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Oh, that looks perfect!! Thank you! 😀

Ah, I see. That could be useful if you were gathering sensitive info. Understood. Then downloads won't work for us for this application. We already use member groups but that's not practical in this case. We give out a birthday goodie to ALL active members, so we're talking about thousands of people and daily messages. We already have a way to send out birthday messages each day, but I'm searching for a better way to deliver the goodie.

Thank you for the reply. Then I guess what baffles me the most, is why on earth the field type "password" is even in there. Displaying ****s isn't really helpful. I know how to password-protect a file, but that's not really what I need to do. I need to password-protect the download entry itself so that you cannot download it unless you have the password. Does anyone know of a way to do this?

Maybe I'm being dense about this, but I do not think this is working properly. Help! In the Downloads app you can set up extra fields, and there is a built-in "password" type. One would *think* that means that you can require a password to download a file. Yes? I set it up like this: and enabled the field on the relevant Category: When I set up a download in that category, it DID let me enter a password: BUT the finished file does NOT ask for a password. It displays this under the description: and simply lets ANYONE download. What good is that?? What am I doing wrong?????

Update: My testing DOES work for this, so we will use this method for large events. We have hundreds of forums, so it won't work for everything, but it is at least a functional workaround for big events. I'll have to create a new database each time since it needs to post to a different forum each time. Thanks again, @Sonya*!

@Sonya* THANK YOU! I am testing this solution now to see if it will work for our next event. *fingers crossed*

@Sonya* I think she means that regardless of the fact that these articles are hidden from everyone except the 70 team members, it's still duplicated content. And believe me when I say it will be VERY confusing to some of those 70 members. Some of them are not at all technical.

@Sonya* THANK YOU! I will try that. Regardless though, we really do need this as an actual function. We have nearly 70 team members that should be using this function and we simply cannot give them access to create pages. The system would be a mess.

@Sonya* We do have pages but that won't work for our purposes. These are posts that must be forum-style; we have pages of replies depending on the post.

We need the ability to schedule posts in our forum so that we can prepare them in advance (and in the proper location) without our members being able to see us working. Right now we have to prep posts in a hidden section then move them right when we want them to go live (including times when we SHOULD be sleeping). Frankly it's ridiculous. It should work like this (very much like Wordpress): Create a post in any forum and select a posting time & date (just like you would for a lock/unlock time & date). Members with the appropriate permissions setting should be able to see the post while it's being prepared (admin/moderators at least). In other words, there should be a setting in the plugin options to set permissions for who can view pre-scheduled posts. At the scheduled posting time, the post should "publish" (become visible) to everyone with permission to view that particular forum. The date on the post should be set to the scheduled posting date, NOT when it was prepared in advance. For team projects, I prep posts up to a year in advance. This is such a critical feature for any community especially those that are supporting a business. You can see additional members requesting this feature here: We're frustrated & we can't keep waiting for IPS to add such a critical function. Is there a developer willing to create a plugin for this? Thank you!! Angel

Awww, no, we use a customized theme. We were using a custom theme before the upgrade though and it worked fine. SIGH. This should be fun. ETA: I checked using default theme and it doesn't work for us either way.

Yes, we've also lost the plugin functionality now that we've upgraded Invision (4.5.4). I'm guessing this plugin needs updated? Hoping for an update soon...

@Rhett Thank you!!

@bfarber Yes, thank you. But we have a WP blog that is 10+ years old with thousands of posts, so we don't use the blog app. And we run these events forum-style. We post a daily challenge and our customers post their replies - it's a section of our forum.

Oh, thank you for letting me know!