I've tried everything, even a setting by setting comparison between the two sites and still no luck. So, pretty please, can anyone tell me how to enable the sharing of links to specific posts (see screenshots for clarifications)? Thank you so much!
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