christopher-w

1 hour ago, The Old Man said:

I didn't realise those animated GIFs didn't have ALT attributes.

Giphy's mostly do - but they don't necessarily describe the image in the way it's being used, which could lead to some hilarious unintended consequences - unless the poster modifies them to reflect what they would otherwise have said.

Thanks for the links. Looking forward to seeing how they develop.

Is this the place to request a late addition to 4.6? Only half joking, but thinking granular control of what folks can post in topics and comments might come in handy. I for one am not a fan all of the street furniture that's appeared in this 'community' over the past couple of months, but appreciate of course, that for every one like me, there's probably several who think the complete opposite. With this in mind, catering for both sides of the divide makes sense to me, allowing administrators to control what can be posted beyond the current globally allowed file types.

I do believe @Nathan Explosion has a plugin that achieves some of this (which I hope to purchase in the near future), but it doesn't as far as I know have a 60+ OAP switch allowing oldies like me to be able to browse forums just like we used to 20/30 years ago. On a more serious note, such functionality, both in the hands of the administrator and end users would allow us to control what we see at the individual forum level, beyond being able to hide signatures. Of course hiding or preventing the use of animations and the like (I own a VFX business, so I'm not totally averse) would of course mean that many comments would, for many of us, go unread. Which at the moment some might say isn't a bad thing, plus of course, folks suspecting they aren't being 'read' by the topic's entire audience might well instead resort to that old favourite - letters and words. In saying that, perhaps the creators of Giphy and the like have missed a trick. Shouldn't they have designed (or have they already?) their witty delivery mechanism to include a native alt attribute so that post/comment authors could include real words for those blocking the graphical part of the content. Or, in lieu of this, perhaps Invision could allow our humorously minded friends the option of adding an alt attribute to images of all types (without needing to add a CKEditor image plugin), so that we can see what they meant, even if we decide to block what they intended.

To the principle reason for commenting. I think Invision Community should be both proud and thankful that so many of its clients are still around after so many years. For example, selecting solely from this topic,  @The Old Man  and @Chris Anderson have both (if I've interpreted their joined date correctly) been here for 17+ years and @Kjell Iver Johansen, for 9+ years, whilst evidently, also caring very much about the platform.  As for me, I'm relatively new here, but older than most it seems, but I share with those mentioned a deep desire to go about my business in the most efficient way possible, if only because at my time of life (61) time isn't an endless resource and I'd rather spend it as frugally as possible.

Finally from me tonight, I do hope the community can pull together here. I've made representations to @Matt about this just recently. I am very pleased to see that an investment has been made in hiring a (semi?) dedicated resource in @Jordan Invision, but I would ask that more care is taken to involve the community as a whole. Otherwise as others have outlined, some of us might find it difficult to contribute. Now although me holding my tongue might suit some of you, I do feel the community will suffer disproportionately if some of the older, more experienced regulars here, stop contributing in the ways that they have done.

Looking forward to 4.6 and beyond. Thanks for a great platform.

Hi,

How do I go about enabling users to edit topics for 5 minutes, whilst allowing them to edit gallery images etc, indefinitely.

Unless I've missed something, the edit time restriction applies to all content types. See below.

Thanks.

no, just that url

I don't want to use *

edit: I tried with * before and it didn't work either.

Settings for url:  https://<myforum>/forums/

Hey, I've just installed this and it's not working.

The Vala options display in the widget but:

1/ If I restrict to url it doesn't show on that url

2/ If I restrict to user group it doesn't show to that user group

Are there other settings somewhere?

Thanks

Chris

3 hours ago, kmk said:

@Makoto is possible add tag as suffixes? 

Edit to the above.  The CSS only worked for those with permission to edit tags.

This css appears to work for other groups and should also work in topic lists too.

 .cForumTopicTable .ipsDataItem_title{
    display: inline-block;
}

.ipsType_pageTitle, .ipsDataItem_title {
  position: relative;
}

.suffix .ipsTag_prefix {
    position: absolute;
    left: calc(100%);
}

Needs more work for other areas and for other content types.

2 hours ago, kmk said:

@Makoto is possible add tag as suffixes? 

I think you can achieve this without any code mods. Try this, although I've not tested it in all scenarios. 

1/ Go to Radical Tags > customize > add tag > advanced, and wrap the target tag(s) in a span and add a class, in this case I've called it suffix. (you could also just add the class to the anchor tag, although I did not test this).

Here's the markup for you to cut and paste.

<span class="suffix"><a href="{tagUrl}" title="{tagTitle}" class="ipsTag_prefix" rel="tag"><span>{tag}</span></a></span>

2/ Add some CSS.

Note I've overridden the ipsType_pageTitle class to relative. This sets it as the parent container for subsequent absolutely positioned elements. (More testing needed here to see what the impact is on the title element).

And then instruct the tag suffix container to position itself to the right of the ipsType_pageTitle bounding box. Note the data-editableprefix attribute in the selector to restrict changes to prefixes.

.ipsType_pageTitle {
  position: relative;
}

[data-editableprefix] .suffix{
    position: absolute;
    left: calc(100%);
}

3/ Here's where it started:

4/ And here's the result:

Seems to work ok in forums. I just created this tonight, so it's not tested on other content types or beyond my laptop and phone.

Hey,

Summary

1/ I have 2 Pages databases. One is working fine. The other DB is throwing a redirect error when I try to view records on the front end.

2/ It is also reporting an incorrect number of categories in ACP when I try to convert it to a flat, non category DB. Note, DB was created today and showed the errors immediately after creation.

3/ Since creating the DB I can no longer view my profile.

Detail

1/ When I created a record in my DB which has 2 categories and then try to view it on the site (as opposed to the ACP) I get: 

This page isn’t working,  <site.name> is redirecting you too many times

Here's one of the URLS which throw the error:

<site.name>/production-news/test-cat-2/-r2/

2/ Additionally, I tried removing one of the categories (in case it was a category config issue) and I get the following in the ACP  when I try to select 'No, store records in DB directly'. Note I deleted the 2nd category and moved the record onto the remaining category. So the DB now only has one category and never had 4! See below:

3/ Finally I can't view my profile since I created the problematic database. Other profiles are fine.  Here's the error page

Thx, Chris

2 minutes ago, Adriano Faria said:

You mean the tab in the navigation bar? No, it is to filter groups that will have their members listed. Example: if you have a BANNED group and don’t want members from this group to show in the list, just don’t select BANNED there.

I'll answer this ^  first.

If I select Members and Animators in ACP as shown below:

it correctly restricts the groups in members tab on front end.  See below.

But, if I click on Producer for example, see below, it should show only Nicola but it shows all 5 members still. I added green box to show you wa

However, if I go back to ACP and select all groups to filter, it works ok.

So problem is that it works ok if all groups are selected in ACP, but not if only one or more groups is selected.

I will pm you the URL.

Hey Adriano

Member's Tab, Version 1.0.9

Couple of issues to report:

1/ If I restrict groups to include in filters,  the filtering doesn't work on the Member's tab - but does work if all groups are selected.

2/ Shouldn't total reflect the number of records displayed? Currently it shows all records (11 on my test site), whatever filter is applied.

Thanks,

Chris

Bump.

Still looking for this, although would be happy to limit this to something that was capable of limiting Page->Category posts to  to 1 (n) per member.

Just now, opentype said:

You could buy one or more of my other products, even if you have no immediate use for them. That would work equally well. 😉 

Yes, that was my fall back position.

On 3/11/2021 at 4:17 PM, opentype said:

Seen this?

Pages Supergrid working very nicely for category listings thank you. But.., I purchased this years ago and no renewal fee? Do you accept PayPal contributions?

23 hours ago, Adriano Faria said:

Another option:

 

Thanks Adriano. Pages will probably suffice for me for now. 
 

But longer term if you are interested in developing a recruitment app for the marketplace,  I’d happily discuss sponsoring it. 

3 hours ago, Nathan Explosion said:

What do you mean by activity history?

Sorry. I missed this earlier. I’m referring to members’ activity. For example, as seen in the activity steam below  

1 hour ago, Miss_B said:

Do you mean members history logs? If that is what you meant, you can truncate core_member_history table in your database for a quick prunning.

There is also a setting called: Member History under the Profiles tab in the Admin Panel, where you can set it to be prunned automatically based on x amount of days.

Perfect, thank you.

Hey Folks,

How would I got about resetting activity history so that when I 'eventually' set my site live, all old activity is removed from activity lists.

Do I need to run a query on the DB or is there a setting in ACP that I've missed?

Thanks

Chris

Thanks @opentype, I'll take a look. 

Hey Folks 

Has anybody implemented or got any suggestions for implementing a recruitment area/solution on IPS?

I am not talking about a fully fledged 'upload your CV and apply for listed jobs' type solution - I just want to list jobs in a smart and efficient way that looks good and is easy to interact with. I appreciate I can use pages with custom templates, but was wondering if there's something else I've missed. I've searched the marketplace and couldn't see anything there, other than perhaps modifying the Classifieds app. Assuming then that folks, if they have a jobs section on their site, are using pages, or their own custom development.

Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

Have you seen this?

App is great and developer @onlyME is brill.

It places videos in their own repository, but might suit your needs.

1 hour ago, Matt said:

Thanks for posting!

Unfortunately, this issue is beyond the scope of our technical support. 👩‍💻

Our technical support is happy to help you with the Invision Community platform, but we're unable to help with things like server management, theme questions and modifications.

I've moved this to our Community Support area where other Invision Community owners will see it and help where they can.

Scope perhaps for a new offering? I've always thought downloads was too restrictive. If it was expanded to include services then perhaps one of the many experienced pros on here could offer service and maintenance contracts, which might incorporate initial setup of Cloudfront, Cloudflare, Caching, S3 etc. I appreciate these services can be requested elsewhere, but nothing quite like seeing them as a confidence inspiring, formal, client rated, offering.

edit: added confidence inspiring.

29 minutes ago, Jimi Wikman said:

May I ask what the business case is for using webp? How much time will it shave off your loading time and what benefit will it have on conversion?

I have seen many requests for webp in many systems and most are to get some adjustment to ratings in some system that measure loading times and best practices.

So, why do you want it, and why are your users asking for it?

Good to hear someone talking about benefit rather than just features.

On 2/16/2021 at 10:50 PM, Charles Fischer said:

That is not a practical solution in my view, for those who wish to post.  They want to see their post up immediately, and not later whether two minutes or 20 when the mods get to it.  Requiring all posts to be approved would discourage people from posting, an inhibitor to posting and would damage the forum environment.  (I speak from experience after being on forums posting for over 20 years)

If you want to ensure a post is policy compliant and not have the poster wait for it to be approved - 20 mins or whatever, then most likely some form of automated positive vetting (APV from here on in) will be needed.

To this end I have previously suggested Invision add an interface to Google's Natural Language API (and also put out an unanswered custom dev request for same) which would allow all posts to be run by Google's sentiment analysis tool in near real time. Along with scoring sentiment negative through positive, it also extracts entities, which can be matched locally against categories and keywords.

As well as providing moderation capability, this tool could also be used on the front end too, with a sentiment score being added to topic descriptions, comments and.... users. You may not want to publicly show User X as having accrued a negative sentiment score over time, but having this visible to mods would I think be very useful. It would also of course allow you to automate the totting up procedure, whereby a user may not have had any any posts removed, but has for example exceeded an upper or lower control limit, which in turn might automatically put them in the cooler, or alert mods for manual intervention.

Google's Natural Language API is not perfect - I believe it performs at the same or similar levels of efficacy to spam filters. It cost money too, but I am hopeful that this, or something similar, perhaps an open source alternative , can be added to the suite quite soon.

For the record @Charles Fischer, here's Google's view of your balanced opening post:

On 9/8/2020 at 11:48 PM, christopher-w said:

A little feedback on v1.1.1

If I set Tabbed Forums Index 1.1.1 forum view to Grid (cards) Display in Tabs in ACP it renders perfectly on the forums page. But, if click on a forum card it takes me to a list of sub forums but lists them in a traditional forum view (table), not as cards.

This is different to the core forums behaviour that shows the sub forums in the same style as the view on the previous page. So for example if I am showing cards, it shows cards on the sub forums page too. Same if I show forums as a list, when I click on one one it takes me to  a page of subforums displayed as a list.

It would be great if the app could respect the current view (forum list or grid) when it displays the sub forums on the next page.

Thank you. Very nice app.

On 9/8/2020 at 11:58 PM, Adriano Faria said:

I’ll take a look when I have to update it. 👍

Hey Adriano,

Did you manage to take a look at this?  See above and summary below:

Quote

If I set Tabbed Forums Index forum view to Grid (cards) Display in Tabs in ACP it renders perfectly on the forums page. But, if click on a forum card it takes me to a list of sub forums but lists them in a traditional forum view (table), not as cards.

Many thanks and Happy New Year!