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I am refining the sections in the Terms & Privacy Policy. In my searches for information, I came across Matt's blog post from 2017: https://invisioncommunity.com/news/invision-community/how-invision-communitys-tools-can-help-with-gdpr-compliance-r1052/ The links in there to the EU policy were very revealing and since our organization is US-based but global in reach, we need to really explain every aspect of what is private and what isn't on our site. If there is one takeaway from Matt's post and the EU policy, it is the need for transparency. I have created a policy that I think is extremely transparent about the user data collected during registrat…
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I currently have a v4 invision community. Let's call this community A for example. If I set up a new v4 (community B) (as v5 isn't released yet) invision community and use my existing v4 community A as the master oAuth login server, and then the new invision community B members can login with their pre-existing community A login. My question is, if I upgrade community B to v5 at release, but keep my community A as v4, will that still work fine with the logins on the new community? I do not wish to upgrade my old community as too many plugins and applications but would like an additional forum where they can login with their existing login. I presume upgra…
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I am looking for a robust selfhosted solution for form data submission, and i want to explore the possibilities that IP gives me. What i need is rather simple Users to be able to submit a form. Preferably custom form logic (fields to appear under condition e.t.c). Email when a new entry is entered. Export to Excel/Spreadsheet. Can i leverage pages to do it?
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Hey folks, Long story short, for years I've been planning a migration for a now 23 year old phpBB 2 to current gen Invision. Some of that planning has involved help from Invision folks like @Matt, @Stuart Silvester, and others, for which I'm super grateful. We're actually doing it this weekend! I'm hoping we can successfully complete it. 🙂 We've been at it since Thursday, and it's looking pretty good. I ran into something that is not a blocker and I suspect is a dead end, but I wanted to ask anyway. Thanks to Stuart, we have working rewrite rules (included at the end of the post) that will correctly forward all profiles, forums, and the first page of every threa…
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I`m currently setting up an internal forum for our company. We compiled a set of rules and guidelines and I entered them in the ACP under "System" -> "Settings" -> "Terms & Privacy Policy" -> "Site Guidelines". However, when I view the forum after I saved the changes these guidelines are nowhere to be seen. I can't find a link to them or anything of that sort. Am I overlooking something? Do I need to set permissions to view them or something like that? Thanks for your help!
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Hello, What is the system requirement for self-hosted V5?
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Our boards have been overrun by Spammers. There's so much spam, I can't find all the users to flag them. How can I find the most recent registrations and flag them as spammers along with all their posts?
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I have a site that is dedicated to users from only Australia and New Zealand yet I get registrations from users all around the world registering to spam the site. Is there any way I can only allow new registrations from users in either Australia and New Zealand (eg IP address) without increasing my work load I.e. having to manually approve registrations Thanks for your help
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Is there a way to do ranked voting or allow multiple votes in a poll? For example, if we present a list of 20 bands, we'd like each user to be able to either: 1) Vote for three of those bands. 2) Vote for three of those bands with ranked voting, so their first choice would earn 3 points, the second choice 2, the third 1. This would be ideal.
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I believe right now emails sent from the server use the value that is entered in the "site name" setting. So the "from" field in emails that are sent appear like so "Cool Company <user@coolcompany.com>" Is it possible to configure this sent from value? I could not find a setting for it. For example I want to change it to: "Jenny from Cool Company <user@coolcompany.com>" Thanks
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Extreme Beginner. When I use the registration form it asks for user to check terms of use. But there is no link to that policy. How do I include the Terms of Use.
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Do invision have plan for same ? How some 1 can manage audio files Also for reels , shorts
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Is it possible to merge/match the SSO login with ENtra ID with exsisting accounts if the email match?
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I have enabled this on my own site many times I have not cleared cache or altered anything in my browser settings What is it that causes it to ask me again?
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Hello, I have a page with a single column. I have placed two custom blocks into the middle row (single column). The first one is a Feedspot feed, the second is PHP code that says Hello. This is how it turns out: I have tried placing the blocks in the upper or lower rows as well as the center. The php block always overlaps the RSS feed. Any suggestions?
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Do I have to live with this banner?
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How do i put in my own created license keys as product benefit
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Tell me what to do, I just installed the forum, the default theme, I didn’t change anything in the template. help, I haven’t been able to figure out what’s wrong for half a day now
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I'm not sure where to find that setting in my ACP? The one that allows visitors to first post without having an account, only to be asked to create your account later. Where do I turn this off? Thanks!
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Would Almalinux 9 be compatible with invision?? Just checking as about to migrate across. thanks
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I have a number of regular users of my site getting a "you are banned" message. I didn't ban them individually. Is there any other reason they might see this message? I've been playing with my "ban settings" under member settings a bit to try and stop spammers. But that should only affect new members trying to register, yes? Or could it affect existing members? Eric
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When someone clicks on the name of a user, it shows the profile page with the "Activity" tab active by default. Is it possible to have the "About Me" tab active by default instead?
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Hello, the database on my website is getting very heavy, and I need to find a way to make it lighter because it can not keep growing and growing. Here are the heaviest tables: 11,1 GiB IPcms_database_revisions.ibd 4,4 GiB IPforums_posts.ibd 3,7 GiB IPcore_edit_history.ibd 3,0 GiB IPcore_log.ibd 1,6 GiB IPcore_search_index.ibd Especially the IPcms_database_revisions I think can be optimized. Is there a way to automatically delete revisions older than x days/weeks/months/years? Thank you in advance!
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Is it possible to try the new IPS version 5 locally? I would like to start testing and review the new features. Can I download the new version somewhere?
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Where is data for categories and sub-cats stored in the SQL database?
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