The Dark Wizard

7 minutes ago, Jim M said:

If an expiration is set in the system, it will try to invoice the client when the purchase expires. I'm afraid, there is no way around this as this is how Commerce is designed to function.

"Free Forever" will just provide them with a subscription with no expiration. However, you setting the expiration manually will still cause an invoice to be issued upon the renewal period.

Thanks, good to know.

Hey All,

Trying to see what the correct workflow for promoting someone to a group is manually. I assume it has to be done via subscriptions in Commerce?

What is our use case?

We accept currency via Patreon instead of our current forum currently (still working on our live conversion) and we manually give people an upgrade and an expiration date when a Patreon pledge comes in every month. Trying to replicate the same thing in IPB.

It seems if I do "Free Forever", I can then go in manually and add an expiration date. I do not want the board to currently invoice or pester the member about anything, we are just trying to handle the automation of groups. After we finish our live conversion in the future, we will see about doing our own Patreon plugin or see if an existing one on the marketplace is updated or move to commerce, but currently manual is the way to go as we've already been doing it that way for years and we don't want to delay any more then we have to.

I guess not :(.

Just now, Jim M said:

Yes, you would need to hook into our content conversion functions to apply your own during this process.

Perfect :D!

We will take care of this on our end by the end of the month.

Just now, Jim M said:

I am not a developer but CKEditor is not ran when performing a rebuild of content in the conversions. A CKEditor plugin would require to be ran in the editor real-time (i.e. someone clicks a button or performs an action) to influence content. This would require customization in our software to execute certain code when rebuilding is initiated in our software, which is outside our scope of support.

Then what we can do is utilize core/BBCode which, I believe, is indeed run for the rebuilding of content and then migrate to a full CKEditor plugin in the short future.

1 minute ago, Jim M said:

Correct. Normal CKEditor plugins will work so long as they are compatible with the version of CKEditor in the software. Therefore, if you develop your own, it will work just fine.

Would you happen to know if we design our custom plugin and install it before the conversion, if that would correctly format older posts or is that what we’d need core/BBcode for?

2 minutes ago, Nathan Explosion said:

It's already deprecated, to be removed in a future release.

That was deprecated in 2017, though, and the guide is still up. We can use it now, to at-least get formatting done for the conversion and eventually switch over to CKEditor Plugins and Web Components.

1 minute ago, Jim M said:

Glad to hear that your staff liked our software and all wanted to switch 🙂 .

BBCode in our software is deprecated and only provided "as-is." There is currently no immediate timeframe to remove it but it is indeed something that is on the way out. If you need custom handling of content in the editor, I would advise using custom buttons instead.

Out of curosity, if we design a full-fledged CKEditor Plugin, is that something we can use, or are we limited to just buttons?

Just now, Jim M said:

We have a decent process to handle things among the staff, but I believe switching to IPS was unanimous.

I assume this still works:

 Going to make a couple custom BBCodes we are missing at the end of August before the live conversion.

Any plans to get rid of core/BBCode any time soon?

So happy to report back that apart from what @Daniel F is helping us with, we should be good to go after another test conversion or two.

• Styling is done
• Features/Third-Party Plugin shopping list is done
• Staff onboarding is mostly done.

And just about everything else is mostly done, except writing user guides and staff guides, which is going to begin in earnest at the end of the month.

Currently, the timeline will be:

• August - Staff meet up to finalize anything
• September - User Beta Site
• October 1 (or first week), the site goes down for the live conversion.

Our excitement is barely containable.

Any plans for 4.7?

2 hours ago, Matt said:

Yes, I like the idea of notifying someone when a topic is viewed a lot.

Indeed.

IPS has some of the best stat view I've seen in a piece of software in the ACP, there's a lot. Giving some of that information to users like if their topic is popular, etc. would be pretty neat.

Hey All,

I was wondering if there was supposed to be a prompt or suggestion for Push Notifications?

I don't see any settings that would suggest such a thing. Furthermore, I only just realized I didn't have Push Notifications enabled for this community, only because I was looking around my settings casually and found it.

21 minutes ago, Ked said:

Thanks, it has taken me some time but I finally realised that.  Once they update me is it then a matter of just clicking on update and going?

Yup :).

Make sure that your third-party apps if any are also compatible or have a new version, but yeah, once you confirm everything, then it's as simple as hitting that update button.

Just now, Jim M said:

The original client was incorrectly assuming that priority support was the only way to receive support, I was correcting that assumption. I never stated that priority support was or was not offered. However, we only offer support which is conduct through our forum here (there is no priority support).

Right, thank you 🙂

3 minutes ago, Jim M said:

Support is still covered under self-hosted licenses. The avenue to receive support has only changed. Our same staff will be here to assist you in this forum for any software support needs. Our staff has access to the client area to obtain secure access to your access details you provide and we can escalate your ticket, should it require doing so.

What is it that you require support for? We’re here to help 🙂. 

I thought priority support was no longer offered?

1 minute ago, panzerscope said:

Hello, 

Quick question, I require some technical assistance which looks like you now have to pay for as its not covered under standard. I took a quick google on how to add this as per: 

However I am not seeing this in my area as below. 

Any idea ? 

Many thanks,
P

It is not currently offered any more by IPS.

Just now, Daniel F said:

Correct.

Awesome.

Delighted to know, I know the right usernames, you have all been great.

On 7/18/2022 at 7:19 AM, Marc Stridgen said:

Please let us know once you have done that test and if its still present, please provide access so we can take a look

It is still present, yes.

I believe I'm communicating with @Daniel F about it in our email ticket.

I would like to suggest that highlights also get a setting to work per forum instead of site wide per group, or a way to toggle it off per post.

@InvisionHQIs it possible for you to add a feature (if this does not do it already) that allows people to search for the club name?

3 minutes ago, Stuart Silvester said:

I haven't tested with 2.x or newer, OpenSearch & Elastic Search release updates very quickly, often (previously) with breaking changes.

Thanks for the updates :).

1 minute ago, Stuart Silvester said:

I believe we're using 1.2, which is the latest version AWS OpenSearch Service supports.

Is there any chance you've tested with any higher versions?

Our current test version attempt worked fine with 1.3.4, and it rebuilt all the indexes, but we can't seem to get 2.0.0 to work even though others in that topic mention that it should work just fine.

Hi,

Just following up on this:

I noticed here:

@Stuart Silvesternotes that this community is using Open Search.

What version :D?

2 hours ago, Marc Stridgen said:

It looks like something has not rebuilt properly there. Please let us know if you see this when  you do the live conversion, and we can of course then correct anything like that

We aren’t doing the live conversion before we can take a look at that. I’ll do another test conversion to see if it happens again, pretty sure it happened before but I had more important things to report.

As a note, the code for quotes in Conversations is a tiny bit different vs threads in xenforo:

[QUOTE="Name, convMessage: 19831619, member: 93653"]
Test
[/QUOTE]

Thread Quote:

[QUOTE="Name, post: 11394125, member: 9058"]
Text
[/QUOTE]

I also noticed that quoted posts in topics with the correct names, also don't link back to the correct post, but I'm uncertain if that's something that's supposed to convert over. I'll settle for names in quotes and mentions working in PMs.