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Hello, I hide a field with the permission set. Only one groupe can read this field. Instead, other members must get a message "you have to change your group, etc..." How to display that message ? I know I have to test the user's group, with a condition in the template (I remember, I have done that a long time ago). But now, what's the correct code, please ? Regards NB : this should be a default feature.
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Hello, I am interested in knowing what is planned for the development of the Calendar app, so I wanted to search for all forums posts tagged Planned and containing "Calendar" in the title. However, looking at the Search interface it isn't clear to me how to do this. How do I search by tag and content?
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How do I design a home page like InvisionPower.com? Is there a guide for this? I know just about anything is possible with pages but a lot of time is need to learn the CSS a basic template that I can put into a block will be very handy and much appreciated.
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I am trying to make a slideshow within a blog post on IPS4. I found BBCode Slideshow Anywhere very useful when making blog posts in IPS3. However, it is not supported for IPS4. Are there other ways to create a slide show in blog posts? Thanks!
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in the change log, you have this: New setting to make providing a billing address optional for purchases in Commerce. where is this setting? i've searched store/payments/customs and products for it and i don't see anything that says "allow to billing address to be optional".
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Hello, how can i add or edit text that appear when you mouseover /hover over an icon or other link? ("tool tip" text ) would that be a theme assistance question or just a guidance question? it involves the technical (how to add one when there is none) the context (cant find how to translate it, i searched in phrases in the translator didnt find them - am translating to greek) and the visual (how can i change the colour the hovering text box is ? )
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The IPB version installed is the latest. I've installed several widgets from the marketplace and see that some of them are not showing even if I configure those correctly, Is there a way to see the actual php error instead of the standard text. this widget can not be shown. ? Thanks
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I am the single admin and support person for my forum, so I need to see all topics and all posts that are created on the forum. Is there a setting to get an email notification each time a topic or a post is created?
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Hi All, Short Story. 2 months ago a company approached me to set up a new community. I bought a good a domain name and I was about to buy a new IPS license, but the customer backed out in the last minute. Now I have an empty good domain and nothing else. I still think the project is interesting and possible if I can show the potential to other companies. I know I'm allowed to install a demo for any registered domain with IPS, but I was wondering if I'm allowed or I can install a IPS4 version in a complete different domain. I'd like to set up the software, create 2 forums, add a few posts, and few images to show the whole potential of the website. After that I…
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Hello! how can i add a youtube embed button to the editor ?
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So I'm using commerce and would like to charge $11 in shipping per unit purchased how would you set this up in the shipping rates?
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Is there any way you can hide a forum from the forum index? Basically, I'd want my staff forum not to show on the index- but I'm adding a link to them on the nav bar.
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Good afternoon all i have seen on a few boards a why to have preloaded tittles for posting a topic example question: for sale: wanted: help: is there anything for IPB to do this, as wanted to have options for my for sale area of only For Sale or Wanted thanks
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Is anyone able to tell me how to display a gallery photo album on the right hand side of the forum home screen? I've looked everywhere and I'm unable to find a setting to do it. Thanks in advance
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I just got a paid subscription to Alexa.com. I need to paste their code into the <head> part of "all pages" of our site. That would include forums, pages, gallery, etc... Do I need to add that to certain templates, or can this be done using the meta-tags function in the Admin CP?
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Hi all, We would like to implement the Q&A forum setting on some of our community's subforums. However, the replies are by default sorted by reputation/votes. We would like to have them sorted chronological by default. Any ideas on how to achieve this? I'm aware that the option is already available in the sorting menu. But we're really looking for a way to change the standard setting. Thanks in advance!
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I have a multilingual site and one of the tricks I do to pull in language-specific blocks and images is to name them with the first two letters of the locale appended. For example, "my-image-en.png" and "my-image-eo.png". Then what I do is have a variable which will generate "en" or "eo" depending on the locale in use: {{$lingvo = substr(\IPS\Member::loggedIn()->language()->short, 0, 2);}} All i have to do after that is place {block="course-attendance-{$lingvo}"} or <img src='{setting="base_url"}uploads/assets/my-image-{$lingvo}.png' > in my templates and WHAM!, language-specific content. My challenge, having somehow managed to plug t…
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How do I enable guest posting in Pages?
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Hello, I have just installed a new community using the Version 4 of the software. I have not been able to find the configuration in the Admin CP that will allow me to show a side bar as you have it here. Could you guide me on how to do it? Thanks in advance, Best Regards, Rafael
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So I have been around since 2007 with IPS and seen many changes come and go. The question I have is where would you start to understand how to develop your own content/plugins for your own site and secondly where would you start when you want to understand pages and the capability it has with custom code. I know about php code and such but not fluent. Thanks for reading.
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Hi, Is it possible to export a list of purchasers for a given product? I am selling tickets to an event and would like to generate an entrants list. Even better would be one that auto-populated and displayed to the public but I guess thats a customisation Thanks, Ben
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I'm trying to add a block to the sidebar which contains a currency exchange widget. I made the block and called it "currency-rates." Next I copied and pasted code from a currency exchange widget into the content portion of the block: Then I went to the home page of my site and expanded the sidebar tool and dragged the Pages => Custom Blocks thing into the right sidebar. I edited it, and selected "currency-rates." The I clicked "Finish Editing." But all I get is this: That's it. No currency rates displayed. I also tried this with a few other currency exchange widgets and had the same problem, there's just a link and again, no currency exchange data…
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So when a user is on, I think after 15 mins they are counted as offline and stop showing up in the online users. Can I change this? I'd like to change it to an hour. My board actively has 20 users online at peak times, but the more the merrier. I don't mind going in to change settings as I remember reading about 'php trash collection' or something being the reason it is the way it is. Just when new people find my board, the more active it appears, the more likely they are to join, so I want to change this.
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Hi, is there any way, how to acces thread for selected list of users (not group)? Like a recipients in Messages, but I have to use more than 80+ recipients, and messages are in this case too slow.. Jan
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Hello, Currently the Classifieds app isn't compatible with the updated version, there is Sales Portal Pro, but not too sure about that. My classifieds section won't be a pay type situation, all members will handle transactions between themselves. Is there a way to create a simple classifieds with current apps? Am I missing another way to do this? Thanks!
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