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Today a guest user was doing something strange when attempting to purchase a subscription to my site. I dont' know if the person was trying different stolen credit cards to see if they'd actually go through or what, but this definitely was NOT normal. You can see all the failed attempts below in the screenshot. it would be really nice to see the IP address of this user somehow. I could at least attempt to block the person or bot. I know this could change, but I found that blocking IP addresses frequently causes enough friction so the users moves to lower hanging fruit. Question: Does anyont know how to obtain the IP address of a guest user trying …
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I'm experimenting with the Courses section but I don't want members to access that section or even know it exists. I don't want it to show up as a choice in the Search menu either since it's not open yet. Is there a way to hide that section entirely? I can only find a way to hide individual courses.
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I'm setting up a locked off "questions" part on our dev forum and I notice that the Administrator is allowed to access this part of the forum even tough it doesn't have permissions to do anything with it. If I do the same thing with a normal discussion forum and turn off the permissions for the Administrator the Administrator can't see it. These are 2 very different behaviors and I'm wondering if that's intentional or accidental. Settings: Front end: Top topic is made by a different user so expected would be that the Admin (me) could not see it. This is a Discussion board with the same settings: It should NOT be underneath the "co…
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I have just had a member join up today (Monday) then posted within a few minutes of joining up but the post states that they posted on Saturday 🤔 See screenshot Is this some sort of bug?
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Hello everyone, I've been doing quite a bit of research, trying to wrap my head around setting up a custom domain for my website. Despite my best efforts, I'm finding it a bit challenging. Imagine I want to use 'thisismyforum.nl' as a custom domain (just an example, not the real one). Setting up a custom domain seems like a bit of a puzzle right now. If there's anyone out there who can break down the process in a straightforward way, I'd truly appreciate your assistance. Simple steps, quick tips, or a basic guide would be a tremendous help.
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My form has been down all day, we had a script to put in for a new ad Network and I think it caused problems. I have a support ticket open but the site's been down all day so hopefully someone else will see this. https://forums.JetNation.com The form won't load for some people most of them because of the script. When I go to the admin panel I get a template error. Invision told me they put the site in recovery mode but I still get the same error. Anyone have any thoughts?
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I see there is a new Community Hive Block. I've tried to put it on the Index page, Articles page, Downloads page, Gallery page, etc, and it always tells me "This block cannot be displayed here". So where can it go?
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How do i create something like this?
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I have a directory of contact information in a table, which would benefit from sortable headers. Is there a way to have the table include these? I'm happy to buy a plugin if there's a good one available.
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Hello, I am looking for a Dutch translation for my forum. Can someone assist me with this?
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Hi I recently was informed by one of my member that his forum/topics view looks weird with the side blocks below the replies, not to the side. I have checked and yes, my view its completely different(correct) and they is different, why? Any one can advice me what is the problem? Cleaned cache In ACP and Cloudflare. Thx https://we.tl/t-oyxrAXpi7a
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Hello, i am looking to renew my self-host licence but seems that Inivsion Community prefers cloud customers than self-host clients, so I am not sure if i´ll renew or look somewhere else. What is al self hosters experience so far, or what is the future for sel-host license? Thank you
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I have a question about IPS Spam Defense and the GeoIP module. If I uncheck the Send repots back checkbox, exactly what data does IPS receive, is it stored and to which country is it sent? And what data IPS receives when I enable the GeoIP module? Sorry to ask this, but in the EU such a module in its current form is a bit difficult to use and we have problems with spam. Kind regards, Vakarian
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I'm pretty sure I've just missed a setting, but for the life of me, I can't find it! I cannot get the option to copy a photo into a post/reply . . . anything. It just copies a link that ends up not being an active link. Help. 🙂
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I would like to create a group promotion rule that moves members from one group to another if a specific profile field is filled out (with any text). I have tried to enter the usual wildcard characters (*, %) in the relevant (text) field under the "Filters" Section. It appears that the group promotion isn't executed. I have checked the documentation if it mentions anything regarding the use of text fields in group promotions, but I haven't found anything relevant there.
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I have had "products" for purchasing member badges and extra abilities as a member for a long time now. Probably when products first were a thing. I just noticed that in March 2023 products will be deprecated (see below). Question 1: I plan on moving to the cloud towards the end of the year -- probably in the Nov/Dec time frame. I have not set this up yet but will soon. With that said, do I need to do something before that with converting 3 "products" per forum (only 2 forums) to subscriptions before that? Question 2: I am retiring from running my forums and want to transfer things for both to a new owner at the time transferring 2 forums to the cloud with him…
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Is it possible to remove the search box from the Nav Bar on a certain page? That probably sounds a bit odd, but I'm really playing with the possibility of using Pages to create our home page. However, the main part of our site is actually a non-Invision database of pins. Users are used to the search for that being on the front page at top right, so I'm wondering if it's possible to remove the Invision search option from a single page?
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I'm absolutely thrilled with the options available for setting up subscriptions, and thanks to the Help Guides, I've got two tiers basically set up. We want to end up with three tiers, and one is the basic tier and always free. If a member joins the site, they're automatically in the "basic" tier. They don't have to purchase anything, so I've set it up as free. However, to get it to show on the page alongside the other two paid tiers, I have to enable purchases. Is there a way that all three options can show, but the "Subscribe Now" button on the first tier end up removed or greyed out . . . or something. I'm really open to options, but I'd like all three sitt…
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For certain reasons I need to uninstall python36 on my server. before doing so I just want to make sure that IPS does not require it. Please let me know.
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I'm trying to get some Advertisements showing on the sidebar of the Forums area via Blocks. I've created a custom block (and think I've done it right, according to the Help Guides), but when I drag it over into the sidebar, this is what it says: Am I supposed to enable blocks somewhere?
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I know that forum categories can be restricted to specified groups. However, is it possible for an administrator to assign topics/posts within categories to certain groups. (e.g. a member's topic might contain a discount code which should be hidden from guests) Thanks if you can help, Simon
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Trying to follow the instructions in the Help Guides, but I must be doing something wrong. I've created an advertisement with this setting: The "Internal Advertising" help guide states that the tag necessary would be {advertisement="KEY"}, making it {advertisement="TinkAd1"}. Correct? The guide then has this to say about inserting Advertisements via Blocks: In pages or blocks The tag can be inserted in a page, block or template within the Pages application. Simply insert the tag wherever you want the advertisement to show. When I go to create a new custom block, though, there are these options: I must be doing something wrong, becaus…
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When I set Pages as the Default App, rather than Forums, in the AdminCP all seems to work. However, when I go out to view the pages, they feature the forum links for "Home" and "Unread Content" and "Mark Site Read". How do I remove that? Playing with the idea that we should use IPS for our main page here, but I would like to be able to build a page without the forum-specific aspects.
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I have several blog posts set to be scheduled but, running into an issue in which the post is not showing up publicly after it scheduled time to do so. Is there anything I should be looking into in order for this action to go forward?
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