shaven

Hi,
I want to share one link with the community that will lead each user to his personal profile section. ( my problem is each profile has a different id)
Can you please help me with this one?

I would suggest using the API instead or writing a service that imports the CSV file and then converts it into an API call to award it.  
You're not going to most likely find a lot of support for directly editing the mySQL database.  

Is this already compatible with 4.5+ or will it be getting an update anytime soon?

@Chris Anderson, all valid questions. The application is extremely light weight. At this point, we are only overriding 2 functions to introduce the functionality. Having said that, as IPB changes and updates are made, this makes it extremely easy to update alongside IPB. IPB devs has already done the leg work in developing the application to be easily extended. This is how they have already integrated Sendgrid, SMTP, PHPMailer etc. These are all extensions of their base Email class. To be honest, I am surprised they have not included many other email service options as it was very easy to build in this functionality.
Second, this application is built on AWS's open source PHP SDK which is heavily supported and has a very large audience. 
Third, we have a fairly large audience in the applications we've developed with over 1000 clients having used our services. 
Lastly, and in all reality, I wouldn't be too worried. I am confident IPB will introduce this functionality natively in the future as they already work with S3. All it takes is for a community to rely heavily on a third party application for them to introduce it into their core application. Thanks for the questions!

I've developed an integration application that will allow your IPB community to send emails via the AWS SES API. I will release it to the marketplace however looking for some folks to test it. Please send me a PM if interested.

Does anyone have a guide, tips or can state how hard or easy it is to configure SES with IPS? I also need to move away from Sendgrid, as I've been getting emails from people saying how they never received their Password reset emails or others from the forum. 100 a day is just not enough on the free account.

Thanks guys!!

They are widely used because they are cheap, not because the company has good service. 

Thank you again for your response Morrigan!
I think I'm doing a bad job at asking the question.
I am familiar with the REST API and know that tags in the database page templates are distinct from that API. 
My question is focused primarily on how people know the tags or HTML template functions they have at their disposal without some sort of documentation of those calls. The code snippet I posted above was listed in the Admin CP but I'm sure there has to be many more calls similar to that which aren't listed in the Admin CP (I think?).
If I wanted to start developing a plugin or application for the platform, I don't see where the platform is documented sufficiently to perform such a task but I see people doing it which leads me to believe I'm missing something.
Again, thank you for your time and suffering through the poor explanation of my question.
 

Should probably submit a ticket to IPS, it sounds like a bug.

Great plugin providing an essential feature! Thanks a million!
One problem: the tags aren't all parsing correctly. Here's what happens with the ones I've tried:
%member_name% - outputs a string similar to the previous Facebook issue %sender_name% - doesn't parse at all, just outputs "%sender_name%" %board_name% - actually works! My users are imported via CSV if that helps and the forum was built on 4.5 from the start.

Set pages as your default application Add your page for guests, set that as the site's landing page and add whatever content you like Create a custom PHP block with: header("Location: https://domain.com/forums"); Change the permissions of the block to only be visible to the Members group Add that block to your landing page