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Is there a way to prevent guests veiwing a members profile page ?
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I have administrative tiers on my site. They go: Community Manager Lead Admin Admin Lead Moderator Moderator The manager is the lead admin and owner (me). I am the root admin and first member. I have one lead admin. I copied the admin group (default) and renamed it lead with a few restrictions put on admins to give the lead more power. My group the manager was also a copy. However the lead is unable to edit my posts. He can not quote, edit, or delete my posts. How do I fix that? I checked forum settings and usergroup settings. Nothing says he can't edit my posts. He essentially has every permission I have. Ideas…
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So I got a bare bones suite package and added one of the extras to the site now. How do I access that content? For example, I added Commerce. How do I start using that content?
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Hello, the usual links from vbulletin would not need a url shortener http://www.parentscafe.gr/showthread.php?t=39012 the new links at ipb 4. look like this topic link http://www.parentscafe.gr/forum/index.php?app=forums&module=forums&controller=topic&id=3089 is there something that can be done about it - so that we dont have to use a url shortener everytime when pasting a link to a certain thread? and if so how do i obtain the shorter link ? same is for forum link http://www.parentscafe.gr/forum/index.php?app=forums&module=forums&controller=forums&id=135 can i remove somewhere something to make…
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Hi! I was wondering if it is possible to postpone posting, like the lock/unlock functionality you have today. The purpose is to make a post, that is published later. (So I guess, hide / unhide) - Asgeir
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How do I make is so the content of the client area settings are shown to the buyer after user check out? My users are having trouble finding out what to do next, and its not very intuitive that they have to go to store/manage purchases, when what they really need is to have the client area setting smacked in their face or redirected to a url after checkout. Am I missing something or is the flow supposed to be this bad?
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Hello, in commerce product we can add a rule to move customers who made a purchase of this product to another group, we are looking to move members who buy a digital product (file with ip downloads) to specific group, is that possible ? we really would like to find the same products options (commerce) in Files downloads (paid)!!
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Got my new cloud plan yesterday it's been years since Ive used IP and upon setup I've had issues. The theme is missing or CSS I'm not 100% what it is. The attached screenshot is from my phone but forum on PC is exactly the same. Any help would be greatly appreciated before I head for a refund and use vbulletin. Thanks Chris
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Does anyone know how I could create a recent members or visitors block that shows just the user profile photo in 4.1+? I had something in version 3 like: <php> $stats = $this->cache->getCache('stats'); </php> <ul class='ipsList_withminiphoto'> {parse striping="feed_striping"} <foreach loop="$records as $record"> <if test="$this->registry->output->skin['set_key']=='mobile'"> <if test="$record['member_id']"><a href='{parse url="showuser={$record['member_id']}" seotitle="{$record['members_seo_name']}" template="showuser" base="public"}' title='{$record['members_seo_name']}'> </if><img src='{$reco…
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Hi, I'm just starting to look into SEO optimization possibilities in IPS4 (version 4.1.17.1) and I can't figure out how to set default meta-tags for each and every inner page based on topics and articles' title and content (for meta description) so that they appear in google search results. I've found this topic which describes exactly what I wanna do but unfortunately there's no reply. I can see that's possible because it seems to be set this way on invisionpower forum. When I look into code source I see that. I've seen the same thing on several IPS websites but I don't know how to set it up. Can someone please help me figure this out ? …
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Hello, we created a premium membership and we are looking to approve manually every purchase of this product, how it can be done please ? We approve it one we verify the identity of the buyer.
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Hello, we tried the IPS tool to filter urls and send posts with external url to be approved first but its not working for us Is this configuratino right ? All posts with urls are sent to validation even internal posts with attached images for example (attached in the website)
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Hello, we have Commerce with a subscription product (premium) and we would like to show it in the forums/downloads sidebar, we have Pages too. In the blocs types we cant find a Product widget! is it possible to get it done ?
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Hey. Can't find where to reset my password when I login as admin. Please help.
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Hello, we are using downloads as marketplace and we are looking to charge both buyer and seller in transactions, for seller there is already a commission option in payment options, for buyer we found only Taxes options but this one we will use it for VAT, in the downloads options we can use only one type of taxe. We also found a transaction fee option but its not %, its flat ($XX), is it possible to have this fees in % ? Or we should use taxes ?
Last reply by Janyour, -
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In the Listings template, how do I force a custom field to show in its own column, rather than let it sit quietly underneath the Title of the record? A picture might help here I should add, it would be nice for the field's title to appear as the actual permanent title of that column, with the field's changeable content underneath on each row. Is this possible?
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Hello, I guess it's possible to set group restriction for Commerce's Gift Card module purchases, but I just can't find it. I mean, I would like : Group A can only Buy Gift Cards Group B can only Redeem Gift Cards So am I blind or is it not possible ? Thanks.
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It's hard to explain because i don't know what it is called.....but i used to have these little dots next to read/unread topics. They aren't there anymore. They just disappeared. Anyone know where that setting is? Also, in the signatures...they all migrated over fine, but now everything is double spaced and takes up way to much real estate every time someone posts. Anyone know where i can find that setting? FYI the site is http://www.steveMeadeDesigns.com/board if you want to take a look. thanks in advance!
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Hello, is there any way or extension to prune messages after 90 days in specific boards (e.g. job offers). The former version 3.4.x had a similar function (without deleting, just display)
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Been looking, cant find out how to hide post counts.
Last reply by DesignzShop, -
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When I go to install at my domain I just get a save box open instead, any ideas?
Last reply by Mcardle, -
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I'm not sure if this is normal, but in pages, if I have a record set to post into a forum as a topic, all I get in that topic first post is a link that says View full post In IPS3 the entire article/record was within the forum topic first post. In IPS4 it doesn't seem to be the case unless I'm doing something wrong. If that's the case, it should maybe embed the link at least with the auto embed format.
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Hello! I dont know which is the appropriate section for this, Has anyone checked banner viewability for half page banners on the sidebar of ip4 ? I checked their viewability and its only 30% which is i think low for a banner above fold. I am wondering if this is normal and perhaps if you have large % of mobile usage of site where the banner will not show up (since the sidebar wont) but maybe the banner tag is beeing called (is that true?) and doesnt get an impression despite being "called" at every pageview? could that be a reason? (dont know how else to describe it!)
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Hello! I want to ask if anyone has tried some of the following to have advertisements show only on certain forums ? <if condition="!in_array($forum['forumid'], array(137,139))"> this is the if we used on vb, . we do not need the ecommerce app that is available yet,.. we only have simple <if> we need ... I know there is a way to have the advertisement show on a custom place, at the adminCp but i think this method doesnt include which forum sections they appear in. Or does anyone know how/where to do this by editing of html/ css ? thank you..!
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I've looked on this site for information about this but apart from the news post there isn't anything I can find via search: The language used here makes me think that this feature is simply always on until you apply the group setting. However, it is not working on my site: This account has numerous name changes and they all appear in the ACP. I've tried it with the default theme and it doesn't work on there either. Is there a setting that I am missing?
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