We have made two sections of resources available on our site: Official and Community. Official Resources
These are resources made by IPS staff and include everything from getting started guides to developer documentation. We are still populating our database of documentation and appreciate your feedback on what sort of information you might be looking for. What seems easy to IPS staff can often…
bbAuthority.com, a resource site for forum administrators has posted a review of IP.Board 3:
http://www.bbauthority.com/forum-software/invision-power-board-3-an-insight
Thanks bbAuthority.com for the review! Always great to see how others react to IP.Board 3's new capabilities!
We are working on making customer access here on our company forums work better. During our changes some clients may have been removed from Customers group and put in the Members group.
If you are experiencing issues please first try this:
The most common issue we have is with customers not logging in with the email they use in the client area.
If you are still having trouble please submit a…
The first beta release of the CleanCut skin is now available in the client area under the Development Releases section of IP.Board.
There may be issues with the skin so please test it before using it live. Report bugs in the CleanCut section of our bug tracker.
Enjoy!
Since IP.Board 3.0.0 was a brand new release, it shipped with a brand new design. This design was intended to be easy-to-use, whilst looking as attractive as possible. However, some may prefer the older versions and this is where our newest community project steps in.
For the past few weeks, the skinners from our Community Developer team have been hard at work reviving three classic skins from t…
Our new Spam Monitoring Service is being adopted by thousands of IP.Board owners all over the web and we are starting to see the system "learning" about spam accounts and blocking registrations from all the incoming reports. It's great to see the community of IP.Board owners working together to help combat spam.
We are noticing that some clients are not properly using the service because of doma…
Our demo system has been updated to include the latest build of our soon to be released Community Content System.
There is a limit to the number of active accounts that can have a demo at once so if the system is full just try back later. It cycles old accounts every few minutes.
http://www.invisionpower.com/products/demo.php
We have been posting blog entries and information about our soon to be released Community Content System for some time now. For those of you who have not already read about CCS, check out these posts: Introducing Community Content System
Blocks Overview
Pages Overview
Media Manager
Templates
The CCS system is currently in internal testing and has reached Release Candidate phase. We are ju…
Our CCS application allows administrators to create page templates to facilitate easy addition of similar pages throughout the site. Most pages throughout a site follow the same general structure with only the main page content changing from page to page. You can utilize the page templates functionality of CCS to make adding pages in this scenario much easier.
Page templates utilize the full pow…
Updated: IP.Subscriptions 1.0.0 Beta 3 is available now!
We're pleased to announce that IP.Subscriptions 1.0.0 Beta is available for download from your client center.
This is the second beta release of the subscriptions manager that is compatible with IP.Board 3.0. Many long standing bugs and issues have been fixed in this release including: Recurring subscription cancelation immediately end…
We are pleased to announce that the first stable release of IP.Tracker 1.3, the compatibility release of IP.Board 3.0.0, is now available from IPS Resources. About IP.Tracker
IP.Tracker is a bug/issue tracking system, it allows members and staff to track certain issues, for examples, bugs within a project you are working on, or even building a house! IP.Tracker supports statuses, severities, and…
Choosing a winner for our skin design contest was a challenging task as all submissions were excellent. Ultimately, we chose the winning skin based on ease of editing and overall usability for inclusion in the IPB3 distribution as an alternate skin. There were some great skins that we could not choose so we hope that all of you talented designers that submitted such amazing skins will continue you…
Our new community hosting packages have been quite popular but some clients expressed a bit of confusion or provided helpful feedback so we have made some enhancements to the packages.
All community hosting packages have seen their posts and file storage increased. Also, all packages (except Basic 10) have had their online user limits increased!
Any current clients on these packages will get t…
I just wanted to update everyone on our convertor services. We recently updated the convertor information page on our web site to try to clarify some confusion. Note: There is a free conversion service sale going on right now so just keep in mind that the paid services I mention here do not apply until that sale ends. :)
We have two types of conversion services: free and paid. Our free convers…
IP.Board 3.0.0 and Applications launch has been going great so far. We hope everyone who has already upgraded their installs to IPB3 is enjoying the new software.
Welcome to all the recent new customers and converts to IPS software and hosting. Everyone here hopes you enjoy your experience! Join in the community, get help from other customers or jump in and offer help yourself. You never know wh…
An important aspect to many webpages is the media embedded into the webpage. It's rare to come across a web page that has no images on it, after all. For this reason, we have included a media management tool in CCS to facilitate adding, organizing, and otherwise managing media for your pages. A word about security
Security is a very important concern when working with files and folders on the…
The demo system for our software has been updated to include IP.Board 3.0.0 along with Gallery, Downloads, and Blog. This is a great way to try out IP.Board 3 if you have not yet wanted to try an RC release or if you are not currently an IPS client and are considering a purchase.
There is a limit to the number of active demo accounts that can be online at one time so if you are unable to sign up…
The core of the CCS application centers around allowing you to create pages for your website. The way you create pages and the types of pages you create will be specific to your site, however the process is the same. One administrator may want to build the full front of their website using CCS, while another administrator may want to add some pages within the forums that are not there by default. …
This is the first blog entry going over specific features in the new Community Content System. See the full announcement for more information:
Our Community Content System allows administrators to create blocks that can be used anywhere within the CCS framework and anywhere within the forums, blogs, galleries, or any other IPB applications. Blocks are small content includes that can contain p…
The second release candidate of IP.Board 3.0.0 is nearly ready for release. We are just going through the final stages of internal testing and then it will be made available. Just to remind everyone of the previous blog entry which contains various FAQs and information on release candidates.
This release is a huge improvement from RC1 just a few short weeks ago. Since RC1 was the first release w…
The first release candidate of IP.Board 3.0.0 is coming very soon. Everyone here at IPS wants to thank all of our customers who took their time to test the various beta releases of IP.Board to date. We also want to thank those who participated in the IPB3 preview forum and gave their pre-beta feedback.
IPS believes that the public beta process was an important part of this process. Although the …
We released IP.Board 3.0.0 Beta 5 last week and the release has gone very well so we are preparing to enter the Release Candidate phase of development. Thanks to everyone who has downloaded the various beta releases and posted bug reports. Please continue to do so! The more we can fix before final release the better for all.
A release candidate is a version of the software between the beta phase…
IP.Converge is designed to be an open platform allowing any application to share a common authentication method. This allows sites on different servers, and using different products, to let users access it with a 'global' login.
Unfortunately due to limitations within IP.Converge, only a handful of IPS applications utilised it. However, with the recent introduction of IP.Converge 1.1, functional…
IP.Converge is designed to be an open platform allowing any website or application to make use of its features. However, due to some limitations and the complexity of writing the modules, it's only been used by IP.Board until now. In IP.Converge 1.1 we have added the features developers need to make almost any application IP.Converge-ready. Username support One of the most frequently requested fe…
