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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?
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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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I got the following from Stripe. Can CV and AVS work with IPS Commerce? Thank you
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I am using the widget block to show all available clubs and by the time I get them all added there will be over 60 and right now it’s showing like in the attached image and I was wondering if someone could help me make it where it will show more clubs per row. Thank you for any assistance that can be given
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Hi - we have a team of 8 who are in a group of their own and then a secondary group. Whenever they make a comment, their role changes to the secondary group and I have to go in and manually change it again. This is her secondary group.
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Welcome, I'm looking for information if I can change download button in Downloads to link. I would like to build resource directory on my forum and I'm looking for possible options. I checked Links directory plugin but I can't show pretty affiliate links there and it's not exactly what I'm looking for. So i'm looking for something different. Do you know if it's possible in Downloads to change default action under main download button?
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I created a block and put a banner in it. This blocks is shown on different locations inside my forum. No I received a second request for an advertisment at this block. Is it possbile to show two different banner with this block, and each banner will be shown with a fifty percent probability?
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Hello! We've created a database in IPS for Articles. As you can see, it currently have 4 categories and 27 records. I believe that it uses the standard templates for displaying the database information. Here's a screenshot of those settings in the database: As it stands, the Categories are displayed as... Clicking on one of the categories shows the corresponding articles: We'd like to have the categories and articles displayed like a table-of-contents, and all on one page. For example: Getting Started Introduction - Overview and Architecture - Accessing Monster For the First Time - Setting…
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Hello! I'm wondering if there's a way to set individual members, within the Moderators group, to be the moderators of a specific forum in IPB 4.1.x For example, I have forums X, Y, and Z, and I have Mod A and Mod B. I want to make Mod A the moderator of both forums X and Y, and Mod B have control of forums Y and Z. Is there any way to do that so that Mod A doesn't have control over forum Z, and Mod B over forum X? I'm sorry if this has already been posted somewhere, I might have missed it when I was trying to search for the answers. Thank you!
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There are no settings for it in ACP > Community, search for Fluid View gets zip in ACP or in Help Guides, couldn't find any topics discussing this.
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Hello! I know, this may be strange, but let me explain I'm owner of big community. I want to give permission for adding users to specific groups to my staff team. For example: Staff Team can add user only to "players" group and delete users from "players" group (nothing more, nothing less). Tech Support can add user only to "high command" group (delete as well). //Only examples to imagine you what I want. Is it possible to do this? Or, is there any add-on what allows me to do such thing?
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Hi everyone, We have a private, password-protected thread, and people are not getting notifications when they post, despite their notifications being set correctly (they get notifications OK when they post on other public threads). Can anyone advise whether notifications are possible, and what they/we should do to activate them? Thanks in advance.
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Asking for a client on my site. I don't know the answer, can anyone help?
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