Dreadknux

Thanks for posting - seems like I am not the only one affected by this. I posted my own issues with my install following the last patch/update here:
https://invisioncommunity.com/forums/topic/474315-pii-update-patch-appears-to-have-broken-my-suite-themes/#comment-2944849

I don't want to jump the gun, but I believe this has fixed the login issue (and actually a number of other issues, including restoring the Notifications popup list!). Thank you so much @adik, I've marked as solution for now but will follow up if there are any other problems!

Last update destroyed the mobile version of my site
 
I have all plugins disabled, but it doesn't help.
 
I couldn't find in my client area a link to start a case.
 
Please kindly assist.
 
Thank you

Could add new rules for specific days, where the user receives when logging in that period.
Examples...
I want to deliver an badge on date x (12/01) because it's the site anniversary. I want to deliver an badge during date x ~ y (12/01 ~ 12/07) because during this period an event will be taking place

This is something we are discussing internally at present.

You're correct, you can simply use the built in options in AdSense or Google ad manager and you'll be compliant.

I was just going to chase on this 😅 Many thanks for following through Marc/IPS Team, I’ll upgrade later tonight and will follow up if I continue to have any issues. Appreciate the support!

This issue has been resolved in the latest 4.7.11 release. Please upgrade to resolve this, and let us know if you have any further problems.

You should try use ips-truncate option there:
https://invisioncommunity.com/4guides/themes-and-customizations/javascript-framework/using-ui-widgets/ipsuitruncate-r64/
 

Yes, you can choose to anonymize content. In fact, that is what I recommend to clients 🙂 

This is unbelievably cool. Thank you Matt and IPS Team for this new feature (and thanks Apple In a way I guess).
I’ll be honest, I wasn’t really sure what all the options in the Icons & Logos / Manifest were all about (and I don’t touch Android so it’s benefits would have been wasted on me) so I just left it all alone. This has given me an opportunity to look into this more and offer a way for our community to stay more connected. Having a Home Screen app definitely helps lessen the pressure when dealing with competition via other platforms like Twitter and Facebook.
Thanks again!

A great step forward for community managers looking to be more compliant, thanks for this. A quick question; if a user requests account deletion through these new features, can an administrator approve to delete all user PII but anonymise their content so that can be kept on the community? Or does a deletion approved in this way remove absolutely all content as well as PII?

Allow a meta image to be uploaded per topic. Currently it just uses the default share photo so every shared topic looks the same if shared on social media (means less clicks and interest).
This is something I’ve needed for years which I’ve not even been able to get a working mod for.

Thank you @Jim M. I also wanted to add a note about this that I only just learned this morning, too. This issue occurs to all users who have the permissions to Copy to Database, not just the user that posted the specific articles. So for instance, in my steps/examples given above, I was the sole user creating both articles, but then a different user in the same permissions/usergroup as mine tried to Copy to Database a different topic, and found the images I had previously uploaded in their images drawer too.
It also seems to build up all images from past Copy to Database-actioned records as well. So if I do not eventually click an 'X' against the images, they will continue to appear and stack alongside other images uploaded to previously Copy-to-Database'd records.
Here's a snapshot of my images drawer, when writing Article #3 (using Copy to Database a third time in a row, without clicking 'X' on images uploaded to previous articles):

This issue doesn't seem to occur when directly creating a new record/article to the database (even when doing so in-between multiple Copy to Database article creations), only when using Copy to Database to create a record. Hope this helps narrow things down for you guys.

Thank you for bringing this issue to our attention! I can confirm this should be further reviewed and I have logged an internal bug report for our development team to investigate and address as necessary, in a future maintenance release.
 

Basically doesn't appear to be working, had one uploaded for a long time, figured I would remove and upload again. It threw this error:
2S119/1 The CSRF protection key did not match. This may indicate a plugin or theme is out of date. Please contact technical support for more information.
On returning to the manifest page the image was there so not sure what that's about.
When force closing the web app, re opening, still no launch image, just a white screen for a second or two before the forum loads in.
Not a major issue, but would be nice if it could be looked into as these little touches make me feel a tiny bit happier about things.
 

Thank you for bringing this issue to our attention! I can confirm this should be further reviewed and I have logged an internal bug report for our development team to investigate and address as necessary, in a future maintenance release.
 

We will be improving the mobile experience in v5.

Yes I agree with this. It would be a great QOL improvement for the standalone app if there was a thin progress bar or something that appears at the top of a page whenever you’re loading the next page. I actually tried to look into implementing one myself using custom JS and HTML within the theme templates, but could never get it to work. 😞 So IPS doing something out of the box would be appreciated for a future update.

It seems the only way to get push alerts on iOS is to choose "Standalone" as the display mode in the manifest.
Problem I see is that if any page in the community takes a bit long too load, it looks to the user as if nothing is happening. In the standard Safari iOS browser you can see the loading indication under the address bar that pops up when you click something, but nothing like that appears in a standalone web-app. 
Obviously slow loading times should be investigated and resolved, but I feel there should still be some feedback from the UI that loading is in progress, otherwise the user will just try to click multiple times. 
I'm not sure if there's something that could be added to the manifest to resolve this, or if you could work on something else, but I think you should investigate some UX improvement here.

A great step forward for community managers looking to be more compliant, thanks for this. A quick question; if a user requests account deletion through these new features, can an administrator approve to delete all user PII but anonymise their content so that can be kept on the community? Or does a deletion approved in this way remove absolutely all content as well as PII?

For many years I've been using a customised badge/award plugin to assign badges to my community's users (for things like participating in community events), and with the new Achievements feature I'm considering migrating my old awards over to the built-in system. I have a few small suggestions that would really help out admins that want to lean more on custom badges rather than the Rules-based badge approach.
1. Custom Descriptions
It would help a lot if admins were allowed to write unique descriptions for manually-made badges. At the moment there is no such feature and it kind of looks strange when you see manual badges alongside rule-based badges (which do include a description). For example:

Notice how the top badge doesn't include a description? This could be added via the AdminCP > Achievements > Badges page by adding an extra option in the Edit Badge dialog. I'd like to be able to tell users exactly how they earned a particular badge, and it's a little awkward to have to do that in the Badge Name. Something like the below...

 
2. Multi-User Awarding
As far as I can see, the only way to manually award a user a badge is by searching for their username in AdminCP > Members, clicking 'Manage' within the Badges dialog, and then click 'Add Badge'. It's quite monotonous, if you have many users that you want to award a single badge to manually. There should be an option to award members directly from the 'Badges' section of the ACP. A dropdown can replace the current 'delete' option, or an 'award' option can be positioned next to it. I made a crude mockup of what I mean, below.

A dialog box could appear upon clicking 'Award to Member' which can allow you to type the usernames of multiple users.

 
3. Backdating / Custom Award Dates
Another really useful enhancement would be the ability to set custom dates when awarding badges manually. Using the example above, you could include an optional date field within the award member dialog (either on the Badges ACP page or when managing badges on a User profile via ACP). As a lot of the badges I've previously awarded users date back as far back as 2014, it would be great to be able to add a 'legacy' badge to a user's profile and identify exactly when they received it, instead of relying on the moment it was specifically added to the user's account.

I’ll take a look and will consider in a future version. 

Hi there, currently testing this app before populating it with items (via profile gifts) and launching it with my community. I was wondering if I could suggest a slight UI tweak for the Mystery Box, to make it a bit more engaging with members using it? At the moment, the notification on whether a user wins/loses appears at the bottom (where you usually get message notifications etc). Could the ipsAlert dialog be used instead?
Some quick examples of what I mean:
Lose Dialog:

Win Dialog (with item image):

Maybe there is a template for membersshop that lets me play with this that I'm missing, but thought I'd put it out there as a suggestion if not? I know that placing the 'sorry you didn't win' notice at the bottom makes sense in that it doesn't put up annoying popups for users buying the same item over again, but I think for Mystery Box specifically it could add some visual excitement to a user winning something or not. 🙂 
Also, I think someone might have suggested this before, but if it's possible to consider setting individual Win % ratios for each Item in a Mystery Box, that would be hugely beneficial for what I'd like to use Members Shop + Profile Gifts for. 
Thank you for your hard work on this app, it's a great piece of software for my community!

I'm happy to share my site as an example, @The Allspark. My forum is here: https://board.sonicstadium.org/ and the news/articles side of my Invision Community is here: https://board.sonicstadium.org/news/
I wanted to unify my Wordpress (which has been the main platform for my site since 2008) and my Invision Community (which I've had since mid-2000s but treated very much as a separate world to my Wordpress site) in the same way you're looking to do. I started this whole process a couple years ago, and I'm not quite ready to make the full transition yet but as you can see the Pages/CMS app is really flexible with the templates and what you can do with them.
A few cool things that I was able to do that would have been very difficult to do on Wordpress:
Automatically post news stories/articles into a specific forum as its own topic, so users that are more familiar with your forums (and don't necessarily look at your articles directly that much) will see your articles and can post replies in those topics... which will then be synced with your articles as comments!
  It works the other way too - I have a 'news' forum where my users can post news they find interesting and, if our news writers haven't covered it already, they can copy the topic to the news database, rewrite as they like, and copy any posts in the existing topic into the news article as comments, and sync the two up for future comments/topic replies.
  I was able to add a "Member" custom field in my news article database, where I can search for users in my community and assign their name to a news story. I use this to manually credit my users who post news stories in my forum before our news writing staff can get to it. I want to look into making this crediting work automatically or even tie Achievements into this, but I think that's something that only IPS can do (or a third-party plugin). You can see this at the bottom of this article here.
  I also have another 'wiki' like database (which is heavily WIP atm) and have been able to take advantage of custom fields, database relationships and templates to allow news stories to be paired with records in the wiki database. You can see it at the bottom of this article here - and if you click through to that database link, I created an 'articles' tab in the wiki database to allow users to see any news that have previously been tagged with this database record too.  I do recommend exploring the CMS app for the Invision platform, because as others have said here once you get stuck into the templates and various customisations, you can really make something impressive. It's arguably as important an app as the core forums itself, for me.
However, as you're coming from Wordpress like I am, I figure it's worth advising you of some hurdles you may have to overcome, as there are many functions and features that are different between the two and the last thing you want to do is jump both feet into CMS only to get 'buyers remorse' about how good Wordpress was all over again! Experiences are obviously different for every person, but these were some of the teething problems I have faced/am facing with the suite so far...
The post editor will feel familiar to you if you are used to Invision Board of the past, but that's also its achilles heel as its based on an age-old ckeditor version that doesn't allow for a lot of features/functions that would be obvious in today's content-creating world. You may need to rely on a couple of add-ons for the ckeditor, and that is its own headache as not every plugin ckeditor offers can be installed due to the custom nature of Invision's implementation of the editor.
  Media uploads are not great for content creators. The media uploader in the post editor is adequate for forum use, but if you have a news writing staff that share resources there is no way to easily allow for one accessible media folder that a privileged usergroup has collective access to. AdminCP has a 'Media' section under 'Page Management' within the CMS app, but it's useless for posting content and cannot be accessed through the post editor. I suggest an improvement here.
  One of the big drawbacks to the current editor is the lack of any way to build inline image galleries - or any other content 'blocks' - out of the box. Wordpress is a big obnoxious mess in the CMS side, but you are able to cleanly upload images in bulk to a shared staff media gallery, and insert a number of images into a nice flexbox/gridbox into your post content. At present, if you want to post multiple images in a news story, your only option is to upload them to the Invision post editor media uploader, insert each image (which may be massive) into the space you want, then double-click each image and resize them in a way that they all have the same height values (so as not to look terrible) and then center the entire 'paragraph' of images. Here's an example of this in action - this was a news story featuring lots of images, and it took me WAY too long to manage every single image in this way. I suggest an improvement here.
  While it's a very cool feature, there's a lot of jank with the topic > cms "Copy to Database" function that I hope are fixed/improved in v5. There's currently no way to copy a topic to database and completely rewrite it (so it matches the house style of a news story from your staff) without it replacing the topic OP on sync. I had to create a plugin to stop that sync from happening (so that the community user could feel like their content was still valued and existed, while also allowing staff to leverage the topic as a basis for active comments section).

If you go down this route of leveraging forums for news creation, like I have, you may find that multiple topics will be created by multiple users (and sometimes your staff may write a story without realising there is an existing topic), meaning you could end up with two or three topics to merge. Usually this isn't a problem, but if one of the topics you're merging happens to be the one auto-created by your news staff when they wrote a news story, it causes all sorts of problems.

I suggest a number of improvements here. ------
Overall, I think you'll find that the Invision platform will do what you're looking for really nicely! Especially if you're happy to get into the nitty gritty of template/theme design, you could make something really special. And the ability to connect your articles to your community and help reinvigorate the comments section is well worth the jump.
Just be aware of some of the QOL issues mentioned above (I'm hoping IPS will make some serious improvements to the above for the upcoming v5!), and prepare yourself for a different experience to Wordpress in terms of content creation. If you manage your expectations, you'll be more than fine.
Hope this post helps give you some insight! 🙂