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I was just trying to implement the same thing saved me time. I was also looking at adding snow.

This is the support thread for the Christmas Lights IPS4 plugin.
 

The Smashable Christmas Lights plugin adds a ridiculous, festive touch to any IPS4 website with a string of breakable, twinkling Christmas Lights.
Features:
A string of HTML5-implemented Christmas Lights which will slowly blink on and off randomly. Mousing over a light breaks the light and plays a glass breaking sound! Reloading the page restores the bulbs to like-new condition so you can have another go at them. Settings provided include: Toggle lights on and off without uninstalling the plugin. Adjustable in size from 32 to 100 pixels. Auto padding is provided to prevent lights from overlapping key IPS navigation elements. This can be toggled off if desired. Volume adjust for glass breaking sound, can be turned off completely Experimental, unsupported support for mobile devices (no sound, may overlap navigation) Enjoy what is perhaps the most useless plugin ever developed for IPS4!
Original BSD-licensed code for xmas lights provided by Scott Schiller (2007).
WARNING: Will slow down browsers considerably. No attempt has been or will be made at optimization. What you see is what you get, take it or leave it. As the JavaScript implementing this functionality is quite old (2007) and slows down even modern browsers considerably, only critical IPS-breaking issues will be fixed.

Thanks. Something nice just for the holiday spirit that doesn't require a lot of tweaking theme-side or switching themes.

You should assume all mods, plugins, and third-party apps to NOT be compatible with 4.1 unless the author specifically says it is.  
With that said, I think you will find @Kevin Carwile to be one of the more responsive and attentive developers in the Marketplace, and he'll be able to provide an update pretty soon.  

I have submitted an application to the Marketplace that extends Group Collaborations with per-role Badges, displayed in the user panel next to each topic post/reply. Assuming the file is approved, you can purchase it for a modest fee here:
 
Could you load each tab on demand on the category form as they are clicked instead? I know the ACP does this in various places (e.g. the Developer Center).
You could also remove the need for saving thousands of values at once if you had a way to set each one individually when changed via JS, e.g. the way reordering is auto-saved. I don't know if this is practical though, given the form helper structure, you might be faced with having to code your own form helper! Eek.

I have submitted an application to the Marketplace that extends Group Collaborations with per-role Badges, displayed in the user panel next to each topic post/reply. Assuming the file is approved, you can purchase it for a modest fee here:
 
Could you load each tab on demand on the category form as they are clicked instead? I know the ACP does this in various places (e.g. the Developer Center).
You could also remove the need for saving thousands of values at once if you had a way to set each one individually when changed via JS, e.g. the way reordering is auto-saved. I don't know if this is practical though, given the form helper structure, you might be faced with having to code your own form helper! Eek.

I had this problem too. Seems that IPS4 thinks rsyvarth's Social Groups and Kevin Carwile's Group Collaboration share the same application ID.
You can install GC as an upgrade to rsyvarth's Social Groups when converting from 3.x and it works fine, Kjell. Just use the dropdown next to the inactive "groups" app and pick Upgrade, then upload the tarball when prompted.

Uh huh.
 

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

PM me for dev files.

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/
Not sure what you mean here...

Collab header will be removed on permission denied page in next release.
The "all active members" permission applies to anybody who is an active collab member, regardless of any additional roles that are assigned to them in the collab. A collab guest is anybody who is not a collab member, including non site members and logged in members. To prevent non site members from accessing collab content, that permission is set on the collab category itself.

Don't worry, I'm working for Live Stream (Twitch.tv)

I'm also looking at this as a replacement for our old IPC YouTube database and our 3.x Live Streams module (supporting Twitch, Hitbox, YouTube livestream, etc.). I think the only thing missing (and preventing me from buying this) is a way to get a feed of users who are live streaming now, which would require some sort of a scheduled task to update the database, as well as a filter to have only those items shown in a feed block on my homepage. Can you think of a way to implement this in your current framework?
My alternative implementation would be to use IP.Content and some custom blocks plus my own Scheduled Task, which would probably work but wouldn't result in me buying your app

+1 vote for Rules support for collab memberships, for basically the reasons Pinto outlined.

It will be updated at some point.
I was thinking about the possibility of setting up a GitHub project so others can contribute code, I haven't made a decision on that though.

Will you be updating this for 4.0?
Thanks

I'm curious, how would you go about adding collab category specific custom fields using Rules? Could you walk us through it quickly?

I'm curious, how would you go about adding collab category specific custom fields using Rules? Could you walk us through it quickly?

I don't really like "dogpiling" especially when there is a Like This button, but this is the biggest drawback for us. Ocean West hit right on the head why we want Group Collaboration: delegation of forum responsibility without having to set up lots of fine grained access restrictions on the ACP. This work gets harder and harder the more collaborations you have, and GC's model of letting collabs sort it out for themselves suits us just fine. But because visibility is limited (vis a vis the main Forum Board Index) it feels like they are getting "secondary" boards, and users may feel like second class citizens as a result.
We're coming from Social Groups, where new forum boards do show up in the main forum index, in a special Social Groups board section. People will expect to see IPS4 GC forum listings there, and today they won't. Many of our users expect our website to be like "any other forum" and barely realize it has articles, galleries, etc. and only view the forum index to see what's going on. Now that it won't show the collaborations, it's going to lead to decreased engagement.
One good point is that collaboration content does show up in the New Content Topics panel, so at least they can get exposed to it that way. If only the preview posts function for New Content from 3.x (the dropdown to view latest posts) would return! (Also, I'll be honest - we don't create new collaborations often, so the New Content > Collaborations section isn't useful for us.)

I had to turn off GC and move the few forums I had back to the main site - Why?
I've had a few requests to restore Tapatalk and in their current iteration it ignores the GC (haven't decided yet - not personally fond of that app) it may have been the smaller forums I moved over but there was zero traction in the 3 weeks they were parked there (not one person "joined" them) no one created their own group. My biggest fear that if i moved my intended set of forums over there they would be come a data island. My main goal was to create a means for select few individuals to moderate, and manage ( create ) their own specific forums - and not give them access to the ACP - which GC does but at the cost of removing the forums from the main index and loosing discovery.
It could just be the nature of my site - the entire site focus primarily is technical in nature about one software program, and associated technologies. My goal was to use GC for my affiliates sponsors who are third party solution developers, my site is their front line for tech support of their products, however moving them to their own island that is several clicks away would increase the attrition rate.
At any rate GC works as it was designed and am still glad to participate and hope to find a purpose that is a fit to my community in the near future. 

I agree in some respects to the comments above although we have still seen a reasonable contribution rate but not to where it was before. It is a change that members just really need to become familiar with.
I think your comments fully support our view that it would be great to display GC categories as a category on the main board index and integrate better. It really needs the ability to see latest post inancollab on the board index. Currently they are set several layers deep within the suite. It works perfectly but @Kevin Carwile it would really be awesome for you to find a way to integrate the collab categories as categories on the board index which means it has the flexibility that GC brings but makes content easily found.

​The titles of blocks are changed through the language system. Search for "block_featuredCollabs", and "block_latestCollabs".
​There is a moderator permission on the moderators configuration form inside the ACP. Members -> Moderators -> {Edit moderator/group} -> Collab Management tab
Enable the option: "Unrestricted by collab permissions ".
 

​Honestly to me its not.  A lot of work was done on this. Lots of features.  If you ever wanted this done by an outside company, it would cost you thousands.  

You could definitely do that with rules. But that might not be a bad fearure to add to GC.

You got me. You cant currently have a completely private collab in the way of making the group itself invisible to outsiders. But thats not a bad idea. I'll go ahead and put that in the roadmap for a future release. 
If you want to set up a collab for somebody, you can either log in as the member and create the collab for them, or create it as an administrator and tranfer it to them afterwards.