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Okay I'm starting to get to grips with this. https://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/quizzes/category/5-the-youth-consumer-service/ One or two things puzzle me. Firstly, if you have a top level category in which there are not going to be any quizzes, it still gives me a message that there are no quizzes in this category yet. Apart from anything else it looks very untidy and it would be nice to be able to configure it that it is simply purely a category with a list of the subcategories inside it. https://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/quizzes/category/4-the-youth-academy/?_fromLogout=1 Secondly, if you set up an extra field – and then later on decide not to use it, every time you want to go back and make an adjustment to the category or subcategory, the checkbox is ticked again – even though before you had un-ticked it and saved. In other words is not remembering your settings and it is going back to a default that the extra field is "required". Any chance that this can be fixed. I think it must be a glitch. Thirdly, before I had understood what was going on, I designed a quiz which didn't go to a discussion topic. I then understood a bit about discussion topics and alter the settings in the admin CP. However, that first quiz still won't display a discussion topic button – even if I reset the quiz. Is there anything I can do to get it to display a discussion topic button. I have to say the discussion topics are extremely great idea. Very imaginative. https://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/quizzes/quiz/3-moving-into-a-new-home-–-utilities-meters/ Fourthly it seems that all the quizzes in any particular category must be either single answer only or multiple answers – you can't mix and match. It would be lovely if one could configure those little parts of each quiz within a subcategory separately. It seems a shame to have to have separate categories for each type of quiz. Thanks

Well I've bought the quizzes application and I've installed it. I got to get some quizzes going as quickly as possible but – time is always a constraint. Has anyone got any ready-made quizzes – on any subject – that they would like to share?

Well I'm very pleased to see that there is now a global-ignore application available. When you need to use it, it's worth it's weight in gold.

Scheduling for a single event ahead of time is useful – but not very. It would be great to be able to schedule an event regularly – every day or every week, twice a week, once a fortnight – et cetera. That would be hugely useful

Hi, it might be an interesting feature to be able to have the main forum block with latest topics and latest posts et cetera – then when you descend into a category/subcategory a block shows the latest topics and latest posts in that subcategory. I don't think this is possible at the moment

Please!!

Hi, this "track members" facility is so incredibly useful, I don't know how we managed without it before and why it isn't a standard part of the Invision platform. I know I've raised this before and you said that you could be in a future version – but here is a real plea for the following features. Able to sort on each column – I refer to this earlier and here's a screenshot: – Alerts configurable according to number of searches within N minutes or visits to user profiles or follows within N minutes. also, I haven't mentioned this before it would make things a little easier if there was a "change settings" column and a "stop tracking" column instead of having to click to select a drop-down menu and then make the selection. Although the drop-down menu may not seem like much work, we tend to find that most of our spammers come in overnight and so in the morning it's always a bit of a job to find the new registrations and then to check them. If we were able to sort on latest registrations "joined" and they just go ahead and click to change settings where we were suspicious, this would make things much easier. Having to click a drop-down menu first all is a bit lumpy – but of course the most important thing is to be able to sort the list on particular columns. I see that in your drop-down menu one can select "view log entries" but actually by clicking directly on the number of log entries against a username, one can get there directly so it's really not necessary to have it on the drop-down menu at all. An alternative to having a separate column for "change settings" would simply to make the "tracked until" date clickable which would go directly to the change settings pop up. In other words this would work in exactly the same way as the clickable blog entries figure. "Content count" could click directly to the content. In fact I think the only new column which would be needed would be "stop tracking" and then the drop-down menu could be gotten rid off altogether. I suppose this will take time and obviously I don't understand the complications of it – but please please please – to be able to sort on each column would be a fantastic start – please please please!

Thanks. I must have read it but not have taken in the meaning. I thought the yellow highlight was simply there to make it look pretty!! (And thanks for the amazingly fast response)

I'm afraid there may be an issue. I'm not quite sure what it is. However, if I spot somebody that needs tracking – or if I want to extend the existing tracking of a new member, then I click the "indefinitely" checkbox and then save it. When I open it up again, the checkbox is not ticked. I'm trying to work out whether it is just a cosmetic problem or in fact if the tracking is not working.

Keyword tooltips Hi, could you help. We rely on your keyword tooltips app very heavily. We probably have at least a couple hundred or more configured going all over the place or with convoluted explanations. We've been running version – I think – 3.2.2 since about June and I just decided to upload and try out your latest version 3.2.5 on our test site. All of the existing keywords have stopped working. Luckily I kept an old version of your application and reinstall that and everything came back and started working again. So it seems that for some reason rather there may be some incompatibility between your new version and the keywords which are configured with the old version. It's just too much work to have to go and reconfigure all of the old keywords again but I'd really like to use some of the new features and keep up to date. Can you advise please. Thanks

Here's another feature request – We are learning from this extremely useful member tracking app that when spammers come onto the forum, they start off by making a huge number of visits/searches in a relatively short time. It would be incredibly useful to get an alert about this. So if there was a possibility to send an alert by email in the event that there had been X number of log entries within X number of minutes in respect of a new member, this might help us grab spammers before they started to make posts. It might even be possible to use the same setting to choose to put people automatically on moderation as well as sending an alert

Thanks, I had actually found it and was coming here to let you know. Our problem is that we converted from vBulletin about a year ago. We had lots of people trolling and so we set up a system where there trolling links were automatically converted to a link into our forum. We are just now suddenly realising that despite the fact that we converted, none of those conversions are now working so they are all leading outside to the trolling websites. Although I've now configured new keywords, none of them act retrospectively. I'm a bit surprised about this. With a very large forum such as ours – almost 5 million posts – we really need something to be able to go back and process everything rather than just deal with new occurrences. What I'm looking for is something which will convert link XXX (an external link) into link yyy. At the moment, you can put your mouse over a link and then press the link/chain sign in the editor and it comes up with the underlying external link which we want to get rid of. How can we get rid of those? We need to do automatically because we don't even know where they all are

Hi, somewhere in the admin console, I'm sure that there was somewhere where you could put in a load of keywords or acronyms and say what they should be converted to automatically. Now I can't find it. Can anyone help please – or else tell me that I was dreaming about it. Thanks

Last time you said something like that it was ready within about an hour!

Okay – here's another feature request. Is it possible to get the column headings clickable so that the tracking details can present either in alphabetical order, or date order – blah blah depending on which column you click At the moment it is only alphabetical – but it's generally speaking very useful to see who the latest people are or which group you are dealing with. Thanks

Blimey that was quick.

No I don't mind the extra click. as long as I have it correct that you have to stop it first and then restart it with the new time limit

Thanks, – I have found out how to do it, but my version doesn't work like that. 1.24 updated today. You have to go to the user profile – change settings – stop tracking – then you have to start it again – track member – and then you can set the amount of time or indefinitely. You can't simply go to the settings window and change the amount of tracking time – although you can change all the other parameters on the fly.

Hi, could you remind me how to alter the tracking settings for an individual. We have new users who have attracted our interest because they may be spammers and so I want to change their particular settings so that they are tracked for a longer period. I know the setting is there but I can't find any more. Thanks

Hi, I'm very sorry but I've had a very complicated couple of days – especially with trolling problems on the forum and I haven't managed to get round to doing the testing that I wanted. I'll get around to it as quickly as possible and respond to you because I'm sure that you want to check for any problems and address them. I'm sorry to delay. I'm using a default theme – simply with some colour changes. I have to say that if you are looking for new ideas for a plug-in – then you might want to look at this which was available on vBulletin and isn't available here. I was quite amazed that when I first suggested it, people seem to be saying that it wasn't a very proper thing to do or that it wasn't treating people correctly. I have to say that if they ran a consumer rights website which was as inflammatory and controversial as mine, then they might form a different view. You might be interested to know that there was even a contract put out on us to bring us down by a debt collection company about four years ago. Luckily the FBI arrested the hacker and then inform the British police and the owner of the debt collection company was convicted in a British court. We could really do with the global ignore option – but we don't have a lot of money. We have a lot of fans – but not very much money!

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, but I can change the background colour but I can't seem to change the text colour. It's always in white no matter what colour I tried to change it to. Any clues? Also, I've already had a private exchange with you – but I may as well put it up here to see what other interest there is. Additional features which I think would be useful include: Visitor counter – to see how many people actually follow the announcement ability to change announcement fonts – maybe HTML – including size, weight, font et cetera. Ability to change height announcement banner so they can be wider or higher – especially higher ability to be able to have more than one line in a banner – so maybe the sentence can be wrapped ability to schedule colour changes so that one doesn't have to keep going and doing it manually ability to pin announcement banners in a priority order – At least those. Thanks

In that case - if it could be added in a future version - that would be great.

Hi, this looks as if it's going to be an extremely useful function. Maybe it's there already but I haven't found it yet. If it's not then is it possible to include a column in the list to explain why the person is being tracked – new member, bannned, warned et cetera or the name of the site team member who began the tracking. As far as I can see the moment, it's not possible to know from this list the reason for the tracking and it seems that there is enough space to add an additional column or two. Thanks

Okay thanks. So here's a general request – would anyone like to share any quizzes they have made using Adriano's application? Either share for free with a link to your website or for a payment? Please send me a message. Thanks

I suppose what I was hoping is that other people who use the quiz app, have prepared their own quizzes and maybe would like to share them with others or even sell them and that they would be available in and in portable form so that one simply import the file and the quiz is ready to go.