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It used to be when you made a post on your forums and then posted it on Facebook, it would show the first picture in the thread - along with the title. NOW when I try to do that, it will originally show this: Okay, so that's before I post it on FB. That looks how I want it to look. But when you post it, it turns in to this - a pic of my logo - and that isn't going to get any traction: I've reached out to customer service (lol) and they said it cannot be done. They said to go to APPEARANCE/THEMES, and said that the only thing that can be displayed is the DEFAULT SHARE IMAGE. This is a MAJOR issue while trying to get t…
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I'm trying to figure out how to get our domain changed. I've sent three support tickets over the past several weeks, but I haven't received any confirmations or follow up. I'm wondering if there is a problem with support tickets or if there is another way I can go about doing this. Any guidance? Thanks!
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Is there a switch in the admin cp somewhere that I can't find, or some other way for you to set the timeline as the default landing page?
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My site is currently running 4.4.10. I inherited it from someone else who never cleaned up the file system from an old upgrade from another vendor, had some personal stuff scattered around, etc. It's working fine but I would like to do a clean install to get it neat and tidy. Can I do that with the current database? In other words will a fresh install of 4.6.7 work on a 4.4.10 database, or is any conversion needed? Thanks Bill
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Hi, Maybe I've posted in the wrong section, so I try here : I want to produce (and sell in the Marketplace) my own french translation, but in my current licence I don't own all the options (missing downloads & blogs). Is it possible to get only a "strings" file to make a translation without having to buy all the licence options ? Thankyou, D
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Hello! How is it possible to set main menu like here on invisioncommunity.com ? Big main menu buttons on the top and forum buttons on the 2nd row. Thank you!
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Hi guys, Can you please let me know where is the announcements feature in the admin panel? I can not seem to be able to find it. I mean this one:
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Hi, I don't have the blog feature, but I'm willing to integrate a blog into our community (so maybe I'll purchase it). The original blog articles are quite long and organized in chapters/sections for a easiest understanding and navigation. In the Invision Community blog feature is it possible to create such blogs ? maybe throug an add-on ? (in WordPress for example you need an add on but it is possible). Here is an example of a - big - article/tutorial of the blog I want to migrate into invision's blog, you can see in the top right of the navigation bar the chapters organization and levels : https://www.diegoyourself.com/index.php?article=mecanique_carbu_solex3…
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I have configured according to the instructions in this guide and I get this error ... how can I get assistance? Regards,
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Fairly often we get a post that sends a topic completely off the rails and we'd like to remove that original post and all other subsequent posts stemming from that original post. Any way to do that easily? rather than finding and deleting each post individually? Thanks!
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We created a new DB for accepting requests from our members. After completing the fields, it shows the submission field - correct way. BUT it also shows the entries of other member are record category page. Any clue with which permission we can hide that? So that each member can only view their entry and not 100 others members pvt data. Please help. Thanks in advance. Domain/db_name/records - Should not be visible to anyone other than ADMIN. Domain/db_name/records/gaurav-r2 - Should be visible to the member who created the request and not everyone.
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Hello, I've been wondering for a while why the default blog application doesn't look as neat as the official Invision blog. The layout is different. It looks just unfinished on the regular version. THIS : VERSUS THIS : What gives? Any way to emulate that kind of layout? Thank you...
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Is there a feature/function in the chat boards were a moderator/admin can block a user's posts completely? Not just the ignore feature, but a way to remove that "blocked" user's posts from showing up as quoted in another users posts? We want to be able to hide referenced posts/quotes by ignored users in other’s posts. Thanks
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I could not find a topic on this, hope it's ok to post here. In the topic list we get a preview text with every topic, this is a preview of the first post. Is it possible to show the last post in the topic? Via a setting i overlooked or a plugin?
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My users are often confused because they can't write in our (public) clubs. The problem in most cases is that they would have to become a member of the club first. Unfortunately, this is not made so clear. One solution would be to change the club to "open". But then there is not the possibility for users to join. Or am I overlooking a setting that a group is public AND you can join as a member? Or for public clubs that all users can write independent of membership in club?
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where do i go to set a sub domain
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Hi, Maybe it was just some other user's suggestion, but I though it was possible to moderate all publications from a single user. If it is possible (otherwise than through a warning) I can't manage to find out where... I need that functionality for potential spammers suspected profiles, just to see what happens before letting them post as much as they want anywhere...
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I was wondering if maybe I am doing something wrong? I have enabled in ACP>Members>Notifications>Automatically follow content> I have checked both create and reply to, but for some reason it doesn't seem to be working. Now I know that a member can set this themselves, but even I have this enabled, and if I create a topic or reply it does not automatically allow me to follow it. Is there something that I am missing? I have also reset all members to default before enabling this as well. Shouldn't it just work? It works fine here on IPS when I create or replay to a topic I automatically follow it. EDIT* I just assumed that enabling this option enforced …
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Hi, I've seen a parameter disallowing adds display in "non-content" pages, but I can't manage to find it again (?) Please, where is it ??
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Is it possible to have specific groups start on different Pages or Modules? For example, one group would start on a published Page and another group would start on a different Page.
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After the setup instructions on using Rocket.Chat and the IPB OAuth API I thought I would share the settings for using Matrix Chat. Matrix in itself is more a specification. Its reference server is called Synapse. One of the well known Web Client is called Element-web (previously called Riot). There are several clients available to choose from. For more information the website is a good place: https://matrix.org/ Members with a forum account can use the same account to login into the element-web chat client. These are the settings in the IPB Admin Panel: Client Type: Custom Confidential OAuth Client Available Grant Types: Authorization Code …
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I want to hire someone to make a custom app for my website, but before I do that, I'm just wondering if we are able to have a c++ application handle login and registrations on app. So it would also create a profile on site if they registered through the app. Or i could haave register link to the register page in a browser but would login still be do able ? Im on community in the cloud but I do realize I may have to host myself to have full control.
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I remember there was some progress bar once a user registered... To set up the user photo, etc. What is that called? I cannot find it for the life of me. Onboarding? Set Up? Profile Configuration? Profile Progress? I want to see if I can modify it now that I can make use of it. Thanks!
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So I started up my community and am heavily using pages, so the first question I have is whether it is possible to edit the wiki-style editing option so that whenever someone changes something in an article, an admin has to confirm that change. If that is already possible, I would appreciate how to set it up. The other question is whether it is possible to use tables in pages/articles since I basically want to set up a bunch of lists in one category.
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I'm trying to get trust badges in the footer, but for some reason i have to click read more to show the badges, it kinda hides the badges in a type of spoiler, i am only using stripe at the moment so I am using stripes trust badge from there site. my website is https://nightowl.gg
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