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There's actually a disconnect among all the content in all the apps but that's a larger discussion. Each app is a silo of information and is a problem that plagues a multi-app community. The OP brings up a powerful example of a very unique weakness in the IPS suite. Admins often have a fractured content base because images in IP.Board have no way of relating to images in IP.Gallery. It's a major, fundamental concern that I share as well. The OP shared one solution: to combine image content from forums and gallery into user content. I'm more a fan of generating a 'virtual' album in IP.Gallery where the images are linked from the forums. In any case, the cross promotion of content is one area that IPS hasn't even started to address but is a very real problem on complex multi app communities.

Without getting into the overall concerns by @Ocean West, I agree that content discovery is difficult and obscured by GC. It's why I suggested collab icons or banner, to make each collab more enticing. Some thoughts on just this point: 1. Each group resides in a category, which means that a user needs to go from the homepage > category > group before they even see any interesting content. I personally think that Category is more useful as a back-end function to administer settings, not as a front-end categorization. But I can understand how some people, with tons of groups, may want front-end Categories. 2. I was hoping that there would be a seamless interaction of nodes between IP.Apps and GC. For example, board A in IP.Board is actually administered by collab Alpha, and you can access / view / post in the same board A from both the board index as well as the collab. But then I realized there might be permissions, settings, templates, etc. which might be difficult to cross-over. (But if it could be done, that alone would be some jaw-dropping cross-node ninja kung fu right there, which I'm hoping one day ... sigh .. IPS might offer this kind of amazing functionality.)

Did that. Then went through the Forum wizard, Gallery wizard, and Pages wizard to toggle all of my options. Wizard was nice.Still no save I couldn't find the language strings in ACP Customization > Localization > Languages > English (Default). Should I still file a bug report? It's because you use an icon for all of the other tabs, whereas Tags & Prefixes tab is text only. There's actually options to define tags and stuff. Photo: Correct. Nothing changed with my front-end Menu, which is why I was lost. Usually when you add an App it shows as a new first-level tab. I think it would be appropriate, however, for you to add a link to each collab, similar to ACP IP.Pages "View Page " search icon which pulls up the page. Each collab is going to need to be edited from the front-end with text and banners, anyway.

So I decided to check out the Group Collaboration finally. Some issues (running v4.1.5.2): 1. Collab App Configuration settings not saving. Steps: ACP Groups > Categories > (Name of Group Collab) > Any app setting such as Forum Settings. I've tried to save this multiple times and everytime I come back, all of the options are unchecked. So I can't actually do anything yet in my groups, which is a bummer 2. Language Strings Steps: ACP Groups > Categories > (Name of Group Collab) > Gallery Settings or Page Settings. There are some untranslated language strings, maybe they're unique to my installation if I have third-party mods? I don't know, since some of these are like 'Can Pin Content' 3. Menu Tabs Steps: ACP Groups > Categories. When you have a third-party app such as "Advanced Tags & Prefixes," the tab doesn't appear very nicely. This is entirely aesthetic in nature but still important. Some suggestions or questions since I'm just getting settled in: 1. Suggestion: Link to Category - I know this sounds kind of stupid, but after I created a category ... I didn't know where to go on the front-end! I thought there would be a nice Menu option, but there wasn't. I even tried guessing /groups or /collab. Eventually I toggled 'show on board index' and I was able to navigate to the Collab app in a roundabout way from the forums! 2. Suggestion: Custom icon or banner for Groups. In the Groups listing under a category, I think there could be a richer representation of each group, since it's really each Group that's important and that's trying to attract new members, not the Categories. 3. Good job: Mini icons for "active member" and "you are an active member." There's a lot of rich information that you shared using that iconography. I can't actually do anything set since none of my settings are saved, but I'm excited.

It's strange because I initially upload and installed Topic Thumbnail plugin and hook on 11/28, and it was working fine. Then a couple of days later the homepage broke (which is where I added the Topic Thumbnail block. It works now. Another suggestion: Default topic thumbnail per category / forum in addition to a global thumbnail. The reason why is that I have some boards dedicated to news and discussion, another for announcements and new hire introductions, etc. and I'd like to create more distinction between those boards in the Recent Posts block.

Hello @onlyME, I wanted to let you know of a critical error from this plugin. PHP Error: [Mon Nov 30 17:02:37.012308 2015] [proxy_fcgi:error] [pid 9275:tid 139714191103744] [client 95.141.32.46:44730] AH01071: Got error 'PHP message: PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined method IPS\\forums\\Topic::tthumb_thumbnailURL() in /home/xxxxx/domains/xxxxx.com/public_html/system/Theme/Theme.php(692) : eval()'d code on line 1508\n' From IPS Support: it seems that the 3rd party coder just made a small mistake (tthumbnail vs thumbnailURL ) Topic::tthumb_thumbnailURL

Some thoughts and / or suggestions now that I've started to use this: Congratulations on this plugin. I love it. I wrote a nice review on the file. Smilies - Don't use emoticons / smiles for thumbnails.

I believe I have the same problem. I am running IPS v4.1.3.2 with Advanced Tags & Prefixes v3.1.2 Steps to Reproduce Within the ACP, navigate to Pages > Content > My Database > Categories. I have multiple categories for the letters of the alphabet. I am attempting to add more letters, such as "H Category," "I Category," "K Category." Click on the small dropdown arrow and Copy. Receive "A configuration or server error has occurred. EX1054 Something went wrong. Please try again." See screenshot.

Congrats on the latest release of Videobox

Can you explain in more detail what steps to revert all templates & css of videobox? Do you mean the ACP support tool?

Hi, is this tested to work with 4.1.3.2? I remember during the most recent couple of upgrades, IPS Support advised that I disable the Videobox since it messed up some of the templates.

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.

Hi, do you know if feed_items is a database table created by Social Stream? If so, I have a corrupt database (which doesn't affect anything else in my community, thankfully, but it's still a problem that ought to be resolved on behalf of all clients). See image below.

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.

Congrats on the release

Okay, so I have a very simple use case of Automation Rules: I'd like to send notifications, status updates, and emails whenever a member achieves a new rank or reputation for community re-engagement. Will I need to create my own "rank" and "reputation" system within Automation Rules, or is there a way to base my data upon the ACP ranks and reputation that I've defined? I can see how the reputation event is based upon a member receiving a new reputation, but I don't see how I can trigger the condition of meeting the next reputation level. Any advice would be much appreciated.

You should contact a third-party developer to create this functionality for you.

Congrats on the release

Have you seen Bookmarks by @ipsrocks?

Suggestion: include Likes in the stream

Congrats on the new release.

@HeadStand can provide her official answers but based upon my understanding and use: 1. Right now, you can choose types of content (eg. Gallery images, Gallery posts, Blog posts, Blog comments) but you can't choose from what categories inside each content type. She might be including categories and further filtering in future releases. 2. Right now, its only one widget that gets filtered the same way as per your settings in the ACP. Theres no filter setting per widget although that's a great suggestion

Thanks! Oh, the group coloring is available in the actual Social Stream but not on the widget.

Ip.Pages is honestly one of the better purchases you can make with IPS. If you'd like a full blown website built around your forum community, Pages is not bad. It could be better admittedly for non-technical admins but once you start using it you'll recognize its intrinsic power.

I'd like to nominate this post for being the "Mind-Blowing Informative Post of the Month" and to suggest this gets saved to documentation.