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2 hours ago, Adriano Faria said:

You mean in the grid view on index, right? Just noticed it.

Correct.

2 hours ago, Adriano Faria said:

Can you elaborate? I'm able to add only 2 answers: 1, the right, and 2, the wrong:

Must have been a glitch in the Matrix last night. 🙁 I originally had the quiz category set as min 5 and max 5 answers and then changed it to min 2 and max 5 answers and I would get the not enough answers error. Just tried it again on a different category and works fine.  I'm not sure why it would have done this, if it does it again I will do a bug trace on this.

2 hours ago, Adriano Faria said:

The topic will be created only after you set the quiz as ready to people play. It won't create right after you create a quiz, which has no questions. This will call people's attention to an empty quiz. Is that the case?

 I created the quiz, the questions and answers and click on 'Allow play', however no Topic was created. I will test this laster and get back to you.

Hi Adriano,

I have found a couple of bugs and issues with this application:

1. When moving quizzes, the last quiz information is not updated for the category,
2. When setting the minimum and maximum answers for questions, only the maximum is taken into account. So if I set these settings to minimum 2 and maximum 5 and only add 2 answers there is an error stating that there should be a further 3 answers to be added to the question. I sometimes only want to add 2 answers for a True or False to the question and this bug prevents me from doing so.
3. There seems to be an issue when adding a Topic to the quiz. Sometimes it will add a topic and sometimes it will not.
4. The feature and pinned badges in category view do not align correctly, as shown in the image below:

Kind Regards,

On 10/19/2021 at 5:43 PM, Jim M said:

I can certainly move this topic to our Feature Suggestion forum if you would like?

Can I Second this please.

I would have thought this would have been part of the export process since Pages templates would use CSS and JavaScript.

On 2/27/2022 at 10:20 PM, Sonya* said:

Theme variables like

{fontsize="medium"}
{theme="headline_font"}
...

are not supported in Pages CSS. Is it an oversight or just not supported? 

Apparently not.

Working on a Pages for the last couple of weeks and I wasn't able to use these theme variables in CSS.

@Matt Any chance this could be fixed please?

4 hours ago, John McKee said:

NOT POSTED BY THE USER

That is an image in the user signature and very much added by the user. You can disable signatures via the ACP.

Nothing to do with Invision.

Create Database Template:

Edit Database Template:

After Exporting CMS templates to disk:

Field name's when saved to database table.

Well, there's about an hour I won't get back 🤣

Hopefully this will be a bit helpful.

This issue is both an annoyance and a bug, one affects the other imo.

• Application: CMD/Pages
• Bug: Renaming a template can cause duplicate of a Database template when it's imported via Themes Designer Mode or when creating another the Database Template with the same name.

Not only does this bug break your own naming guidelines, but it can cause duplicates of the same database template which will lead to issues when deleting one of the duplicates within Database Templates window.

How to reproduce.

1. Create a Pages Database Template:
2. Go to Themes ACP and click on the Designer Mode button,
3. Enable Designers' Mode and Click Next and wait until all templates are exported to disk,
4. Now disable Designers Mode and Synchronize the changes leaving the files on server,
5. Return to the Pages Templates window and edit the Database Template previously created, do not edit the name, but just save the template name as is.
6. Enable Designers' Mode and Click Next and wait until all templates are exported to disk,
7. Go to the server where your IPB install is and navigate to /themes/cms/database directory and rename the Database Template you created previously so that it is all lower case,
8. Now disable Designers Mode and Synchronize the changes leaving the files on server,
9. There should now be two version of the Database template that you created. If you remove one of them, both will be deleted.

Solution.

The reason for this happening is two fold.

1. When you originally create a database template, there are limitations places of the Database Template Name which are: Please use only a-z and 0-9 without any special characters or spaces. The title must start with a letter or underscore.
2. When you edit a Database Template, the name will be displayed differently, it will be title case and without any underscores and I can save with spaces regardless of the limitations in place: Please use only a-z and 0-9 without any special characters or spaces. The group name must start with a letter or underscore. You can use an underscore, which will show as a space when viewing templates.

The issue lies within the function databaseTemplateGroupOptions() (file: cms/modules/admin/pages/templates.php Line: 1004 😞

form->add( new \IPS\Helpers\Form\Text( 'cms_database_group_name', \IPS\cms\Templates::readableGroupName( \IPS\Request::i()->group ), NULL, array( 'regex' => '/^([A-Z_][A-Z0-9_\.\s]+?)$/i' ), function( $val )

Issues

Group Name Change: \IPS\cms\Templates::readableGroupName( \IPS\Request::i()->group ) Is the first issue. This changes the group variable from 'my_template_name' to 'My Template Name'.

On line 1026: This line here:

$new = str_replace( ' ', '_', $values['cms_database_group_name'] ); 

Should be changed to

$new = str_replace( ' ', '_', mb_strtolower($values['cms_database_group_name']));

As you can see from this part of the function, $new is not set to be lower case as it should be which when saving the field to the database and this can cause conflicts with importing later.

        if ( $values = $form->values() )
        {
            $new = str_replace( ' ', '_', $values['cms_database_group_name'] );

            if ( $new != \IPS\Request::i()->group )
            {
                \IPS\Db::i()->update( 'cms_templates', array( 'template_group' => $new ), array( 'template_location=? and template_group=?', 'database', \IPS\Request::i()->group ) );

                foreach( \IPS\cms\Templates::$databaseDefaults as $field => $template )
                {
                    \IPS\Db::i()->update( 'cms_databases', array( 'database_template_' . $field => mb_strtolower( $new ) ), array( 'database_template_' . $field . ' =?', \IPS\Request::i()->group ) );
                }

                unset( \IPS\Data\Store::i()->cms_databases );

                $this->findAndUpdateTemplates( $new, \IPS\Request::i()->group );
            }

            \IPS\Output::i()->redirect( \IPS\Http\Url::internal( 'app=cms&module=pages&controller=templates' . ( isset( \IPS\Request::i()->t_location ) ? '&t_location=' . \IPS\Request::i()->t_location : '' ) ), 'saved' );
        }

Sorry for the long-winded approach to this issue. 😋

59 minutes ago, TestDood said:

Thanks for the help and clarification about support, Randy. 

You could have an issue with your constant.php file and datastore entries.

I had the same issue last week and it was due to an issue with my constant.php and corrupt datastore entries. Marc fixed my issues, maybe he could let you know what he did to fix mines and to see if that solution works for you.

*Warning RANT*

Tonight I decided to update all my database templates for this application mainly due to upgrading to PHP 8 and all the changes done to the templates over the last few updates.

Every time I go to do work on this, my heart always sinks because I detest working on the templates via the admin area. The first thing to happen tonight, I reverted one of the templates and it was gone, deleted, *poof* without a warning or anything.

This is usually the point where I say to myself; (Insert some swear words) it would be easier for me to write an application which would allow me to convert all my databases over to WordPress (I have done this before). However, I detest WordPress more mainly due to its lack of actual template system (The irony is not lost on me here) and not being able to tie users across both CMS's without jumping through hoops and costing a fortune.

I honestly have a total love hate relationship with this application. I love the power of it, but I hate the MANY bugs, flaws and the implementation of the templates area within the Pages ACP.

I have 100's of different templates for many different databases, and it is a PITA to navigate all because someone thought it was a neat idea to order them in order by the date the templates were last modified 😕 !!

Template Ordering

This is the default ordering of Database templates is to display templates by last edited. While this might be okay for a few templates, it's a bloody nightmare when you have 100's of different templates.

This is the default ordering for just the Database templates:

This the order after I wrote a plug-in to order database templates in a more readable form.

This is what I would have to content with when dealing with the default order in a working environment. There is no structure this at all and it's just a complete an utter eye sore and total mess. If you are wondering why there are spaces in my template names, it's because I changed the code to allow this.

This is the database templates ordered in a more readable order by name.

Parent Category for Database Templates.

Adding new Database templates is a nightmare as well. Instead of just being able to copy the default or a user database templates all in one go, I have to do this separately for Category List, Feature Lists, Recording listings etc etc. It is so time consuming having to do this over and over.

I would prefer to create Database Template Category and select all the different Template types for that Category using a multi-select option for this.

For example:

This way, if I need to copy database templates, then I just need to copy the parent and the children in one go.

Any one who has worked with the template system, knows how badly thought out this whole part is. Trying to copy, move, save,  rename, export and import templates is a total nightmare.

Template Naming

Also, the naming of templates goes against what you already have as the defaults database templates. You do not allow spaces in template names, yet your own templates uses them. Spaces are used for readability purposes, if you can use spaces in Theme Templates why change naming convention here?

Updates and QOL life changes.

This application has had no real love at all. It's basically the same as it was when version 4 was released. The only changes have been bug fixes and changes forced due to the core changes. I have seen many topics with feature requests to this Application and they go ignored time and time again.

The engine behind this application is really powerful, yet the front end templates are a complete and utter joke and have no value in the real word. If I wanted a forum clone, I would have used my forums instead. Out of the box, this application is disappointing. If it were not for people like @opentype doing a lot of good work with his templates etc, people would have dumped this application a long time ago as it is not what people expect from an Article Management system.

Will you give this Application some love and attention please!

My apologies for the rant...... I would rather have my nails pulled out one at a time than work on this application.

4 hours ago, Daniel F said:

Brilliant. Who’s going to create a mini plugin hooking into IPS\Content adding a get__readtime method 🔥🔥🔥😂

I already did this Daniel.

I was going to release it to the public, however due to a hard disk failure, cloud sync error and a drunken night in where I feed large quantities of alcohol into my floppy disk bay, I lost all the code.

You know, all the normally excu... issues we developers face daily.

Marc,

Thank you very much you are a gem!

1 minute ago, Marc Stridgen said:

It seems there was an issue with your constants file and corrupt datastore entries. I have set that back to its default so if you had a specific datastore directory, you will need to redo that. If not, then leave it as it is. Either way, I'm sure you will be happy to know your upgrade is done and your site is back online.

Thank you,

Much appreciated, this install is from 3.4 and has a lot of entries from that version.

Just now, Marc Stridgen said:

No problem. Please let us know if you then have any further issues on the upgrade

Actually, I would prefer someone to have a look at this or I will lose over 12 hours of posts.

Even if I upload a previous version, I still get the upgrade notice and if I upload the latest version I get the above error.

I have updated my test site with no problems, with the exact same update and files.

I'm going get my hosting company to revert to the latest backup and take it from there.

3 minutes ago, Marc Stridgen said:

Have you reuploaded with a fresh download? I ask that question even given what you said above, as there was a patch write patched an issue.

I would say however, that the image you got in the first instance seems that you overwrote the directory entirely rather than just overwriting files that already exist.

Marc,

I updated from the admin area, and did not do update manually. As far as I am aware, this would have been the latest version. If the latest patch was less than the time from when I posted, then it is the latest patch.

I have downloaded the latest version from here, uploaded it and still getting the same error.

My live forum is currently down due to an issue with the installer.

Can I have some assistance please?

            if ( \IPS\STORE_METHOD === 'FileSystem' )
            {
                $config = json_decode( \IPS\STORE_CONFIG, TRUE );
                $path = str_replace( '{root}', \IPS\ROOT_PATH, $config['path'] );
                if ( !is_dir( $path ) or !is_writable( $path ) )
                {
                    \IPS\Output::i()->sendOutput( \IPS\Theme::i()->getTemplate( 'global', 'core' )->globalTemplate( \IPS\Member::loggedIn()->language()->addToStack('upgrade_error'), '', \IPS\Member::loggedIn()->language()->addToStack( 'create_conf_global', FALSE, array( 'sprintf' => array( $path ) ) ), \IPS\ROOT_PATH ), 200, 'text/html', array(), FALSE );
                }
            }

The value $config is empty.

I have reverted the files to the previous version, still getting the upgrade lock, how do I remove this.

There were no changes made to the database.

Get this error when upgrading to 4.6.10.

All files and folder permissions are correct.

15 hours ago, BradSmith said:

Miss B, this is the same issue I had.

Essentially when someone hides a user the system thinks the last page of the thread should be there but your plugin is blocking it and it throws this error.

 

This is due to a disparity of the actual amount of comments and the comments count, especally if there are posts from a person/persons block in that topic.

The comment count function does not work as expected, as calling the function resyncCommentCounts() without removing the blocked person posts will return the wrong result and count. Hence why there are more pages than comments.

I have PM'd Miss_B regarding this issue, but received no answer of yet. 🙂

When you have create a theme from a parent theme, the ordering of themes in not respected in the front.

This is my ordering in the ACP: Themes

This is the ordering when I click the theme link to select a theme. As you can see, the ordering below is not the same as I have chosen in the screenshot above.

This only happens when you create a child theme from a parent theme.

Marc, this has nothing to do with caching or 3rd party items. 🙂

A couple of members I have spoke too who have this problem, have stated that they aggressively clear their cache and cookies when their browser closes, their device caching is cleared or an extension which does this for them.

Since the only check for a device is a random 32 char string saved within a cookie, this will be problematic when users remove their cookies before returning to the forum to sign in. Hence the reason why some of my members receive the new device emails all the time and others do not.

As the 'Send an email when a user logs in from a new device' setting is global and members not being able to opt out of these emails, I will have to disable this setting for the time being. I cannot have my members spammed with this email every time they sign-in and my server will be more happy about this too.

Appreciate your help as always. 🙂

1 minute ago, Marc Stridgen said:

Please contact your hosting to see if any caching on litespeed can be switched off. It does need to be noted here that we provide only limited support when hosted on environments alternative to apache

We moved to this server about 4 months ago, and this issue has been going on for as long as I can remember. It's not specific to the server we have now.

I do wish however that there was an 'opt' option for this feature available to our members, that way they can choose whether or not to receive these emails.

5 minutes ago, Marc Stridgen said:

Could you please first of all switch off that caching and test it again, so we can rule this out?

I cannot turn off LiteSpeed as that is enabled by the hosting company by default.

I will turn of Opcache and IPS caching and get back to you.

Just now, Marc Stridgen said:

Are you using any caching on your server at all? Something is causing the system to believe it's a different device here, so Im wondering if this may be a cause

The only caching we use is Php's OPCaching.

The server has LiteSpeed caching enabled, but it's not used as there is no option for LiteSpeerd within IPS (Hint hint 🙂.)

This isn't happening to all of our members, but does affect quite a few.

Our server have been marking these emails as spam and are now getting blocked due to the large number sent.

Many of our members receive this email every time they sign into their account, regardless if they seem to sign in from a new device or not. This poor guy here is inundated with these emails:

To make matters worse, there is no opt out from this feature for our members. It is all or nothing. To constantly ask our members just to ignore these emails when they get them, is no longer an option for us and we now turned off this feature in ACP settings.

We would like to use this feature, but under its current limitations and faults, it is of no use to us. This feature has become an annoyance to our members and marking our IP as a spammer.

9 hours ago, Miss_B said:

I can view the image. Can you pm me the link to that topic with a test account and I will take a look.

Sent you a PM.