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What is the difference between a star thumbnail and a dot thumbnail in front of a topic title?
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Hi, How does one just renew Forums, and not Forums + IP Content. I have no use for IP Content? It shows $25 for renewal on your main site https://invisionpower.com/buy/self-hosted yet I'm being prompted for $40 (Likely because it wants to renew IP Content too?) Thanks
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HI, My name is Jeff. I have two sites that I manage. HotAirBalloonist.com and TheSkiSkool.com I am not a developer, I am a commercial pilot by trade. So this stuff is rather hard for me. I am trying to set up a video page using the IP Content thing. it took me six weeks to figure out what an IP Content was. So now I understand some. It is building blocks you can build a page with. But the whole blocks and templates and why there are some categories that dont have templates and some not?? When you make a page where does it go? How do you get the new categories to show in the new pages? and how do you get a left border and right border and and and and .…
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How to replace enter as BR not a P in IPB 4.1.18.2?
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Hi Just started using Commerce. We're setting up purchases of extended access to forums. Creating a product which put people into proper group with correct permissions and are valid for a year. Afterwards they are supposed to go back to previous group if not renewing. Some questions: Is everything concerning renewing handled automatically? Will they receive an email X days before expiry? Both those who said renew automatically and not? Will the system move them back to previous group automatically after grace period if invoice is not paid? If the system set up a recurring payment in Paypal, will Paypal notify the system of the actual renewals?…
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Hi I see that on 4 there is a program that instead of banning a member you can redirect him else where on forum Suppose to be better than a ban because member will get sick of it and leave Well I cant find the one for 4 and wondered if there is something for 3 Pretty sure he uses a vpn Thanks
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I've been wondering about using a caching system (i.e. one of the systems listed in AdminCP->Advanced Configuration->Data Storage - APC, Memcached, Redis etc). My site is pretty small, but I keep reading that using a cache system nevertheless improves performance across the board because the data retrieval is faster on any level. But before I install one of the systems on my VPS I was wondering if about opinions here re: whether it's really necessary/worthwhile for small sites and, if so, which one I should use? Thanks in advance!
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I want to do a Pages database, but where each user has permissions to add only one record. Is this achieavable? Basically my idea is to have something similar to the custom profile fields, but to use more advanced visualization I want the flexibility of pages database. But I have no idea how to limit the amount of records each user has to 1...
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Hey guys, I would like to set member titles as an image that is only for selected groups, this is to show a sponsors title basically, is this possible? Thanks
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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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