GazzaGarratt

ok they approved 1.1.4 now, for those who didn't notice. When I was testing I kept manually running the sitemapgenerator task and the  sitemap kept still not having the correct links, but it eventually did, so I guess it did it with a queue. Like I said, you have to have your guest group with permission to view the category and pool for it to get into the sitemap.

This should be resolved now. If you are still seeing an error, please go to your Admin CP > License Key and click Resync License Data.

Hey, I noticed you purchased. 1.1.4 is the version with the fix, but I think if you start using it before they approve 1.1.4 it would just maybe have that sitemap issue and then when using 1.1.4 it will eventually get the sitemaps all corrected. This is the first time anyone has noticed a sitemap issue, though, so I assume it hasn't been noticeable on most sites over the years.

I went ahead and updated a new version where it has pools listed by category to have the sitemap issue hopefully fixed. In the app itself there is no link to those pages, but I guess for search engines it will have them and at some point I will add in some link to them in the app and add the link to the navigation bar.
edit: nice. actually the ip.suite system itself automatically put in the links in the navbar if you go to a pool's landing page.

It didn't stop the site, it just inhibited the sitemap generator.
I actually ran it through a test pool with about a dozen people - it worked just fine.
 

yeah, back when I did a sports betting app for 3.x, it did decently ok, but not a huge number of customers. Also, I had never personally bet on anything, so I had it really simple where it didn't even have moneylines, exactly. It sort of had spreads or just flat out picks where all were the same. Of course, SINCE then I did do sports betting for real and I won a lot and then I lost a huge chunk back on stupid bets where I was betting thousands I finally had to try to quit where I don't lose all my profits back! It's been so rough quitting too and I keep being tempted to bet. So I WOULD update my own old sports betting app, but it may then tempt me to do real bets again. lol.
And this app really hasn't sold much, but I am still glad I made it because I would like using it myself. I am hoping long term I can get better at design, get brackets finished (they ARE finished as far as functionality, just the buggy form and never got a good looking bracket to display them), and maybe someone will think of some other cool ideas for features that won't clutter the app too much. I like how this app allows to break it down into weeks, days, groups, whatever, or just have them all as one set of picks without being broken up. Also fixing accidental mistakes and using tie breakers are pretty nifty. I like making apps that have some sort of fun to them. I made a tournaments app, sports betting app, reviews app, point system, and then this one is the only one for 4.x, though.
Also, yeah I talked to thejackal privately in the past. I was also annoyed that he made those apps since I had made 3.x versions! But people were wanting them for 4.x and I was too slow getting to them because of annoying health issues. He told me why he was leaving, but I forget now. He didn't like something related to marketplace or some policy or something, but I forget exactly.
Well, I updated my own tournaments app privately fore someone. If it happens to be more how you want it, I could update the public version. I just figured nobody would want it, given that a tournaments app is already out. It had a brackets feature, but I don't know if it would be what you want or not. That bracket feature is more member vs member foe video games, whereas the one I am finishing up in this app is more for PREDICTINFG real life bracket results.
I wish I could ever get a forum site active myself because I badly want to use some cool apps myself, but it's just me there anymore. lol.
Also, I was GOING TO make a fantasy sports app, but it would probably not be ideal to release one because you pretty much would have to either pay a stats provider to send out stats updates or you'd have to manually be entering hundreds of players' stats each day. lol. Plus I'd have to figure out how to do a fancy draft, ie learn new programming languages. I mays till make one, though, because I've done fantasy sports for 20+ years and would love to make my own site of it.
Anyway, if you have any ideas for other apps it's possible I'd want to make some other apps. I don't know if you were around a long time ago for 2.x, but back then this guy mike made a casino app and it was so fun! It had a slot machine similar to the wheel of fortune ones and it had keno and a lot of fun games to play and then see which members did the best on them. I begged him over and over to update it and it never got updated even for 3x, let alone 4.x.

Hi @Midnight Modding, 
I installed and was running a test pool when I began having problems with my sitemap.  I reported the sitemap issue to Invision and they suggested it was related to Pickems.  I disabled Pickems and my sitemap generation completed per usual.  Here is the email I received:
 
The issue is being caused by the 3rd party Pickems' application. It doesn't seem to fully support sitemaps being generated. I have removed the sitemap rebuild tasks for this but you'll need to contact the author and ask them to implement a fix.

You can send them this error log:
BadMethodCallException::0   #0 /var/www/html/107695/applications/core/extensions/core/Sitemap/Content.php(241): IPS\Node\_Model->url() #1 /var/www/html/107695/system/Sitemap/Sitemap.php(121): IPS\core\extensions\core\Sitemap\_Content->generateSitemap('sitemap_content...', Object(IPS\Sitemap)) #2 /var/www/html/107695/applications/core/tasks/sitemapgenerator.php(39): IPS\_Sitemap->buildNextSitemap() #3 /var/www/html/107695/system/Task/Task.php(375): IPS\core\tasks\_sitemapgenerator->IPS\core\tasks\{closure}() #4 /var/www/html/107695/applications/core/tasks/sitemapgenerator.php(47): IPS\_Task->runUntilTimeout(Object(Closure)) #5 /var/www/html/107695/system/Task/Task.php(274): IPS\core\tasks\_sitemapgenerator->execute() #6 /var/www/html/107695/system/Task/Task.php(237): IPS\_Task->run() #7 /var/www/html/107695/system/Dispatcher/Standard.php(334): IPS\_Task->runAndLog() #8 [internal function]: IPS\Dispatcher\_Standard->__destruct() #9 {main}
 
 
Does this make sense to you and is this a fix we can count on in the near future?  Pickems is a nice app, but is currently disabled.  Thank you.
 
Brad

Here is what it looks like on the default Invision theme, which is what I work with:

You're using a custom theme, plus you've included the user's reputation information in the same area as the badges, so things look different and more cramped as a result.
If you want the badges placed in a different location then suggest the position and I can look into options for that, but unfortunately, all I can suggest to you right now is to disable the display of the reputation information.
Missed this last night...I could have sworn I had an option in there to control group access to the functionality but at first glance, it appears I don't - I'll double-check tomorrow morning on this one.

Adriano, or anyone else for that matter that uses events regularly, have you seen any way to create a new pot for RSVP at all? I'm trying to find a way to capture 'Reserve' slots. Essentially so if you have a limit and someone drops out, you know if someone in reserve can fill in for you.
Ideally it sits alongside max limit if you have one! So many times people want to say they could be around but when it reaches its quota no one else can even click Going or Maybe. Appreciate any thoughts if it can fit in the enhancements in some way.

That's also a great idea for an enhancement.  Add a waiting/reserve list. 

Adriano, or anyone else for that matter that uses events regularly, have you seen any way to create a new pot for RSVP at all? I'm trying to find a way to capture 'Reserve' slots. Essentially so if you have a limit and someone drops out, you know if someone in reserve can fill in for you.
Ideally it sits alongside max limit if you have one! So many times people want to say they could be around but when it reaches its quota no one else can even click Going or Maybe. Appreciate any thoughts if it can fit in the enhancements in some way.

@GazzaGarratt Thanks! Ah, new update doesn't have CSS variable here :<
I'll fix this in next update with @Riley Anderson issue about drawer in mobile.

Adriano acquired the Sports Betting App, Members Shop and Tournaments from a guy named The Jackal that did great work and then vanished.
The Sports Betting app is not user-friendly at all.  I have had it for about three years.  I think Adriano is going to stop supporting, not enough users.
Members Shop Points are integrated into a number of apps, Adriano integrated his self-built apps into it prior to The Jackal retiring.  
I bought the Tournaments app in simple hope of being able to do brackets, it was far more than that and not suitable for a simple bracket.
There is a lot of growth in that space if go in that direction.  I would love a great sports betting app and a way to do random brackets.
I obviously run a sports-oriented site - anything in that genre is going to excite me!!
 

What's New in Version 1.6.8
Compatible with IPS 4.7.11+ only Add the ability to add Polls to lyrics records New option per category Add support to Stock Photos (Pixabay) in upload fields Add quiz image in the Other Media sections of the editor

I basically finished the bracket part, except 2 issues were 1. a bug in the type of form/setup I was using and nobody would ever answer me about it on the various dev forums and 2. I couldn't ever get the bracket to look like a bracket because I'm not good at design. We have a long time before the next ncaa tournament, though. As far as conference tournaments, I'm not sure because of how they are all so different, with different numbers of teams having byes, etc... I have this one where play in games can be used so technically the code is there to allow for byes, but I guess I'd have to just get it working with different numbers of teams.
In a past sports app I made, I basically had to just specifically put in different playoff types, such as nhl playoffs, nba playoffs, etc... because of the different rules. In nhl and nfl they reorder teams after the first round, so some of these are too tricky to have it work automatically, without just hardcoding in different examples.
As far as the history, for a long time nobody was seeming to need it updated and I was wanting to test it live, but was on shared hosting since I haven't really done as much programming for a while. So didn't have php 8 and also had more health issues. Usually, my apps have barely anything needing to change to work on the latest ip.suite versions, though. What slowed this up back for 4.5/4.6 was me trying to get the brackets in. I should have just released it first without them for those versions. I'm mainly just wanting to get them done far ahead of the next ncaa tournament.
The app definitely functions very well and has a lot of stats (some stored ones I don't use at this point).

I submitted a new version of this. I forgot to mention in the changelog that I also took category permissions into effect for latest poll widgets and other pages where it was showing them regardless of those settings.
Once it is downloadable and you install the new version, you will need to edit your categories because I changed a permission and added a new permission in it.
I had mostly finished brackets, but still some hiccups, so took most of the code for it back out and will have to add those some other time.
There are some new features, such as ability to let members predict which team will win a pickem and which scorer will be the top scorer. These are all custom features someone had me add in, which were allowed to be in the download here. Another feature is ability to let members predict exact scores instead of only the winner of a game.
If you do not want to use those new features then you might as well turn advanced tiebreakers off because that pretty much just uses those new features to break ties at the end of the pickems.

Finally getting this submitted any day now hopefully. So hopefully someone is still left who wants it. I went through all kinds of things, had to get php8 eventually, and on and on.

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.

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UI and UX is probably one of the most important things out there so I'd have to strongly agree to see if we can find a way to get prompts on screen to help the user 'download the app' to their Apps screens. Otherwise Apple users won't know the feature exists.
I'll still be pushing it hard for our members as we've been waiting for a way to get push notifications out to Apple users, luckily I have quite a few members on WhatsApp so I can persuade them via that 😅

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.

It actually runs once every 24 hours, via a background task; you just get the impression that it's when you log in because it's run since you last logged in.
FYI: this resource was updated 20 hours ago 😉

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See the below - the important bit that may be relevant to you is the fact that it is "Custom", which means that I manually installed it instead of instaled it via the Marketplace. In that case, the app would need to have a call-home address (usually the developer's website) in it to retrieve the latest version information. It's not required if the source is the Marketplace though, as it retrieved from the MP instead.

If your entry shows MarketPlace then click the "Check for updates" button at the top of the applications listing, and you'll likely end up with an available update.

Thanks both for the quick replies. I seem to have 1.6.8 and not 1.7.0 although its not telling me there is an update to it. 
Like how the system software is:

The original upgrade message will allow me to update the software but if its any resources are under the 'needs updating' section, the software automatically disables this. I usually check my applications with some of the authors if they ever do go into that section before upgrading, as I don't want it to be disabled.
EDIT - Apologies for the wasted messages @Nathan Explosion @Adriano Faria. I've just asked for an update to check apps and teh 1.7.0 has popped up.
Do we think this is an issue with IPS updates function? I've popped in the AdminCP a few times today and that should auto check everytime I go in rather than me manually clicking it.