Mike G.

Exciting news!
Alpha 2 has now been released, and it's now using our build system which means these installations are upgradable (hopefully 😬) and these are 'real' Invision Community 5 installations.

I've sent out a bunch more alpha invites now that the initial round of testing has completed. 🎉

For the love of God and those in need,
Grant full access, I humbly plead.
With Creator's plan, they'll build and grow,
A chance for all to let dreams flow.

PLEEEASE bring Page Builder Full Access to the CREATOR plan! 🙏

👀

From the first commit (mostly v4 at that point) to the first real alpha: 2059 commits in just over a year.

Thanks for all the thought and innovation put into the new pages functionality.
P.S. Dr. Seuss would be proud of that video.

I'm in the alpha group for IC5, and that's one of the many awesome changes coming with the new version. 😎

It took me a while to realize each line was rhyming. 
From now on, I demand all documentation and communication from IPS come in the form of a rhyming poem.

Thanks for all the thought and innovation put into the new pages functionality.
P.S. Dr. Seuss would be proud of that video.

Thanks for all the thought and innovation put into the new pages functionality.
P.S. Dr. Seuss would be proud of that video.

Thanks for all the thought and innovation put into the new pages functionality.
P.S. Dr. Seuss would be proud of that video.

Thank you for bringing this issue to our attention! I can confirm this should be further reviewed and I have logged an internal bug report for our development team to investigate and address as necessary, in a future maintenance release.
 

Thanks for all the thought and innovation put into the new pages functionality.
P.S. Dr. Seuss would be proud of that video.

Thanks for all the thought and innovation put into the new pages functionality.
P.S. Dr. Seuss would be proud of that video.

Who wants another blog entry today? 😮 

This is great news and one that I can't wait to play around with. Thank you for giving us the updated tools for frames and embeds, reason 1432 out of unlimited in how IC continues to innovate and listens to the community.

These are on our list but will likely not make it in the initial Community 5 release. Tables sound simple enough, but when you factor everything that goes into delivering a powerful table system - background color, border color, border width, what type of content can go in a cell, what to do about overflow, actions applying to the entire row/column etc - and make it not only powerful but easy to use and reliable, the dev time really adds up.

🤔 😉

The ability to resize the Iframe externally to my liking is a nice touch, thanks 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩.
Keep up the great works.

We recently announced the new Invision Community 5 editor which adds many new exciting features such as semantically correct header tags, custom boxes and more. As the new editor is a leap forward in technology, some legacy features had to be left behind. We received a lot of messages about these changes, and have created new tools based on that feedback to ensure you still have the tools you need.
The new features are based around restricting some high level editor functionality for specific member groups and enabling an easy way to add custom embeds.
Permission Levels
Invision Community 5 puts a lot of new tools in the editor, including header tags, boxes and positioning tools. These are useful features, but perhaps you do not want your members changing the semantic structure of the page by adding H1 tags. Or maybe you don't want them being able to add custom boxes with colors. Based on this feedback, we have introduced a permission levels system.
At the heart of the system lies three editor permission levels: Minimal, Standard and Advanced.
Specific editor features are assigned to one or more levels. For example, you may only want header tags and content boxes to be for the 'advanced' permission level which only administrators can use.
These permission levels are configurable via the Admin Control Panel.

When is Each Restriction Level Used?
Now that we have set up the permission levels, we need to apply them to member groups.
We do this by simplying heading over to the Member Groups section of the Admin Control Panel. In the "Content" section of that form, there are two new options:
Default Editor Restriction Level: This is the restriction level the group uses by default, for example in Forum Topics and Blog Posts. Editor Restriction Level for Comments: This is the level used for Comments (including Topic Replies) throughout the Community.
When a member has multiple groups, they will use the most permissible editor setting out of all groups.
Custom Embeds
In response to news that the ability to toggle into 'source mode' and directly edit the underlying structure of the editor document was not implemented because editor technology has moved on, many people told us they used that feature to add custom iframes from specific services they use.
We understood the need for custom embeds, and we've added the option to create iframe elements with any whitelisted URL from a link.
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Additionally, iframes created this way have configurable height and width so you can resize to your liking

This feature has two editor permissions: "Can Embed External Content," and "Can Convert Links to iframes".
Adding iframes into a post can potentially be a security issue, so strong controls are needed to ensure there isn't abuse of this system. The editor will only allow links to be converted to iframes if the domain has been whitelisted. The whitelist exists in the new tab, Admin Control Panel > System > Posting & Editor > Embeds. The feature can also be entirely disabled from here.

That wraps up this round of changes based on your comments. We hope that you enjoy this update to our Invision Community 5 editor and we always appreciate your feedback.

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We will be inviting another batch of testers in next week. Keep an eye on your notifications for the invite!

Little update: bugs are being squashed slightly faster than they are being reported, which is a good sign.
We've got two blogs queued up, one for tomorrow and one for next week. I've just seen the video Ehren has put together and it's his best yet. It's fitting that he opened the v5 video blogs, and has created the last. That should be out next week. We will have a bunch of other blogs after, but this is the last major feature reveal.

As for alpha testing v5, don't worry because...

(After we've got things a little more stable or the bug report forum will be like Harry Potter's living room but instead of trying to stop Harry opening an invitation to Hogwarts, I'll be trying to stop our devs from having a breakdown).

Excellent work Matt and Team, we do greatly appreciate the efforts. 🙏

Around 45 bugs fixed so far, with another 39 in the queue.

I imagine around 20% of mine lol
 

Compassionate indeed. I've been out for the last 2 days, just imagine what my inbox looks like... 😭

I have compassion and have just scheduled my next bunch of bugs for Monday.
Have a nice weekend!

I laugh so hard from some IPS staff posts that I start coughing 🙂