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Having a separate test/dev site separate from your "production" environment is pretty much standard practice. Yet for cloud accounts that has presented a problem ... unless we've missed something that is available.
Since transitioning to Invision cloud , in addition to our main site, we have paid for the smallest legacy cloud account as a test/dev site.  Its closed to guests , and can only be accessed by accounts that are created by our Admin.  We prototyped our site there prior to our actual migration from our previous vendor and have maintained it since. 
This second site was/is invaluable in preventing  issues  ... particularly in one of the major upgrades  (4.5 ??)  which changed how the default theme handled the header space and made some 3rd party themes as well as some apps unusable.  We were able to find out what issues specifically affected our site.  And it was huge.  If we had just applied it to production, it would have been a disaster.
Same with the initial roll-out implementation of lazy loading .  We had images imbedded in the Forum descriptions which caused issues which we caught on our test/dev site.  Invision support recognized the problem as somewhat unique to us at that time.
I could go on, but the value that a test/site provides is obvious.  Even for small, non commercial sites like ours.
However now that option is going to cost more since Invision is closing out the legacy options with new, more expensive offerings.  The increase in cost and "functionality" does not, for us, create any new value.  Particularly since our use case for the account has an infinitesimal impact on the Invision host environment. 
There should be a fixed, low cost method of providing an option for managers/developers of cloud accounts where than can duplicate their unique production environment for the purposes of testing new apps/upgrades etc.

It is not but we are researching offering it. Elastic Search can get a bit expensive so we are trying to find ways to lower the cost of deployment.

Is Elastic Search included in IPS Cloud? If not, what is the cheapest solution to use it in IPS Cloud?

8 days later, only 28 members voted in the poll in this topic. The participation is not good for a number of active users in this community. Why? What do you think @Jordan Miller? Why is it so?
Is it because the poll feature itself is something the most admins do not use and therefore they do not participate? Or is it because this poll has not been seen/found by the most users in the community? What do you think?

That’s exactly what I said in my first post. A poll wall (a page to display all polls) would make a difference here.

8 days later, only 28 members voted in the poll in this topic. The participation is not good for a number of active users in this community. Why? What do you think @Jordan Miller? Why is it so?
Is it because the poll feature itself is something the most admins do not use and therefore they do not participate? Or is it because this poll has not been seen/found by the most users in the community? What do you think?

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Edit the record template and find:
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Vapid key generation failure on Windows is typically (and this is pretty much all Windows web servers) because the openssl.cnf file either isn't configured properly or cannot be located/used by your PHP instance.
Take a look at https://stackoverflow.com/a/18869750. If you can get it to work, that's great! Just please note that we cannot assist with server configuration issues.

I assume the first issue is a bug.

Good to know, that we have settings that do nothing, and this is intended.
 

Show the amount of page views for polls to admins.  If thousands of people view a poll but only 20 people bother to participate then that is a useful metric to know.
If only 5 people view a poll then it makes sense that a small percentage of the membership were actually aware of the poll.  
 

Hooks should work perfectly fine in tasks, if it's not working properly you may need to trace the code back and see what's going on. I cannot reproduce any issues with this (we use this functionality for some of our customisations).

Thank you for reporting this issue. I have added an internal bug report for this, so that we can get it resolved

We can use database relationship fields to display references to other databases inside the record. And we can enable Cross link records? to show the records in the remote database related to a given record. Right now, it is just a link. It would be very helpful to get a third display option for those fields.

This way we could use custom format for the reciprocal view. We could use record image, truncated record content or any other fields to control display of crossed-link record in the remote database.

That looks really good and well priced 

I use CleanTalk Anti Spam Firewall There is a free IPS application for 14 days to try it out.

1. Poll in user profile
Poll in user profile looks messy. There should be better template, compare to default vertical poll block from Block Manager.

2. Buttons in poll block
When using poll as block, we have three buttons that take more place than poll itself.

Can we have button split here? The same for vertical block.
3. Custom block vs. Block Manager
If I create a custom block for the poll without any changes to the template, I get another look.

Yes, I know that one can change HTML template. But if I create a block based on already existed block and do not change anything on the template, then I expect the block to look the same as the original. Probably it is relevant to the bug https://invisioncommunity.com/forums/topic/463943-box-format-for-wysiwyg-editor-bug/#comment-2870283 here.  

1. Poll in user profile
Poll in user profile looks messy. There should be better template, compare to default vertical poll block from Block Manager.

2. Buttons in poll block
When using poll as block, we have three buttons that take more place than poll itself.

Can we have button split here? The same for vertical block.
3. Custom block vs. Block Manager
If I create a custom block for the poll without any changes to the template, I get another look.

Yes, I know that one can change HTML template. But if I create a block based on already existed block and do not change anything on the template, then I expect the block to look the same as the original. Probably it is relevant to the bug https://invisioncommunity.com/forums/topic/463943-box-format-for-wysiwyg-editor-bug/#comment-2870283 here.  

I assume the first issue is a bug.

I am preparing a major update for this app. I will send some previews in the coming days.