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We have recently had to disable our pro-stats plug-in which was extremely useful for showing us new topics or new posts which had been put onto the forum so that the site team were able to deal with new questions very quickly. We run a consumer advice/law forum in the UK. After the recent 4.7.17 upgrade, the excellent pro-stats plug-in slowed down the forum so that it was very difficult to access and we heard that some people had given up trying to register. So we disabled it and now the forum works perfectly well – pretty quickly. The problem now is that we aren't easily able to spot new topics coming in. Anybody any idea how we can overcome t…
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Similar to this forum - https://invisioncommunity.com/forums/forum/505-general-questions/ Every IC forum I saw so far has user icons on the right. Any ACP setting?
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I noticed that on the admin side of the community in the members section it allows you to choose via the edit preferences what language is set for that member, either EN of FR as their default. (English or French) Can the member set this option via their account settings/profile as I didn’t see an option there.
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Hello Folks, is this a Cloud feature or Classic does this have aswell?
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We just hosted our first in-person event, in which there were 6 presentations. We would like to sell "online access" to these presentations, with options to purchase either all the presentations for whole event, or individual presentations. We do not want to send the videos or files to the individuals - just allow access to them within our community. We originally started setting up the presentations as a course, with each different presentation as a different lesson within the course. The plan was to create a product which, when purchased, adds them to a group, which group then has access to that course. But this option does not allow selling of individual present…
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This is just a general question about the 3.34 database. I was looking up a new registration we received from Spain. Many Spanish people have four names. I looked at what I thought was the right section of database, ibf_core_members and the registration wasn't there. Then I looked at ibf_members and I found the registration. What is/was the function of ibf_core_members? Think of this post as historical curiosity and not asking for help because then you would say we don't offer help for 3.3.4.
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Hello, I have been using the 30 day trial and I find it excellent, I have been using other platforms for the last few years and I find this one very clean and intuitive. I have a few questions that will determine whether or not I purchase a classic license. I have written directly to the sales email but have not received a response. Somebody could help me? My doubts are the following: 1. What exactly do I get with the Classic version? It indicates it on the pricing page but it seems like very little information to me. Do you have detailed specifications indicating limitations? 2. I understand that we are currently running version 4. If I purchase the clas…
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Hello everyone, I've been a long-time user of various forum software platforms, including Invision Community, Xenforo, and Woltlab. Over the years, I've noticed a significant difference in how these platforms handle plugin pricing, especially for smaller plugins. I wanted to open a discussion on this topic and hear your thoughts. My Experience with Plugin Pricing: Invision Community: In my experience, Invision Community (3rd Party Developers) charges for almost every small plugin. It’s not uncommon to see prices ranging from $10 to $15 for simple features, such as displaying a member’s reaction count under their avatar in a post. While I understand t…
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So, this curious thing happened: a moderator on the forum who had primary group "Moderators" and secondary group "Subsection Editors" (latter an own construct) suddenly and apparently spontaneously lost his role assignment in his profile reset to "Member" today. Here, it was the primary group that was reset. Although easy to re-assign, I wonder how such a thing could happen? The logs show no manual group assignment changes being made since months, and than it was the change to higher privilege. Its not a biggie, as it's fixed. But my question: can a primary group assignment be changed without a log of the change being saved?
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Hello, I am a beginner and after looking everywhere I do not find where to change the name of my page (linked in attached folder) Thanks in advance 😄
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Hi, I noticed that it is possible to integrate my wordpress website's login with IPS, using OAuth and adding wordpress as a "sign in with.." method. However, this will still require the users to manually click "login" and choose this option, which is confusing considering they already logged in to the wordpress website (which is on the same domain). Right now I have a custom solution and I use IPS as the "server", while my Wordpress website detects that the user is logged in to the forums and automatically logs them into wordpress. But I want to switch this around, have the users login to my wordpress website, and let IPS auto log them in. Is it possible i…
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I'm curious how I can make a forum description show on my boards so people know what the forum is about. I have attached what I mean for the Get Clients Forum but for some reason the description doesn't show anywhere:
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I can't remember.... what was the option to mass delete spammers?
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This plugin only just stopped working completely for me after the update to the latest version of invision. I am currently using version 1.0.8 though it says it was updated to '2.0.1.1 Beta' on 22/05/23 but never upgraded to that as the link is broken from the AdminCP. Any idea where I can find the latest version of this plugin and if it is still supported by the author, not sure if this is or isn't them: @Catzwolf Many thanks in advance
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Does Invision Spam Defense look up emails in the stopforumspam.com database? I regularly detect spammers who post on my forum, and when I look them up stopforumspam.com I find records for their email that predate that user's registration with that email address on on our forum. Here's a new user who successfully registered just 1 hour ago: She posted just now in a topic that is only 3 hours old. I found entries going back May 23rd on stopforumspam.com : I looked at the Defense Logs and that last user had a response "1".
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I'm currently still running Invision Community 4.7 selfhosted. If someone posts an external image (inserts an image from an external URL) i would like to automatically upload it to my server. I not only need this for the forum but also (especially) the pages application. I have seen this on other sites. (Xenforo for example) Is this possible? How? If so is there an option in the ACP or a Plugin?
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Good morning, Objective: Display the list of matches. Access the details of a match. We already have a database containing the players (Example of fields: last name, first name, date of birth, number, position on the field, etc.) We are thinking of creating a database containing information on football matches (Example of fields: date, team_a, score_a, team_b, score_b, competition, etc...) Each match must be able to include players. What do you think is the best procedure to follow to configure the databases together in order to make it possible to enter the details of a match and add several entries present in another table (here players)? …
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By mistake I've removed the attachments from a post. I was editing the post and clicked the little black cross at the top right of the attachments. I thought that because I didn't save the post after removing the attachments, that wouldn't actually remove them, but I understand now that that isn't the case, the attachments are gone. Is there a backup somewhere or are they just lost? Thanks!
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I had Adriano build a custom app for sports coaching. The app uses Commerce to collect $ from students and pays out coaches for lessons – minus my fee. The system that Adriano built works great. If the business grows I am worried about the accounting. As it is I do not see an easy way to correlate a lesson, the student payment, the money owed to the coach, and if the coach has withdrawn payment for a specific lesson. Commerce works and I know the amounts credited to each coach are correct but my OCD wants a spreadsheet showing how the money moves around. Are there any tools any solutions for additional reporting for transactions and withdrawals?
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Is there a setting to restrict moderators from managing clubs? Especially the destructive menu items under the Manage Club dropdown button like Edit Club Settings, Delete Forum, etc. I've created a restricted Moderators group but cannot find a related setting to restrict these permissions.
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OK...I know it's right in front of me but can't find it. I need to update my PHP and etc. What versions of everything are recommend.
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Morning i am after a little advice so we run a site that we want a light side and a dark side installation but with the same user database but different forums if that makes sense is this possible to do please thank you in advance for any advice given
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We are seriously considering having InVision convert our Nabble forum to InVision, but are looking for advice from those of you who have had them do a conversion for you. We've asked to talk to those who have done this but Marc Stridgen, of their sales team, suggested that we post here asking for input instead. This is a big deal for us as it will be expensive and we are a free forum, so will have to do fund raising. Given that, we want to get it right and would love to get your advice on what worked for you and what to watch out for. I'm happy to do this via email if you'd like, but would love to have your input. And if I've missed a thread on this topic in …
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Does Invision minify CSS and JS by default? It seems that HTML is not minified on my site.
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Hi mates, I am observing from the sytem log that we are experiencing attacks on single attachment URLs. As it seems someone is hammering the attachment engine/URLs with random IDs: The URLs itself look like this: https://www.mcseboard.de/index.php?app=core&module=system&controller=ajax&do=attachmentInfo&attachIDs[14365]=true Now what is bugging me is: Why are they hammering those attachment URLs and why do they do that as a guest user. Case A: As guest an error is being thrown ("Sorry, there is a problem. Something went wrong. Please try again. Error code: EX0") in the frontend - thus the system log entry. Case B: I…
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