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@Nathan Explosion I know this is a really old discussion, however even after all these years I just wanted to say thank you 🤗
I have an XML dump with around 2.3 million lines of text I was trying to work out how to import to a new Pages database, your response above has helped 🙂

It would be great to see IPS implement something like UserVoice/Feature Upvote or similar as a way for the community to discuss and vote on what matters the most to the community in terms of development.  A platform like UserVoice/Feature Upvote would make it clearer what the community would like to see developed, in situations where IPS chooses not to develop an idea it would provide 3rd party developers greater clarity on more common requests leading to a healthier marketplace.

IE: https://ideas.digitalocean.com/ideas

18 minutes ago, bfarber said:

I was just saying we've had Sendgrid integration longer available within our software.

True, and I was just drawing your attention to the fact that it has been out for nearly a decade 🙂 
Perhaps it'll make the roadmap before 2030? 😜

On 8/12/2020 at 2:13 PM, sobrenome said:

Is mail bouncer ready for 4.5? 😀

+1 curious about this as well.  Is anyone currently using it on 4.5 and have you experienced any issues?

On 8/19/2020 at 11:14 PM, bfarber said:

We don't have any agreement with Sendgrid. It has simply been implemented for a longer period of time.

SES has been around sine 2011 😉 

On 8/19/2020 at 11:14 PM, bfarber said:

That said, we're monitoring feedback/support for topics requesting SES integration.

Here's the snafu with SendGrid that I've encountered.  When trying to move an existing community to SendGrid there's a 100/day initially then 40,000/month email limit, that's not a lot of emails and SendGrid won't allow immediate upgrading of the account and in some cases make you wait the full month out.  Once you hit that limit you can forget about emails going out to existing members, and new members can't signup.  For people converting to IPS with existing large communities this can put a real dent in continuity.

On 9/2/2020 at 1:16 AM, bfarber said:

Hidden status is also represented in the search index, and in the tags index at least. You'll need to review those tables (core_search_index, core_tags_perms).

Appreciate that, thank you I'll take a look.

1 hour ago, Ptilly said:

Want to know what the cool thing about that is? I own every single bit of it and I can download it at any time I please.

If you're going to go underlining things at least have a basic understanding of what it is that you actually own before going all out aggressive on others 🙂 
 

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2. Rights
The Software is licensed to You for use only under the terms and conditions of the License. You acknowledge that all intellectual property rights, copyrights and trademarks in the Software belong to XenForo Limited, that rights in the Software are licensed (not sold) to You, and that You have no rights in, or to, the Software other than the right to use them in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

1 hour ago, Haku2 said:

If the software has a good security record, you shouldn't have to upgrade frequently to get the security patch.

A lack of updates does not indicate a good security record.  In fact it can quite often indicate the exact opposite as it's a direct result of a lack of testing.
 

9 hours ago, Ptilly said:

Because not everyone has hundreds to thousands of members that can donate at every given moment. Some people are still trying to grow their forum the right way by not using freeware forums or cheaper alternatives.

This is you pushing your arbitrary view forward on what is the 'right way' and what isn't.  There's many successful phpBB forums out there, and in fact that free platform has outlasted many commercial variants over the years due to the very nature of its ecosystem and how it's supported.  Portraying that using a platform like phpBB is not the 'right way' is not only disingenuous, it's insulting the the thousands of people in that community and the developers that have maintained the software for two decades.

You may not like what IPS is doing, that's fine and you're entitled to that opinion but making stuff up doesn't really encourage anyone outside your echo chamber to agree with you.

@Paul E. thanks for the guidance, looks like I have nutted it out 😄   
I've been doing all this in a test environment using the testinstall license, as this community is being merged in to an existing live community. 
This wasn't an issue with the conversion script, the posts were actually hidden.  The previous site owners had set it up that you would signup and post, however to unhide those posts and be able to engage in the community they charged a fee.  Many would post, and clearly didn't feel value in paying to release their posts and would just leave.  Racked up quite a few posts 🙂 

forums_topic topic_hiddenposts
These contain the count for how many posts in the topic are hidden, set to 0.

forums_topic approved
These control if the topic is hidden or not, set to 1 for approved. 

forums_posts queued
These control if individual posts are hidden or not, set to 0.

All posts are now shown and seem to be working.  Now to just see if it breaks anywhere else 😂

Thank you again for all your help.

37 minutes ago, Paul E. said:

Depending on your comfort level with SQL, you can likely handle this there, yet there be dragons.
What do you want to do? Unhide them or keep them hidden and remove them from the Mod CP approval queue?

My intention is to unhide the whole lot in one swoop 🙂   They're not in the Mod CP Approval queue, if they were it would be far easier 🙂 
Mod CP > Hidden Content > All Content. 6500 pages, 160,000+ posts.
The only way to unhide these via Invision is to open the discussion they're in one by one and press 'Unhide.'
That's a few months of human effort, or at a rate of 1 every 10 seconds 7.4days non-stop 😄 
 

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The value you're looking for lives at forums_posts.queued. There are also fields in forums_topics at the topic level, and representations of whether or not queued posts live in the given topic. See forum_topics.approved and topic_queuedposts.

Thanks.

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Danger danger danger, but doable. Backup everything before playing. 🙂

Absolutely, and great pic 🤣

2 hours ago, whitetigergrowl said:

Wrong.

Period.

Again wrong.

It doesn't matter what their reasons are

So glad you're open to the opinions of others.

Personally I think it's too cheap, and should be increased 🙂

After a conversion Hidden Content -> All Content has some 6000+ pages of hidden posts.
Is there a quick way to unhide all of these?

I came across this post however it was per user.

60K Emails/Month on SendGrid $359.40 annually
60K Emails/Month on SES $72 annually

@Charles @Lindy there's a business case here for you to get it done 🙂 
 Undoubtedly a percentage of those savings for smaller communities on a tighter budget would lead to more plugins and community enhancement purchases. 

 So come on, which one of you is mates or shares a yacht with someone at SendGrid that you chose it over SES? 🤣

Hi, anyone have any advice for mass assigning tags to topics and setting them as prefixes?

For example:
Sub-Forum discussing the topic Red.
Move all topics to a parent forum called 'Colours' and any topic that was in the sub-forum to be tagged as 'Red.'

Genuinely thankful to everyone for the advice.
Managed to convert from the old vB 1,700,000 posts, 160,000 discussions and 30,000 members.
It did take a while 😂

On 8/14/2020 at 4:49 AM, Joel R said:

2.  In terms of community strategy, you want to communicate, communicate, communicate.  Invite over your superusers in a private access test; send out blast emails, send out notifications, share screenshots, send instructions, etc.  Then repeat again as you get closer to the actual migration.  As Rhett mentioned above, any accounts that share the same email will be merged, so don't be afraid of inviting over members to preview and acclimate themselves to the new community.  

Something i'm trying to work out.  Communicating via social channels etc and on the existing community is easy, ideally I want to mail blast the whole community to let them know however I'm also aware the consequences of receiving a heap of bounce back emails etc due to the age of the accounts.  This is something that may have to be done on a throwaway VPS acting as a mail relay vs getting a sendgrid account suspended so I can initially clean up the userbase.

On 8/14/2020 at 4:49 AM, Joel R said:

3.  This is totally up to you and how much of a hoarder you are 🙂, but you might want to think about cleaning out your vBulletin database.  Delete old topics, remove outdated instructions and how-tos, revert to vanilla, etc.  

I reached out to the previous owners to acquire it so I could bring back 20 years of content and history as it had been offline for months.
 So hoarder is an understatement 😂

Just now, Paul E. said:

We were able to upgrade from the latest version of vBulletin 3.8. Not sure if there's a particular 3.x requirement, but we did not have to upgrade to 4 or 5 first.

From @Miss_B's link above it seems 3.8 is supported, it's currently on 3.6 so I'll upgrade to 3.8 and then import to the test site.

39 minutes ago, Rhett said:

When you run a conversion, it will use the email address to match up accounts and merge them if they are the same.

Thanks Rhett, appreciated.

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One of the things you'd want to test for something like this is how links from the existing vBulletin install are redirected by IPS, if this is a concern for you. Redirecting old URLs like example.com/forum/showthread.php?t=12345 is handled by the converter, yet if you are merging multiple vBulletin communities into a single IPS, I imagine that this will be trickery.

I'm not sure the URL redirection scheme considers thread 12345 from two installs and redirects to the right place. May not be an issue for you, but I'd test it first.

Consider firstvbulletininstallsite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12345 vs. secondvbulletininstall.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12345. How would IPS know which converter to look at when trying to match old thread 12345 with whatever ID it ended up with in IPS?

If you only have one vBulletin instance to worry about ever, then this is not a problem for you.

Thanks, I'll see what the import generates as both communities are just shy of 20 years old so preserving some of the inbound links is valuable.  
The import is going to consist of around 2M posts and 30,000 members so testing will be essential 🙂 

37 minutes ago, Miss_B said:

Also, have a look at these topics. 

https://invisioncommunity.com/4guides/getting-started/migrating-from-another-platform/running-the-conversion-r211/

https://invisioncommunity.com/news/guest-blog/10-tips-for-converting-from-vbulletin-to-invision-community-r1131/

Thanks, looks like I'll need to upgrade the version of vBulletin first as it's still on an earlier version of 3.

Appreciate the replies, thank you to all.

Looking for some ideas...

I would like to bring over an old vBulletin 3.x forum and merge all the members and content in to an existing Invision Community.  Essentially bringing over the existing forums, posts and members.  There will be cases where members on the target website already exist as they were members of both sites.

How would you suggest I approach this?

@newbie LAC nice extension, couple of questions.

1. Do you have a link to a demo site running the plugin?  
2. When no topic cover is uploaded what does the header of the page look like?

Really nice plugin, works out of the box.  It's one of those essential plugins that helps bring new content to the attention of new members.

Feedback: the ability to Auto-Follow Categories within a Pages Database instead of just Pages Articles would be awsome.  We have multiple Pages Databases making up some really content-heavy driven sections of our website, this would put that new content right in the Alerts and Emails of our new users.

On 3 March 2016 at 2:22 PM, Mike John said:

I'm looking for people who are willing to help with testing for Facebook/Twitter signups. Both with email validation enabled and disabled. If your forum is available, please PM with ftp and acp login details.

Hi Mike, I'm up for testing for you.  We have a 10+ year old community and would love to have the auto-welcome working with Facebook signups which I think account for about 8 out of every 10 new signups to our website.  Is this offer for testing still available?

So does this work or not work if the user signs up using facebook login for example?

I'm seeing the following error now under System -> Support and it won't fix itself using "fix automatically."

Any advice @Kevin Carwile on how to resolve it?  I've tried running the query manually as well.

Well ignore my above solution, that's incorrect.  
Error EX0 returns on reload.  Is there a way to see what's causing this error?

It happens on a fresh template when I add :

{{if count($articles)}}
    <div class='ipsGrid ipsGrid_collapsePhone'>
		{{foreach $articles as $id => $record}}
            <div class='ipsGrid_span6'>
			{template="entry" app="cms" location="database" group="article_grid" params="$record, $database"}
            </div>	
    {{endforeach}}
    </div>
{{endif}}

If I remove the above line and revert it to the original the page works again.

I can confirm I experience the same error.

*fixed* make sure you select correct template type when creating.  I applied it to my existing template which was not created using Featured Records.