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Just a quick update, I also just tried both search behavior options in the back-end when setting the field up. Thanks.

Ok, so I tested this Zip Code theory. It turns out, when you conduct ANY search, regardless the options you choose ("everywhere" or "members" for example) once it comes back with "zero results", there is a tab named "Member Search" that you can choose inside the "+ More search options", that automatically includes any custom fields that have been defined in admin, PERFECT!!, EXCEPT, when I added my zip code to my location "11776" and then searched for "11776" in the "Members Search" "Location: Zip Code" input, and input "11776", it came back again with "zero results". This should be self explanatory. This has to be a bug. I don't know what I could be doing wrong. This is such a no-brainer, I can't see how it wouldn't work as expected... Any thoughts, anyone...? It won't let me add more screenshots sorry.... It also returns "zero results" when choosing to search "members" in the main search dropdown menu...just quick fyi, if that helps too.

Hi thank you for all that information. --- I have been testing the search feature and am noticing that the search doesn't find content from within clubs, even after performing the initial search, when the results come back as "zero results" and you choose "+ More search options", and then choose the clubs name from inside the club box on the bottom left....I put content inside the clubs main description and then also within a clubs page but search each time came back with zero results. I noticed that when searching, in the dropdown options, there are options to search pretty much through everything EXCEPT "clubs" option does not exist. I was wondering why this is and if it was done intentionally. Also the search came back with zero results even when choosing to search using "everything" as the dropdown option.... So my main question is, is this a bug? How can we fix this? How can we make it so that content from within clubs doesn't get "lost" for loss of a better word... Another thing I noticed, is when you are anywhere inside a club, the main top search bar has an option to search "This club", I noticed club page content isn't recognized and neither are descriptions, such as in "Overview" "About this club", inside a club blog "About this blog" content, etc...all places people would likely be searching for terms that reside there to find the clubs of a particular interest... just my $.02, would be nice if when searching "everywhere", it really did mean everywhere!! --- In regards to the filtering and sorting by location, we briefly touched on earlier...once I added the Google Maps Integration, on the main clubs homepage, (for all clubs, not a specific clubs homepage, the main club homepage you land on when clicking the "club" link in the header menu) it shows an option to "Browse clubs by location"... Is there a specific reason searching and sorting by location has been completely left out? Is there any potential for you guys to add this or fix this in the future? I am literally between a rock and a hard place here as these are really some main features my community relies on and I am trying so hard to find a way I can stay with you guys and use this software vs. going with another because in the long term I know the value of, and know I need the granular access control features you guys have built in, but the other software I am looking at has all the other features you guys don't have but doesn't have the access control and it's driving me crazy lol. I don't have the time or money to build from scratch and as much as I don't want to use wordpress, I am considering it, solely because I just can't seem to find the one software that has everything I need that I am thinking maybe I should just take my chances there. I honestly don't know what to do. Also I am thinking, what if I put a custom field on members profiles, make it required, and let users choose an option from a set of choices, then when a user does a sitewide search, they should be able to search either "everywhere" or "members" and find those who have that specific word chosen or typed into their custom field in their profile? No? So say for example, to conduct a workaround search for users by location, I could put a custom field text input type and ask for people to put their zip code in, then in the search I can instruct people to either conduct a search on "members" or "everything", with the zip code they are looking for members in, and then those members should come up, right? I have to test this out. It's also hard to do all this testing with no dummy content. Anyways, just talking/thinking this out... Any ideas would be helpful and are welcome. Anyways, thanks for hearing me blab...there was more I was going to add, but this being so public I feel it is not the place to discuss financials, and certain other things, thanks...

and I just want to make clear, when I say access to the full codebase in case it wasn't obvious, I am referring to the entirety of what pertains to this community building and management software, itself, not anything you have that over-arches it such as like whatever connecting software that maintains or handles access control like your licensing controls and such. I just wan to know if I am getting the full codebase enough to where I can extend this however I may want, or if you have built bridges of a sort that allows me access to certain modules under certain contexts ..from afar...etc. If that makes any sense... also, what licensing restrictions will I have? What can and what can't I do with it? Sorry I don't mean to put this all on you at once, I am sure there is a page somewhere explaining all of what is allowed, maybe you could point me to it? There are a few different communities I am trying to build and this software would be a very good base to start from instead of having to build from scratch. But they are very unique in their feature sets in what's needed so I may have to extend, quite a bit...but this to me is a serious contender...so thank you. Thank you for your time...

Ok thank you. Just curious, if I was to go ahead and purchase the self hosted version exactly what do we get access to Will I get access to the full code base or just portions? ...If portions, which portions? I'm just trying to assess what limitations I will have and what all I will and won't be able to do if I purchase it... Thanks again... I will take a look, thanks for the fix

Hummm, I don't know what's going on. It's saying "no databases are available to be added." And I thought I remembered somewhere in the back-end we could create new articles, but I can't seem to find anything at all in the back-end settings related to anything "Articles"... I am sorry I am so new I have literally no idea what I am doing yet. It's probably there I just can't find it or remember where I saw the settings for them... Thanks again..

Hi, thank you for your reply, I took a quick screenshot and it looks like the database is still there. There was some text looking type of content block in the exact place the database is now and I wanted to get rid of all the loose text, I just thought it looked funny, but apparently that block also contained the "New Article" button as well because once I deleted it and moved the database block up, the button was gone. The loose text content, looked like some kind of boilerplate help text about how to get started with using Articles... I'm not sure what it all contained, but it was part of whatever content is shown on a fresh copy of the software, if that helps... Thanks again. Also, btw, I am needing to be able to sort and filter both clubs and members by physical location. Is that something that is already built in that I can just turn on, or does that have to be specifically developed. I saw briefly the Google Maps and mapbox integrations, but I am not sure if either of these provide that type of functionality. Also I thought of creating custom fields or even tags and somehow search for locations that way, but I am not sure it would work fully the way I want it to - as it wold be much less confusing for site members to be able to utilize the already built in search and sort features except with an added option to search or sort via location or better yet what's "Near Me'...if that makes any sense... Thanks again for your time.

If I decide to go the cloud route at first as I was saying earlier, but want to develop in the background for self-hosted version is the codebase different? Like will I have a problem doing that? Meaning, the self-hosted version costs more upfront (less monthly long term) so does that mean if I only upgrade to cloud that I will not get access to the same code base necessary to develop on the self-hosted version because the code bases are different? Or are they the same, like would i be able to do that? Also, sorry, just real quick, I was on the articles page experimenting with the block editor, and deleted the 1st block and didn't realize it also contained the button to be able to create more articles from the front-end and now because i deleted that block, that button is missing and I can't figure out how to add it back or which block in the editor to add that has that button to put it back? Thank you again for your help.

So I just have a few quick questions... I am currently on the trial and tried using the support chat pop-up at the bottom of my screen but all my previous questions to invision support are no longer displaying and are missing, and I also tried to contact support via my account page in invisions community but it's saying I do not have access to support while on trial so I am not sure if I am in the correct place to ask here but I don't know where else to ask my questions since i ave not received any replies to my now mission pop-up chat requests, but I am very interested in upgrading but I am having some issues with my trial version that I don't think is working correctly? 1. The New Courses: I see courses in the back-end and have created one but courses are not showing up anywhere on the front-end...is there something I am needing to configure to get them to show up? 2. Removal of the Support Features: I have read somewhere that the support features are being removed, so my questions are 2-fold: Is there a way we can OPT to keep the support option? and Support is showing up on the front-end although it is in non-working order. When I go to click "New Request" it tells me "Before a ticket can be added, you must create at least one department in the AdminCP", but there is no support sections/options to create these departments in the back-end... 3. Testing & Development: DUMMY CONTENT: I am having a hard time understanding certain features and how things work, especially the dashboard and Pages builder/module. Is there anywhere we can get dummy content to import for testing purposes, like the way many wordpress themes do? Also pertaining to this, I thought i read somewhere we were able to import and export our content easily from one community site to another, perhaps I read this wrong? But I could not find a place for quickly importing and exporting content and settings (again like wordpress imports), have I simply missed it somewhere? (I ask because if I decide to stay with this solution, there are a few different communities I will be building and this feature would be immensely helpful) Also, I have not decided if I will be self-hosting or not yet, there are a few features I need to build in and can I request access to the code base so that I can at least start to see what I am dealing with and will potentially be building onto, the way cPanel gives free developer licenses? Perhaps I will stay on cloud temporarily while I slowly move over to self-hosted and develop in the background, although this is not exactly ideal as the very first main community I want to launch is missing a fey feature I need to have built and integrated before going live so, I'm just not sure yet...any thoughts? Thank you in advance, everyone for your time!!