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From what I have read, it's not advised to turn developer mode on for a cloud-hosted account, but rather to download the software to work on locally. Does this require purchasing the software in addition to the cloud-hosted monthly fee? I am planning to add an additional cloud-hosted account for a new domain, but that new domain also needs some other PHP functionality (pulling data from a database, displaying it, editing the database, integrating with user using drop down lists, checkboxes, and string input form, nothing too cosmic). I am considering whether I should create an app and just have it all in the Invision software. The two main advantages *I think* is …
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I thought there was a way to prevent all Caps in topic titles? I can't find that setting, if there ever was one? Thanks for the help folks 🙂
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I have two private massage boxes, inbound and outbound. All of my private messages are located in my inbound box folder, and the outbound folder is empty, although I initiate many private messages. Any idea why that is?
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Hi team, It is possible to set auto alphabetical order in forums or subforums? I only find this display option for that but only order the topics, not the subforums or categories inside. Now I reorder manually any new subforum, I've more than 200 subforums and it is a heavy work.
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Last year, I re-organised my member usergroups to help protect from spammers and malicious users. The idea would be that, upon registration, a new user would be set in the usergroup 'Newbie', which requires their first 10 posts to be approved by mod/admin before being able to freely post as well as other restrictions (one of which being unable to make topics). These restrictions would be lifted when the user is promoted to another 'Regular User' group. I set up a rule for this ages ago with the following settings activated: Any Achievement Points Not Banned Groups: Newbie Member Joined: More than 60 Days Ago Last Posted: Anytime La…
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I can't find a way to move blogs I've made to other categories I've created. I see where I am able to click on a blog entry and select "Move," however, when I do this my other blog categories do not show up as options to where I am able to move the blog entry. Also, I see no way to delete the blog categories that I've created. Please let me know if there is a way to do both of these things, as I was unable to figure this out.
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What is the easiest way to set up an email account for cloud? In the past I'd make an email account with godaddy and have to email invision to set it up. Is there another method where I could avoid having to that?
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In the downloads section, when posting a link, Is there a way to name this portion (where it says "view") of it with lets say a google drive link. Website below for context. https://www.beam-monsters.com/
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Can you restrict the members who are mentioned in the Leaderboard? I don't want to turn off points for users, but I do want to exclude a news account and myself from appearing in the leaderboard.
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How can this form spamming be stopped?
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Hello everyone. Is it possible in the Pages app to display a date in MM/YYYY format? (instead of DD/MM/YYYY) In my memory, it seems to me that it was possible in an older version. THANKS
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Unfortunately, IPS doesn't seem to label their PHP files with the current version #, so I have no recollection of the version I downloaded in January, and the archive tells me nothing that I can find. Is there a file in the archive that will tell me the version? I must ask, because I'm upgrading my server to PHP 8.0+ and I want to install the Nov, 2022 release 4.7.4 to see what if anything breaks from 4.7.3. I DO NOT want to upgrade to 4.7.9, since one of my mandatory extensions purportedly is not compatible (Radical Tags). Unfortunately, IPS does not offer it's customers anything but the "current release". I just need to know what version I have based on the ar…
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I'm wondering if there is a way to pull sales for weekly and monthly out of the invision commerce module. I need to break down some numbers to split pay with a partner. Is this possible? Side note: I understand I can do this through a payment processor but we are hosting multiple payment processors and feel like it would be easier if there was an option to somehow pull all sales from the platform on a weekly and /or monthly basis. Tyia
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Hi. A little lost as regards where to set max file size for uploads to a club downloads feature. I've created a downloads section in a club but I seem to be limited in upload size and cannot find where to adjust it. Download categories in the main section are fine (as per the screenshot), but there is nowhere I can find where I can adjust the upload size in a club feature. Thoughts? Thanks!
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All the search results reference menu items I do not have. I just upgraded to the latest version. Martin
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I'm working on creating a global Pages Block that contains a series of custom Blocks. The custom Blocks look great, I just want to add some of the core blocks such as Upcoming Events, Popular Contributors, etc. Is there is a list of these Block keys in the documentation anywhere? I searched but couldn't find it.
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Hi, I'm not sure why all my users have the same ip address instead of their individual ip address. Can anyone help?
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I'm struggling to make my own articles look good on my website. Is there a way to make the page displaying all the articles look like the news on this Invision website, or like the "Our Picks" page on my forum?
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I've been looking all over this website for hosting requirements for self-hosting for 4.7.9. Anyone know where I can find the list of requirements? All I see is to download some sort of technical coding for compatibility that I really don't understand. Any recommended hosts that offer installation and everything besides IPB Cloud?
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Hey there! I am a forum owner of 2 years and am currently using Xenforo forum software. Lately, I have become concerned about their slow development pace and have decided to check Invision out. I was wondering, do the importers that come with invision work well for xenforo? How would I go about migration? Lastly, is there a way to customize the default theme to have an image in the header, like what I saw on this forum?
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Hey! Does anyone know how to pull out / extract a list of emails addresses, which have opted in to receive emails comms from us, so that I can use them in a mailchimp blast?? Cheers!
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Hi, I have a paid club which charge member $10 for initial month, then $10 every 30 days for renew. I run this club for about 6 month. Yesterday, I decided to raised the fee. I changed the price to $20 for joining in, $30 for every 2 month for renew. The new price for initial month is working, members need to pay $20 to join in but for renewal though, it doesn't take effect immediately? I tested it by login as a member who's membership was expired on Feb 28th. I tried to renew the membership, and it still shows the fee of 1 month $10. Does this pricing change only works for new members only? How do I fix it for current expired members? Thanks.
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Thankfully our platform gets very little spam these days, but the odd one creeps on and 99.9% of the time they are always @gmail users. I have noticed in the last couple of weeks there are a lot of what I can only assume are Gmail spammers attempting to register on the forum as the image shows. From what I can tell they don't seem to validate their account, just register them. We have recpatcha v2 enabled and a basic security question in place. Is there anything else we can do to stop them registering at all? If there were not so many genuine gmail users I could of course just block the @gmail domain. But as I can't do that I want to try and ensure we do all …
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Is it possible to use a Pages block in ads? For example: I have a block "sunshine" with html code and want to show this block behind the first post in threads. What's the right way to show? {$record->customFieldDisplayByKey('sunshine', 'listing')|raw} doesn't work 😞
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Is it possible to create Zapier topics post from specific forum/forums instead of one option topics from all forums?
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