jair101

OK, I investigated a bit more and it seems that two out of three prefixes were removed form all my forums for some reason. I can add them back (although it will take a while), but this won't fix it on the topics that used to have prefix, but not anymore.

Any suggestions how this can be improved/rebuild?

I am unable to use prefixes, everything seems correct on my end. With the very same settings prefixes used to work nicely not long time ago. Maybe the latest IPS update messed something up. Am I the only one?

If you want to give me acp access, feel free to PM me. But otherwise it is difficult to give advice from distance. Looks like something about your custom action is a bit off and it still is not assigned to the event. 

On 9/29/2017 at 3:29 PM, 33andrain said:

Has this been reporting before and is there a fix? Would appreciate the community's assistance.

Looks like you are trying to install it as new, try the "upload a new version" option, which is when you click the plus sign to the right of the the app name. 

Yeah, you need to replace the token with the one provided by the rule Glad you figured it out. Now to create the rule that will make aliases for all existing members go to custom action, create one custom action and add Member as argument. 

Create a new rule and for event use the created custom action. For the action when it asks for "Map to url" you should have the member argument from the created custom action. For path, again add the token provided by the rules app. Report back here when done so we can do the scheduling after that

5 minutes ago, FGN said:

ok, one dummy question

Maybe its been so long since i used Rules, but can you explain to me where i see to make the "argument"?

I thought there was a tab that said that? @jair101

Thats when you create custom actions, its here: 

You can read more about it here:https://ipsguru.net/documentation/rules/general/customactions

But as I mentioned, leave that part for now. Try to setup the rule with event account is validated, then register a user on your board and see if it works. 

5 hours ago, FGN said:

ok @jair101 

Si i figured out where to find those settings you were talking about

Just have one problem.......i don't get that option Event/Global Data....it only gives me the manual configuration and PHP Code

I think you are missing the event. Did you create custom action with member argument? Start from there

By they way, maybe its better if we create the other rule first - the one for the new registrations. It will be easier to test without creating thousands of path aliases. So pretty much follow the steps I described before, but instead of custom action use for event "Account is validated", then for action do the thing with the path aliases, then try to register and check if it works

1 hour ago, FGN said:

@Kevin Carwile or anyone?

Without having precise experience with your issue, I suggest the following steps:

1. Create a custom action with Members as argument. This will be scheduled manually and used as an event trigger to create the url's for all existing members. 

2. Create a rule with the event, the custom action you just created. In action field add Create url alias and in the settings add: 

Map to URL I believe should be unchanged, for URL path you need to use the token for the membername listed on top. You need to schedule the rule, run it and thats it. 

I guess some of the things I wrote might sound foreign to you, Rules app have a bit of a steep initial learning curve. But you can learn it by doing  Just give it a try and if you are stuck somewhere, let me know. 

To have the urls created for new members, you need to use slightly different rule (with event "Account is validated"), but we can leave this one out for now. 

11 hours ago, Wildcard Chris said:

Hey @Kevin Carwile is there a way in Rules to check if a user has a notification, if so does the notification content contain a certain string?

Many thanks in advance! 

If you don't mind, maybe you can give more details about your idea. While it is difficult to check the notification, maybe it is possible to work with the event that creates this notification...

1 hour ago, CodingJungle said:

this might be better done by the point system that you use, instead of me trying to make it work with all of 'em that are available on the market.

 

True. Point Systems by Kevin Carwile can do that, but it is a patch work, I was hoping for a deeper integration. Maybe the virtual currency you create can be independent and other point apps can adapt to it. Just throwing it out there. 

1 hour ago, CodingJungle said:

not sure i know what you mean here.

 

I will copy paste from the suggestion I made about this with example:

"I believe it will be useful if there is a selector in payment methods for which currency this method should be applicable. There is a valid reason that you may want to prevent customers from using certain payment method even if the currency is accepted by the gateway. 

Here is an example. Paypal accepts both USD and EURO, but with very high fees. My local gateway accepts only EURO, but at lower fee. I want to limit Paypal to USD and my gateway to EURO, so I am not forced to pay higher fee when the customer selects Paypal for EURO purchase. This way I can even include the fees in the pricing, for example the USD price will be higher as I will be forced to use Paypal. 

Basically I want to steer my customers to the payment method that is cheapest for me and consequently for them. "

Some additional ideas for "Commerce Plus":

- Ability to use virtual currencies. Right now commerce is tied only with real life currencies, which is an inconvenience for everyone that use one of the Point systems and want to be able to use Commerce for users to pay with points. 
- Splitting of payment methods per currency choice. Paypal can be good for one currency but very bad for another. 
- Ability to buy digital products (like upgrade subscriptions) for someone else - similar to reddit gold
- Ability to pay what you want for a digital product
- Personal store for the users - I know that classfields app does something similar.

I am sure there are plenty more, you can just take ideas from the Feedback forum here. In general Commerce is an app that looks like it was created only for the internal uses of IPS, added a few bells and whistles and released for everyone. But it is still miles away from the real e-commerce systems. 

Have you thought about expanding the "plus" in to series? Gallery, commerce, etc. can use some improvements similar to the downloads app.

6 hours ago, Martin A. said:

The fix for the issue @bradl reported above also fixed this. It will take the user's Accept-Language value from the request header and relay that to MapQuest to get the result in a language they are able to understand.

 

Thanks, I will wait for the fix. 

Is it possible to use only the English names when selecting location?

It seems that the search works in English, but the suggested results are in the language of the country, in this case in Thai. I would prefer to have everything in English as none in my community speaks all world languages

I had posted one suggestion on your website, but for some reason I cannot find it. Anyway, here is it again: add a link attribute to the trophies/medals. This way the badges can link to some external source or simply an internal page describing what the trophy is all about.

9 minutes ago, CodingJungle said:

at this time you can't use external API's, but you can link to IPS Page Databases (as you can create a URL keyword and provide the link to the record). 

4 hours ago, jair101 said:

My question was more like if it is possible to parse pages records or blocks in the tooltip. I.e., if I can use template tags in the tooltip or it is only editor and some pure html?

I am interested in keyword tooltips. I have few questions:

1. Is it easy to change the styling from link to something similar to the way IPS does it, like for example when you type ACP ? I find the link a bit obtrusive. 

2. Can the keywords tooltips be pulled from pages records or even do external api calls? I guess the first one can be achieved with Automatic Rules, but it would be great if the tooltip has the flexibility to do everything. 

3. Are the keyword tooltips applied when the topic is published or they are also retroactively applied to all posts containing the keywords? I will have to refresh the tooltip data frequently (linked to the previous question I asked), which probably means deleting and recreating the tooltips on each day (with the help of automation rules). 

Quick question: are users being able to disable the trophies/medals I am giving them? Some of my members are kinda annoying that they don't want "cheesy" things on their profiles. I do like cheesy things, so to avoid any conflicts it would be great if they can disable them

6 minutes ago, opentype said:

Probably. But it’s a different situation. Pages articles have a dedicated image field, so there is a little reason not to use it. Not just for SuperGrid – it’s also the sharer image for Facebook, Twitter and so on. 

I know, but it is very diffucult to explain to my members what this field is all about. And I can't add detailed description as the record field is the same for all databases. I guess I can add additional upload field with better description, but I will have to manually modify all templates then  My success rate so far is that about 50% of the users bother to upload record image. 

Anyway, it is not super critical, but please consider it if isn't difficult to implement.

I have noticed that in Supertopics there is an option to pull the first attached image as a cover. Can this be done for supergrid as well, for articles, which do not have record image? The default fallback image can work, but it looks very generic and it will be much better if we can use pictures from the actual article. 

I would second that. Many of the IPS apps can benefit from some love on the template department. Gallery and Commerce are prime examples.

Sorry for the offtopic. 

Hi Taman, 

Thank you for the detailed answers to my questions, all clear now. As a suggestion, I think it will be great if users are able to filter the tickers. Lets say I add 5 tickers - new yourk times, forbes, autosport and so on. The user can select which news sources interest him and disable the others. Just an idea

Can you elaborate a bit more on how it works, it is a bit confusing to me:

Who can add tickers - admins only or preselected groups?

Can you add ticker only for yourself or it is a global one for everyone? 

Can you add more then one tickers, how are they displayed, one below the other or the content is mixed? 

Lets say I am admin and I have preselected 10 tickers from RSS feeds. Can users decide which they want displayed and which hidden?

Sorry for the many questions, but I am just wrestling with trying to include RSS feeds in my forums, while at the same time prevent flooding of the activity stream with new rss entries

1 hour ago, Martin A. said:

Open the Javascript Console, type in "L.version". That should print back "1.2.0+HEAD.1ac320b". If not CloudFlare or your browser is still caching the old version.

Great, that was it. 

Just updated, but the issue does not seem to be resolved.