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Is the default, but now editable welcome message imported from the current one in the language strings or do I need to save that before upgrading?

@Ehren Not a huge deal, but worth mentioning: I give my communities custom front-end webfonts by overriding the font-face globally in “html, body“. This works fine but the new iDropdown class seems to be the only area that doesn’t inherit these fonts.

It’s just confusing to present a completely type of content/structure depending on someone’s login status. If seeing the latest topics is useful for your site, why shouldn’t logged in members see this as well on your homepage? Why would this list disappear for them and they would see a category list now? And why would it not be useful for guests to see the forum categories to understand what the forum is offering and why should they not be able to explore the categories to find topics they are interested in? It’s just more logical and user-friendly to keep the structure of the site in tact no matter the login status. Either way, while you cannot replace the forum list, you can certainly add guest only widgets to show the latest topics. There are activity feeds, post feeds and topic feeds and you can limit them to guests when you set them up as Pages block in the ACP. If you want a busy homepage showing the latest activity, you could also consider making the Activity Page the homepage (as Mark explained) or to use the Fluid View for the forums. Or use the new feature to set a different default page for different groups. So, there are actually plenty of ways to get your latest topics lists for guests, just not exactly in the way you imagined it.

By the way: the user can also change it themselves. It’s on the /clients/info/ page. https://invisioncommunity.com/clients/info/

It’s this link on the Customer Information tab:

There is a customisable widget for it now, which is a good idea in theory. You just drag it onto the page and it can read your headlines and you can make changes. I never got it to work properly with Pages databases though.

It gets updated after closing the popup.

Sure. https://opentype.space/forums/topic/40-bunny-test/ It is far from being as straightforward as embedding a YouTube video though. I whitelisted “iframe.mediadelivery.net“ in the ACP editor settings first. Then I pasted the iframe link*. Then I opened the editor link settings and clicked the globe symbol to turn the link into an embedded element Then I clicked the custom sizes icon to set reasonable values for width and height *) The iFrame link you posted contains an additional wrapper. I had to first find the iframe in that iframe which was this.

Yes, I am available to set up Pages customizations like that. https://opentype.space/support/75_custom-jobs/can-i-hire-you-for-custom-jobs-r36/

It requires custom PHP code in the field settings to replace the default link list with the code that pulls in the external record(s) with the fields you would like to display. On 4.x it was easier, as there was a theme template for that, which one could customize. In 5.x that is not possible anymore, but the field settings still allow us to override the output of the database relationship field at least. That’s what I now use for some of my databases with database relationship fields.

I see. It’s unlikely that IPS will change that behaviour, as there could be any number of fields with arbitrary content behind each link, like maps and YouTube videos and huge articles. If anything they could use the typical feed preview consisting of the title, a shortened body field and the record image. That would make sense and could be put into a nice grid view as alternative to the CSV list. To customize the outgoing and incoming relationship fields, you would need some custom HTML. For the outgoing link that would go into the field settings (Display View Format) and for the incoming links it would be in the reciprocal links loop. All of that can be customized. I do that all the time.

I use that feature a lot with all of its options, but I don’t understand what you are asking/recommending. 1) and 2) are the functionality of this feature. Being able to create a link within one record in one database and linking out to one or more records in a different database. The “cross link“ option allows to create a link back from the linked record to the linking records. Line 3) does not make any sense to me. What does “displaying“ mean in this context? The feature displays a link to the external record. Are you not seeing that? Or do you want to display another way, for example showing more than a link? Also, are you using one database relationship field in one database or do you use that feature in both of your databases? It’s unfortunately not clear and the labels Builds and Items don’t help, as we don’t know the context.

It depends on what you mean by “default“. No content can be excluded from the “All Activity“ feed, as it shows all, as it says. You can however set a custom feed as your default feed and that will give you all the options to include and exclude content types. That new default feed will show behind the feed icon and you can link it in the menu instead of “All Activity“. The only situation where this doesn’t work well is if you have Activity Feeds as the main “app“. Then the All Activity feed will be used when the website is loaded.

With Classic, there is a useful setting for the constants.php \define( 'BULK_MAILS_PER_CYCLE', 25 );It slows down the sending of bulk mails in contrast to the default 500 per cycle. Unfortunately, it’s not directly a time-based setting, which would allow us to match the host’s limit precisely, but it certainly helps. I even use it when there is no limit or a large sending limit, because sending bulk mail slowly reduces the chance of mail providers blocking it as spam. They look for the same message being received many times in a 24 hour time period (for example) and if the newsletters is spread out over a couple of days, the message is less likely seen as spam—or if there are problems, I can react to them and potentially fix them. That would be impossible if everything went out in just minutes.

Yes, it can be overridden. There is a configuration file for every installation. All these options are “defaults“, as this is how the software is set up originally and the admins (or IPS for cloud installations) can override them, including the “default“ group for new members. Nothing wrong with that language.

I would certainly support it as a feature request to IPS. My power user keep hitting the upload limit and I reluctantly increase it again and again, because they add useful attachments, even though I don’t really want to grant that limit to “drive-by users“ who might waste space with just a few posts. Upload limits that can also take time into account would be useful.

There should be an assistant to recreate the button functionality of 4.x, which creates the necessary code automatically in the background.

Have a look at the options to delay the deletion. That seems to be more practical than all that moving away and potentially back.

Click on this button (after selecting the widget in the Page Editor) and you can choose from various layouts: Applies to other content types as well. It’s really nice.

Thanks. Must be Cloud only then. I don’t have that.

Where is that setting? Can’t find it.

Check again that the display template for the database (and all categories) is reset. It should look like: That’s the most likely problem. But it could also be a customized IPS template or widgets with issues. IPS would need to investigate this.

No. FTP apps can merge files and folders, so it’s just one action. You don’t have to open any folders at all.

The underlying framework for Pages hasn’t changed, so you can still go with the tutorials from 2015 to learn Pages. https://invisioncommunity.com/4guides/pages/core-concepts/introduction-to-pages-r149/ There are just a few functional changes between Pages in 4.x and 5.x as explained here. What has changed significantly is the layout options for the data. That’s all explained and shown here: https://invisioncommunity.com/news/invision-community/invision-community-5-page-builder-r1304/

The options are below that grey button shown in your screenshot.