59 minutes ago, Square Wheels said:

IPS will tell you no, but many people do use this.

Worked fine! Thank you.

Hello,

I just upgraded my self-hosted community from Invision Community 4.7.25 to 5.0.20 (manual upgrade, default theme). Everything works, but the forum index now uses a card/grid layout, and every forum shows a large grey placeholder with an image icon, because none of my forums has a Card Image set.

I have many forums and I don't want to upload an image to each one. What I would like is to either:

1. Switch the forum index to the table/list view used in 4.x (no images), or

2. Hide the card image / placeholder entirely, keeping the layout as it is.

My questions:

- Where do I change the layout of the forum index (grid, feed, table)? I found the Card Image and Icon fields under Customization when editing a forum, but I could not find a setting that switches the layout. I also looked in Forums > Settings.

- Is there a way to hide the placeholder when a forum has no Card Image?

Setup: Invision Community 5.0.20, PHP 8.1, MariaDB 10.3.39, default theme.

Thank you!

3 hours ago, pietro.curti said:

Hello,

I just upgraded my self-hosted community from Invision Community 4.7.25 to 5.0.20 (manual upgrade, default theme). Everything works, but the forum index now uses a card/grid layout, and every forum shows a large grey placeholder with an image icon, because none of my forums has a Card Image set.

I have many forums and I don't want to upload an image to each one. What I would like is to either:

1. Switch the forum index to the table/list view used in 4.x (no images), or

2. Hide the card image / placeholder entirely, keeping the layout as it is.

My questions:

- Where do I change the layout of the forum index (grid, feed, table)? I found the Card Image and Icon fields under Customization when editing a forum, but I could not find a setting that switches the layout. I also looked in Forums > Settings.

- Is there a way to hide the placeholder when a forum has no Card Image?

Setup: Invision Community 5.0.20, PHP 8.1, MariaDB 10.3.39, default theme.

Thank you!

This one?
Click Profile Account > Theme Editor > Page Layout > Forum Index > Table

16 minutes ago, Paras said:

This one?
Click Profile Account > Theme Editor > Page Layout > Forum Index > Table

Thank you, that works for my account. Is this setting saved per user or for the theme? I would like the table view to be the default for all members (including guests). Where can an administrator set this default?

yes thats the default you can change it in theme editor page layout and works for all users.

click your avatars name then click theme editor then page layout change to what you want.

20 hours ago, Square Wheels said:

IPS will tell you no, but many people do use this.

Actually IPS will tell you we dont recommend it, rather than no. We optimise for mysql 8, and have seen people have performance issues on mariadb. If you choose to use it, thats no problem. Just be aware

4 hours ago, Marc said:

Actually IPS will tell you we dont recommend it, rather than no

Understood, I was answering this question:

"Is MariaDB officially supported by Invision Community 5.x?"