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Nice customization. Would be a good feature request to set that directly in the Menu Manager.

I appreciate the various layout options and the inclusion of more images in the 5.x widgets, but it seems the new widgets don’t use thumbnails even if they are available. Example: Here is a Record Feed widget which shows the images in a size of just 30×30 pixels, yet it loads the full size record images, which might be 5000 pixels wide each. 😱 Please add a condition to use the thumbnail when available.

A rating is just a value (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), a review necessarily contains a review text in addition to the numerical value.

Pretty sure that was the case, as AllAstronauts had to develop dedicated plugins/apps to make the S3-compatible services actually compatible with the IPS S3-implementation at the time. But I guess moving from S3 to Backblaze should be easy now. In theory. Someone else self-hosted with large files please try it first. I would be extremely anxious to start a move and possibly end up stuck with a locked task and partially moved files.

Don’t hold your breath. This will not happen. They are in the bug-fixing stage for a big new release. They are not adding random/recent feature requests, let alone ones that require major restructuring between beta releases. And their general approach seems to be to simplify things rather than make them more complicated. So, I wouldn’t even expect them to make major changes to the page layout in 5.1, 5.2 and so on. If you need a second sidebar, you have to add it yourself, which in 5.x is now done withe the RAW HTML widget on the front-end. You can’t use drag-and-drop there, but you can create your own page layout at will and move any widget in there manually. Doing it manually is advised anyway, as a 3-column view is highly problematic in terms of the creation of a responsive website. When the columns need to collapse on smaller screens, where does the content go? Is the main content now deep down, because an entire sidebar comes first? That’s usually a bad idea and that’s probably why it is not offered like this as a default layout.

That’s a claim, not a question. 😉 But seriously, it’s not even related to deprecating multi-location storage. Even in the current system, you can’t split one type of content (e.g. attachments) between multiple storage locations when they fill up your disk space. You would obviously have to get a storage solution that is scalable, whether it’s with your hosting provider or an external solution like S3.

I am looking for clarification regarding the original claims about changing the rating functionality. Matt said Ratings would be removed from 5.x, which I am not seeing (except for not exposing ratings in forums anymore). So was it cancelled? Postponed? What’s the official position and status? Matt said ratings in Pages might be kept and existing ratings might be converted. Was that implemented? Or is not necessary because nothing has actually changed so far (which is what it seems to me).

I think you can’t add NEW storage locations anymore. Moving is still there. It has to be. After all, that’s what they want you do to. Download settings (both 4 and 5):

Is access to Pages databases through GraphQL still planned? When rebuilding code and templates for 5.x, it would be good to use that right away.

If I understand it correctly, you store it like you do now. You just don’t use MULTIPLE locations, but one. So, let’s say you have only attachments on S3 and everything else in your website’s /uploads folder, you would move the stuff from the uploads folder to your S3 location too.

So, was ratings for Pages even touched? Do ratings for Pages database records remain or are they converted somehow as suggested earlier this year.

But what is open or closed by default if you move from one record to another?

You can test it here and browse through the records on this page: https://opentype.space/support/ I tried Safari, Chrome and Firefox and I always get inconsistent results.

What’s the intended functionality for the new Database Navigation widget regarding opening the sub-menus? I am getting an inconsistent behaviour that doesn’t feel right. For a database with only one category, I see all entries always. That’s fine. But for databases with multiple categories, things get stuck in weird ways. Sometimes all sub-menus remain closed after clicking a link in the category tree. Sometimes a certain sub-menu remains open no matter what page in the category tree I am on. My expectation would be that the active sub-menu would always remain open, but I am not getting that behaviour at all.

Managed the entire upgrade and refresh over a weekend: https://opentype.space

That is set to unlimited. But picking a large value also doesn’t seem to change anything.

How to create video embeds (YouTube, Vimeo) that fill the entire column? I can scale the entire video up and down, but after a certain max width or height, only the container scales and the video stays rather small. I see the same both on my site and on the IPS preview installation.

It’s not. Internal data storage was never an intended use for Pages databases.

Or convert to PHP template code? Like {{$variable = 5;}} I assume this continues to work?

Sure, that works too.

Suggestion to IPS: Move "basicRelationship" into the Pages Template section and make it selectable per database. It was always a bit weird to have that set up as a theme template. Not only would it solve the problem that Jimi and I are having and allow us to convert existing installations to 5.x, it would actually be a cleaner solution (separate Pages and theme templates) and make things easier, as we wouldn’t have to fill that template with tons of IF statements to only apply to certain databases. If you really want to show off, add some nice stock templates yourself. Not just the existing CSV type, but “grid with record-image” and things like that.

☞ https://invisioncommunity.com/forums/topic/473885-feature-deprecation-discussion/?do=findComment&comment=2908407 ☞ https://invisioncommunity.com/forums/topic/473885-feature-deprecation-discussion/?do=findComment&comment=2908422 My suggestion from that topic: ☞ https://invisioncommunity.com/forums/topic/473885-feature-deprecation-discussion/?do=findComment&comment=2907946 Could still be added to 4.x.

Actually, it was already available for some time, so http image calls on https pages wouldn’t break the SSL delivery. This was solved by importing all these images as attachments. But it was removed again after some transition period. Personally, I would love to see this feature with a white-list option. People often link community-related images from a few known sites in our field, which we absolutely don’t want to loose, but certainly will at some point in the future. Picking these sites for an automatic import would be great. Importing every linked media can easily lead to legal troubles (and significant fines), when the content is copyrighted, as it usually is.

To be clear: I specifically chose the feedback forum, not one of support forums, because this was meant as a feedback topic, not a “I am looking for help/instructions for my site(s)” topic. To make the point again in more detail: Defaulting to simple PHP mails has been the industry standard for php web apps for like 20+ years and Invision Community is no exception to this. It (usually) works right out of the box without the need for any configuration. There is now a significant change happening in this area. It’s something that is all over the web tech news and I see it happen across my various websites as well. Mailbox providers are significantly raising the bar to get mails delivered, demanding multiple positive checks for the various authentication options. This makes it a concern for many (self-hosted) IPS customers who start out new or usually don’t touch the default settings. They will wonder why so many registrations get stuck or why mails don’t seem to get delivered at all, because Google throttled the delivery after a php bulk mail without proper authentication. Right now, the IPS description calls the option “sufficient for most sites”, but this might be worth reconsidering. And that was the point of this topic. I’m not making a claim about how this could be addressed. Maybe it can be reliably addressed directly in the code, maybe not. Maybe the onboarding process should instantly ask for SMTP details. Maybe it can be helped indirectly with things like allowing different services for transactional and bulk mails. All I tried was raising awareness for this issue, because I see it happening all the time and I see it getting worse.

Dude, what the hell? No one has asked how one would set up DKIM. That was never in question. Nope. For phpMails and SMTP, Invision Community only seems to allow one mail service for both transactional and bulk mails. So, setting up a transactional-only service doesn’t seem like a good solution unless the website never sends out (marketing) bulk mails.