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I am looking for a possibility to offer paid articles on the site. The workflow is simple. The user creates an article in Pages database. It is hidden for all except for staff (pre-moderation). We (the staff) review the article. If it suits, the user can pay. The invoice should be generated. After the payment is completed, the article is instantly shown on the site. It should be a one-time-payment per article. If user submits another article, go to step 1. The challenge: The user should only be able to pay for the articles, we have reviewed. The invoice should be generated automatically upon reviewing of the article (status: r…
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Hello, I'm trying to integrate Google Maps (website), but in API restrictions I only see 2 options. The Maps JavaScript API, Maps Static API, and Places API are not listed. I think I have followed the instructions correctly so far. Thanks in advance for any assistance.
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Hello, I think these databases in clubs are really very well done. However, there is currently a bit of chaos because really every club member can write in it. Is it possible to set it so that only club moderators can write in it? Or let the club admins choose who can write in it. Kind regards, Vakarian
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My forum is set up so that it requires manual approval of all new registrations. I think I used to get an email when somebody registered but I'm I'm. not getting them now. If I don't check in the admin panel very regularly, I miss them. I have looked and I[m sure it's there somewhere but can't find where to turn it on.
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Hello, I'm building a new forum using IPS, but I forgot how to add a "security check" to the sign-up page. My old forum had it, as does invisioncommunity.com, but the new forum does not have a sign-up captcha. I tried to check the options in ACP, but there was only an option to use a Captcha for spam post prevention. This is my new forum, and this is my old forum and https://invisioncommunity.com/ 's setting for Sign up Captcha It would be great if anyone recall my memory for this captcha setting.. Thanks!!
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Hello, Trying to connect my forum via Api And faild. Should i do something with the .htaccess file? where this file located?
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What minimum permissions does IPS recommend giving MySQL users for maximum safety?
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Hi there everyone as the title suggests im looking for a chatbox since the marketplace is gone now its kind of difficult to find options. Does anyone have any suggestions for what they might use for their site? I am reffering to chatpop up boxs that appear when a guest visits a website! Thanks! EXAMPLE:
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I know that physical item sales are being removed fairly soon and I'm wondering how can I link my community to Shopify so that only members who are subscribed to my community can use the Shopify store and the discounts being a member brings to them?
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Hi, so I noticed I can make members off the forum an Admin, I would like to do this as a member has experience on building forums so the help is welcomed. Can I set it so when he makes any changes before there are active I can verify them first just to make so no changes happen without my say? Thanks Sean
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Hello, Is there any way to remove saved credit card info for all users at once? (on Stripe payment gateway) I know we can remove it one-by-one from ACP but want to clear all stored card information on all accounts. Any Idea?
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Hi again 🙂 I was just in my ACP and was looking for announcements but I can't seem to find it, I am sure that there was an option? am I being blind again?
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Hi, is there an option to have a live chat on the main page off my forum? I have the creator package but still learning how to use everything. Thanks Sean
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Hey guys, It is likely this has already been covered in another post/blog but what preparations have IPS made in light of Google/Chrome killing off 3rd party cookies and the introduction of the Privacy Sandbox? Many thanks P
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Does anybody know how to change the Unread/Read topic buttons? I have a custom icon/image uploaded to resources but it is not showing named topic_button.png which worked on 4.7.1.2 but not on 4.7.16? Thanks for any help
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I have been thinking about using a email provider/service like Google which requires me to add a MX Record at the DNS level, I am kinda wondering if this interferes with how emails are sent via the systems in Invision like the contact us and so on. Does it matter?
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Have you come across this before? The Similar Content widget block isn't available on my site for some reason and it isn't already in use on the page (I just double checked!). I checked another one of my sites with the same full suite, same latest version and it is showing there under System blocks in the page editor: Is there anyway to reactivate it, please? Many thanks!
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How does one go about creating an announcement that only shows up on the forum index? I have no problems creating an announcement that shows above content on every page, but I want it to only appear on the main index. Here are the relevant options for an announcement: For "Where to show?", there are the options: I figured "Platform" would do the trick, but when I select that, I don't see the announcement. The only way I can get it on the front page is to select "Everywhere", but then it shows up on all pages, which I don't really want. Thanks for any advice. ..Al
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Hi Are live topics available for forums, cloud or not? I can't see it anywhere in my settings.
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I searched my ACP for 'quote' and 'quoting' but didn't find anything. I thought I had limited my quoting level to 1. Meaning, if user A posts something, and user B quotes user A and answers, and I try to quote the whole post by user B, only what B wrote is inside the quote in my post, it automatically strips the quote from A. Now this works for me, limiting my quote to only whoever I'm quoting, and not who they had quoted. And yet I just saw a regular member quote someone's quote... I'm not sure where to go to double-check my settings?
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I don't want people to sign up through the top right button in IB. Can I remove this? Reasoning: I have a pre-registration form that I want people to use which drops them into my outbound email marketing system (Aweber) and kicks off a campaign with onboarding information. If this button is here, people can bypass my "onboarding" campaign in AWeber. Alternatively, can I make that Sign Up button link somewhere else? Thanks! Chris
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Hi. I'm looking for the options to customize outbound email messages during the registration process, and can't find it. KB didn't bring up anything. The messages people get after registering to confirm their request and finalize their access. Thanks!
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I feel like this is a dumb question but I can not figure it out. How do I set permissions for Commerce menu items? From my admin account, I can see what I need to see. When I log in as a user I can get "The page you are trying to access is not available for your account." I messed the the menu item settings and looked in Group permissions. Where the holy heck is the setting?
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How do I set my default search to 365 days instead of last visit when someone searches on my forum?
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Hi, newbie here! We have a software company and we just set up a user group site for our clients. I have set up the site so that the users can only create accounts with their organization domain. This of course helps me ensure that the users are actually a user of our software. My question is if a user leaves their organization, how do I know to remove them from our user group? I mean, sure, I can ask my clients to provide me with a list to remove them as they leave but I can't be sure that they will do that. So I was wondering if anyone else has come across this and if so, what measures have you put in place? My initial thoughts were maybe there's a way to requi…
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