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We've been using the Bulk Mail tool successfully for site announcements. Previously, we had a newsletter list running through Mail Chimp and want to go to using the IPS Bulk Mail feature only. I've imported the e-mail list into a separate user group that we can select when sending a Bulk Mail -- but I notice there is a widget option for Newsletter opt-in. Is there a way in the Invision platform to offer users the option of opting into a newsletter (or opting out)?
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Wondering if there is any way we can search or filter "most viewed" pages in the entire community forum? Like these
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When I copy/paste text from a page into a post/comment and another user reads using a different theme, the background color of the pasted text is displayed in the origin theme's background color. I know there is an option to Paste in Plain Text but users may not use it because the pasted text in the editor displays with the same background as the current theme and hence not noticeable. Eg: Dark theme - copy text from a page and paste into the editor and post. Other users using a light/default theme see the pasted text with dark background. How do I workaround this issue? Here is the text I pasted that I copied from the dark theme into this editor here that …
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At some point i will have someone to have access to AdminCP to work on the design of the website. Id like to know how can i limit the access to just take care of website design instead of giving them the full access to the panel?
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So I’m trying to figure out the best way to list a bunch of items that allows members to rate and review. I saw the Pages has this capability but wasn’t able to figure out the best way to do so. Would an alternative option be to create a forum, create the item name as a topic, and allow the posts to be reviews? Is there a rating option? is there a way in pages or somewhere else to have the reviews be set up more like an Amazon, this user 5 star, here’s the comment?
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Is it possible to make Pages' article reviews anonymous? How about comments as well?
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Hello. We're looking into re-opening our forums to new users and want to make sure the email is working. Questions: 1) If we use PHP as the delivery method, I assume that means it will send from an address like forums@ourdomain.com. How do we configure this? I don't see where we would enter the credentials on the forums. 2) Is there a better way to send emails? I see the option for SendGrid but not sure what that is.
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Is there anyway to remove the dates from forum posts? See attached screenshot of what I want to remove. Or maybe there is a addon to remove this date? It's just so in your face and some forums are older yet still lots of valuable info in them yet people see the date and think its old info.
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This is silly, but I can't seem to find where the option is to import a CSV member list in AdminCP. I've tried searching the Help Guides, and nothing is coming up. I know I'm just missing it, because I've done it before. 🙂
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One of my forum users wants his posts from before a specific year deleted. From what I can tell they would have to be done manually, but there are thousands. I could delete all of his posts but he would prefer to keep the more recent ones. Is there any way to just delete posts from prior to, say, 2010? I'm thinking perhaps there's a plug in might do it? Any ideas?
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When in gallery images I click show EXIF information, the geolocation is not included in the list. Is there any reason not to include it? Thanks in advance.
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When creating a forum, I can make it as Discussion or Questions. Is there a way a single forum can have both? Otherwise, do I need to create a second forum for any topic I want to provide experts on?
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Hi, I'm trying to use my forum as an oauth2 server, the problem is the other application (the oauth2 client) is making request with the OpenID standard, it is possible for invision to support the OpenID standard? I can only configure a generic oauth2 server... Am I missing the option somewhere? Thank you
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Hi - Back to testing 4.7.12 on the devsite and I am playing with creating events in Calendar. I have tried a number of different sizes for the cover photo shown here but nothing seems to properly fit. I even used Meaure It to calculate the height of the area, 200 px, and then resize and image to those dimensions but it still doesn't work. What have others done to properly fit an image without losing most of it in the drag to where you want it mode? Thanks for any thoughts! Brian
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Does it show to all users, if so is there a way to disable that? Kind of annoying to have to go to that step to visit a website. Also means google bots etc can't crawl my website anymore and will affecting page rankings?
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My site data has now grown. I have two options. Move to a bigger hosting plan or offload to Amazon S3. If I offload all files, data, and images to Amazon s3. Will it affect my Google Image links? Will links for photos in Google and other search engine still work? Or will my site need to be re-indexed by Google? Is there any negative side effects from doing this? Will all the local data automatically be deleted after moving to Amazon s3?
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Good day! First a little background - I work for a small software company. We just launched a user group with all of our users and set up a community site for the group. We also launched a monthly webinar training series. I know that our site allows for live topics and I'm very interested in that. Also please note that I have basically no knowledge in live streaming and the regular meeting series with lots of people is still very new for us. Now for my question - We currently use Google Meet for our monthly webinars and this is working well. We thought about setting up the live topic but we realized that the Google plan we have does not allow us to do live streami…
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I have two subscriptions (no products). I would like to give a limited number of discount for the purchasing of subscription. Example subscription: 100USD initial payment and 30USD for renewal. I would like to give a 100% discount for initial payment only. Limited to the first 5 subscribers. Possible?
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I upgraded to 4.7.16 a couple of days ago. A customer purchased a ticket for our conference overnight and has contacted me about a mistake: he's been charged twice because the conference ticket appears as two goods purchased once each. You could put that down to human error (although that would require somebody to commit the action of clicking on the quantity counter, so seems unlikely) but what's caught my eye is that it's the same good listed twice with a quantity of 1 rather than listed once with the quantity showing 2, as was the case prior to upgrade: Could somebody in Support please look into this for me?
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The last 3 days, I have increasing numbers of bots, continually logging into the forum, yet not really logging in. Could you please do whatever it is you do in order to stop this unwanted invasion? Thank you very much. breezy
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If I change to the new Classic license does it automatically install all the apps whenever I next download an update package? I only use Forums and Pages, I could possibly use Commerce but not interested in Blog Gallery or Downloads
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Hey guys, A very simple question, when images are uploaded to the IPS suite, is any form of compression undertaken? I am trying to eliminate an issue where clear uploaded images to the site (through adminCP as part of a custom award app) are appearing as it they are a lower definition. Of course this can be a server side setting or even the app in question, but I just want to remove IPS as a factor or indeed ad it as a factor for investigation. Many thanks, P
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Does anyone know if there's an add-on of some sort that will scan uploads for potential malware and/or viruses as they are uploaded? Preferably one that will auto-hide an upload and generate a moderators report if something is detected so that it can be investigated.
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Is there a way to edit the /tags/ folder or page(s)? It has a noindex hardcoded inside <head> and I am not able to remove it because I couldn't find template/block or anything related to this. Do you know where I could find and edit? (for example: https://community.nursa.com/tags/shifts) Thanks!!
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Hi folks. Is it possible to get posts from Open Clubs listed in the latest posts widget? If so, how? If I change Clubs settings to show content areas everywhere, I only see the first post of the thread. I'd like to have posts from open Clubs showing normally in latest posts, unlike closed Clubs that show only for members.
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