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Hello Forum, I am just in the phase to set up a new community and in the future, I also want to have paid memberships. The problem is that I am dealing mainly with business people. As we are based in Germany, Europe, we need a way to decide whether Reverse Charge is applicable (no Sales Tax added) or not (Sales Tax added). Is there an option in IP.Commerce or a plugin featuring this? Could not find something yet. Best Marian
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I would like my current user base to follow all of my forums, calendars and download categories by default, with a notification of email daily digest. I understand there is some limitation here in the current setup, but could someone advise me of a sql query that could be run to perform this on my current user base please?
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Having just purchased Commerce, I'm in the process of setting up payment methods. Of course, everyone alive today knows that PayPal is the industry standard online payment gateway, but their fees seem considerably higher than the other payment methods accepted by Commerce such as Stripe and 2Checkout. As a newcomer to this area of IPS I wanted to ask those here who have experience with different payment gateways: would it be dooming oneself not to go with PayPal, even though there are issues with Billing Agreements which (potentially) take power out of the site owner's hands? Also, I notice that 2Checkout's website says it can accept PayPal payments; are there any …
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Is there a way for the user/member to select a font for themselves (that retains) when posting, etc?
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This is the number one support ticket I get. We are a large site and this takes time. I'd like the option to have it clear their profile and personal data but keep their posts (just make their user name set to something random).
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Hello, the articles itself (Pages) and the reaction to them appear in the activity stream, but I'm missing comments which where added to these articles. I've already searched for a setting in the streams and in the pages, but couldn't find anything related. Have I overlooked something? And another question about the comments. If I activate Post Topics and Use Forum for Comments, and use search or the Similar Content widget, I get the doubled findings there (the comment and the corresponding post in a topic), which is kind of logical, but still irretating for the user. Is it possible to prevent it? Thanks in advance!
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Hi, after the update to v4.2.5 i got 2 default theme. What theme should I use on the frontend? What theme is the newest? I have Default and IPS default
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Hello, Just one question: when migrating from a vBulletin to IPB is the old database still usable by vBulletin? This is to know if I can, for a few days have both vBulletin and IPB that work in // Or is the old database vampirized by IPB during migration? Thank you
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Vodafone is closing its email service, affecting 250,000 customers. How do I best implement all my members with vodafone email addresses to reset their registration emails? Multiple domains are affected including vodafone.net.nz vodafone.co.nz ihug.co.nz wave.co.nz quik.co.nz pcconnect.co.nz paradise.net.nz clear.net.nz es.co.nz
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I am trying to find the optimal image size settings for my gallery, but it seems different image sizes are all over the place. This maybe is partiallly my fault for not researching this better, but it also seems that IPS is at fault too. OK, so we have 4 image sizes: thumbnail - 100x100 for me small - 300x300 for me medium - 1200x900 for me large - 2000x1900 for me My intention is to have the thumbnail size where, well, I need to list thumbnails and I don't care much if the picture is totally visible or not, so I fugured 100x100 is enough. I want to have small images in widgets, Pages blocks, etc. I want to have medium when the image is open in the g…
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Has anyone been successful at getting approval from Facebook for the promotion feature? I've tried submitting 'publish_pages' and 'manage_pages' options twice already and they denied it. Here's what they are saying I really have no clue what they want me to do here because I've uploaded two different screen casts. Is this the result of lazy Millennials? lol Mike
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How can I make some text display on a page being viewed on a mobile screen but not on a desk top screen?
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I have a store item that can be bought by guests. I'm sure I don't fully understand the workflow so I'm mainly curious how or why an invoice is still pending and "waiting for payment" after the payment transaction is approved? There is a linked transaction showing the payment received and approved. I'm fairly sure in the past in these situations the purchaser has an account created when the transaction completes, but the email address (and real name, and several known aliases) associated with this purchaser are not listed in members. The 'validating' filter shows nothing and I have 'require email validation' OFF for store purchases. I think I'm OK sin…
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Hello, How can i disable/turn off that automatic browser language detection. Do be honest it's a very bad idea detect browser language and then decide that person likes that on forum. 95% percent users on my forum uses ENG browsers but that does not mean they like forum on that language. Guest default language should be forced and registered users language also forced to one. If someone want's then it can change it back to english. Like it was on ip 3.4
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Is it possible to do 3 month premium subscription without renewal? I want to have a static purchase, without renewal options that will upgrade member to a certain group, but I want after 3 months to return him back to the standard group. As far as I can see the expiring options are all tied up to the renewal.
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Can anyone help me with this - bearing in mind I am not technically minded so do not understand jargon etc. Our IP board sits within our Memberpress membership site. IP board is speaking to Memberpress to pull member information. We have 2 types of members with access to our membership site. 1) people who pay to access our paid-for content 2) people who give us their email to access free resources Both types of people will have a username and password to login to the membership site, but will see different things when logged in. IP Board is only giving access to paying members based on user roles assigned in Memberpress by an SSO plugin. However. …
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I am a needy customer, I contact support all the time . I don't want to delete the Invision Support account, but I'm constantly prompted to do so in the ACP, "You have recently contacted Invision Community technical support and an AdminCP account was created for our team to use." --- What field/fields is that thing looking at to determine that one of these accounts is a Support account?
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I'm probably overlooking it, but where do we go to delete custom activity streams that were created? When I was having an issue with the site I had tested several and now I have duplicates of similar titled items but can't find where to delete those from.
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When I logged into my site, I received an inquiry from one of my members that he received an email message from my community indicating that someone has logged in from a different location into his account. The way he phrased the message indicates that the message came from the IPS licensed software that I use on my site. The thing is, I don't recall the IPS software, ever, sending these kind of warning messages. But, I'm not sure what kind of built-in safeguards that IPS4 has. The message he sent me? My guess is that this is a zip-code and it sounds like it's sent from the wifi network he's accessing. But, I'm wondering if I should send a bulk email asking everyo…
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I would like to be able to sell a 12 month membership via commerce. The membership would run from the 1st April to the 31st March each year and cost $80 If the membership is purchased prior to the 1st June it would only cost $70 No matter what point in time the membership was purchased, it should expire on the 31st March the following year, with a 30 day grace period. How do I set this up please?
Last reply by Joy Rex, -
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I'd like to create one (or maybe more?) featured blog in the community. To help drive traffic, I'd like to give it a more simplified URL than the one that is automatically generated. Think of something like www.mycommunity.com/myblog instead of www.mycommunity.com/blogs/blog/4-myblog. I can create a Page with the desired URL and add a feed of all blogs, but can I feature just one blog this way? I'm not super savvy with IPS, but it seems like all the pieces should be here.
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Hello! I'm having some trouble getting a block to work in a template. This is my first attempt, so it's probably something wrong that I'm doing. Here's my template where the block should go: Here's the block Details: And finally, here's the block content: The block I created is a Custom Block / Manual HTML. The block content was originally a chunk of the template content. I was experimenting to see if I could move it into a block with it still able to work. Nope. Instead, the block content simply isn't displayed. Any suggestions? Thanks!
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Hello! Often I'm working with two browser tabs open, each showing me a different page in the AdminCP. In this situation, IPS Community constantly asks me to re-authenticate, which is really frustrating. Is there some setting that will allow me to circumvent this? Thanks!
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In the notifications, I see you can select email notification of calendar reminder and turn off the ability for a user to be able to change this. The problem is, it appears as though the user has to select a calendar reminder for each given event. I wish to create a members calendar where all events that are created send out a notification reminder that cannot be turned off. Or failing that, send out a notification when a new event is created in a given calendar. How do I do this please? If it can be restricted to a given group, that would be better.
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I am performing a test install for a new community on a standalone forum license. My MySQL server requires SSL for connections to prevent MitM attacks. When providing MySQL Server Details, I receive the following red message error: SSL connection is required. Please specify SSL options and retry. Is there any way to enable SSL connection to MySQL? Thanks
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