GazzaGarratt

I did get an email a few weeks back about Apple now updating their push notifications so was hoping this would be implemented here soon. Many thanks for getting this sorted as it should help most sites here with their engagement 🙂

Hopefully I can ask a relatively quick and simple question whilst we're here - does the notification automatically remove itself from the tray once clicked on, like all other push notifications for other stuff on mobiles? Reason I ask is because I notice the Android ones always stay on devices but not sure if thats down to software here or maybe browser specific e.g. Chrome?

Thanks again.

2 hours ago, Adriano Faria said:

No plan to add new stuff to this now. Sorry.

I’ll probably do when IPS5 is out.

Thanks for the update Adriano, very much appreciate the honesty 🙂

I can't deny I'm gutted but it isn't the only thing here that looks like it will take a while for enhancements. Hopefully speak nearer the time its up for some updates 👍

On 4/9/2021 at 2:04 PM, GazzaGarratt said:

 

Yes, absolutely widgets because it would be great to share these as part of Pages you can create and also potentially homepages as it would catch the eye of people as the tables are quite cool to look at imo. A quick view of the table in a widget and potentially things like latest games played perhaps? When people check up on things like this in IRL, they would check latest results, latest table standings, maybe even a team to highlight with their latest results perhaps? This makes the community person/people feel valued that their team has some highlighted content too.

We've got a league running right now for fun in our community so I can offer some feedback that i've had to work around and has caused potential hiccups along the way?

Initial feedback so far that we could all do with to make this application even more usable:

• Mobile View - If the team name is bigger than 4 or 5 letters it crosses over the Games Played column in a portrait mode. More people check via phones for a quick glance through the day so may need slight tweaking to make it fit
• Amending results - this is HUGE. I'm taking extreme care to make sure the results are right because if I type in one result incorrectly and choose the wrong outcome there doesn't seem to be a way of changing that result at all. Could mean all of the work created weeks before is wrecked by one slight slip when clicking an option
• Number of teams in a league (round robin) - its weird enough I have to use the american terms for these formats 😄 as in Europe (and most other places) this is when everyone plays each other. We had 13 people willing to join in this time round, which meant I had to create N/A teams in 3 spots. I also created 'Test Members' for each one as you can't be in more than 2 teams in a tournament (concept sounds right but it doesn't help if you're setting it up and adding teams in to the league/knockout system to get it going). It should allow me to create a League format with 13 teams or whatever the number is - alternatively at least start the tournament when I have had enough entrants at any given moment could be a good shout.
• Each team in this league is just one person - so creating tournaments that could just be the member themselves would've been ideal. Feedback previously from others suggests they would want this too. So we could do with the fields such as picture, team name, etc as Optional or one large option to say is this a team or an individual?

That's it so far but if you wanted to see it live and how its looking let me know @Adriano Faria and I can drop you a link.

Outside of these types of tournaments, the only other one we're running but manually is a league format like what Formula 1 do where theres one race per week and you need to capture places and dedicate set points to places. Again all in one type of league. I actually think the logic in this is easier than the above as you aren't working out fixtures but just adding points totals up. Let me know if you want further updates on this too as this could be a superb tool to create and view on this type of software.

On 6/28/2022 at 3:18 PM, GazzaGarratt said:

Hi @Adriano Faria, found a number of couple of bugs I believe that would be great to fix if possible? Also some things I can't get around which links to previous comments a while back:

1. Reaction Notification - seems to have code string on any reaction pop up.

2. Team invites notification - when someone accepts your invite, the reaction asks you to be join when you already in it? Seems like there is not the correct message being triggered as the right action occurs on looking at the team.

3. Create a Team must have a picture and a description - this would help if they were optional as many people don't have a description to add or a picture.

 

4. Adding Teams / Participating already in Tournaments - I've tried my best to be clever and get round the fact you have to be in a 'Team' to particpate rather than just participate as a member. I can create multiple teams myself in the name of people and invite them....however because I'm already in it, I can only Add one team that that i'm a part of. It would be far easier if I could enter all the teams sometimes on behalf of people as its quite convoluted in how to create a team and then join (thats not your coding, just how it was initially designed)

 

I have more feedback like previous comments that if you want to catch up and go through it, I can. Also, your achievements via the other applications are brilliant additions so far.

Thanks in advance! 😄

Hey @Adriano Faria, hope you're keeping well?

I wanted to come full circle back on this one to see if there was time in the future for some of these enhancements at all? Happy to discuss PM wise if needed on more specifics to if there was a priority order. The second post i tagged of mine is more bugs than enhancements but I thought i'd ask in one post rather than multiple ones.

We've started to use this a little more frequently of late and can see more being scheduled which is good news to what it offers so far.

Thanks in advance 🙂

Hi @aXenDev, how do I change the colour background to the date box thats inside Calendar events please?

Dark Theme Event View

As you can see, the font is connected to the entire font across the suite, therefore I can change the colour of that (although it would be better for this font to be on its own in the same colour as the month).

The light option works fine as you can see below so its only the 'Dark' theme that needs changing. If the font colour can't be changed easily just for the Dark theme, then i'm happy to change the background white colour to something universal across both light and dark themes. Thanks for your help.

Light Theme Event View

Hi @Adriano Faria, looks like the new update has knocked the ability to see who's going on the widget unfortunately:

Hi @aXenDev, updated your theme today.

Noticed when you change the resolution size of the browser this happens. The words seem to fill the header when they shouldn't be there:

However, its clearly more critical on mobile as it looks even worse on mobile as I can't do anything to change it:

Can you please see what you can do to fix this? Many thanks in advance 🙂

@chopin I asked recently in the March update live topic as to when enhancements would be coming to Achievements as I've raised this in my previous posts and they have informed us there will be something on Achievements by the end of the year but not as to what will be enhanced as of yet.

Sorry to be vague, but just relaying information that I've been asking about over the past few years to save you time searching for it 🙂

Hi @opentype, just wondering on how to get the votes showing in the 'All Activity' stream? Essentially its like a review without comments so I'd assume they would show but they don't unfortunately. Anything I can do to make them included? Just thinking it may help with engagement, just like how reactions show up in All Activity. Thanks in advance.

1 hour ago, DawPi said:

Maybe they could check their spam folder? My app does not sending any mails. Whole mail thing is on IPS4 side.

Already asked them that, I had another admin grab one of the keys to test it. They get other emails still.

My only thought is that its not firing because they don't have to pay for these as I've set them as FREE for specific groups. Someone purchased an item around the same time and he sent evidence of the email. Other emails are firing too. Just this one which makes no sense.

On 3/3/2023 at 5:10 PM, DawPi said:

Hello,

to less informations. Do you have these transactions marked as paid (in the ACP)?

Hi @DawPi, yes they are 'Paid'.

Thanks @Olivia Clark, I'm increasingly finding myself over time looking out for the regular updates so I'd much prefer you keep them coming 😄

I thought I'd share that I like to separate the regular updates into pots more so across each individual module/application area that you support so it helps me to understand what could be next down the line. Not saying I use the exact pots from the below pic but its close enough. I then separate out to see if we're seeing enhancements; big or small and bug fixes for each one.

That way I know when to potentially be asking about certain updates in other areas across IPS. Thanks again Olivia 🙂

8 minutes ago, Randy Calvert said:

If you watch the March release live topic, it was mentioned that Pages is going to be getting an overhaul and that one of the things being looked at is more templates and easier drag/drop widgets. 

Yes, I think Randy is correct as I watched that bit too and if i'm not mistaken, the IPS Blog is written on the Pages application rather than the Blog piece so hopefully all of those features will be available in this drag and drop option.

Until then I would just back up how @opentype's strong plugin templates work really well with Articles and other Pages you create.

Hey @DawPi, had a few successful transactions however all 4 people haven't received an email just confirming the code for the game and it doesn't show anywhere else (for instance in 'My Orders') so how do the actually get the code??

48 minutes ago, Olivia Clark said:

Any Achievements enhancements in March or in the future? (From GazzaGarratt before the event)

(Jump to the answer in the video)

Hi, I didn't expect to be around but I was for some of it whilst it was on mute. Here's some feedback if it helps 🙂

Mid-Live on Live Topics:

It had already started and my question had been answered so it I went to press the green timing as i expected to go to the answer but it didn't do anything. Then tried to look at the time I needed on YouTube (the Youtube video wasn't auto playing so i initially thought it had finished). I started the video so it immediately went to live but then realised I couldn't just jump to 6.10 for some reason as the timer was a minus from Live. Therefore if you miss the start it felt like just waiting til it had finished to find my answer.

The questions box below the live YouTube feed looked smart and a great way to see each conversation live. It definitely like watching a live podcast that was semi-interactable.

Like @opentype I tried to watch some of it after it had finished but it forced me out so this could make the user less inclined to watch the rest because it wasn't obvious where it all went.

Post Live reading Topic:

Like @Rikki, its difficult to see multiple questions and responses on the topic. I can't believe I'm saying this as Discord annoys me 😅 but the way they have used their 'topics' which are just like FAQs would be so much easier to follow for something like this (not other stuff btw!). A bit like the collapse/expand function that I've seen on @opentype's Pages template for FAQs. When you click the side question it separates it out but navigation is slightly weird to get back to the overall chat. Infact, the 'live' view of questions would work great if the view was recreated in the Forum module.

I think its still impressive that it moves the conversations to the Forum application virtually straight away, hopefully its just the format/view that is the issue.

Actual event question response:

I don't want to derail the thread as it still feels like a main thread for Live Topic feedback but I'll just give a small response on it.

Please don't take it personally when I say I didn't learn anything new from the response. I know you were going to do an update at some point for Achievements but may have been more meaningful to talk about the specifics I raised on my reply to Olivia pre-event. Ironically Points got mentioned...although I never mentioned it 😅 as I'm not concerned about that at all (because I already get why they are 'hidden' from users and agree why you did it).

Main takeaway was more about two things:

1. How you tackle releases, what is expected in them e.g. enhancements vs bug fixes vs big overhauls. Monthly releases usually mean small improvements but I think at the moment its more heavily weighted to bugs more than anything else. Be good to get an understanding on what you try to aim for each month.
2. Do we need to change our expectations of what is defined as 'quick' changes? I raised the question as its been well over 1-2 years for one key module to get any updates, small or large, but I think you intimated that its not been long since you did an Achievement update? If thats the case that might help us re-align our expectations of the products modules perhaps?

Hope this all helps in some ways, and happy to make it into a separate thread if my feedback/questions are better that way. Much appreciated 🙂

Is there a better way to ask for these changes at all - for instance, do I look at the Developers and PM specific ones instead about a potential cost of making a plugin/application that then is available for all? Or if you don't get responses here, does that mean its most likely no one wants to try and create this type of plugin/app?

I try not to ask for new things as for many I see that post are clearly aware of cost for everything these days so I try and maximise IPS core functions whilst doing the same with multiple third party Marketplace ones.

Any help on direction is greatly appreciated - even if thats a separate thread where we all help each other create a custom block by ourselves, for instance? 🙂

5 hours ago, Marc Stridgen said:

Ah, now I see. If you want the users to be able to actually upload the images, that would require modification. You wouldnt be able to do it within the current platform. However the rest is correct, yes. The way I was suggesting above, they would actually have to have those images uploaded somewhere that they can link to. So they would add the links there. (Dont use attachment links as that will actually cause you more issues than it solves)

No sorry Marc, when I said attachment I didn't mean the person to attach it, I was thinking about how the functionality worked in the creation side of things so I needed that 'attachment' function to help me upload an image alongside a select item. 🙂

I'm starting to understand more, thanks Marc. Essentially if I had a new template that could handle the fields in such a way to show the list options as pictures in a drop down, and then show the selected item as the relevant picture (with title overlaid if wanted like how it shows on other places in IPS) then this is one part of the puzzle. The other is allowing each field to have an attachment, like how the Pages blocks work.

Sounds like a request if I haven't got the knowledge currently to do this. Thanks again for the info.

Ah, okay 😔 thanks both @opentype and @Marc Stridgen. When you say 'heavily' customised, it doesn't seem to correlate with the idea of linking one extra field/piece of date to a Field? Are we saying that it would extensive changes to database code? Or fixable with a tweaks of putting the code/plugin in the right places?

I'm just trying to work out what the art of the possible is with my own skills or at as little cost to me as possible.. can't deny its a bit gutting if i can't do it with relative ease though, as some ideas were flowing in my mind and I think most people using databases and pages would've found many ways to utilise it.

Hopefully seeing me at least try to use your databases and configuration for my own learning/use is at least some consolation to all of us 😄

On Pages, I'm doing my best to try and utilise everything they have to offer. I can see with Fields it can make a record very powerful in what information it can save. My specific thing i'm trying to do now is add a way for a user to add to a new record into a database, where they can select from a number of options. I can do this easily with the 'Select Box' field. However, the things they'll be selecting from need a visual aid so I need to understand how I attach a picture to each option in the field. At the moment I can only select a 'Key' and 'Value'.

I believe all the functions are there for what I'm trying to do but I have a lack of knowledge that I'm hoping someone more proficient than me can help with please 🙂 Even if its another 'Field' I must use, its a solution I'm looking for more than just using the Select Box function.

Thanks all.

Hi @mlucio@codicesoftware.com, An Announcement would do this for you 🙂 

It looks like this then:

I have been racking my brain for ages to try and get some free ones to work with basic blocks and widgets for a page i'd like to create which is linked to Community Goals I want to put out there. Alas, its becoming a struggle so I thought time is right to ask in here now.

It seems like there are many templates out there with code already and all it lacks is something to bundle the code up so you can bring it in on any Page you have on IPS. Obviuously, it would be ideal if we had front end easy access to the numbers that could easily impact progress bars so I'm after anyone that can help me please!

I'm sure the software already has something around Donations but obviously the progress bar is intrinsically linked to that and we should have the ability to add numerous progress bars for whatever the reason your website needs.

Thanks in advance all! 😄

I saw this on the weekend for myself too! And I'm on a Samsung S9 looks like I'm on Chrome 109.0.5414.118 if that helps? I actually thought my phone had died because it looked like part of the screen had been tons of lines across the screen like the top image 😅 What's strange is I haven't seen it since then on the few threads i've read on my phone.

I can probably understand the above user's concerns because the mobile 'app' works via Chrome for most users and makes up many of people's core percentage of viewers of late.

1 hour ago, opentype said:

The obvious quick solution would be to not turn it off. 😉

 

In fairness, thats what I've been doing for the past however long I've known 😄 I'm just doing way more administration checks now than ever before so I thought I'd better ask to see if I can actually fix it because you never know lately what will cause the next big fatal error.

I'll try and sort some separate ACP access out if its something you can help with - to be honest, the reason why I re-found the issue I've seen in the past is that I was trying to find the right view with all of your templates for some categories and this one seems to be the only one that allows you to click the image to proceed into the category...if there was a way to change SuperGallery or SuperGrid to allow the clickthrough to come from the image attached rather than the header then I may change the Category view altogether from this one 😄

Hi @opentype, I currently use all your templates 😄 and i've come across something that seems to be knocking a colour on my website and other default settings.

When I leave the cover image on and set to something, everything is fine:

Website Home

When I switch OFF the Custom Header image, the website clashes with something and sends it off.

Any help you can give would be great, thanks in advance 🙂

Its okay @Adriano Faria, I think thats the place! I'll work on it as its a global setting so will need to work for light and dark themes but its enough for now! Thanks for your help so far 🙂