Morrigan

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.

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.

System > Settings > Maximum image dimensions to save  & Maximum image dimensions to display
You need to change both and save it. Then rebuild existing images (the link under Maximum image dimensions to display).
I will state that if the two are different you will have two images saved to the server.

Thank you SO much! You're a life saver. That's exactly what I was looking for.

.ipsType_richText img { border: 5px solid #000; }  

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.

Some thoughts:
1. IPS does offer indirectly offer this data in the ACP > Statistics. I think all communities should be internally measuring the conversion of all visitors : registered members : active members on a monthly basis. 
2. I'm not sure how this statistic is important on the front end to anyone.  I can see it being useful to admins to manage the effectiveness of their community strategy, but as a user, I'm not sure how useful it is to know that 90 other members visited at some point in the past month.  It is, however, useful to know the number of online users and who they are, in case my friends are online for immediate chat.
3. Creating groups for inactive members: In theory, I think its okay. In practice, it turns out to be a mess of permissions and I'm not sure what real value it provides.  Why are you spending your time penalizing members who haven't visited? It would be a better and more effective use of your community management to encourage them to re-visit in the first place.  
 
If you can define real value and purpose behind inactive members, then go for it.  But to be blunt, I don't think you should confound "available in vbulletin" with "good community strategy." 

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.

Orphaned images are automatically removed through a task. So if it is a part of a deleted post etc it will be deleted automatically.

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.

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.

Could you modify the poll functionality to allow results to be seen on closed polls please? I'm personally of the opinion that if a poll is closed then the results should be able to be seen.
"But, you can see the results on a closed poll, you numpty!!!!" I hear you say.
Nope, not in a specific situation such as this one:

Above indicated setting is in effect Create a poll Don't vote on the poll Close the poll Result:

Enable the indicated setting above Result:

Disable the indicated setting above Open the poll Vote on the poll Close the poll Result:

Currently, you can only see the results of a poll if you have voted in the poll yourself, regardless of your level of access to the site (above was performed with a full administrator account, with no restrictions in place)

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.

Its a per group setting.

So if I have a select field with multiple selections (or even just one) we'll say:
Book
Movie
TV
Other
Eventually I decide "Movie" isn't the right category I want to change the option to "Movie Blockbuster" and "Movie Indie" well my key currently is movie and if I change the key to "movie_blockbuster" everyone that had the key "Movie" still have that key instead of the newly updated key of "movie_blockbuster". Yes I know I could just change the name and add the second one but a change to any key is never reflected in the listings themselves and so it could mean that you have to go through and edit tons of listings to get the correct key on them. It also means that if you remove a key that listings that had those keys still have them even though its no longer an option for that field.
What I'm asking for is that if you change keys that it should update said key in the array whether that is to change it to a new key or to delete it as it no longer exists.
Is that better @Matt

I've known about the deprecation for a long time and I think I'm one of the very few people that actually utilizes it. I'm preparing to move to a new solution to manage accounts, you should do the same.

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.

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:
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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.

Perfect yes. Let me ponder.

We had planned to remove the hosting support in 4.6, but we’ve given it a stay of execution and it will remain in 4.6.

We have no plans to develop the hosting management any further, though. 

Smells like a bug. I’ll file one for you.

Add this to your custom.css:
body { background-image: url(IMGURL); }  

No worries dear. Bugs are just best reported direct to the source. It gives the team the ability to investigate directly and quickly. Unfortunately they can’t always scour the forums to verify bugs reported here.

Bugs should always be reported via ticket in the Client Area:
https://www.invisioncommunity.com/clientarea/

I guess you are using a template that is not made for the sidebar. But you can create regular feed blocks with Pages that work in the sidebar and look exactly like the default blocks for forum entries. 
Just go to Pages → Blocks in the ACP, create a new block, select “Record Feed” and follow the instruction to create your “Custom Block”.