Kevin Carwile

5 hours ago, Kjell Iver Johansen said:

Hello @Kevin Carwile I now upgraded my forum to 4.0.13 and when I try a fresh install it claims that I have installed it already. I do not wan't to uninstal this app - ref history. 

You cannot fresh install if it is already installed. You need to choose the option to upload a new version.

Yes.

6 minutes ago, ghinton said:

Kevin, is there a way to set the number of collaborations allowed to be created based on usergroups, as opposed to a default for everyone? For example, I would like basic members to only be able to create 1 collaboration, but paying members could create up to 5.

Look under the Group Collaboration tab of the member group editing form. That's where you will find that setting.

3 hours ago, PacmanDo said:

I have the same issue Kevin. I stopped using Collabs and rules sometime ago and then thought I would try it again after upgrading to 1.2.4. It was bad, so disabled again until I hear from you that the issue is fixed.

Whats the issue again? Specifically.

11 minutes ago, kar3n2 said:

@Kevin Carwilewhen I get a notification that you have uploaded new version am I supposed to download that again and upload it to my site?  ( probs silly question but just checking)

Yes. It's always a good idea to stay updated. And I've included a fix for the inline message issue you reported, so it will definitely benefit you.

You can flush the rules_scheduled_actions table from phpmyadmin. Or, if you set up your scheduled actions with a keyphrase, you can create a custom action and a rule to delete scheduled actions by matching the keyphrase.

2 hours ago, socceronly said:

Hi there. Just bought Collaboration. I think this gonna be great!

When I start creating stuff, things start to really slow to a crawl. I start to get 500 errors on the site.  When I disable the app, things are happy again.

Please PM me with ACP details for your site so I can investigate.

1 hour ago, kar3n2 said:

I think I must have done something wrong maybe. I have a rule set to add an inline message "welcome back ( name)" to a member on return logging in.  However it doesnt do the message.

I have it set to debug to see what might be happening but that says Rule evaluated ...Conditions met... so I presume that means that it created the inline message ok. So any ideas why member cannot see the message?

Thanks if you can help

Yes, I know why. IPS core is designed in such a way that inline messages are lost if you set one and then the page view results in a redirect.

I planned on creating a workaround but never got around to it. 

Version 1.3.0 of rules is in the works. I'll see if I can toss this in.

1 hour ago, kar3n2 said:

I understand the rule( I think) but why is there a link to that xml file please?  What am I supposed to do with that file? Should I be uploading it or something?

Its an exported rule from the rules app. You can import it from the rules ACP.

2 hours ago, Joel R said:

Hi, do you know if the Rules App creates a database table for rules_arguments?

If so, I have a corrupt database that needs to be manually fixed.  See image below for error.  

Its not corrupt. But if you want that message to go away, just update to the latest rules version.

8 hours ago, flashpoint said:

Will those existing forums still be visible to the public.

You decide. Its all permission based.

1 hour ago, NoGi said:

Ok, making some progress yah!!

Boolean returns true now. Just need to sort out why the action failed:

Schedule the follow up checkOperation skipped (missing argument)

No argument available for: topic

09/25/2015 1:37 PM

Glad to hear it. Moving forward, let's take this to a private message.

4 hours ago, NoGi said:

Has anyone got a rule working to test for a new topic? I keep getting FALSE as the response to the test.

This was a bug that was introduced in the last release. A new version (1.2.4) is now available which will fix this problem. You will need to edit your condition that checks the boolean value again, reselect the correct event argument, and save.

2 hours ago, NoGi said:

Has anyone got a rule working to test for a new topic? I keep getting FALSE as the response to the test.

This appears to be a bug. Looking into it further...

1 hour ago, flashpoint said:

I have premade forums for those factions and I want to keep it that way. WOuld I be able to "link" these groups to existing pre-made forums? So the admin of the group can mange those forums however they like?

Yes. You can move existing forums into a collab.

1 hour ago, flashpoint said:

Second question (according to the pictures its possible). I don't want create a cluster since I have a lot of servers I want to separate the groups to sections.

Game Name/Server Name | Group/Factions Names

Grand Theft Auto - IG Roleplay > Police Department, Firefighters, etc
Grand Theft Auto - Server for Pilots > American Airlines, Air Canada, etc.

Its kind of hard to explain what I want to do, in other words. I don't want like 20 separate servers to be all in one section, it will get confusing. 

Was there a question in that?

13 minutes ago, pmflav said:

Using the demo colab, when creating a new category it doesn't save the option 'Enable Topic Forums?", it reverts back to unselected each time. Have uninstalled and reinstalled, but does the same thing. This is using the latest Collab demo

Uh huh.

4 hours ago, NoGi said:

Oh thank you so much if you can, that would be most helpful.

Try this: inactive-topic-rules.xml

You'll want to add your actions to the "Take action on inactive topics" rule.

2 hours ago, wohali said:

Meaning that IPS4 Content has multiple content databases in which you could create entries . Our site currently has three databases defined. Under ACP > Community > (select a category) > Pages tab, I only see two of those databases listed. The third is not present. I can't figure out how to get the collab to recognize this third IPS Content database. What criteria are used to select an IPS Content database for display in the ACP for Group Community category pages?

In order for a database to be usable by collaborations, it must implement categories and already be added to a page so that the database content is viewable.

2 hours ago, wohali said:

I also noticed that any database entries created thru a collab, if the IPS Content category is set to create an forum post at the same time, will create that forum post in the (global) forum declared by the IPS Content category. There is no way to override this to, for instance, auto-create a forum post on a forum within that category. This seems to be a natural idea: someone in Collab A creates an article and wants to have the system auto-post a thread about her new article on a board within Collab A.

There is an override setting on all pages database category forms that can be used to do what you are describing.

2 hours ago, wohali said:

Any luck on the dev mode problem? It's really got me stuck in the water, trying to develop a modification to GC (as we discussed in our PM a couple of months ago).

PM me for dev files.

Ya, you dont want to be manually scheduling the action to happen every 3 hours. What you want is to schedule the action as a follow up when a topic is actually created.

And your condition to check if the content is new is not going to work because you are using php code that returns nothing. You should use a truth value condition to check the "new" argument and not be attempting to use it as a content item.

I'll put together something for you when I get a chance.

1. Look on the member roles management page in the collab. Click the dropdown menu for any role group to choose bulk pm.

2. Modify this to fit your needs. 

https://community.invisionpower.com/files/file/7662-move-topic-tofrom-collaboration-in-group-collaboration/

On 9/21/2015, 4:57:07, wohali said:

Finally, it doesn't seem to allow me to pick which database the article is associated with, it's picked my converted 3.x "Articles" database and given no other choices.

Not sure what you mean here...

@NoGi

What is your strategy? If you want to check if a topic has not had any posts after 3 hours and then take action, you will need to schedule that process to happen for each topic after it is created. 

First, create a custom action in the rules ACP and add an \IPS\forums\Topic as an action argument.

Then create a rule that is triggered by topic creation. Make sure to add a condition which checks that the boolean value "new" from the event is TRUE (since the same event is also triggered anytime a topic is updated). In this rule, add the action to schedule your "custom action" for 3 hours in the future. Use the created topic as the argument to your custom action.

Finally, create another rule which uses your "custom action" as the event. Since your custom sction will be triggered for a topic 3 hours after it was created (because of that first rule), you add your conditions to check the number of replies on the topic and take appropriate actions here.

I dont think dev files are going to stop that. Try adding this to your config.php

// Report all errors except E_NOTICE
error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE);
 

9 hours ago, pmflav said:

How far under the hood do you need?

Just wondering if it's the encryption that's bothering it

FTP + ACP.

I think its more likely that there are some processing loops going on for one reason or another.

7 minutes ago, pmflav said:

Had to disable the trial as it was slowing the server to a crawl. Once disabled the site ran fine. weird

Some have been reporting such performance issues, while others have no problems at all. I've not had the opportunity to examine any site that is experiencing an obvious performance issue to determine the cause.

If you'd like to let me look under the hood I might be able to nail it down.

7 hours ago, OrdosAlpha said:

Just tried to download Automation Rules Lite 1.2.2 in order to try it out, and Avast is blocking the download due to the file being infected with the PHP:Agent-UM trojan. Anyone else encountering this?

Its not infected with any virus. It is however encoded as the non-encoded version only comes with the full purchase. 

Avast is just seeing that the files are encoded.