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Hi I use downloads already to sell video files. Recently there has been some requests to start selling written stories. (small books). While I could simply create a category for it and allow these books to be sold in the downloads marketplace I am worried it will confuse people. The name of my market place is literally called "video store" which would confuse folks who see a book being sold there. I really don't want books showing up in the "Whats new list". What are my options? Can I start a second iteration of downloads app and have a second store called "book store"? I don't think it allows for this does it? Thank you in advance…
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I've seen these widgets on some IPS sites. They could be outdated or retired add-ons, I'm not sure. I haven't been able to find these in the Marketplace. Can someone please point me in the right direction? I'm looking for two sidebar widgets: Members stats - I've seen a single widget that can display the following: Top posters today Newest members Top posters by group Top posters Top Best Answers Top reputation Most visited Popular tags - Displays the most used tags I hope these are readily available or easy tweaks that I overlooked.
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I thought I was pretty good at Pages but it seems not, since a fairly basic task is confusing me. My articles database is set to show as articles rather than as categories. It's sorted by publishing date with the newest items coming first: It's displaying exactly as I would hope. (I'm sorry that it's not in English but the dates are easy to recognise.) But I've just noticed when viewing a category that it's the older articles coming first: I double-checked using the default listing template set and got the same result: What haven't I understood? I can't see any other options for choosing the sort order.
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Sometimes our moderators want other moderators to share their opinions. I know there is a status of 'Under Review' but we prefer use that to show a moderator is dealing with it. What we need is also a 'Input Needed' status - so it will encourage other moderators to share their opinions. We've already made improvements to the report center, so you can see the status of each report without having to open it (a simple improvement, maybe a suggestion for IPS?) but cannot work out a way to add another status?
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Hello, I can conect free Domain?! Who can help my about that?! I´m new here LOL xD
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Nick bought the "commerce" addon for the forums which mainly used for subscribtions. Now we need to add already existing premium members but we're running into an issue. If we just add them manually, they will not get an renewal invoice automatically when the subscribtion ends. To achieve this, we have to add the users by creating an invoice for them. No problem since we can set the invoice to "paid". If done this way, and the subscribtion is for one year, we can't adjust the expiration date during the invoice creation so the experiation date is automatically set to 1 year after today, which is in fact correct for new invoices. So I go to the user account…
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Stupid question, I know but how on earth can somebody leave a conversation, is there any link anywhere or does this happens when the personal message is deleted? Thanks.
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How do I go about disabling GIF Uploads to my gallery from members on my forums? I'm guessing it'll have to be a file modification which is absolutely fine with me. I once saw this question asked somewhere on the forums but no one answered it and some were even asking "Why would you want to?" I can't find the topic anymore, so I have no idea if this was even answered. I'm only looking for an answer. Thanks in advance.
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My friend has some paying members on his forum, who pay for extra's for a certain time. It was known to him this was not a default thing in Invision. He does not per sé needs to implement some payment gateway, but he needs to be able to set users who paid with a starting date and an end date. And if possible at the end date they automatically return to a certain other usergroup. Which mod/plugin can best be used for this?
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I am working on a forum that also wants to have video lessons but i was wondering what the limit was for the amount i could post. We have the 8gb cloud plan but i didn't know if that covered everything or just specific parts.
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Hello: Is there a way to hide or remove the leaderboard link that appears on the main menu? If so, how?
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Hi, Is there a way to set private messages so that they can only be sent to and from site moderators and administrators from members? I can see where to stop all messaging, and where to override message quotas but not the ability to restrict who a member can send to -- thanks
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Hello. My friends forum has 8 admins. We can set the option for the admingroup "Can access site when it is offline?" to disabled. In this case, all 8 adminis, including the root admin, can not access the site anymore. We can only view the offline message. And visit the AdminCP. Is it possible somehow to have 2 admins (root admin and 1 other) to be able to access the forum when it's offline? Then another question. I converted the forums for a friend of mine, and put in my e-mail address when setting up the fresh forum before converting. Now my admin account from the old forum is converted to the Administrator account on the new forum (Invisio…
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Hello. I have looked into the options, but it seems it's not present or it's not clear to me. I would like to have it so, that if somebody reply's to my thread, I get an e-mail notification instantly. So not a daily or weekly notification but instant e-mail notification. Now maybe it's set up on Invision over here, that this choice is not available, but we do want to have it that way on the converted forum. Is this adjustable in the Admincp or am I just missing something somewhere? When I click the little "following box" on the right uppper corner, just below the upper option it says: But I did have choose this. So I'm very confused no…
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My members are requesting that I find a way to make location a profile field that displays under their profile in the forums. IS there a way to do this?
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I know that users can indicate that they wish to follow individual nodes. You want to find out when a new article in the cars category is posted? No problem; click follow on that category. I've just produced a new site for someone and the granular approach of "the user indicates what they want to follow and how they wish to receive these notifications" isn't going down very well. What they want is for people simply to be able to receive new articles to their inboxes. (In fact, they were talking about typing in an email address to subscribe for new articles.) It's a bit more complicated on this site because there are three articles databases. I have no way of ex…
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Hi, I have ignore turned off for our forum; however when going to account settings here it still shows as an option under "Other settings" and takes me to a page siteaddress/ignore where i can enter a members name before being told i can't put them on ignore. Is there a way to hide or remove this setting? Thanks
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Who can see anonymously logged in users in the online users list? I know regular members can't see anonymously logged in users. On the other hand, as Root admin, I can see any of my users who are logged in anonymously. Who else can? For example, if I log in anonymously, can my moderators see me in the online users list? I can't find a setting or explanation for this anywhere in the ACP. (As for the settings I have enabled, all user groups except Guests can see my online user list, but only I see IP the addresses.)
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Hi, I have this setting turned off for one of my forum areas so that members can communicate privately with staff - I've just tested this on a member account and could only see my own post in there and then as an administrator i could read the member post; however when I logged in on a moderator account the member posted didn't show. Any ideas of what would be stopping this? on the setting itself it says " Users can see topics posted by other users? Moderators can (where they have permission) see all topics. You can use this setting to create a forum where users can communicate privately with staff. Where can I change it so moderators have this permission? …
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Hi, i installed a new forum and a website based on wordpress. Now i m trying to connect both. I want to use the forum as the OAuth Server and the Wordpress site as client. I used the offical guide and completed all of the nessesary task (i hope i did ;D). Well it seems that i missed something. When i want to login into the Wordpress site or test the OAuth connection following error shows up.
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One forum I have the mods and admins are requesting email notification for replies to reported posts. Is there a setting I am overlooking? an Add-on? or not available? Thanks
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So woke up this morning and had an idea that was sooo good that I wondered why I didn't think of it sooner. Need help to implement it. So I understand using Pages/Database where I create it and then users can leave reviews or make comments... BUT here is what I want to do, not sure if possible either with Pages or if there is another add on that already does this? Need a database for all of the towns in a certain area... not a problem to populate base. Need this database to come up with average numbers based on user inputs, ie how many days it took. So, in a review or somehow else, the users would input their data and the database would automatically upda…
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I am trying to put together some reports on our forum usage. I couldn't seem to find a way to download reports though. Is this possible? It would be really helpful. Thanks, jennifer
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Hi folks, I'm setting up Commerce Donations after setting up Stripe and PayPal, haven't added Subscriptions yet and I'm wondering which Commerce App module permissions guests should have access to in order to be able to donate as a guest. The Help guidance page doesn't cover permissions. Some of the app permissions seem to add an empty drop down to the menu when enabled for guests to access, with an option called My Details, which probably isn't right for guests and bots to see. Many thanks
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New Developer Alert #facebook for developers | App Review required by August 2, 2018 to retain existing permissions and features I received the folloowing email from the Facebook <noreply@developers.facebook.com> today and Senator, what to do now? And here is what i have in the App Review section, Senator.
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