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My members are getting this error when they have a member/s on ignore within the topic. This topic has around 115 pages with over 2700 posts.

I'm not sure if this has been reported or not, so forgive me if this is the case already.

I seemed to have come across an issue with the Helpers\Form\Members class.

Example:

$form->add( new \IPS\Helpers\Form\Member( 'member_id', \IPS\Member::load( $member->member_id ), TRUE, [], NULL, NULL, NULL, 'member_id' ) );

Any form using this form element ill lose its value/s after you refresh the page the form is on.

All other elements display correctly after a page refresh.

Can anyone else confirm?

Okay, I should have looked into this more before I came here to post and I feel rather silly (more than usual 😆) for not picking this up sooner.

With the Poll block being cached for 1 minute (Due to the cache settings), when they vote, the do not see the changes happening straight away. So they think their vote has not taken place. Some also think because they can click on the 'Show Vote Options' and vote, that their previous vote hasn't happened either.

Question, when are we going to get a more modular approach to caching items and blocks on the suite?

Would really like to have more control on which blocks I would like to cache or not, and the cache ttl on each block as well. The same for applications like Pages, where I would just love to set cache lifetime on the articles and only update the cache when it is updated. Please please pretty please! 😁

23 minutes ago, Marc Stridgen said:

I would need some examples and step by step how to reproduce this if possible. I have tried both the following

 

Test 1

1. Create a poll topic
2. add the block on home page
3. go to topic and vote
4. go back to home page and I see I cant vote

 

Test 2

1. Create a poll topic
2. add the block on the home page
3. vote on the block on the home page
4. go to the topic, and see I cant vote

 

That's pretty much it.

I am going to test for caching issues here. Will get back to you and let you know if I find something.

11 minutes ago, Marc Stridgen said:

I am unable to replicate this on my end. Is this being done by leaving both pages open, or is it showing as you havent voted on the block after leaving the page?

As far as I can tell. My members are voting in the topic, but when they view the block, they still have the option to vote via there. When they return to the topic with the Poll, they say that they are able to vote again, as in they have never voted previously.

I have had to remove the option for them to vote via the block for the time being.

Come across an issue with the Polls Block.

The Poll block still allows you to vote in a poll even though you have voted in that poll via the topic.

Yes caching is on, but I have never had this issue before.

1 hour ago, Sonya* said:

I do. But this works only for display and listing. It is not system-wide. Notifications and activity stream use title as is. This is not critical, but I wonder why title and content cannot use format options. Even in templates. The options are there, but they are just ignored.

Yeah, if the option to edited these fields for the title and content really should be removed or should work as that would remove a lot of ambiguity when editing these settings.

3 hours ago, Sonya* said:

I have a database with a field defined as title. I would like to have some characters before and after the title. I have tried

**{$formValue}**

as Listing Custom Format and Display View Format. The formats seem to be ignored for title fields. It works for all other fields. Does it work as desired?

I have just checked and this doesn't work for Title fields.

My suggestion would be to edit the templates and add your prefix and suffix to the Title there?

2 hours ago, Stuart Silvester said:

This constant doesn't affect the speed at which emails are sent, only the amount that are processed 'per cycle' and background tasks are designed to run as many cycles as possible in within the allowed server resources.

There isn't a way to restrict how many emails are sent per time, perhaps you may want to look at a service such as SendGrid or SES that can handle the volume.

Thanks for the info.

There was only 700+ emails being sent out in total, shame you couldn't put a time on each cycle 😉

I have already been looking into SendGrind, but it's not really worth it as we only do bulk emails once every blue moon.

Thanks.

I have set the constant BULK_MAILS_PER_CYCLE to 100, however bulk emails are still being sent out at 400 a time.

\define( 'BULK_MAILS_PER_CYCLE', 100 );

Thus my emails are getting temporarily deferred due to unexpected volume.

Is this correct or am I missing something here? 🙂

What IOS are their IPads running on?

If they are not on IOS 14, then they need to upgrade IOS or their hardware.

Edit: I see you are using IOS 14.8. Have you tried clearing your cache for your browser or trying using another browser rather than the default installed one.

Try installing Chrome and see if you get the same issues.

43 minutes ago, OptimusBain said:

Thanks a lot. I've installed it and it seems to be working well. However, I am missing an important feature that I use a lot and that is the possibility of filtering the posts and topics by tags. I've searched on the block manager but I can't see the tag is available. I guess it's just not possible. Or the possibility of having a option to "display only the posts of the category the block has been dragged". That was a feature I used a lot on vBulletin which I miss a lot on Invision, something very simple but very powerful that will prevent us from having to select dozens of forums every time a new block is added. 

I know this is a free plugin and you coded it for your own community. So I understand that.

There is a pulldown menu where you can select the forum to pull posts from.

I will have a look at adding tags in a future version.

On 9/18/2021 at 8:15 PM, TIPF said:

I've changed the conf_global.php as advised HERE, but I can't access the ACP to use the Support tool and clear the cache.

From what I have seen. You can still log into your ACP, but because your CSS styles are not included it will make the page hard to read.

You should still be able to navigate around to be able to get to the Clear cache functions in ACP.

7 hours ago, Yamamura said:

 

You mean when you create a Page block?

Yes there are some instances where you can cache a block, and these are normally with 'custom' page block, and will be found on the content tab underneath the editor window.

Like this:

On 9/15/2021 at 4:20 PM, Matt said:

I'm sorry to see you go. Good luck with the conversion and thanks for your business. 🙂 

I just thought I would give you an update on our situation.

After speaking with our forum and staff members, they made it clear they didn't want to move to another forum software and some even offered to pay our fees (which was amazing tbh).

After the news about restoring the 6 monthly payments, this makes it easier for us payment wise and we will be sticking around for a little while longer. As for the support, I may have been a bit hasty at first!

So thank you for listening to us regarding the yearly payments, that does help. 🙂

1 hour ago, Hypervisor said:

The docs say:

I can't find any setting that actually has to do with block caching? These docs say I should ensure that caching for blocks is off but doesn't actually say how to do that. Is this the same caching setting as "cache page output for guests?"

I have a custom block that iterates over database records (a feed block) but it doesn't update immediately upon refresh when the underlying record changes. I'm assuming this is caching-related but I can't find any resources on manually handling this for plugin blocks.

Thank you in advance for any insight you can provide!

You will find block cache settings in the AdminCP, System/Settings/Advanced Configuration under the 'Server Environment' tab and then look for Performance. You will see 'Cache sidebar, header and footer blocks' settings.

However, you cannot turn block settings off, but you can bring it down to 1 minute.

1 minute ago, Charles said:

We have not yet sent an email to clients on our platform as nothing really changed for them. We will send something soon to clarify but in the mean time your old plan stays the same. 

Ahhh so that explains the confusion here, thank you for the clarification Charles. 👍

1 hour ago, Markus Jung said:

I also did not get an email yet. Was it also send to cloud customers? I do get other mails from Invision.

I'm not on the cloud servers and I did receive the email mentioned. Maybe ended up in your spam folder?

40 minutes ago, OptimusBain said:

Thanks a lot. I read its description but I can't see whether it does what I need.

1. Can it dragged using the page manager? I read some rewiews reporting that it does not appear in the block manager

The problem I have with IPS default post feed is that once the block is dragged on s forum, it will display the block with the same latest posts on all the forums 😞 it won't allow me to display the latest posts for each particular and individual forum.

Thanks a lot

Yes, you can create as many different version of the block.

With this, you can select which forums you want to display topics/posts from and customise it further.

I personally have never had issues with this plugin showing up in the manager, if this happens to you, please let me know and I will look into this issue.

5 hours ago, OptimusBain said:

Hello everyone,

Do you know of any plugin that will allow to create custom blocks of latest posts or topics where you can choose the forums that can be displayed?

I mean, IPS allows that, of course. But once you drag such a block on a forum as a sidebar, ALL the forums display the same posts. There is no way to display a custom Latest Topics/Posts sidebar block that displays the latest topics/posts from the selected forum(s). 

There should be a possibility to do that. Display individual and unique custom sidebar blocks  showing the latest topics and post that do not show on ALL the forums. Each forum should have (optionally) the possibility to display its own latest topics/posts.

Thanks a lot 

This is free and will do what you want.

On 9/18/2021 at 7:22 PM, Core4D said:

I am afraid to do so, have no idea what can I expect and I am afraid I will break something. 

Won't break anything.

Running them manually will speed up the process, however, you won't be able to change settings within the Admincp while this is working away.

12 minutes ago, NightOwlHacks984 said:

I noticed the plans have changed. I can't seem to find an announcement on the plans being changed ? It went by concurrent users now it goes by impressions ? I am going to stay on the same plan ? When is it going to upgrade me ? I don't seem to have an email on this either.

The plans changed this week and an email sent out to inform everyone, maybe check your spam folder?

15 minutes ago, Core4D said:

Damn, this is still running and moving super slow...

Did you try and run them manually?

2 hours ago, Nathan Explosion said:

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What browser? That would be the current public release of Firefox.

 

 

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Testing on Firefox.

Seems to be working for me mate.

1 hour ago, Matt said:

I do care, but what can I say? I can't change people's minds. I hope they reconsider, but I can't make them.

You can make me reconsider, in fact, it would be quite easy for you to do so, just reduce the price increase to a 'reasonable' amount and still let me pay 6 monthly.

If you had increased your prices by 5-10%, then I would have grumbled a little, moved on, and would still be a loyal IPS customer. But this is a 48% price rise and you're removing Email support to boot. Sorry, that is a game changer for me, especially with all the other price rises I have from my hosting company and WHM/Cpanel recently.

So with that $220 saved, I can put that towards Xenforo, add another $50 and get access to Downloads and Gallery at the same time, and still pay less for my yearly subscription going forward.  Sure my users will probably miss some features, but they will get used to them eventually.