Claudia999

Hi,
As far as I know, there is not an easy way to include blocks in database entries. In our install (and possibly others 😊), there are several occasions when adding blocks to articles would be very useful:
Inserting custom ads in custom locations of the article Inserting a block with sponsors of specific articles In an expanding series of articles within a topic, a block with links to the different parts would take away a huge amount of editing when new parts are published One way of doing it would be to include a button in the text editor that brings up a list with the available custom blocks, similar to the way you browse for available Custom Blocks in the Blocks Manager on the live page. But I'd also be happy to just paste the block key in a field. Any improvement in this regard is greatly appreciated.
Cheers

Not, that’s not possible.
I am actually using Pages database to run my ads, but it requires a lot of customization and has to run independently from the built-in advertising system. 

It has moved to System -> Web App.
IPS should probably change the ACP search. Searching for “manifest” still points to Icons & Logos, where it has been removed from. 

I suggest adding Deprecation Tracker to the main menu under the "More" tab.

Hi Marco, thanks for bringing this to our attention.
It looks like the nulled version you found is Invision Community 4.4.9.2 from January 2020. It does not contain any of the cloud exclusive features. We do not ship any of the cloud application, and even if they had the files they could not connect to our network that powers those features as none of that functionality is exposed to the outside internet. You would just get a connection error.
I understand your frustration but this person has effectively stolen our work. This is a criminal act. You would not observe someone stealing a car and think "wow, they got a car for free, why am I still leasing?" and then pick up a brick and stroll towards the nearest car. 😆
Piracy is an unfortunate side effect of offering a downloadable product. Most of the time a person uses a stolen credit card to get the files and then re-distributes them. This costs us twice, in the stolen download and then in chargeback and payment processing fees.
We have learned over the years that it is pointless to try and sign any downloads. We used to store hidden data in JPG EXIF but most warez sites take 2 or 3 copies from different people and then use diff to see what looks different between versions and then simply remove any signed files or data.
We do follow up piracy but it's a long slog as most hosts are uninterested or the person using the nulled version jumps from low cost host to low cost host.

The alternative to “you are correct” is not necessarily “you are lying”. You can simply be mistaken and that is what is being pointed out to you. 

Hi @MeMaBlue
I made such a "special display" with a Pages database and Pages SuperQuote from @opentype. It's not a popup but a block. I like it better that way.

Hi @MeMaBlue
I made such a "special display" with a Pages database and Pages SuperQuote from @opentype. It's not a popup but a block. I like it better that way.

But it would be nice. 😉

I think that’s the job of Google Analytics, Matomo and so on.

It has been restored for 4.7.8 in Pages (March release). 🎉

Literally one reason I wouldn't look at Cloud... Cost.
It's far too expensive. I looked at moving to Cloud and worked out my yearly costs would be 400% what they are now, including the license fees for the IPS software.
I would love to move to Cloud for the simplicity, but it's far too expensive to be able to justify it.
 

We have released a patch 2 days ago to fix this issue.
Please visit the support page to apply it. ( That said, it's unfortunately not retroactive, so the broken topic(s) will need to be fixed manually)
Since I've been working on your ticket few minutes ago, I'll just get back to it and fix it for you:)
Could you please just send me the link of the broken topic as ticket reply.
Thanks:) 

Yeah, that should be no problem at all. Here is an example:
https://www.opentype.space/supergrid/from-the-observatories/our-milky-way-r6/
I just added an URL field to the database, where you would then add this URL to a specific record.
https://www.canva.com/design/DAFZWegAizg/view
In the settings for the URL field, I turn off “Show in listing template” and under “Display View Format” I choose “Custom” and add this code:
{{if $formValue}} <div style="position: relative; width: 100%; height: 0; padding-top: 141.4286%; padding-bottom: 0; box-shadow: 0 2px 8px 0 rgba(63,69,81,0.16); margin-top: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.9em; overflow: hidden; border-radius: 8px; will-change: transform;"> <iframe loading="lazy" style="position: absolute; width: 100%; height: 100%; top: 0; left: 0; border: none; padding: 0;margin: 0;" src="{$formValue}?embed" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" allow="fullscreen"> </iframe> </div> {{endif}} This creates the iFrame. 
(P.S. If members can submit to this Pages database, I would add an additional check to make sure we only use Canva URLs. Otherwise people could embed any iFrame on your website.)

We have it in use with PHP8 and latest version of IPS. But I am also concerned about what will happen to it in the future.

Please do post in feature suggestions, as you may well get others with thoughts on this

This is currently intended but is a good feature suggestion to restrict the member filters to exact matches.
In the meantime, depending on the size of the potential data set you may wish to set these fields up as select boxes with restricted options for exact matches and better tracking of this type of info.

This like is utilizing a contains-like search pattern, which is why you are getting results like this because it is looking for a non-exact match. Whereas, you are wanting an exact match here. I have tagged a developer to confirm this is intended.

It's a shame the upload experience hasn't been updated, because that was the weakest part IMO.

While we are improving the Gallery, maybe there is still time to squeeze these in:
Option to use the FIRST image as album cover
Currently images are shown in reverse in feeds and the last image is used as cover by default. That is very counter-intuitive and handled differently by any modern social media or image sharing site. A “cover” is by definition the “front” image and that should usually be the image people upload first, not last. I have a use case where I upload old copyright-free books and showing the backside of the book as cover by default makes no sense at all, but I would expect this request applies to pretty much every gallery. Even on a car or dog community, I would expect an album to always show in the order of the files being uploaded (not in reverse) by default and to use the FIRST image being uploaded as the cover. 
Option to change the cover image by the creator of the album
For some reason, this is currently a mod feature, but I do not see why. It’s the user’s albums. They should be able to pick which image best represents the album—at least as an admin-option to give users that permission. 

Can a block or Advertisement be added to a database entry, like an article, by inserting it into HTML? I can insert a google adsense script into html and it works, but I would rather insert a block or reference an Ad that I've set up directly in Invision. {block="my_block_key"} or {advertisement="KEY"}.  Inserting these into the Source HTML editor does not work.  Is there a way to make this work, or is there not an easy way to do in-content ads or embeds?
Seems, that since this is a pretty standard use case, there has to be an easier way to do it than inserting the whole google script at each location, in each article.  
What would be even better, for a future feature, is to give the option to add advertisements to article content, not just forums. 

v1.1.0 is currently pending approval
NEW
Setting added to assist with the situation where the custom profile field you wish to show is not set to be shown on the user's profile. You can now choose to see a listing of fields in the settings, based on: PROFILE = "Show on member's profile?" is set to something other than "Do not show" (this is the current behaviour, hence need for this new setting) EDIT = "Member can edit value?" is enabled. STAFF = field is editable by a staff member (for use when the above two don't list the field for you - if in doubt, select this one so you can see all fields)

So, after a little testing, a better explaination of the issue (for other's reading this) is that you can't see the profile fields in the settings of the plugin, if the profile field is configured as per your screenshot.
I'll have a think about possible changes here to accommodate whatever use-case you have for the above.

Please let's give our users more options to choose privacy on profiles.
Let they choose for every single profile field if other users could see the content.
Background or example: We have a health related community and want to have a profile field with details of diseases. Other profile fields are not so sensitive, they could be published for all registered users. But for this one field with disease details they should have the choice between showing other registered users or only admins.
 

That is correct on mobile, as its sized to fit a mobile device. You would need to theme those mobile specific changes in CSS if you wish to increase that size