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Hi Everyone I have a question about Clubs Custom fields. My gaming community is divided up into "sections" Land, sea, air, space and fantasy. We have "Clubs" that play in more than one section. I have created a custom field called "Section" and used a Select Box. This I have made filterable and multi option selectable, However when using the block manager to insert a "Clubs" block into the "Section" page eg Air Home Page, the filter fails to find any clubs that have the Air selection when they also have other selections selected, The filter does find the club if only the Air section is selected only. How can I set the filter to find any club tha…
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I want to lock on of my forums with a "goodie" until my members post 5 times. But members who have met these criteria haven't been able to see the content in the forum. Could someone direct me to what setting I've missed? Thanks!
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Is there a detailed step by step instruction that would take a non-programmer through the process of setting up the Facebook/IPS sharing? It seems rather complicated (especially on the Facebook side) and some step by step would be most appreciated.
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Hello all, I've recently started up a website with invision I've been reading the Help guides which are very useful although I still found myself wondering exactly are databases & when to use databases in the pages section. The way I understand it is a database stores information, should I create a new database for each section of my website IE homepage, articles, forums, resources or just use the same one? I dont understand exactly why I need to link a database with a specific page isn't all the information already stored in a database for my entire site? Thanks for your help!
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Hi, For testing & development purposes I'ive tried to create a "sandbox" copy of our community. To do so, I've : . created a second database with a copy of the "online"/production one ; . copied all the IPS files as they were from the "online"/production one; . modified the conf_global.php to set the new sandbox web address/subdomain and of course the new - copied - database ; . modified the .htaccess to match the new domain into the RewriteCond rules. Everything seems to run well separated from the "online"/production site for a moment. But, by trying to modify the general.css (or global.css ?) currently loaded look file (through the PC …
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Please advise concerning the following in latest IPB: -reputation system like we had in early versions (maybe that was a mod) where we can react separate post with up/down rep and explanation.. there is also ability to check full list (log) of reputation change; some kind of Trader Feedback System but for regular posts; -in addition to the above - ability to limit number of rep changes per day, I believe it exists in current version; -oldstyle Thank_you mod when post authors can get thanks from users. Another option here - hides with thanks, when you need to give a thankyou before hide will be available for you. Ah?
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Hello is there a list of the content that i have scheduled to promote through the site? I need to check if i accidentally have set it to promote one blog post twice
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Are there any store /product blocks or widgets around. Surprisingly there is nothing in the default options
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Hello, I'm going to change the url of my site, and will respectively change the one in the forum. How do I change the forum url?
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My posting settings are as follows I have a user who is in the group members and the sub group conversations. He's managed to post a 29mb mov file to /applications/core/interface/file/attachment.php?id=xxxxx The member group permissions are The conversation group permissions are Am I missing another permission or setting somewhere, because this is not behaving how I would expect it to?
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If a group has the messages module permission turned off so that they cannot access conversations, will they be able to acknowledge warnings?
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What is the best method to use to achieve what I want to do? I want to display to members the adsense, unless they are a member of a secondary group.
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Hello, I need some guidance on how to optimize my forum for better site speed. I've done some tests and my site is getting low grades for the following things (in the spoiler): I've tried googling for answers but most websites only give solutions for Wordpress sites or static page websites. I can't find anything in reference to IPS forums. Are there any plugins to help? I know Xenforo has a few that optimize images but I haven't seen anything for IPS.
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As i see there's a much more emotions on this forums than in released package. So my questions is: Why they are not added to IPS by default? Who's author and where is source of this emoticons and which under which licence they available? Can i use them on my forums or there is any restrictions?
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Hello, I don't remember how to display a particular skin, for a particular category. There is something to do with the keywords in the url path, but where is it possible manage that, in the admin ? Regards
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I setup the initial site on 127.0.0.1, and for some reason I had to set the license to this local domain. Why? Why doesn't it just default work at localhost? Anyhow, I need to now transfer the license to another domain. How do I do this? How long does it take? Thanks for your time.
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Is there a way to delete all PM's in one go, rather than select all 25 in one page and click delete. You have to refresh the page to delete another page and so on. If you wish to keep one message you have to continually untick that message with each refresh. Additionally on the old board Admin had the option of deleting members PM's behind the board. This is no longer available.
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Hey guys, Just started up my new site, I'm certainly not an internet god however a little help would be great. I have a domain name purchased from go-daddy that I want to use. Currently its forwarded to my site however as you probably know when you arrive on my site it says http://ontariodebate.invisionzone.com/ want to get rid of that invisionzone. I've looked around in the admin control and came across IPS; Master IPS Connect URL Master IPS Connect Key Authentication Type Am I in the right area to set the domain name correctly.
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After a couple of years of having it, I've finally bitten the bullet and tried to use Commerce. Mission accomplished with Paypal, so I'm happy! There are a couple of things that should be obvious but I seem to have missed them, though: 1) How does a customer add a note to say something like "Please leave with number 12 if no access"? I can see that on the invoice there's the option to add a note but not when you're ordering. Or have I got it wrong and it's working as designed? 2) This is a bit late in the day but ... it doesn't seem possible to search Commerce. That's not good; I want people to be able to buy things and they may need to search to locate the…
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I'm having a little bit of an issue with breadcrumbs when it comes to pages. I have some pages in folders, and while that makes the URL all neat & tidy, it doesn't do the same with breadcrumbs. So for example, the following structure: Folder Index Page A Page B Would have the urls /folder for the index page, and /folder/page-a, /folder/page-b, which is exactly what I need, however, when it comes to breadcrumbs, they don't show the parent folder as a navigation option. The breadcrumb simply says "Home > Page A", but what I'd like to have is "Home > Folder > Page A". I tried looking this up but it must be …
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on other external websites, like ebay. With Photobucket now blocking external use of images without a pricy upgrade it's just a matter of time till someone starts using my site for a image hosting provider. What I'm looking for is if it is posted at my IPS site, the only place they can view it is on my IPS site.
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Hello there, I want to add the different kind of fonts (the fonts option which is supposed to be HERE, and I already have added them in the server HERE. So how can I active them. Help me please. Thanks
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How do I add a user as a section moderator? Thanks...
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The current default db-listing display only has provision for sorting. How do add a search-field to a custom listing template so that I can list the database based on searching a field?
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Is there a way to add new participants to a new conversation in the messenger like we used to have in 3.4?
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