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I've searched the forum, but Can you have a different theme(skin) for commerce then the other pages? Thanks
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Are IPS able to explain (if possible) how we can run two installations of an app or plugin (if the developer allows)? So, a few of us have the two accounts (for whatever reasoning) and I have a couple of plugins I wish to use but I cannot install via the Marketplace or receive updates. This wasn't an issue before 4.5, but is there a way around this for clients? Can purchases be swapped/moved over? Obviously, I don't see this being an issue if you have one account and several licences. However, I don't really want to buy the same thing twice. P.S. This isn't another bash at IPS & the Marketplace...
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HI, Trying to setup a block to list downloads files by "guest" I have many files that no longer have an author because the member deleted their account. How can I select only those files? Thank you 🙂
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We've just been approved for the mobile app so I've installed it on a couple of devices and tried it very briefly. The first thing that surprises me is that it doesn't carry any of our get-up - our colours, our logos, anything. In fact if anything it is simply in Invision colours but nothing that would lead someone to understand that they were on our particular forum. The second thing that surprises me is that none of our AdSense advertisements seem to appear. Is this by design? I read somewhere that in some way carrying our ads on this kind of app might be a Google violation – and if it is and I'm afraid that we won't be using the app and we won't encourage people …
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Any advice on what I should set the sort memory to in order to prevent this error? Alternatively, could an index be added to avoid the sort altogether? SELECT gallery_albums.*, author.* FROM `gallery_albums` LEFT JOIN `core_members` AS `author` ON author.member_id = gallery_albums.album_owner_id WHERE gallery_albums.album_category_id=2 AND album_type<>4 AND ( gallery_albums.album_type IN(1,2) OR ( gallery_albums.album_type=3 AND ( gallery_albums.album_owner_id=1 OR gallery_albums.album_allowed_access IN (0,5,10) ) ) ) AND gallery_albums.album_hidden < 2 AND gallery_albums.album_hidden!=-2 AND gallery_albums.album_hidden !=-3 ORDER BY album_last_img_d…
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Hi, I've gone through the settings in the ACP but I can't track this down. When a member adds a photo by uploading from their phone, when another person quotes the post with the photo, we get only this graphic instead of the actual photo again. This only started with 4.5. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks.
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Hey fam, quick question for you guys. So, one of my biggest insecurities with upgrading from 4.4 to 4.5 is the ability for new members to sign in with Facebook, Twitter and/or Google. Wondering if anyone has experienced any hiccups with this? Or did it work just fine after the upgrade. For me, it's been a very useful took and I'd love to keep that momentum. Wanted to see what your guys' thoughts are. Any insight would be greatly appreciated! Thank you.
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I just purchased the 45$ package and am wondering how I can start editing my fourms?
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I noticed a child theme inherits the initial parent "Edit" configuration (i.e. Button colors, text colors, etc). Is there a way to keep/update this inheritance throughout parent edits? I have two themes: Responsive (parent) and Desktop (because some of my users refuse to go Responsive). My only effective change is setting Responsive OFF for the Desktop theme. The rest I want identical to the parent Responsive theme. This does work for things such as custom CSS and HTML changes but not for whatever falls under the "Edit" button. What's the best way to achieve this as I tweak the Parent theme? Only other option is to tweak/finalize Responsive parent and then re-…
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This may be a dumb question, but as I debated about setting up clubs, I can't bring myself to do it because I already have forums for the topics. What am I missing?
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I just upgraded to 4.5.2 and would love to remove these items in the sidebar. How can I do this?
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Blocks/widgets are one of the key features that make Invision Community great. However, I don't use them all and would like to hide the one's I don't use or don't want to use so that the ones I do use are quicker and easier to reach. How can I hide widgets/blocks from the block manager?
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Hello. I also administer an IPB forum from a friend of mine. He has the commerce package. Several over his users are having a paid subscribtion for a year, to get extra access to things and forums. After a year they can decide to get a new subsribtion for a year. Now their forum/club exists for 15 years and they want to give any user registered at that moment, a free 1 year subscribtion. Ofcourse to be fair to the paying members, they also have to get this 1 year free subscribtion added to their current running subscribtion. Is it possible to do this an easy way? Or do we have to add the year subscribtion manually some how to the currect subscribers? O…
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Is there a way to edit how long the "new member" status stays with a member? In talking about the little icon under user avatars in the 4.5 update. Help appreciated.
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Is there any list of official versions of items supported? For example, the 4.5.2 release notes say "Updates search compatibility for Elastic Search 7." but according to @bfarber in this post, only 7.6.2 and earlier is supported. How are we supposed to know the exact versions supported before we upgrade to 4.5.2, without searching the forum for all possible issues? I can imagine many people just upgrading elasticsearch to the newest version from the repo and finding out later that it doesn't work. Plus, how many other items are like this? An official versions supported document would be great.
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HI I decided I would try out lazy load and went to my ACP to turn it on. I was surprised to be asked if I wanted to rebuild my content. I thought I knew how lazy load works but now I am confused. Why does this need to happen? What exactly will happen if I rebuild my content? What happens if I choose no? can I change my mind later if I choose yes? Can I change my mind if I choose no? I have over 1 million image attachments. Should I be worried? Thank you 🙂
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Is it possible to limit the depth of the Fluid View navigation on the right to only filter 2 levels deep? I have some forums that run 4 levels deep, and would only like to display the top 2 levels as the sidebar becomes excessively long otherwise.
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Hi all, With 4.5 it seems that long topics get a "topic stats" in the sidebar. I was wondering how to disable this feature. Thanks.
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Hi, What is the "Content View Behavior" default option for new members? Thanks.
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So let's say I have two member groups - Member and Advanced Member Using Group promotions, I set the rule that members in the "member" group are promoted to "advanced member" when x post count is hit However, I want to demote them back to "member" when they hvae been inactive for x days which I presume I use the "member last visited" or if I want to "member last posted" options. My questions are; Do they move automatically when they hit the last visited / posted threashold Do they move back if they visit / post automatically OR does the other rule override them moving back? i.e because they already have x post count? Sorry if thes…
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EDIT: solution part 1 | Solution part 2. One of the nicer things I wanted to implement in our community are the badges the appear at the top of posts made by "noteworthy" individuals, like management team members, topic authors and members of distinct user groups (like in the screenshots): But for some reason (we all know "I'm dumb" is a possible reason. I'm just saying what everyone is thinking) I can't find where to enable this feature. Anyone can point me in there right direction? Thanks.
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Hi there, quick question. My members are very interested in a better way to search for "custom emojis," or "emotes" as they're nicknamed on my forum. They are extremely popular and often used on my site. Check out this thread that one of my members started. Wondering... would it be possible somehow to sort existing custom emotes? For example, ALL of our custom emotes are in one Group. I was thinking of categorizing custom emotes by Group so it's easier to find them. For example, Groups named: Happy Funny Sad etc I would like to avoid re-uploading all of our emotes as there are currently hundreds. It would be awesome just to drag a…
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So far so good with the 4.52 update except one color issue which I can't seem to find. At the top of the page - the notification area, where can I change the color of the text and icons here. They're so dark against my red themed background. Any idea where this color can be changed?
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Is it possible to disable the "Everyone May Submit" type of album for the Gallery?
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Hi, is it possible to have the upvote system in the discussion forums type, currently I only see this feature on question forum. Please let me know the solution thanks.
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