Invision Community 5.0.17 SPRINGS into life

This is our monthly updates and improvements release. You can see the full changelog here.

Along with the usual fixes, we've got new features in this update:

Pages

Workflow Manager

(Creator Pro, Team, Business, Enterprise)

This is an exciting one!. Workflow Manager is designed to streamline and automate repetitive actions. This range of Pages updates are designed to save time and reduce repetitive tasks.

Each database has a "Workflows" menu item in the AdminCP. Each created workflow is displayed as a single button. You can define the properties of the button, and you use "Match Criteria" to determine when the button should show, and "Actions" to determine what it does when clicked.

For this series of screenshots, I have two workflows set up, one to approve and one to reject the article. The status field itself is configured so it cannot be changed outside of a workflow.

Available Match Criteria

• Item Status - pinned/featured/hidden/etc.

• Custom Field value (uses OR logic, not AND)

(match criteria is the same for both workflow actions)

Available Actions

• Assign an item

• Post a comment

• Change the item status - pinned/featured/hidden/etc.

• Notify the item author

• Notify specific members

• Change the value of a Custom Field

This configuration gives us two new buttons on the article.

Let's click approve this and send a message to the author.

There's a huge number of Workflows that could be implemented. Let us know what flows you're thinking about automating.

Reusable Template Blocks

This new block type allows you to define a set of input fields and a template to reuse multiple times.

Create your new block with the template structure of your choice.

On the front-end, you can add the new block to the page using the Page Editor. Fill in your fields for this block location and hit save!

You can use the same block as many times as you wish on the same page. This screenshot shows two blocks using the same pre-defined template.

Field Templates

Custom display formats for fields can now be saved as a template. This allows multiple fields to share the same display formatting without copying and pasting the setting on each field.

This also has the advantage of being able to update templates using the Pages template manager.

Status Field

A minor, but time-saving, new feature is the status field. Out of the box, it allows you to specify the statuses and an associated color which are automatically displayed on the record without any further configuration.

Status fields are integrated with the new Workflow Manager, allowing these fields to be automated.

Other smaller, but notable changes:

• We added a new setting to allow archived topics to instruct search engines not to index them (they're also removed from the sitemap).

• Continued modernization by removing reliance on 2 more JavaScript libraries.

• Further improved accessibility on the registration form (password strength is now announced by screen readers).

Focused Beta Testing

We'd love it if you could pay some extra attention to these areas during the beta process.

Removed underscore.js usage in favour of native JavaScript equivalents

• Underscore was used extensively in our code, leading to widespread adjustments to remove reliance. Please let us know if you see any JavaScript errors.

Preparing for jQuery 4.0

• We have made many changes to remove reliance on deprecated jQuery functionality to prepare for jQuery 4.0. Please let us know if you see any JavaScript errors.

I have updated to 5.0.17 beta 1 and do not see workflow in my admin is this for cloud users only?

This is what I see.

These are available within our Creator Pro, Team, Business and Enterprise packages, as mentioned above

This is the wet dream of my use for the Pages app! Looking forward to it!

is there a snaglist somewhere, i want to see if the MODCP approvals have been fixed yet.

1 hour ago, loccom said:

is there a snaglist somewhere, i want to see if the MODCP approvals have been fixed yet.

There is indeed in the post above :)
full changelog here

6 hours ago, Marc said:

These are available within our Creator Pro, Team, Business and Enterprise packages, as mentioned above

I dont want this to be taken the wrong way but it would be useful to know why this extra has been gate-keeped behind SAAS only.

I understood (although our setup could possibly do it) things like AI and even the Courses app/module as we didnt pay for it with self hosted but I am not sure if there is a proper technical reason or just a add value reason why it has been gate-kept?

Edited March 17Mar 17 by sudo

I think one of the reasons may be to make the cloud offering more attractive, which is understandably more important from a business perspective.

Personally, I see the Classic (self-hosted) version as the base version of the software, which the name itself kind of suggests. The higher tier plans then build on top of that by offering additional features and capabilities.

2 hours ago, PanSevence said:

Personally, I see the Classic (self-hosted) version as the base version of the software, which the name itself kind of suggests. The higher tier plans then build on top of that by offering additional features and capabilities.

Yes, it's exactly that. It isn't a self-hosting vs Cloud thing. We have features on higher-tier plans that are not on lower tiers.

3 hours ago, PanSevence said:

Personally, I see the Classic (self-hosted) version as the base version of the software, which the name itself kind of suggests. The higher tier plans then build on top of that by offering additional features and capabilities.

Even one of the lower tiers that is similar to the Classic is far outside of what I can afford. I have three licenses that would cost over 5 grand.

For less than 1/2 of that, I have a VPS, the three licenses, and access to my data,

Once they remove Classic, I will have to move elsewhere.

I like that the changelog shares exactly what is for what separately, so there's no confusion, but I do wish the topics for new release would outline them based on cloud and classic.

There's a lot to take in, and whilst I enjoy reading what is new.

(Creator Pro, Team, Business, Enterprise) in the smallest way possible doesn't really bring people's attention to it. You are drawn into the images, and people often skim. I must admit when I first read the first post I didn't realise. I'm not really a fan of small print, especially since I do struggle to see at times and I think Invision should probably open up with either Cloud based changes or Classic.

The workflow seems a great idea, I am not too bothered because there's many ways to handle this without the feature.

I am pleased to see 5.0.17 beta released. I think v5 is a great release.

I also believe that information about features available in higher-tier plans should be more clearly highlighted, for example with a badge or some other visual indicator, so that questions like this don’t keep coming up. Small fine print is not a good solution, as these kinds of questions appear with every release. Don’t be afraid to clearly and explicitly state that a given feature is only available in specific packages, it will help avoid unnecessary comments.

25 minutes ago, PanSevence said:

I also believe that information about features available in higher-tier plans should be more clearly highlighted, for example with a badge or some other visual indicator, so that questions like this don’t keep coming up. Small fine print is not a good solution, as these kinds of questions appear with every release. Don’t be afraid to clearly and explicitly state that a given feature is only available in specific packages, it will help avoid unnecessary comments.

I'm glad that it's now marked at all. In the beginning you had to read the whole text to get this information.

I like that Pages gets some love now. The new reusable template block and field templates come in very handy. 😊

Edited March 18Mar 18 by Hatsu

No news about this fiux for this bug? [5.0.11] Elasticsearch showd read topics in unread topics

Elasticsearch is not usable since the release of IPS 5.

Two issues:

• "Load more content" on activity streams does not work

• the editor for creating comments on the reports is not being shown.

On 3/17/2026 at 12:19 PM, Marc said:

These are available within our Creator Pro, Team, Business and Enterprise packages, as mentioned above

So, everything added in this update is for these tiers only?

Load more activity issue I can reproduce here as well:

28 minutes ago, TDBF said:

So, everything added in this update is for these tiers only?

Only the Workflow Manager which is explicitly noted as those tiers would be applied there.

48 minutes ago, bags_ppp said:

Two issues:

• "Load more content" on activity streams does not work

Thanks, I've created a bug report for this.

49 minutes ago, bags_ppp said:

• the editor for creating comments on the reports is not being shown.

I cannot reproduce this issue. Do you have any specific steps that I can try?

9 minutes ago, Stuart Silvester said:

Thanks, I've created a bug report for this.

I cannot reproduce this issue. Do you have any specific steps that I can try?

1. Report forum post

2. Go to ModeratorCP

3. Try to comment but there is no editor

1 hour ago, bags_ppp said:

1. Report forum post

2. Go to ModeratorCP

3. Try to comment but there is no editor

I have tested on multiple installs and cannot reproduce this. I have the editor as expected.

Do you have any errors in your browser console?

No errors in browser console or logs:

These two buttons also do not work:

23 minutes ago, bags_ppp said:

No errors in browser console or logs:

Ah, I see where the confusion is. The Editor to add comments is on the comment tab.

3 minutes ago, bags_ppp said:

These two buttons also do not work:

Thanks, I can reproduce this too.

Sorry, I did not explain first issue very well. (I am only Messenger in this case)

After click on "Submit comment" nothing happens.

web console

Uncaught TypeError: reduce of empty array with no initial value

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quickReply https://redacted.com/static/js/global/root_front.js?v=12d91cb2a81773848853:187

dispatch https://redacted.com/static/js/global/root_library.js?v=12d91cb2a81773848853:2

handle https://redacted.com/static/js/global/root_library.js?v=12d91cb2a81773848853:2

root_front.js:215:306