Ryan Thomas Posted September 27, 2015 Posted September 27, 2015 Hey guys, Currently my site uses the Status Updates page on 4.0 as the homepage. My users can post brand new status updates right from the status updates page. In IP 4.1, I noticed that there is no way to post NEW status updates to the status updates page here: https://community.invisionpower.com/discover/4/ It appears you can only reply to status updates. I really hope this is not the case because this is an extremely important feature for my community: to be able to post brand new status updates straight to the status updates page. Maybe I am just missing something but did you guys remove this feature in 4.1? Please say it ain't so because without it, my community will be verrrrry unhappy people!
Joel R Posted September 27, 2015 Posted September 27, 2015 That's an Activity Stream, which has never allowed you to directly post into the stream. With that said, you can use the +Create button at the very top of every page.
chilihead Posted September 28, 2015 Posted September 28, 2015 2 hours ago, Joel R said: That's an Activity Stream, which has never allowed you to directly post into the stream. With that said, you can use the +Create button at the very top of every page. 3.4 had a Status Updates "stream"... and there's a default stream here called Status Updates, hence the confusion. You can see how one would expect it. Not sure how 4.0 works as not on it. But 3.4 has it: Also "Create" is not on mobile.
Ryan Thomas Posted September 29, 2015 Author Posted September 29, 2015 Any update on this? Currently, my homepage is the status stream from 4.0 and every user on my site uses it and loves it. I have to have it continue on my site. Anyone? @ Mark @Matt @Charles ?
CP Posted September 29, 2015 Posted September 29, 2015 I agree with you. I never noticed it till you mentioned it.
Rikki Posted September 29, 2015 Posted September 29, 2015 It'd be relatively easy to mimic it if you wanted to. You could add the 'recent status updates' widget to the header of the streams page, and edit the template of that widget so it doesn't show the status updates. That would just leave you with the form for posting a new status.
chilihead Posted September 29, 2015 Posted September 29, 2015 Pretty neat! Can you do that per stream? Would that template edit affect all status widgets or just that one?
Rikki Posted September 29, 2015 Posted September 29, 2015 You can't do it per-stream - from the backend, widgets work per-page, so it'd be on all stream pages. You could probably add some logic in the widget template to hide it if it wasn't on the actual Statuses stream though. Editing the template would affect all instances of the status widget, but again, with some logic in the template you could split it out and do something different specifically for that one.
Ugur Kaya Posted September 29, 2015 Posted September 29, 2015 3 minutes ago, Rikki said: You can't do it per-stream - from the backend, widgets work per-page, so it'd be on all stream pages. You could probably add some logic in the widget template to hide it if it wasn't on the actual Statuses stream though. Editing the template would affect all instances of the status widget, but again, with some logic in the template you could split it out and do something different specifically for that one. @Rikki i have a question will 4.1 stable need much time as 4 or less ?
Rikki Posted September 29, 2015 Posted September 29, 2015 6 minutes ago, Ugur Kaya said: @Rikki i have a question will 4.1 stable need much time as 4 or less ? Much less, the changes in 4.1 are localized to particular areas of the software. 4.0 was an entirely new product.
Ugur Kaya Posted September 29, 2015 Posted September 29, 2015 2 minutes ago, Rikki said: Much less, the changes in 4.1 are localized to particular areas of the software. 4.0 was an entirely new product. Thank you good to know.I like the 4.1 much and looking to move to it the notification sound is just great i must say ips is very professional and modern.
Ryan Thomas Posted September 30, 2015 Author Posted September 30, 2015 4 hours ago, Rikki said: It'd be relatively easy to mimic it if you wanted to. You could add the 'recent status updates' widget to the header of the streams page, and edit the template of that widget so it doesn't show the status updates. That would just leave you with the form for posting a new status. Okay, thanks for the suggestion @Rikki Is this widget new in 4.1? Because I don't remember there being a way to do this in 4.0...
Rikki Posted September 30, 2015 Posted September 30, 2015 The widget isn't new in 4.1, but being able to post a new status from it is
Ryan Thomas Posted September 30, 2015 Author Posted September 30, 2015 37 minutes ago, Rikki said: The widget isn't new in 4.1, but being able to post a new status from it is awesome, this is better news then I originally though! Thanks for the info.
TheWorldNewsMedia.org Posted February 8, 2016 Posted February 8, 2016 Is it just me or is this question still valid? I still see no way to for members to post status updates.
chilihead Posted February 8, 2016 Posted February 8, 2016 Each member has to enable status updates in a virtually hidden setting, very unintuitive. This app fixes:
sadel Posted April 1, 2017 Posted April 1, 2017 On 2/7/2016 at 7:25 PM, Michael Krewson said: Is it just me or is this question still valid? I still see no way to for members to post status updates. I'm having the same issue not finding this setting to enable status updates. I think this should be a default setting enabled for all users, I'm getting little frustrated.
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