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For our part we would be very pleased to see it exactly like a normal topic with all that functionality and flexibility and ideally would like to be able to configure that all reported posts go to XX sub- forum or ZZ sub- forum – and even maybe certain topic -related reported posts would go to a related forum and reported posts from somewhere else will go to another sub- forum of our choosing. That way we could have all the functionality of the existing reported post system – if we wanted it – but if we wanted to change it to suit our particular needs then we could. I think we are looking for maximum choice and I suppose that because the topic system exists already, I would hope that it wouldn't need a lot of extra design to make that happen.

Actually I think I may have found it – it seems to be the "feed" setting in the theme editor – but how do I bring it all to the left-hand side? Okay I think I have that too. Feed setting in the theme editor – and flipside bar on large screens. Thanks

I've just started experimenting with a free trial – before eventually converting a test forum and eventually our live site but probably some months down the line. I hope you think that imitation is the finest form of flattery!! What are the settings for this appearance – where you have a forum icon on the left hand side with a full description and then the posts down the middle I think it looks rather smart and for a starting point, we may well decide to do the same. Thanks

I'm sorry to say that I rather knew you were going to say that. I have found that once envisioned makes decisions about things, they tend to be pretty fixed. It would be so difficult to make the reported posts system configurable so that every user/administrator – manager – could get it working the way they would really like to work which suited their own particular needs and their own way of working. I think I've said this before in the past two years – what's wrong with Choice?

Thanks again for the advice to use the free trial. It's very helpful – mainly reassuring because I see a great familiarity in the backend and I can see that it's not going to be as difficult as I imagined.

A frustrating thing that we have found with version 4 is that reported posts seems to have been designed by a completely different committee to the one which designed the standard topic interface. I think it would be very helpful to bring the reported posts threads into line in their functionality with topics. It would also be very helpful to be able to configure the reported posts to be directed to any particular place. As I expect it is with all forums, we have some private forums where there is a lot of interchange between staff members. It will be extremely helpful to be able to set up a separate private subforum simply to receive reported posts so that they are more easily accessible and we don't have to go to some special reported posts corner which as I have indicated works in a way rather different from the rest of the forum topics. Surely having a single uniform interface design would be much easier for everybody and also much easier to keep upgraded.

I'm not sure the right name is – but I'm just wondering whether there is available some sample site provided by Invision where we can open an admin account and have a look at the adminCP et cetera to try and begin a little understanding of the layout and differences et cetera. Thanks

Thank you. What is the consequence of not having the converters if we install version 5 on the live site?

I'm just very keen to get a test version installed so I can take my time to see how it all works and see what work I need to do to configure it so it suits what we do.

Tank you - but I seem to remember that once we upgraded without converters and there was chaos

Thank you. I can take it from that then that version 5 could not yet be used for people who have migrated from a different system – even though this was now several years ago. We came over from vbulletin

Thank you for this. One further question, please. I notice that the version 5 download doesn't include converters et cetera which were necessary with version 4 because we came from a different platform. Does that mean that converters are not necessary any more? Thanks

@Miss_B thanks for the installation link above – that refers to version 4. I need to find a link to version 5 I suppose

Hi, I am trying to organise that we set up a version 5 test site so we can install it and understand it and get used to it before we then update our live site. I see that we have to change our licence to a version 5 licence. If I change the licensed version 5 licence, we still able to carry on using version 4? Also, I feel nervous about even upgrading our test site until we know exactly what we are doing. This means that we would be operating our live site, a test site – and also a version 5 test site – until we felt comfortable. In other words, we would be operating three sites and I understand that this would be beyond the licensing terms. How can we manage this please We have a huge forum. Over 5 million pages, 400,000 members, over 400,000 topics. It simply a volunteer service and any things to go smoothly as possible with as little stress as possible. So I suppose what I'm asking is please could we run two test sites for a while – our existing version 4 – and an experimental version 5. Thanks

Thanks for this – yes you reacted very quickly and then I suddenly got caught up in stuff and hopefully it can get sorted out. Your plug-in is certainly very important to us – have already mentioned that I think it's a bit surprising that there is some inbuilt Invision facility which allows you to display new topics and new posts in a scrollable form on the front page and choose as many lines as you want to display. Your plug-in is great for this. On a busy forum with people come with some serious problems and need responses quickly, the site team and other contributors have come to rely on it enormously