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I'm working on a new IPS install (so bear with me) and am working on setting up a new DB. The DB will be a directory of places. Some of the places are public retail spots and others are private (by invite only) but the listing of the location will be viewable by all. I've created two categories, "Public" & "Private". When creating a new field such as an Address, is it possible to require the address if the location is in the Public category but optional if it is in the Private category?
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Question: Is there a way to send an email to a user once his/her content has been approved by a moderator? We have a database full of user added products. We require all of the product be approved by a mod, just so the fields are completed uniformly. It would be great to send an email to the user who created the product, that his product is now visible on the site.
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I recently purchased a license and did a quick install to make sure all was well. I need to change the URL though (as the current path is long and not ideal). I thought I might just uninstall and re-install, but I made the mistake of not setting a table prefix during the install, so now I have to sort through all the tables to figure out which are for Invision, drop them, then remove the files, and reinstall to a new path. On one hand, I'd like to easily just change the URL, but it'd probably be best to reinstall with prefixes for better long-term sustainability and maintenance. Is there a full list of default tables somewhere?
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Hi! Is there a way to make the moderators see the history of changes to a post?
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Anyone know if we need to stop allowing California residents to receive commission checks if they use downloads/marketplace due to California AB5 law?
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I did a mybb conversion today it looks like all the forums posts are there from all of the members but they all show up as Guest John Guest Joy, as well when i go into the acp none of the members are showing, am i missing something? Thanks in advance
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The field type editor is the only profile tool, I see that can let video be posted like pics. But there are no controls for the video it gets oversized, not showed at source dimensions. If i right click and select VIEW VIDEO, plays in new window at proper size. But the main page is distorted. Do I have any options?, Is there a embed code that can be used in the profile tool field type editor so I can control the size? Thanks, ~saraJ
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Hello, I know that there is no such type for extra fields, but is there any trick (or ready plugin), to add links which will appear as button. I thought that editor can do this by entering: <a href='https://www.christeris.com' class='ipsButton ipsButton_normal'>ChrisTERiS</a> but I had no luck. Same when I tried as text type. Any idea? Thank you Chris
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I kind of jumped into using the IPS system, so I quickly did the main thing i saw - set up store products for memberships. I have a 0.00 product for just general free memberships. I rather just register them without putting them through the lengthy store experience. Question is, can a user register using the IPS system without going through the cart experience. Just want them to get the pop up or a page, asking for registration info. I in fact have taken all my paid membership products out of the store. So store is of no use to me. Please advise. Thank you! ~saraJ
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Can I redirect the signup button to one of my custom pages, which also has links to the register form? Or hide it? thanks ~saraJ
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All, As an admin, the link button is not appearing on ckeditor. I've not restricted the button, yet this particular one isn't showing up. Any ideas what might be keeping it from appearing?
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I am using the Blog App and it works great. Some blogs will be native others will be imported via RSS. What I noticed though is, when importing the blog using RSS, the main image (Feature Photo) and the contenz inside the description tag of a blog article is not shown when viewing the blog in grid view. Only the standard background image is shown. The Feature Photo could be added manually, but it would be nice to have this included automatically via the feed. Is there a tweak to make it possible to add the feature photo image automatically? Is it perhaps that the blog template would need to be adapted to also parse the description and image? Anyone has experienced this is…
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A member of my community asked the following question Any ideas?
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I'm getting spammed to death. How do I disable the comments on my blog posts? I can't even find a way to delete them. Found a way to "hide them" but I need some sort of approval of comments before they appear live.
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I noticed when downloading 4.4.9 that my URL is missing from my license, I refreshed it in my ACP but it has not updated on the client area
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I just can't see how to do it. It's a normal product although intangible, so I don't set Physical? to yes. So far, so good. But where's the field to upload the files? I'm not speaking about using the Downloads app to allow users to upload their own paid files, as in the Marketplace here, but selling an ebook within Commerce. I want people using our store to spot that there's a category for ebooks as well as all conventional books. If they make a purchase, I'd like them to be able to download them, just as happens with paid files using Downloads. Am I barking up the wrong tree and something like hosting space (?!) is catered for but a download within Commerce isn…
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I'm not really sure if Group Promotions and Subscriptions can work together. Lets say I have 3 Commerce Subscription levels... lets call them by levels and price them fictitiously: Level 1 - free (I now there is debate on using free subscriptions, but I do this to show free vs paid, there are other topics to discuss this) Level 2 - $10 Level 3 -$20 Each subscription level moves the user into a created usergroup of the same name with permissions created and increased per level (higher level, the more you can do) Now, if I want to use Group Promotions and automatically promote members to these created usergroup levels on lets say content count lik…
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If I discover an email address for a member is bad, how can I force them back to the validation of email before logging in step with their account?
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hi How to use a drop cap (initial) like on the blog IPB I do not find https://ckeditor.com/cke4/addons/plugins/all thanks
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I would like to move some of the links from the "Members" and "Activity" menu items that are created by default to the Userlinks Menu that contains account settings, links to the admincp etc. Would be great if I could group the menu items together as well.
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Hello. I was doing some site speed tests via for example PageSpeed Insights. And every time I've got 2 things which are given a high notice for causing performance issues. So I clicked what to do and it says to remove sources who block display and examples like this: …css_built_8/05e81b7…_responsive.css.a5999c6….css?v=8417722b13 …css_built_8/20446cf…_flags.css.4cdedc9….css?v=8417722b13 …css_built_8/976820c…_videobox.css.5715d24….css?v=8417722b13 and so on. Also to remove unused css and then this is shown as advise to remove: …css_built_8/341e4a5…_framework.css.86c1eef….css?v=8417722b13 …
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Is there a way to create a custom url to a specific blog post? I was speculating about doing one through DNS and redirect to the blog post url, but i expect that if i did it this way, i would miss out on a lot of statistics like where clicks came from? Any tips?
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When I click the Submit Topic button after making or replying to a post, the button grays out and it takes an excessive amount of time for the post to be saved. This just started recently. Any ideas what could be causing this to happen? Thanks!
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Hi! Is there a way to create an activity stream, or link to a search, that returns all forum threads with zero replies?
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I'm posting coupons and promo codes that expire..... how can I delete the posts once they expire? Or maybe I should just leave the old ones up for "SEO"? Otherwise... it's a daily task to "clean out the old... in with the new"
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