Carole Asselin

Will recheck with them. They MIGHT be doing it the wrong way as it is all new for them.

Members have tried embeding images in their posts, today, but the links still show as links.

Here are a couple of examples:

https://scrapbookcampus.com/invision/forums/topic/1255-what-are-you-working-on-in-january-2023/

https://scrapbookcampus.com/invision/forums/topic/1262-theme-challenge-new-year/

Is there a setting that I might have been missing in the CP?

32 minutes ago, Jim M said:

There is one exception to that, you can configure your notifications so that if you reply to a topic, you automatically follow it.

So each user has to do that? There is not a "site wide" setting I can select for all the members?

I know that if I follow a thread and someone replies, I get a notification.

Since there are some sections that are for support, I would like to have a way to get an email notification whenever someone posts a new thread or even a new response in those threads/sections.

Is there a way to set it up?

Also, is there a way to automatically follow a thread you started or posted in without having to click the "Follow topic"?

7 hours ago, Randy Calvert said:

When using the editor, just double click the image. A popup should appear that allows you to set a caption as well as control the image size.

Great. I didn't know that.

7 hours ago, Randy Calvert said:

If you are editing raw HTML (meaning clicking the “Source” button in the editor if you’ve turned it on for your admin group)

Where is that? that is likely what I was looking for!

OK I found the HTML option. When clicking it, it warns me of being dangerous.

How dangerous can it be?

Coming from bbpress, I am familiar with editing posts and embedded images using HTML. Now, I am a little lost with how I can format my posts.

Is there a way to adjust the size of images?

Is there a way to format posts similar to when using HTML?

4 minutes ago, Jim M said:

Was this originally posted and then set to be published in the future?

Now that you are asking the question, I see that it was posted 9 hours ago, which I thought was strange since it was not installed 9 hours ago. I think it might have been a draft that was set in bbpress before the migration.

Let's see if I can delete that one and repost from scratch.

OK, I guess that was the issue. It was a draft from bbpress that was migrated into Invision.

I did post it again, from scratch and it only shows for admin account, which is what I was expecting all along.

Thanks. 🙂

I am migrating from bbpress and I had ranking based on the members' number of posts. Now that I have Invision, everyone seems to go back to zero, which is a little bit of a bummer for those who had hundreds or thousands of posts already. Is there a way to import their number of posts for ranking? If not, can I do something manual for them? It might be tedious, but I would at least want to reward the regular posters with a reasonable "rank" to start the year 🙂

I just installed the forum and it is a great time as I normally will schedule posts for the first of the month. So I did. I scheduled something for January 1st, 2023, but it is already showing, even though it is shown to be locked.

For me, as admin, I see this:

But for a non-logged in visitor, here is what is seen:

So it is already visible in the forum and furthermore, it is also clickable for anyone. Am I misunderstanding the functionality of "scheduling topics"?

Also, I was looking for a guide to the posting part (not the CP angle) so I can make tutorials for my members. Is there one? 

Just now, Jim M said:

You would simply update the base URL in the configuration file, clear cache, and then update your license URL. We have a guide to cover that if you do. 

Thanks. That is simpler than I expected.

And if end up with domain.com/[invision]/gallery and domain.com/[invision]/forum, what will I have to do to adjust all the links already in place in the domain.com/gallery ? Or does it even make sense?

Just now, Jim M said:

The software would need to live in the same folder so whatever you want to name that folder which makes sense for your usage you can do.

It looks like you do have something at your root domain so you would not be able to put the software there unless you were to remove that.

So I might as well keep the /gallery/ part? and have /gallery/forum in the end to add the forum?

Oh ok. so, if anything, I could do (for example) domain.com/invision/gallery and domain.com/invision/forum but I cannot have JUST domain.com/forum and domain.com/gallery (which is what I was hoping to have in the first place).

Hum... I had asked before and thought I could end up with domain.com/gallery for the gallery and domain.com/forum for the forum part instead of having both under a single section with then sub-sections. Isn't that possible? Will I automatically have a section called domain.com/[generic name] before getting /gallery and /forum?

OK so , since I already installed the gallery under domain.com/gallery, do I need to install something else to have the forum part on domain.com/forum?

I know I installed the gallery before the forum, which seems a little atypical. Hopefully, I didn't shoot myself in the foot by doing so?

Oh. So, I am going about it the wrong way? Can you point me to where I should start then? I am a little lost.

And at which point will I use the migration tool to migrate my current bbpress forum?

I have already installed the core of Invision and the gallery. Now, I want to install the forum and it asks me for a licence. However, it won't take the one I have. What am I missing? 

Do I need an additional licence? Or is it a different one from the initial installation and if so, where is it? I did purchase both, the gallery and the forum already.

Thanks.

As I am getting ready to do the migration, in a few days, I see the mention of what can be migrated, but it says "Convert from this platform using our paid conversion service, or free app" but I cannot see where the "free app" can be found/downloaded. Can you point me to the correct place? I will be migrating from bbpress.

Thank you. That is what I was looking for 🙂

Thank you. That is not specifically the information I was remembering seeing but it might have all I need.

Is there a  list somewhere, of the various forums it can migrate from? I thought I saw it somewhere but can't find it.

I know I have seen the information about what forum one can migrate from (I currently have bbpress), but I cannot find it anymore.

Can you point me to where that information, including what is possible to migrate from bbpress for example?

On 11/3/2022 at 1:21 PM, Randy Calvert said:

This was a message sent via the “contact us” button on the bottom of your forum. The default behavior is to send those messages to the admin via email. 

Thanks. That might be it. I was not aware that it is the way a message sent through that link would look like.

This morning, I got an email notification of a message (I removed identifying information):

27 minutes ago, Jim M said:

You could create an album which your all your students have access to upload to and do the same thing. Then leave feedback on the album rather than each individual image.

With daily activities, it might not make much sense. 

28 minutes ago, Jim M said:

However, only images from the gallery can be embedded in a forum topic at present. 

That is fine and that is how I explained how to do it. I just wished there was a SIMPLE way to click on the embeded image and be directed to the gallery post. Considering that some threads are not related to a specific course or lesson (like What are you working on?) and members creating their own albums, it would not make things easy to find.

If an "automatic link back" to the gallery is not available, I guess I would have to ask members to embed the image AND link to the gallery.