Kevin Carwile

2 hours ago, raincat said:

Hi there, Kevin.  I've read in here that you have a number of different applications with different expansion packs, which I'd be more than happy to purchase, if I could get them to do something I'd like to do with my board.  (I'm imagining this one, Rules, is more likely than Groups, but I really don't know for sure.)

And I IMAGINE that's possible, because they seem to have so many features and possibilities happening.  But perhaps because that's the case, I'm not yet able to imagine exactly HOW I'd get them to do what I'd like to do.

I think I'd need a fairly close example or more detailed instructions.  Not just to decide whether or not to purchase, but to be able to figure out how to get it working at all.

Basically, I want to do some sort of member profile sort or filter that would be like what you'd imagine for a personals site.  

A sort, of sorts, but more complicated than just something like sort by date joined, that's the only criteria, etc.  Like, some custom fields in each member's profile could be compared to those of other members, such that only a smaller subset of the entire list of members would be displayed for each member that was logged in, only their "matching" members.  And then some way to display that new thing/sort/filter that was created, like a URL or a tab or . . . something.  Something that could be linked to for them to click upon.

I don't know if it could be something with the actual Member List in IPB (along with one or more of your apps), or . . . something else?  But if it were the Member List, something that would be different for each member, only containing a smaller subset of all the members, just for them, based on their criteria/custom fields in their profile.  And there would need to be multiple criteria used for the sort.

Or again, if not the Member List itself, than just any other way of accomplishing something very similar, basically.    

Possible?  Help?  Suggestions?

Not really possible with rules. Rules is great for creating customized workflows and system behaviors, but does not have any facilities to create front end views.

What you are describing would require custom programming outside the scope of rules.

Group collaboration will not satisfy those needs either unfortunately.

6 hours ago, JiigSaaw said:

Another trouble thing is when you disable app, so many forums & subforums appears on index page. It's not better to hide them ? By settings permissions on disabling ?

Thanks you

"Standard" IPS permissions are controlled by the permissions matrix in the collab category settings. One change there will systematically update the permissions on all forums/etc inside collabs in that category.

Simply make a quick change there before disabling the app.

1 hour ago, JiigSaaw said:

Optimized for inline direct translation provided by IPB ? So we can translate this app for various co-existant languages on the same board ?

In my mind, app must provide 2 inputs as we can see on Admin CP when you jave 2 languages activated.

All the language strings used by the app are already stored in the language system for translation.

Inline translation is not possible in many cases because the app combines language strings from multiple sources into one through replacement patterns. The pattern itself is translatable, just not inline.

1 hour ago, JiigSaaw said:

When a user send an request to enter in a collab, owner receive a notification, but after no element to remember that a user is awaiting. I suggest to add a badge on the "Management" menu and an ICON after the collab's name. What do you think of that ?

Members awaiting approval are also easily reviewable from the member management page. Another option is to use the rules app if you want to set up your own follow up "reminder" notifications.

1 hour ago, JiigSaaw said:

Possibility to disable/enable collab's comments and/or reviews.

Configured from the collab category settings.

1 hour ago, JiigSaaw said:

When transferring ownership, replace list field with an autocomplete text input, better in a collab with more than 1.000 users

I cant remember off the top of my head. Is the list at least alphabetized?

5 hours ago, JiigSaaw said:

Great App and Great Work, Thanks you for this, i'm using your demo version to test it for my needs.

I've actually one question for your, is-it possible to change a collab owner (i need to change the leader shown, not to add a owner with role)

And finally, your system will be compatible with multi-language system of IPS ?

Collab ownerships can be transferred. Do that from the "collaboration memberships" option in the user menu on the top right of website.

Language strings can indeed be translated.

Go ahead and buy.

Yes, there was a recent change to 4.1 which is breaking. Collab is being updated to accommodate.

12 minutes ago, ZeroHour said:

Just wondering if you had any more thoughts about importing social groups from vbulletin 4?

Honestly, I just dont have any legitimate plans for it. I know nothing about vbulletin.

On 10/20/2015, 12:17:12, Phuturism said:

Just noticed in when trying to upload a photo for the header background, the options are not showing.

Not seeing any problems over here. What version of IPS4 are you running?

Try a different browser and see if you get a different result. I am reusing the standard ips uploader widget, so there may be a conflict on your page or with your browser that is specific to your site.

4 minutes ago, svit said:

Hello,

I have a couple of questions:

1. I would like to start using the Rules Application for synchronizing the Collab content with Forums and vice versa, so that each time users add topic to Collabs/forums they are copied to certain regular Forums/forums as well and vice  versa - Each time users contribute to certain Forums/Forums the topics are copied to dedicated Collabs/Forums. Is it possible?

2. Is it possible for existing topics as well? So that I run an instruction to do the above for certain existing Forum/Forums and Collab/Forums?

1. You could try creating a rule that moves the topic to the forum of choice (not leaving a link), and then moves the topic back (leaving a link). Trying to write rules to actually duplicate topics and posts for two seperate topics and then keep all of that synchronized is going to be the opposite of fun.

2. With the latest version of rules, you can manually schedule your own custom action and set topics as a bulk processing argument. When you create rules for your custom action, make sure to set conditions to apply only for the topics that you want to process.

8 hours ago, Apfelstrudel said:

Hi,

I'm already in contact with Kevin regarding the performance issue which slows down every 2nd to 3rd click. Sometimes opening a page needs around 5-7 sec.

You have been in contact but have not provided me with any ability to examine the problem on your site to see how your configuration is working or where the hit is coming from.

Until someone lets me actually examine a site with an obvious performance hit, I'll just keep guessing at what the problem is.

8 hours ago, Apfelstrudel said:

Sometimes opening a page needs around 5-7 sec.

Could you send me your slow SQL query log via PM?

4 hours ago, Fabby said:

Unable to save category settings again. This time most likely cause i'm uisng Nginx & php 7.0 Any advise?

Look for equivalent settings of max vars in both php7 and nginx.

50 minutes ago, Ruedy said:

Hi!

After Upgrading to 1.2.6 there is an error (500 error), visiting single Collabs. One more Info; I runned the social-group-importer after upgrade (without success). PHP is 5.4.

I found another bug in the importer. Will be fixed soon. Try clesring caches in ACP using support tool for the error. If it persists, PM me with more details.

8 hours ago, GzMasters said:

Is there any way i could fix it? To make the number of posts public in all the forum like writing some code in css or something.

Definitely not any fixes that can be done with css. It's a php code level modification. From the sound of it, I may be needing to release another version of GC soon. After that is released, you will be able to update any of your theme templates where appropriate and use the {$member->site_posts} tag to always see the total site posts.

On 10/16/2015, 1:58:38, GzMasters said:

Hey Kevin,

I was wondering why my number of posts are different in group collaboration? 
And can i make it same number of posts in general forums?

Post counts are kept separate within the collab context so that features that rely on post count (such as forums) will still work inside of collabs.

9 hours ago, Police Community said:

Sorry Kevin that should have said every time a member logs in as a login log - predictive text grrrr

Create a log attached to members, and then add an entry to it from a rule assigned to the member logged in event. Simple as that.

6 hours ago, Police Community said:

@Kevin Carwile

Kevin - could you give me an example use of the Custom Log facility - I see documentation is not ready as yet. For instance to create a log of overtime a member logs in to our site - how would this be achieved please or is this not its purpose?

Yes, I need to find time to create some documentation for that. But basically, it can be used for all sorts of things. I know of a user who wanted to log changes made to the copyright field of images. For me, I needed a way to log time spent on project management tasks on ipsguru. But theoretically, it could be used to log achievements to a user, or milestones to a topic, or moderation actions in a forum, or.... whatever you want to keep a log of.

In your instance, I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "overtime a member logs in", but the process is basically the same for any log you want to use.

• Create the log in the Rules ACP under "Custom Logs" attached to whatever system entity (member, node, content) the log will be tracked to.
• Add any additional log data fields you want to show in the log by adding "Log Arguments".
• Through your own devised rules, simply add the action to add a log entry to the log in question whenever it is appropriate.

As an example:

On IPS Guru, I have a pages database for "tasks" that I use to track activity on specific tasks for custom projects. Through pages, I have a radio field that has two options for the task "In progress" and "Task Idle". I have enabled this database for collaborative use so that I can create tasks inside of collabs.

Via rules, I have added a custom integer data field to the "task" content type. So with rules, I set the current date/time timestamp when the task is updated to "in progress", and then calculate how much time was spent on it when the task is updated again to "task idle". I create a log for the task when the session is started, and when it is ended and have added a couple custom log arguments so that I can log the total time for the session, and an overall time for the task. Works pretty good for my needs.

8 hours ago, Fabby said:

That worked flawless! This explains so much why things didn't work for me. Is it possible as well to show a custom profile field of IPS system itself anywhere else to?

You can do that if you want, but its not nearly as easy as using rules custom data. You'll need to look into core api methods such as \IPS\Member::profileFields to get at that data. 

Yes, it would be a problem for you in either version. You'll need to wait for the fix to do your import.

Everything else should work fine.

4 minutes ago, Bernabe Guerra Jr. said:

So how can I work around my admin panel, will that error go away if I install and/or after it completes import?

 

I dont think I understand the question.

Just now, Bernabe Guerra Jr. said:

Yeah..I'm running on 5.3. So on the full version, I shouldn't see any problems importing?
 Thanks for the update.

You'll still get the php error you reported until I fix that. But if you buy before that then I can send you a patched file.

Sounds like a bug on my part.. I'm going to guess that you are running php 5.3. I'll fix it for the next release.

But the collab demo will only allow a certain number of categories and collabs anyway, as you mentioned. So you will need to go with the full version to bring all your data over.

11 minutes ago, Fabby said:

That won't work either.

I'm trying to get members to be able to set their own link or image one time in their profile and then to show it on a custom page database but it won't do that somehow. Any way this is possible?

Very doable. But without really knowing exactly what template your working with and what variables are available inside it, I can only speak in generalizations.

I'm guessing that you want to show the custom member data of the author of the database record, in which case you will probably need to use $record->author()->ets2avatar

55 minutes ago, Fabby said:

    {{$data = $object->ets2avatar;}}
    <strong>Data:</strong> {$data}

Trying to load this simple custom data (set to member)

Basicly trying to achieve that members can set a url (or prefered upload) as second avatar which i then can show on a pages database record.

You need to access the data field from the member object then. $object is just an example but is likely not defined in your template. Try using the variable which holds the member object for the template you are working with.

13 hours ago, Kjell Iver Johansen said:

This was a first install after upgrade from 348. I had social groups before. So I should upgrade social group with gc?

How could it be first install if the GC app is already installed?

Regardless, once GC is installed, you can import your old social groups data using the "Import Tools" feature in the GC ACP menu.

6 hours ago, Fabby said:

Any way to make an action only be done once a day or 24 hours ?

Yes, set it up as a custom action and then schedule itself again in 24 hours everytime it runs. Or you can schedule it manually from the custom actions ACP page (as recurring) if you want to pass it the same arguments each time it runs.

1 hour ago, Fabby said:

I'm losing my motivation after serveral hours of fighting this.

$fuelconsumed = "$content->field55";
$fuelprice = 1.419;
$fuel1 = ($fuelconsumed * $fuelprice);
return $fuel1;

What is wrong with this? Its not doing its job

Without knowing what you mean, I'm going to take a guess that $content-> field55 is not what you think it is. Is this a pages record that you are working with using rules? If so, that should probably be $content->field_55.

Also why is it enclosed in quotes? That will be assigning a string value to $fuelconsumed which will be 0 as an number value in your math equation.