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I'm trying to format some more or less big tables in the CMS. I didn't find any nice CK-Plugins, just simple plain tables. What I found is http://russellgoldenberg.github.io/responsive-table-generator/ Produces pretty nice responsive tables, but when I paste it in the editor and submit it, it's just a plain non-responsive table again. (Didn't change colors in the sample.) Does anyone have a good solution for content tables? Be it a plugin or an external tool or a solution why my posted table isn't very pretty.
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Fresh install of 4.1.18.2 (yesterday - now crawling with members) Can not get signatures to work right (Testing on myself only as well as standard members) Signatures are enabled both for the group, as well as in profile>profile settings. Have turned off all my plug ins (None of which should affect signatures) Have cleared my cache (post disabling plugins) Only thing not standard running atm is iawards not sure if that would affect signatures? Admins and all levels of moderators can however can access the signature editing portion on profiles of every other member including other mods/admins (so they are suppose to be worki…
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IN ACP there is a setting for choosing an analytics provider, mine is set to "none" yet Ghostery give a tracker warning for Google Analytics in my brower how can this be removed please ?, I have no wish to use googles service and don't appreciate a browser warning telling me google tracker has been blocked it shouldn't have needed to be blocked because it shouldn't be there in the first place
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How can I edit the registration page to hide some things? I want to remove the form and have the sign in with steam button take it's place.
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With IP.commerce and downloads, you can earn money as a file submitter. My question is: is there any official receipt generated when anybody requests a payout and money is transferred? I would need a receipt that is valid for tax authorities: receipt requires a special title (maybe translation via language DB could help) receipt requires a unique, chronologically created receipt number adress of money receiver and sender date some special text about the payment maybe integration of tax numbers
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I once thought there was an option or Modification to send out a PM to all members or groups, is it still there or .. ? Need it. Thanks in advance!
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The system sends a lot of information to the user, I would like this information to also be shown under Messages in the system for the user. Simply because e-mail messages can get lost, filtered or just never arrive. It would be great to be able to tell users to go to their messages to read what it was we sent to them, rather then having to trying to figure out what message was sent and find out that there are for the vast majority of e-mails in IPS no option to re-send them.
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We have an item in our store that is for a third party service, the user simply gets a code they use at the third party. How can I send this code out automatically to the user when their payment is confirmed? I looked at licensing keys, but they seem to only support auto-generated keys, we have a static key. (And you can't use the key on our site)
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How do it stop guests from sending E-Mails in 4.1 ?
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In the IP Moderation Tools there is a section that says Spam service log = 1 What does this mean? I am trying to determine if a member is someone who I have previously banned and it is showing up as 1 under spam service log. I can't find anywhere in the docs where it explains what this means. Would love to know more information. Thanks
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In ACP under editor settings we have the option I'd like it to go to the next line but the setting doesn't appear to work, I get a new paragraph regardless of which option is toggled am I missing something ?
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Hello, Is there any way to limit downloads (3 per day for ex) as in the Downloads app ?
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sorry everyone I've trawled the forums and you tube, but cant find anything, I am trying to set my site up so it loads into a homepage instead of the forum, I've watched videos on it but the all talk about either, portal or ip content and i cant find either of these in the market place, they are also mainly videos from 20010/11(cant find anything more up to date) if anyone could help me to do this i would really appreciate it, I have the latest version and also pages. Many thanks Owen
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My pre-IPS site contains a page which we've pushed in print and online media /events. For consistency, I want our new IPS upgrade to keep site.com/events as a page. Unfortunately, I can't create this in Pages: "This folder name cannot be used as it causes a URL collision with another installed application." It's a clash with the Calendar app. What can I do? Is it just a case of tracking down the FURLs which contain "events" and changing the word there? Or is there a list of reserved words somewhere?
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Hello ! I would like to add an image between the title of each category and the first forum of the category. Is it possible to do it or do I to make a special CSS ? I know that we can add an image in the description, but it doesn't appear on the homepage. Thanks Vincent
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Hello, is it possible to have a virtual money "credit" to sell and buy files ? To buy a file users will purchase it for 5 credits for example, and seller will receive credits and do withdraws to get real money ! a kind of gamification
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I'm wondering... how would I set it up so the teams get pop ups or even just a notification on the forums that a support ticket had come in? I tried a test out and there was no notification sent. Seems silly to have to go to the panel, click on commerce, just to see if new tickets come in.
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How do I download a copy of my system logs in the database and then how do I purge them? I didn't have my settings set to purge after 30 days and now my logs are very large. Thanks
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I'm currently using IPB 3.4.5 and I'm about to upgrade to the latest version we use the "Subscriptions Manager" addon that used to be available in the marketplace to accept paid subscriptions but its seems to have disappeared from the marketplace now so I'm just wondering how I deal with existing and new subscriptions after I've upgraded any help appreciated
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The documentation for 4.0 does not at all match what I am seeing on my site (recently upgraded). I am constantly amazed at how hard it is to find any information out about the forums; love the product but wow, the documentation is really lacking. This guide: Says: " The Forums app contains several special widgets that can be placed in the header, footer, or sidebar. " I can't find them. I give up. Where are they? So I found a couple of plugins I thought could give me what the missing widgets provide. But for configuring plugins, this page: Says: "In 4.0, each plugin is allocated a settings page which is accessed just by hitting the "Edit" …
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Hi, I have searched and checked here but found nothing about this... Please could you advise what is the recommended dimensions/size of the background image for the header of IPS 4.1.x, please? I'm hoping to invite some of my talented artistic members to create some background header images for one of my communities, and would like to give them some clear guidance before they start. I like way Twitter for example has a recommended size of 1500x500 and resizes according to fit the viewport. https://support.twitter.com/articles/127871 Thank you!
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Hi, I have installed IPS Forum on my localhost and as a licence I provided "[my-licence]-TESTINSTALL". Everything went good and I started using converter to transfer the data. After all data was transferred I wanted to finish the conversion and I got message: I tried to insert code once again but got: What is going on? Maybe I should not add -TESTINSTALL when installing on localhost? There is no typo in my licence. I'm afraid to try to install without -TESTINSTALL because I don't want to block my installation for production version. My panel looks fine: I did one reset of community URL yesterday - it was on localh…
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Is there no support for using billing agreements when using the PayPal Direct option? Invoices seems to be the only option.
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i was asking since the files are hosted on my site where are the users files like username and password located so i cant just download them and upload them to the new site
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Hi, I'm working on a converted vBulletin Forum. I have quite few users that are (paying) "Club Members", but are not in the secondary group "Members" as well. Is there any simple way to find all members of "Club Members" and give them the secondary group "Members" as well?
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