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Hello!
I am currently on the Creator Pro plan and I would love the ability to sort courses into categories. Another suggestion would be to have a frontend archive of past courses so users in certain groups could view them.
Thanks!

Our June release of Invision Community introduces several new improvements for your community to increase privacy controls and consent of personally identifiable information.
In today's digital age, privacy and the protection of personally identifiable information (PII) have become increasingly important. By incorporating improved privacy and PII data features into Invision Community, we are creating a more secure and inclusive environment within your community. In this blog post, we will take a quick look at what PII is, and the new features Invision Community has to improve privacy within your community.
What is PII?
PII, or personally identifiable information, refers to any data that can be used to identify, contact, or locate an individual member. When users sign up and visit your community, they may provide various types of PII, either voluntarily or as required by the platform's registration process. For example, an email address is required to complete the registration, and in some cases and IP address may be logged to authenticate a session, or to provide some context to the person posting content. 
Invision Community introduced new data control tools in a previous release, so let's take a look at the improvements coming in our June release that improves cookie management, IP address management, PII data requests, and the right to be forgotten.
PII Data Request and Right to be Forgotten
Your members now have the ability to request their Personally Identifiable Information (PII) data directly from their account settings page. Upon submitting a request, administrators will receive a notification alerting them to the new inquiry, where they can choose to either approve or deny it.
If approved, the member will be notified and provided information on how to download their requested data.

 
Additionally, members now have the option to request account deletion. After submitting this request, they will receive a confirmation email to verify their intent. Once confirmed, the request is forwarded to administrators, who can then decide whether to approve or reject the account deletion.

IP Address Management
Invision Community has had tools to prune IP addresses within a timeframe for a while, but we have conducted a thorough evaluation of the data framework in Invision Community to ensure that all recorded IP addresses are systematically purged according to the designated timeframe.
Cookie Management
Empowering members to control which cookies are stored is an important aspect of fostering trust and security within an online community. By granting users the autonomy to manage cookie preferences, you demonstrate a commitment to respecting their privacy and protecting their personal data. This level of transparency not only helps build a strong sense of trust between the community and its members but also helps with compliance, ultimately contributing to a more engaging and responsible user experience.
The Invision Community cookie consent page has been revamped and now displays a list of essential cookies. Visitors have the option to opt out of non-essential cookies for a more customized browsing experience.

Additionally, we've introduced a new feature that allows for the inclusion of an optional third-party Cookie Description on the cookie consent page, further enhancing transparency and user control.

We trust that these enhancements to privacy and data collection practices will simplify compliance with various regulations and, most importantly, ensure that your community members feel secure and well-protected while engaging with your platform.
The features and changes presented here are available in the following packages:
Beginner Creator Creator Pro Team Business Enterprise These features are also available in the Invision Community Classic (self-hosted) product.
If you do not see your product or package listed, please contact us to talk about upgrading your Invision Community.

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🌷 Welcome to this week's Invision Community Insight! 🌷 
Thank you for checking out this weekly round up post. I hope you have had a wonderful week and for the Star Wars fans, that the force was with you for our holiday! 😉 In the comments below, I'd love to hear what is happening with you and your community. Are you trying any new features or functionality for your members or maybe you want to and don't know where to start? We'd love to hear.
 
From the Invision Community team, this week ...
 
Current Happenings
Our May beta is ready! Upgrade to the official May release next week. 
As with all beta releases, upgrading your community is at your own risk. Please make sure you backup before upgrading! 
Here is what is slated for the May release, version 4.7.10. https://invisioncommunity.com/release-notes/
 
@Charles and I talked about the release in our May Release Chat on Wednesday.
You can watch the video and participate in that discussion in the converted live topic.
 
Courses is here as part of the May release! 🎉
What a powerful feature! Want to create a short onboarding experience for your members? This could be a Welcome note, Did you know? bullets to help members know where to start, and then a mandatory acknowledgement piece if that is required for your community. This is all possible with the new Courses application. How are you hoping to use this feature? Check out our latest blog post for the details:
 
 
Email Bounce Management in the May release. 🎉
For Cloud customers, we are adding the ability for you to view reports on bounced/complaint emails, take action on member accounts (purge them or mark them as no notifications), and unblock emails that our platform may be refusing to email. Check out our latest blog post: 
 
On Deck
Join us for our upcoming live topic event where we will cover Statistics and Reporting, including the new additions coming soon!
 
Finally, for those that like to see what we are up to line by line, here is the changelog for the week for version 4. Changes are limited for now as we focus attention on version 5. More information will be shared at a future date. 
 
Changelog
 

Hello!
I am currently on the Creator Pro plan and I would love the ability to sort courses into categories. Another suggestion would be to have a frontend archive of past courses so users in certain groups could view them.
Thanks!

I'm very much looking forward to learning more about this, and Happy Easter! 🐣

I'm very much looking forward to learning more about this, and Happy Easter! 🐣

I'm very much looking forward to learning more about this, and Happy Easter! 🐣

I'm very much looking forward to learning more about this, and Happy Easter! 🐣

To recap:
To enable push notifications on iOS:
Ensure you are using iOS 16.4 or newer Save the site to your iPhone's home screen via the share icon Enable push notifications via the option at the bottom of the notifications options page Ensure you have set some notifications to "+ Push" Make sure you haven't disabled notifications via iOS Settings globally or for the app icon if you scroll down the settings list in iOS.

Would it be possible to have a notification in mobile safari telling folks they can save the site to their home screen for a better user experience? I think most folks won't know that they can save the page to their home screen to have an app experience.
Example like what a real app does.

 
 

Welcome to this week's Invision Insight!
The changelog has had a significant hit this week with bug fixes by the amazing dev team, and a special thanks to @Ehren for all the amazing UI changes! The majority may go unnoticed by the odd individual, but it has definitely made things look so much nicer.
We have had a very productive week and ran a live preview of Live Topics right here on Invision Community! 🥳 More on that below.
 
Live Topics
In a nutshell, Live Topics is a hosted live chat and question and answer event that is converted into a forum topic upon completion. Check out the blog post below for more info!
And if you were one of the lucky few to participate, the IPS Team came together to give a live preview of this new feature; the very first time Live Topics has been shown and used by our community. Check it out and give us your feedback.
 
New Beta Version
Invision Community 4.7.8 Beta 1 is here, bringing you an array of improvements for your communities!
For those of you interested in trying it out, please follow the steps below. There are instructions for both Invision Community Platform and Classic clients.
Please ensure you backup your communities. It's better safe than sorry. 😉
For a full list of what's new, you can visit the official Release Notes.
 
Upcoming Event
A reminder on next month's March 2023 Release Chat.
There are quite a few questions coming through already which is great to see everyone, keep it up!
 
Changelog
See you in the community and next week right here for another Invision Insight! I look forward to hearing from you all.
Thank you everyone! 🦘

Great job guys!!!

Great job guys!!!

Happy Hump Day, fam! Before we dive into the goodness, I just want to say thank you for being a part of Invision Community. It's been really fun to see community members and the IC team become even more unified as we've rolled out 4.6. 🥲 
Speaking of...(!!!) 4.6 Beta 2 is now live! 🎉 
It's worth reminding you this is the third Beta version (it follows Beta 1 and Beta 1.1).
We collected a roundup of changes needed and spent the last week implementing updates. 
Not only did @Matt write an epic blog post about what you can expect to see in 4.6, he also relayed this list of fixes 🤯 
Added a no search results message when searching Pixabay and Giphy. Added truncated views for status updates. Added a new check to make sure a datastore method is working before using it. Clarified that a template must be saved when editing template variables/attributes. Fixed an issue with an alert message not showing when selecting ‘Administrators’ as Secondary Group for Members. Fixed an issue when an anonymous online status doesn’t persist across logins when using button log in methods. Fixed an issue where it wasn’t possible to grant access to the email stats page to a limited Administrator. Fixed an issue where the Standard login handler title isn’t saved on edit. Fixed some admin control panel live search results linking to the wrong page. Fixed an issue where text when using the visual language editor could be white on a white background. The last post date in fluid view will no longer extend beyond the browser width on mobiles. Fixed an issue where JSON-LD data was badly formatted for Question/Answer forums or when “Enable Solved” was enabled. Fixed an issue where phrase searches containing stop words could return no results. Added an option for members to cancel expired subscriptions to be able to purchase another subscription. Fixed an issue where PayPal Billing Agreements / Subscriptions may not include sales tax. Fixed an issue when approving a held Stripe transaction if the payment has already been captured. Fixed an issue where an empty donations page was visible creating a soft 404.  
 
4.6's official release date for all is set for the first half of June. 
Beta versions are available for Cloud clients (by request), or can be downloaded if you are self-hosted (proceed with caution and please make a backup!).
Have YOU been testing out 4.6? What are your overall thoughts now that you've had a minute to soak it all in? Sound off in the replies! 

Can't wait to check it out!

Can't wait to check it out!

So I have a ton of blocks and well I'm starting to lose control of them and figured it may be a good idea to request some feature enhancements for it so that I can both clean up my blocks and also use them more efficiently.

Of course there is categorizing which is great but sometimes I mis-categorize some of my blocks. This is a particular pain point when you have to look for it on the front end. The enhancements on the front end I'd like are:
Categories collapsed by default when you open the edit bit, this way I don't have to scroll through my massive list of blocks or manually close them until the right category comes up. Ability to search the list like you can search in the ACP, just a quick like "block title" search that filters out any blocks that don't have that title. It would just make life so much easier. Next! I don't know which of my blocks are in circulation and where so trying to clean up, organize and get rid of unused blocks is a nightmare. Right now I see a list of blocks with the code and that's it and since I use a lot of Plugins the title could be repeated. The enhancements I'd like for this:
At minimum I want a count of how many locations that a block is located on the manage screen. Bonus points if you can click on that number and see the locations like: Forums > Index, Page > Test, Gallery > Albums, Gallery > Categories 
The physical location doesn't matter (As in sidebar, header or footer) to me as much as the page it exists on.

This is just a UX thing. If you're prompted to or you install the app it should automatically add the community that you're adding it from. This could be just because I've installed it from the ACP but that shouldn't change the design here. Having to search for the community after the fact is just a step people won't enjoy taking.

This would be an awesome feature to have!

Hey team, wondering...
Is it possible to have someone who just signed up for a subscription taken to a thank you page?
Currently... there doesn't appear to be a method to thank them for their support after they've subscribed. They subscribe and then once it processes, it takes them back to the subscriptions page. 
I'd love to have them immediately sent to a page thanking them. Thoughts? 

If you mean filtering content by tags - yes, we may consider adding such feature while working on future updates.
Assuming you are talking about Clubs, yes, this is a planned feature.
Yes, of course. However, please remember that you still need to assign roles to these groups (edit a group in ACP to do that).