Clover13

I have a Pages DB and the results when entered display the Record Image in the Activity Stream view, but when someone comments on it, that images is no longer displayed.  Is there a way to make it always show the Record Image?

17 minutes ago, teraßyte said:

If you want to update all images regardless, you can add this CSS to your theme:

img.ipsImage.ipsImage_thumbnailed {
    display: block;
}

This will move all images to a new line, even ones left inline on purpose, though.

 

Instead, if you want the editor to add a new line before and after the image only when first inserting it, you'll need a custom modification since it requires altering how the javascript works.

The CSS did the trick, just added some top and bottom margin to give little better spacing between the image and additional text or images.  Thanks @teraßyte 👍

I see this constantly on my sites and wind up going in and manually editing posts whenever I do see it.  Members just randomly insert images between text or at the end of a line of text and the formatting gets all wonky and disrupted.  Is there any way to set something in the software where I can force a return line before and after every image?

Example like this   Then they continue on here

or down here

24 minutes ago, Charles said:

We have offered an on-demand Free Trial on our site for years 🙂 

Ah, that's great, I can't recall if that was in place when I got my first site so many years ago.  I found the link for it in the menus:  https://invisioncommunity.com/clientarea/free-trial/

Really incredible work @Ehren and whomever else was involved!  Lots of really great features, and the ability to have more and more configuration based layout control is excellent!  Really liked the inline layout editing such as the header config with components for logo, navigation, breadcrumbs, etc!  Looking forward to seeing it in a hands on demo in the future!

Any plans on offering on demand demo sites for existing and potential clients to give a try for a brief period of time?  A lot of sites/products do this with their offerings, and could really help IPS elevate their sales.  Being on the cloud should make this a whole lot easier now too! 👍

2 minutes ago, Adriano Faria said:

Support is provided in my board only. 👍

OK I will copy it all over there 👍

OK I see how it works now. 

It's a great add-on to be able to do the bulk of the work of promotions of a Post to a Database.

Seeing a few things

1. Can this be configured in some way to pick a database for a specific post?  I may want to promote one post to Database ABC and another post to Database DEF.  Is that possible or is it strictly a global single database?

2. Seeing an issue where a post gets promoted and the attached images do not appear after the initial save to create.  The appear in the template being filled but not in the initial saved record.  I had create/submit it to create the database record, then reopen the record via the UI, edit it (which shows everything still there), and re-save it.

Steps:

• Click Promote to Article on a Topic post that contains attached images
• Complete Pages Database record form and save it
• Review result page of newly created record which shows no images in the record view
• Edit the record, which will show the images are still there
• Save the record again (no need to make any changes) and see the images now appear in the record view.

3. Validation errors with the record form will not maintain the values entered.  The title defaults to the title of the original Topic, but will often be changed.  Have to go and recreate it again and fill out other fields if there is a validation error.

4. Record Image Required plugin you have doesn't honor the Post conversions.  It won't require the image when you are converting/creating the record, but it will show required when editing it after it's been created.

Just now, Adriano Faria said:

Articles in this context is due to the name of the resource. Promote Posts to Articles. 

Anyway, forget the Article in the caption. It’s a dropdown listing all databases.

OK I'll give it a try and see how it works out

Just now, Adriano Faria said:

Any database:

 

Visit the link I posted and take a look at the screenshots. 👍

The screenshots specifically say "Articles".  What is an "Article" in this context?  Are you calling an "Article" any random custom IPS database with any custom structure a user creates for their site OR are you calling an "Article" the specific IPS Article database and structure that is provided by the software that may simply be named something different?

1 hour ago, Adriano Faria said:

You can choose the databases and any post of the topic. 

Still confused about this part and the screenshots.  Does the database need to be an Articles database or can it be any custom database with any custom structure?  Again I'm assuming it must be structured like Articles (as in the stock IPS Article Pages database) and can't be any random custom Pages database I create.

To be clear, does this allow for creating any custom Pages database entry from a Topic post (original post or replies) OR does it only allow for creating one from the IPS included Articles database (and provides a dropdown to select what your particular database name may be for that Articles database and structure)?

50 minutes ago, Adriano Faria said:

https://www.sosinvision.com.br/index.php?/file/100-promote-posts-to-articles/

Sweet!  I should have known you'd have something! 👍

@Adriano Faria 

Can it promote any post (ie reply)?

Is it limited to only using the stock Articles DB or can we select a custom DB?  I'm assuming it's coupled to Articles and probably requires custom converters for any custom Pages databases?

Is it possible to copy (and convert) a Topic Reply to a Pages Database?  I have a history of topics I'd like to leave as is but Cherry pick replies from them to create entries in a new Pages Database.  

Anyone ever find a way to accomplish this?

So far they look OK, will let you know if I see anything or find anything else.  Will look for the email 👍

1 hour ago, Jim M said:

If you have managed rules on it could be that as well not liking something. 🤷‍♂️ .

Deleted for better measure 🙂 

OK I paused the WAF rules on CF for the interim.  Can you check again and see if it works for you now?

Nothing in my host web server logs that I can see either, just 404s from search bot IPs.  Possible a CF WAF rule is blocking something when you access it?  I'd imagine you'd be entirely blocked, not just AJAX call blocked?

Hi @Jim M can you just black out the server details (path and IP) in your screenshot?  Thanks 🙂

Strange, I don't see any of that when I test in Chrome?

Here is what I see, the system logs are unrelated errors from a longer history.

17 minutes ago, Jim M said:

Going to ACP -> Support, it looks like your server is having issues with AJAX requests there and resulting in a 500 Internal Server Error. That could be causing the cache clear to not be functional. 

Keep in mind that the "Popular Now" block counts posts, not replies. Therefore, there are 2 posts in that topic. The original topic starting post and the first reply.

Where are you seeing these AJAX errors?  I don't see anything in the System Logs (other than the recent errors you created).

1 hour ago, Jim M said:

It would be advised to place these in this topic or in the notes field of the Access Details in the Client Area so you are not waiting on a technician to assist you.

OK I added it to the Notes section for that site in the Client Area 👍

2 minutes ago, Marc Stridgen said:

I would need specific example items if possible, so I can look further for you

Hi Marc, I PMed you the detailed 👍

4 hours ago, Marc Stridgen said:

Are you looking at this while logged in or logged out?

While logged in.

Looks like some updates to the 5 topics being displayed have happened since last night, however there is one of the 5 that has only 1 reply.  No idea why it's in there, but it has stayed in there since the block was made.

53 minutes ago, Jim M said:

Do you currently have a topic with 10 posts in the last 6 hours? What page do you have this block on? I can then verify.

It's on the main landing page for the site at the top of the page.  There are some topics that have that but the current block is showing some topics that have only 1 reply which I don't understand as it was never set to 1 reply, the min it was set to was 2 at one point.

5 minutes ago, Jim M said:

The cache setting that you're using is at 1 hour. That is a little high for caching blocks. Generally, especially with rotating content like the Popular Topics block, it may be better to do 15 minutes or so.

Right, but it's been way longer than 1 hour and it hasn't refreshed yet.  Also the clear cache should override that setting anyway.  Same with last night when I was testing, it wasn't until this morning that I saw the popular posts become visible, which means it wasn't "immediate" when it was first created.  Something must be delayed in processing and populating the block even when I first added it to a given page.

30 minutes ago, Jim M said:

It would, yes. However, if you have any server caching or other caching, it will not clear that.

Only using the IPS cache and CF caching.  I cleared CF for that page, but still no update.  I suspect at some point, the block will be refreshed, but not sure where that is being held back from a clear/purge right now.

Just now, Nathan Explosion said:

Wouldn't clearing the cache force this though?