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Morrigan

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  1. Nope. I do it this way personally. That screenshot above is part of the header on my site.
  2. I just put the include code for it above the CSS include: {template="includeCSS" app="core" group="global" location="global" params=""} Leaves IPS icons alone unless I change it in the css manually but then you can use the new ones.
  3. But how do you determine that? And what if there are multiple with equal importance? My IPS Staff People club both the General and the IPS Character Manager forums are important in that club, thus my sub-forum idea. Then you aren't selecting the "wrong" one.
  4. Like add it to the image? Or are you looking to differentiate between uploaded images and linked images?
  5. Well this is two fold, it will help direct users to clubs, at the moment they are extremely underutilized in my opinion. I can't have them on the index page (at all) because there are just so many of them and when a club has more than one topics (which I know you can restrict but shouldn't be what you need to do to get a clean front end) tab then you have multiples of them. Right now its even broken in Grid view but the table view is alright (note grid view is broken and I'll screenshot if you want to get a bug logged its at the end. But look at this: And even more fun they aren't listed in club order so it will bring organization: The top and bottom one there are a part of the same club but note that there are other ones between them. It would look better to be: Outer forum: Learn HTML/CSS Description Subforums: General Conversion, Ask for Help, Quick Tips I mean this opinion stands for EVERYWHERE that they are shown but forums are probably the worst followed by Gallery. But to the original posters point; Also restricting this to specific clubs that I believe are ones that should be displayed should be an option and you may want to even go so far as to being able to feature them in specific sections. Like my Software club probably won't have a lot of Gallery stuff that necessarily needs to be shown off (if any) but my Artists club would but probably not as much a place in the forums. You could even monetize it and allow only "subscribers clubs will be displayed in these locations. I'm sure there is more but that should hopefully help @Jordan Invision Broken Grid:
  6. Well I don't think its used because its confusing and isn't explained anywhere. Additionally (as I showed above) it can get really unwieldy on sites with lots of apps and databases. My site alone as you can see, goes over a full screen page on a 1920x1080 computer screen which automatically makes that insane for a list of things that people can see/submit to in there. I wouldn't want to touch it like that. Newer/Younger people use it but older forum people don't but I would like to see it used more as well and thus my suggestion. My site, while has a forum focus, isn't just used/needed for forums. Submitting things like Playbys and links to our directory are primary focuses that people should be able to easily access in that Create menu.
  7. You can look into CKEditor 4 plugins to see if you find anything. This was the first I found but it looks like it requires 2 other plugins: https://ckeditor.com/cke4/addon/mjAccordion Alternatively you could get a Dev to make something for you or make your own buttons for it but I don't know how easy that would be.
  8. I wouldn't necessarily recommend this as it will cause SEO issues. (and when you say site title I'm assuming what appears when you google search) If you mean just the text that shows up as the name of your site that's some magic CSS voodoo that can be done pretty easily though may be more simply fixed by using a logo.
  9. I think having an option to only show promoted/premium clubs or recommended clubs only would be a nice feature. I have clubs I would like to show but can't on the forum index (without heavy theme modification). Added to this display it should (especially for forums) create a singular outer forum (that takes you to the club) and then all of the topics section display as children/subforums instead.
  10. lol. I could show you my three databases to explain why it is useful. Basically I have my main directory: https://rpginitiative.com/directory/ With this I have 3 other directories that each have different purposes but are basically (in my case) like sub listings and these are: https://rpginitiative.com/find-affiliates https://rpginitiative.com/find-staff/ https://rpginitiative.com/character-wanted-ads/ Now the first two of them, when associated (as they don't have to be associated to the main directory) should be unique IF they are associated with the main directory. You only need 1 search for affiliates and 1 search for staff listing. However Character Wanted Ads you can and will have multiples. The problem here is that when you create one and associate a main directory listing you can create another because there is no way, currently, to uniquely use a database relationship field. While I use three databases this could be useful in other ways as well I'm sure.
  11. If these were turned offable by my bank I'd never know if someone was stealing my information. While it doesn't seem important in general it is since IPS has the ability to store information from an end user.
  12. I use this feature in multiple databases, including one that only has one category in it. It sounds almost like a template issue or similar. I can only give you conjecture as I'm not the one that coded it.
  13. I don't have that issue..... The two screenshots above all of the articles are in the same category.
  14. Not sure how that would help with Pages databases.
  15. This feature was removed in 4.x. The best option is if you have Gallery people can actually set those images as their profile photo:
  16. They will have whatever permissions the members group has so if your members group requires approval then they will go into the approval queue. Now if you have post before register enabled, their post will not show up for approval or at all until they register. SO you'd have to show us an example or submit a ticket.
  17. You can, in fact I do absolutely do this already: https://rpginitiative.com/guides/software/simple-custom-fields-change-for-the-mini-profile-in-the-character-mod-r167/ At the bottom those are other guides that I added to the listing itself:
  18. When you add a database relationship, it would be nice if you can define it as unique so that only 1 record in that database can relate it to another in another database. So I have Record 1 in Database 1 In Database 2 I want to associate Association 1 to Record 1 using the database Relationship field. However once Association 1 is related to Record 1 I no longer want any other Associations in Database 2 to be able to use Record 1 for this field. My use case. I have a master list database (Database 1) and then I have sub databases with associated data that needs to be unique per master list item. So: Database 1 Record Database 2 Association 1 Database 3 Association 1 Database 4 Association 1, Association 2, Association 3 In my case I have a master listing and 3 associated databases where 2 of them need unique listings per master listing (looking for affiliates and looking for staff) there is no reason a single listing should have more than one of each of those in the associated database.
  19. Its been a while, I know, but I want to bring us back around to pages databases and organization. Its still a mess and annoying. I've been asking for ages for ways to better order things when it comes to Pages Databases. At the moment things are listed in one of two ways: Alphabetically or by Database ID this is both in the ACP and on the front end. I don't think this is good for anyone and I really am hoping to get an ordering system for Pages Databases this will reorder things similar to how I suggest it here: The ordering is just atrocious if you look at them each. Here is how they are listed when you are clicked on databases: This is the ACP sidebar: (Edit: I just remembered that the sidebar you can manually reorder in the ACP sidebar, the annoying part here is new databases pop to the top instead of the bottom and so you have to re-order these all the time) Hopefully you can see the discrepancy here already. This is the create menu: . This is my profile which is only consistent with the Mod CP (Not screenshotting as they are identical) As you can see there is no consistency (save for profile to ModCP which list them in Database ID order where no where else does). It also doesn't leave anything for you to put the most important and what you want to be prevalent content closer to the top where less important information is further down on any of these lists. I would like for my order to be Directory, Guides, Reviews, Resources toward the top as these are user submitted content items where News I don't want my Newsletter posts in my profile, the comments make sense since all of my users can comment but I'm one of the only ones that can create Newsletters. I want better control of my menus and my databases. For now I will continue to use the magic of CSS but I still think that a better solution needs to be provided for at least some of this.
  20. So I have been revamping my main site for ages today and it reminded me how much I loathe the "Create" link. It shows you EVERYTHING you have access to submit if your database name and the record name are the same they are redundant as hell (Submit Record to Records) and this is even more prevalent when you use a single category setup instead of having multiple categories. On top of that (and I'm submitting this in a separate topic) Pages databases are a mess in it. I recently revamped my Create link, though I can't fix all of my issues I was able to take it from this: To this: While some of that (I'd say about five from the first section) are admin/staff only it doesn't make that list any less daunting or confusing for an end user. So my issues: No option in order. It currently follows an App order to put it into the list and for Pages they are all listed in whatever order they want looking at it now. No option in what shows in here. If I want a database to be submitted from only one page I can't tell the create menu (without editing the template) what not to show. Create is too vague of a term. I changed my verbiage to "Quick Create Content" to see if it gets used any more than it had been before as it stands even though it moves with the site I still don't think my members know what it is or how to use it. What I want is something where you can mange what shows up and in what order. People are already inundated with how much stuff can be on any one site, it would be good not to overload them with looking through a long list of what they can submit and focus them on your primary content sources.
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