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Hello, i would like to send PMs and email to members to update their profiles, is there any way to include their profile url until they click and update their profiles instead of explianing them to click here and there to do it ? some url similar to www.website.com/profile/ a kind of global profile url.
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Hi, there. I need to put member of one group to another group AUTOMATICALLY upon some trigger, for example when member buys something in my e-commerce. How can i do it? May be there is anything script or other options? Thanks.
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admin section i don't see where you can see what members posted in topics with out going to website.unless im missing something.this would be a great option in the admin section and than you can deleted it from there..and give warnings to a member for that post
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I had my avatars at 150px on my 3.4 board. I did a conversion and I saw that on the new board they were reduced to 90px. Changing them back to 150 has made them pretty blurry. Is there anyway to solve this becides asking all my members to change their profile pics again?
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Whats the purpose? Do I really need 90 days or prune after 30 ?
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How do renewals work? If I purchase say a theme at $20 and the renewal is $20 every year (just example numbers)... am I prompted in a year to make that payment? Is it automatically taken out of my PayPal? How do I get "out of" a renewal on something I found didn't work on my site and I no longer wanted to use it or renew?
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I'd like to add a single tab on the members profile page with several fields for them to list their interests. So they could write a little bit about themselves, and then fill in sections for their fav movies, tv, music, ect. Right now it seems like each tab can only support 1 instance of the "editor" input type, and so the only way to add them all is to have multiple tabs. It would be nice if you could use all the empty space to let them add more information. Is there any way built in (or a plugin) that allows you to have one tab where users can fill in a bunch of fields of information?
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I'd like to retire an emoticon so users can't use it. However, deleting it will result in broken images across the forum. Is there a way to make it unusable?
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I've been all over acp and cant figure out how to do it, the obvious place would be in the menu editor but it doesn't seem possible I've got commerce installed but only ever intend to use it to sell premium membership and I'd like to be able to change the menu from "Store" to " Subscribe"
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I made a database, and placed it on a page. For my administrator user, and for a group in the moderator section, the page looks as inteded. But for members with less permissions, the records don't show up at all. Anyone have any ideas ? Permissions for the database: How it looks for admin: How the page looks like for a member in the "Akademika" group:
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just upgraded from IPB 3. to IPB 4 does anybody know what the cut off time is for members showing online and if it can be edited ? in 3 you could set the session period but i don't seem to be able to find the setting in 4
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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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