If you have an active community that is running 4.x, you can also go to the ACP > Get Support.
IPS provides a very robust dashboard of live suggestions and recommendations:
I'm a heavy user of clubs on one of my Invision communities and wanted to provide some more information / clarification:
1. All members of your greater community are immediately and automatically members of Open & Public clubs. Those club types are, by definition, open and exposed to the entire community by default. It's literally in the name of the club type 🙂 . The difference between them is whether or not you need to join to post, but you will always view the content.
Streams, by default, show all available content that members can see. This means they will see club content from Open & Public clubs, by default.
2. I am not a fan of editing the filter for Streams, because if you exclude club content, it will ALWAYS exclude club content even after they join the club. My assumption is that when members join the Microsoft club, they would want to see the Microsoft club in their stream when they return in the future.
3. I personally think your best solution is Closed clubs, which will more than suffice for your use case. By default, users (for example, brand new members to your overall community) will not see any content from any Closed club until they specifically join Closed clubs. Which is what you want. Everyone is happy.
Even though Marc is correct that clubs of Private type will always prevent any public content, I want to explain that in order for Closed clubs to expose public content, the club owner would have needed to intentionally define that section to show public content. Don't do that, duh! Slap the hand of your club owner if he tries to define a new section that "anyone can view." If you stay away from the options of letting a section intentionally become public, then the content of your Closed club will stay private. Which is what you want. Members join the club, they see the content. Members who don't join the club, won't see the content.
Make content public? appears when you add a new section for Topics in a Closed Club.
I am not a fan of Private clubs and want to add a clear warning that Private clubs won't even show on the club list, so you lose all discoverability. It's literally hidden. It's like a private, hidden, secret club that is invite-only, and you will only see the club after you accept an invite. If you stick with Closed clubs, the club name and description will appear on the list of clubs, and members can browse the vendor user group they want.
As you identified, the one custom coding you would need is to auto-approve member requests to join the closed clubs.
4. Some additional tips:
You can choose to let club content areas co-exist with the normal content areas. For example, club forums that members joined can appear in your community Forums, and will append at the bottom. This allows your community to commingle content and makes it easier for your users to browse and participate, instead of needing to go specifically to the Clubs app.
From a behavioral standpoint, this option is great once it's been set up. But users will need to navigate to Clubs app in the beginning. If you want to encourage discoverability, I would recommend you create a new forum of Redirect type, which directs users from the community Forum to the Clubs.
If you have that many clubs, you may want to think about defining Extra Fields that can be filterable on the front-end. This could be things like industry vertical, industry application, user groups, etc.
5. Even though I've been talking about Clubs ad nauseum, I think it's important to holistically ask if Clubs is the appropriate solution if the only thing you're needing it for is discussion. Clubs are not another tool, it's an entire kit of tools. Just be aware that from a user's behavioral standpoint, Clubs introduces a layer of user complexity.
Hi @Seylerg Sort of related and this might help with new user onboarding is the feature of Profile Completion announced in 4.2, which guides users through basic profile steps such as uploading an avatar or filling out profile fields.
Help Article: https://invisioncommunity.com/4guides/member-functions/profile-completion-r312/
Blog Article: https://invisioncommunity.com/news/invision-community/new-complete-your-profile-r1029/
Otherwise, as other members have stated, you would need to come up with your own Help articles for users. I wrote a robust set of Help articles for some of my apps, and in my experience, the only ones who read them were my most dedicated users. Majority of new and casual members just want something intuitive that works.
Ah okay, this makes sense.
Not to be the bearer of bad news, but you are on a cloud plan that does not allow Databases. See comparison of the cloud plans:
I'm sure if you contact Sales, they will be more than happy to charge you an additional $720 / yr to give you access to "Page Builder Full Access" (aka Databases).
#2 Custom fields per forum is not a default feature.
There is a Marketplace mod for it. You can browse Invisioneer.org's Marketplace Directory to see if you can find it.
#3. If your account has the proper permissions, you can use the Block Manager. You should see a small arrow on left hand side of screen, which contains menu of several default widgets and blocks you can add anywhere to the page. One of those is the forum statistics.
Hi,
Is it safe to assume that users are leaving many reviews on profiles because they're entering into many separate transactions?
You can potentially check out Trader Feedback System by @stoo2000. It's a very mature and stable app.
Two options in Marketplace:
https://invisioncommunity.com/files/file/8483-15-off-bim-hide-link-and-code/ by @onlyME
https://invisioncommunity.com/files/file/8395-ne-hide-content/ by @Nathan Explosion
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