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As an Admin, when I choose the moderator option of "feature" a topic, what happens? Iv'e had Invisio on three of my forums and I cant see that anything gets featured anywhere.
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Hi guys, I posted in The peer to peer technical section then realised it may be the wrong area but can’t delete it. Basically, I have taken over the task of running the forum we have for our car club, as the person who helped set it up left our club a few years ago. We have to shift the whole site and forum over to a new server. I have a cloud server so I am trying to shift it to that. I have tried to follow some guides, and others posts people have made but keep hitting a wall. I have transferred the webspace contents to the new server. I have made new Databases and uploaded the contents of them to the new server. I have edited the conf.global.…
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I am having problems moving my site and forum over to another server, posted in the server section. I have taken over the forum and site management as we had no-one else to do it. As a result the PHP side of it all, and the amount of files dotted around in PHP5.4 is nuts. I am wondering if it is possible to do a complete new install my server that we are moving this too, but still use all of the old database info. I ask this as the current install is IPB 3.4, I am unable to upgrade this on the current server due to the PHP issue and I don't yet have the knowledge to upgrade it. Is what I am thinking possible? We have a lot of posts and topics that we really do…
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I looked around but couldn't find out how to do this or if it was possible. Currently, I can see the number of downloads of a particular file, but I'm looking to know who downloaded and when - so basically a log. Ideally some notifications around downloads would be good as well. Does this feature exist? Thank you, Bryon
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I archived a fair number of site topics a few years ago when I needed to be careful with my site resources. I'd now like to unarchive everything. Is there a simple way to mass unarchive? Running 4.4.10 Many thanks for any info.
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Hello, How to remove group with all members inside it? Thank you.
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A few years ago I set up the Our Picks page as the default home page for my site. It has been working well there and I like it a lot. However, I would like to make some changes, specifically to the page title (that shows up in the browser tab) and for the life of me I can't remember where this is done. I must have done it before because it is specific to my site. Help!
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Hey guys, Cause many of the articles posted in my pages are quiet long I need to split them into multiple pages. The internal feature of Next Page works very well but it would be amazing if I could also name the pages and create an Index of them, for example like Wikipedia. is it possible or? Thanks 🙂
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Is there a way to name the files linked by URL, if multiple links are added. Say that I have a book and each chapter has its own link. Right now it just shows the word file. Is there a way to make it where you can name each link, such as Chapter 1, Chapter 2, etc. instead of file for each one?
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Hi there, Is it possible to wrap text around a video embedded within a Blog post? Many thanks
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Hi there, We're using pages to post a couple of articles a day on different topics. Is there any way for a user to automatically or through choice select to receive notifications when any article is published within a pages database? Many thanks
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Hi All, New user here, I've dug through the forums and I can't find any way to do this. We have a new community and were setting it up to use the Pages and Articles to create a How-To section. This should be forward facing and we want anyone browsing the web to be able to see all the articles. But the attachments to the articles should only be available to members (or specific groups). I can't find a way to do this. I'm sure I'm missing something. Any help is greatly appreciated.
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Hello, I am looking to use the invision community site as an OpenID provider for Epic Online Services but cannot find how to configure it in Invision Community. Is this not supported ? Am I misunderstanding something ? See the information they require here : Best, Max
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I searched and found something named Announcement Block. However, reading through them I'm not sure it's the same thing. So I'll ask. I visited two sites so far who coincidentally are using IPS. Each one of them had an Announcement Banner right at the top of the site. I love that and was wondering how they did that. I went into our ACP and could not find anything even in the Advertisement area. Unless I missed it of course. Anyway, just asking to see if that Announcement Banner is something that is available on IPS. Thanks as always, Ivan
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Hi I don’t remember this being such a problem. But lately it’s been really annoying me that I can’t click the pancake stack until after the scroll bar goes away. I am on mobile iOS. Can anything be done about this? To be fair I think my clumsy thumb just can’t avoid clicking the scroll bar instead of the pancake stack but it feels buggy. Even though it’s probably a fat finger issue
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Hello all, I have a question regarding usergroup permissions, specifically for moderators and supermoderators. I would like these usergroups to be able to soft delete posts and not hard delete information off the server when they are removing topics and posts. Can someone tell me if information is soft deleted or not when they have the permissions to delete in the group permissions? Also, under mod/supermoderator permissions there is an option that says 'Can Manage All Deleted Content'. What exactly does this mean, does this mean that if something has been soft deleted, they would be able to hard delete it? Any advice for setting up mod and super…
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I'm thinking of adding Pages to my forum, but I don't want the Pages installation to become the 'home page', I'd want the forum to be the home page with Pages as an additional section. If I purchase and install Pages, will that automatically become the Home Page or would I have the option of designating that?
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Hi all, Does anyone know if there is a way to set up the file downloads to be hosted elsewhere rather than through the server? For example, if a user wants to sell photography presets, can we host the files on Amazon cloud and have the download be delivered from there rather than directly through our server?
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I was thinking of using only social log-in handlers for my community when it launches (Facebook, Twitter, Google). I was wondering if this is something you would all recommend or be against for your own community if you were to start it today? Why or Why Not? I was thinking of doing this since those big companies have more robust security vs what I can provide so if somebody were to circumvent the new account registrations through proxy's for my community, they wouldn't be able to do the same with those three. Also, I was thinking of using it cause its 1 less login username/pw to remember in this world of dozens of username/pw.
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I really hope someone here can help me with code edits or plugin (happy to pay) to show going number in Calendar side bar widget. @newbie LAC please help. Current Style Something/Anything like this (example)
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Hello! I need to remove the comment tab header (1 Comment etc) from my database record's template and leave only the comment body. I want my comment to be only the part in the blue box. I tried checking in my templates but I couldn't find the right one, which one do I have to edit? Thanks 🙂
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Good evening, Could you help me find the Cookies Notice application, as suggested by the uploaded image? Thanks in advance, Regards, Claude
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I know IPS4.5 addresses issues with ph version 7.4....but don't know if there are hangups with software using earlier versions of php.... We provide PHP object library (single file PapApi.class.php) that simplifies making the requests to the Post Affiliate Pro API and processing the responses. PapApi.class.php is part of every Post Affiliate Pro (since version 4.1.4.5) distribution and can be found in api folder in your installation files or you can download it in Merchant panel > Tools > Integration > API Integration. Always use the PapApi.class.php from you current version of Post Affiliate Pro to ensure compatibility. To be able to use this c…
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Hello guys, I created a new database for Ranking some products and I used custom fields for the criteria. The custom field is a number and I want all of them to be listed using this value, so in the database page I set to order the items by that custom field and it should be like: 2002,1816,240,142 etc. But doesn't work, it mix up, if I change the order from ascendig to descening things doesn't change, it mix them again. As you can see I set Sort by the custom field I want but yet, nothing worked 😮 Maybe I am missing something? 😕
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Hi all! We'd like to add the Grid View of recent "Blog" entries as a placeable Pages block. Was hoping the following would work, but all I'm getting is "No Story Entries Yet" (We've renamed the module Stories, and use it for user-written Literature). Any help would be amazing, thanks! We're on the latest 4.4.10. {expression="\IPS\Output::i()->jsFiles = array_merge(\IPS\Output::i()->jsFiles, \IPS\Output::i()->js('front_browse.js', 'story'))"} <section class='ipsType_normal ipsSpacer_both cBlog_grid' data-controller='blog.front.browse.grid'> {{if \count($entries)}} {{$count = 0;}} {{if $pagination['page'] == 1}} <div class='cBlog_grid_row cBl…
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