Simon.AU

Sorry I don't really know how to explain it. We use IPB cloud for hosting forums, and for the user management. There are also "pages", and "databases", which make use of. IPB builds its pages by allowing the creation/insertion of various "blocks", and we make use of user-defined html and php blocks quite a bit throughout our "site". Forums was the main original feature from which this all began, if I have my history right. Invision Power Board. So I thought that forums would be a central theme. But the product gets more confusing to me all the time.

Thanks, this is pretty wild just to integrate some php. To save me reading the whole thing, do you know if forums can be integrated in an application? If so I might consider it, but I think it's going to be too much work.

What does this mean? How do I "create an application" in the IPB world?

We're on IPB cloud. Today we applied the latest patch and were greeted with a message about V5: Pages: You are using custom PHP blocks. These will no longer function in v5. If PHP block support is disabled, this would break many parts of our site. How do we handle this in V5? We need the ability to customise things, run server-side API pulls, etc.

Thank you, we didn't have any patches at the time but I see patch to 4.7.16 has appeared now, we will apply this and see how we go. David

Thank you, I see patch to 4.7.16 has appeared now, we will apply this and see how we go. David

Excellent, thanks Marc! David

Sorry please ignore point #1 as I have sorted this one out. So I am just after a way to require users to complete a (required) profile field at next login, which happens to also be a custom profile field. Reason being is that whilst this field is set to required, some users were created via an import process, and they have this field empty.

Hi, We have a couple of issues with custom fields (Member Settings -> Profiles) which I am hoping someone might be able to assist with 🙂 1. Field type is set to "select box", and we have added several options; however, even though the "Required" checkbox is ticked, users are still able to register without making a selection in this field (there is always a blank option) 2. Is there a way to require all users who are currently registered to add a value into this profile field the next time they sign in, even if they have already registered without selecting a value? Many thanks in advance for any assistance! regards David

Hi, We have begun experiencing the same issue as detailed here: We're on cloud-hosted Invision Community 4.7.16. New users trying to validate via the link in the email see a page like in the attachment: Is there anything we can do to solve? regards David

Hi, We have also begun seeing this issue (Invision Community Cloud version 4.7.16). Users are seeing the attached screenshot when they try to click validation links. Is there any possibility we could have the patch applied to our instance as well? regards David

Thanks Marc. Apologies, I see you responded on the 15th but I only received a notification email just now. I usually respond a lot quicker! David

Hi, This is causing me a lot of grief at the moment. Updating media files (usually PDFs), even old ones (> 6 months old), almost never results in the latest version being loaded on a subsequent refresh - even on other machines on other networks. This means I end up having to delete the original media file and re-upload it which causes more work (need to update the link in the code and re-upload that) broken links Are there any tricks to fooling the CDN to let go of the old version of the media file? I note that the _cb=1694742873 variable changes in the "media URL" reported by the admin control panel, so I would expect the new version to be reflected on the live site. Many thanks for any assistance. We're often updating documents in a team environment and this is causing some havok!

Thanks, I finally found it - under the "databases" list is another permissions table 🙂

Hi, I'm trying to enable comments for users on articles. Currently on an article page they can see at the bottom: But there is no option to add a comment. Administrators do see the option, but not regular users (users who are only part of the 'members' group). In ACP my comments settings are: Is there anything else I need to do to enable users to add comments? regards David

Thanks Marc. I didn't know about this multiple calendars approach 🙂 I see what you mean about the overview issue. I will have to think about whether this is going to be intuitive enough for our users, but I can at least offer it as a solution thanks. David

Hi Marc, Thanks for the reply. Sorry for the delay response, I received a notification email just now. Basically I'm just looking for a way to add an option to filter events by something other than just 'physical' or 'online'. It doesn't have to be a 'type' internally, but something like a category etc. Just so users could have a drop-down to choose from a few different types of events (we have a lot of repeating event types, with different titles and locations). cheers David

Is there a way to create a custom event type? ie. under "search events", the only options I have are to select the date range and select a "Type" - and the only options for "type" are "Online events" and "Physical events". I can see an option to add tags when creating an event which should be used in the global search, but we would like a way to filter our events by even type from the Events page. Is this possible?

Thanks all, good tips 🙂 Was finally able to discover the search box in the new Google Analytics 4. Seems you have to actually search page titles (yeah, have to guess what the 404 page will be called - thankfully Invision has a consistent name to make that easier/reliable) and then there is a concealed option to view "Page path and screen class" which finally shows you the URL.

Hi all, Can somebody please help me find where 404 errors are logged in Community Cloud? Our second highest page title stat in web analytics is "Sorry, we could not find that!" but I can't find where these error page hits/404s are logged in the ACP. cheers David

Does anyone know a way to manage users by a list of email addresses? I have a couple of hundred users that I need to delete, and I don't want to have to click users, click advanced search, and paste the email address for hundreds of users if there is a better way. thanks David

This is probably not much help to you but have you set CURLOPT_POST => true ?

Well that's odd. Our theme is basically stock, we've only changed some colours and added some text. We don't have any plugins, and the only integrations we have are GeoIP Service, Spam Defence and Google Analytics. I have tried disabling all three of those and still had the same issue. I tried creating a new blank theme though and the checkbox works so... go figure. Thanks for the suggestion; I guess I'll have to start again and copy everything over one by one. Fixed! My bad. Was actually just some rogue CSS we included. Grr. Thanks for the suggestions.

Hi, We've been having users reporting issues registering for our site, and the problem has turned out to be the final terms of use checkbox that they are required to select. The problem reported is that when they try to click it, it won't select. I have even stood by users and watched them struggle with this and give up... and to be fair, I can't really blame them, because see our checkbox is a bit of a UI/UX quagmire - requiring the user to click on exactly the right place to get the checkbox to toggle: This is a tougher challenge than it might seem - I can't be there to explain to every user "you need to click on the text... no, the text... no not the checkbox, the text itself... no not the blue text, that's a link - the text in-between the checkbox and the first bit of blue text... no you can't click the checkbox directly, you need to click on the text NEXT to the checkbox, but not on the link..." Other people must have encountered this issue? I have seen this multiple times, and have had actual interactions with users like the one above during user testing. I would modify the template but it appears to be rendered out in popupRegisterTemplate at around line 81: {{foreach $content as $input}} {{if \is_object( $input ) }} {$input->rowHtml($form)|raw} {{else}} {$input|raw} {{endif}} {{endforeach}} the line: {$input->rowHtml($form)|raw} ...and fixing this appears to be non-trivial; there looks to be some rogue javascript buried somewhere that is toggling the checkbox off and disabling it. Can anybody suggest a simple solution to this? Putting a line of text instruction underneath is not really helping (and is a bit ugly when we could just fix the UI!). Is this some sort of EU/GDPR requirement? regards David

I see, thanks for that Randy. Unfortunately it looks like I've found a corner case again. I'm trying to add custom HTML, which cannot be done via the usual page builder/WYSIWYG as far as I know, so I'm using a custom block. I realise that blocks can be stacked with WYSIWYG components within a page template, but I need to add links within my custom block. So I was using the media library because there is standard syntax for including a file download (eg. {media="8"} ) I will probably create a hidden page for my downloads, attach the files via a WYSIWYG block, and then use the media="" syntax... but this seems a bit hacky. If anyone sees that I'm going wrong please let me know.