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I am looking for some copy to use in the Anti-Fraud rules for commerce. Anybody have recommendations? For us, they would need to be U.S. based rules but I think others from other countries would find resources helpful as well. If you are willing, share the rules you have setup.
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Hello! I am messing with my newly installed IPS board, and found out that i need to allow users (and myself) to specify timezones to the events, and to display this timezone in the event itself. Preferably, also translate the timezone to the timezone of the user who is viewing the event. Is there a built in feature for this, of an easy way around it?
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Hi, I'm after a way to have a drop down menu with options to choose from, in the title before you post. For example, in a classifieds section on the forum, instead of having two separate forums for wanted/for sale, you have one and you choose which, either for sale/ wanted from a menu in the title and it shows up in post. if you get me, I've seen this done on other platforms but never achieved it on IPB. any ideas?!
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Can I assign an invoice (paid) to a Member? Ex. The member donated to the Forum as Guest (but I know who he is) so the invoice isn't assigned to this member. Can I somewhere add the invoice to this member? Thanks in advance
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Can someone please point me to a place where i can learn more about databases, what they are, how to use them and how to create my own? Thanks in advance
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The default page has Category titles set to "Opaque" We need them set to bold so members know they are there. Can we change the names in the red boxes to bold? Even if its only as bold as the sub-category in the green box. Thanks.
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I know this topic has been raised a lot of times but can you tell me how to change avatar size in post content in IPS 4.2.3?
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I've dropped a custom html and/or php block on a page, I want to pull all the first post, of all the topics in a specific sub-forum, and display them on a page like a news feed. I want to parse them so they display just like they do in the forums. So I assumed I could just access a set of php or blade(whatever IPS calls it) functions and pull the info I wanted from the database. I can not find good documentation for what I'm trying to do. Am I just overlooking it? Alternatively, direct me to what files I can examine for the forums, so I can learn off those.
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I want birthdays in the calendar available to my members, but I don't want guests being able to see them How do I change this?
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Hi, I have a couple questions, I've gone through I'm sure every setting to no avail! 1) Newest post first - where can I find this setting? Instead of going to the page, I want to go to the post, I want to change this globally across the forum. 2) Avatars - anyway to change them back to square?? I'm running the latest version. many thanks Matt
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Can someone help me to create a way to change all my users settings to "allow others to follow me"? I want it turned on for all. Also I would like a way to make sure new users who sign up have it turned on by default. Can anyone help?
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Sorry if I'm repeating something already dealt with, but I'm preparing to upgrade to 4.2 and I have a clear idea of what I want to do with clubs, but since I can't test clubs I was wondering if you could help with one specific question 1. ¿ Can you create a club so that anybody registered (obviously not the guest user) can read the information and reply or post without joining the club ? Ok, what I mean is that I want to have all the clubs to work like subforums. Or let me ask in a different way ..... is enrollment to the group always mandatory in order to post/reply create a topic ? 2. IF 1st question is "No", let me ask a 2nd question. Can you allow b…
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Hi there, It's nice that IPS supports desktop notifications. But they seem to only work when you have at least one IPS browser tab open in the browser. Is it possible to make them work even when you're not browsing your IPS forum, to help entice visitors to come back more quickly?
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I corrupted the default theme, and need a download for it. I tried to just make another installation on my local machine and grab it from that, but apparently IPS counts 127.0.0.1 as an installation and now I'm stuck with it. Thanks for any help.
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I noticed there is a renewal date, and as far as I understand that's to continue getting updates and such. How do I disable the renewal? We are not interested in on-going fees.
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Hey guys, If I am going to be making changes and want to keep my IPB code under source control, what files should I put in my gitignore?
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Hi everyone, I'm wondering if there is an easy way to remove the "Message" below from some users in the Staff Directory? For certain people on the list I'm not wanting to show the message list. Thanks for any advise Chris
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Hi there. I'm upgrading from IPB 3.x to 4.x and am required to upgrade EasyApache3 to 4 on my server. I've done that. I also run Litespeed on my server and it appears that now I can't access my IPB installation. I installed php 7.0 and read that IPB 3.x doesn't support versino 7. Downgraded to 5.6 and I still can't access my IPB site. I can't find any guides to ideal settings etc to get this to work. My community is now down so would love to get this up and working again very very soon. Thanks for any guidance.
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Hi, I've never used yet the commerce add-on, I'm considering to buy it. But before I need to know if it is possible to set it up as a marketplace where the community users can sell to other community users, considering some fees for the community owner from each user-to-user scceeded transaction ?
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Can someone help me get this working https://gyazo.com/82a23917b0f757597bd99f10b889eafd for a External Database
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Hi, I was just looking at the featured, newest, and popular product carousels on the front page. I looked through the theme html files, and I see where the carousels are made. I was wondering... is it possible to make a carousel for a specific product category? That would be infinitely useful. <section class='ipsSpacer_top'> {{if count( \IPS\nexus\Package\Item::featured() )}} <div class='ipsBox'> <h2 class='ipsType_sectionTitle'>{lang="featured_products"}</h2> <div class='ipsPad'> <div class='ipsCarousel ipsClearfix' data-ipsCarousel data-ipsCarousel-showDots> <ul class='cNexusCarousel cNexusCategory_grid ipsClearfix'…
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Hi, I recently upgraded from IPS 3.4.7 to 4.2.3. In 3.4.7 I had an extension called "PM on Group Change" that was pretty invaluable to me. Is there any way, either stock or third-party extension, to regain this functionality?
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So I've configued a handful of keywords on my site and logged in under a test member account and run searches with them, but nothing seems to show up in the Keywords area of the adminCP's Statistics tab. Did I miss something? Is there something else I'm supposed to configure somewhere?
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Is there a guide that shows what regular expressions are exactly and which ones you can use? I am hoping I can use this for a profile field which the member enters their YouTube channel URL and it checks to verify that a YouTube URL was entered. Another thing that would be nice is if I could just have them enter their channel name and then the rest of the URL is entered for them. So, they would enter "PermaEthos" and the field would have the full URL of "http://www.youtube.com/c/permaethos". I have other examples of what I want to do with URL's but if I can figure this out I think all of those will be answered as well. Thank you in advance for any guidance.
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Hello I am here to ask if there is anyway to edit IPB's Javascript files. (I would like to edit [data-ipsmenu])
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