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  1. This is a great addon and a must for anyone wishing to make the Clubs feature more enticing to site users. If I may just make one observation, when you add a Home Page to the Club, which I really like to have, you don't need any content in the Club Description field as that also shows up above the Activity page of the club however, on the Club Listings page the Club shows up with a "This group hasn't provided a description" message: However if you do put a description in then the only place it shows up is at the top of the Activity page which doesn't look right to have it when you have the Home Page. With the Description Looks much better without the Description field Just in my humble opinion Basically what I am saying is it would be good if i could somehow have it that: <IF> Home Page = True, Don't show [Description] in Activity <end IF>
  2. I am renaming Clubs to Groups and in doing so in the ACP language area I have come across: Your request to join {$club->name} Do I need to change the $club to $group?...thanks
  3. Can someone please tell me where the setting is in v4.5 where the administrator receives an email when a new member registers...thanks
  4. It seems that I have to: Create separate donation amounts in the subscription plans up to and less than $50 Create separate subscription plans at different amounts equal to and greater than $50 for a First Class Member that puts them into the First Class usergroup as their primary group Create an invoice for each current First Class member and mark it as paid (users are not going to like the stuff around) Then go into each user's record -> Customer View and edit their purchase expiry date to the amount of time they have left What a pain in the **** all around...: The amount of work needed to be done for every user manually The users get stuffed around with suddenly receiving an invoice Many different donation amounts i.e. $10, $20, $30, $40 The many different donation amounts to become First Class members i.e. $50, $60, $70, $80, $90, $100, $125, $150..........$1,000 The Subscription page will be a nighmare I may not be able to capture all the amount intervals that a user wishes to donate like what happens if a user wishes to donate $65, they would have to use the $60 donation and I lose $5 etc etc etc There has to be a much better way to allow donations/subscriptions where, and most importantly, a user is reminded each year to renew their donation/subscription...in Xenforo the user puts their donation amount into a box and if it is $50 or greater they get moved into the First Class usergroup and a year later they get a reminder, and if not renewed, they go back to being a standard member PLEASE, any ideas, suggestions etc on how to do this better...thanks in advance!
  5. I have moved from Xenforo to IPS and which I have the full IPS suite including commerce etc. In XF I had donations and User Upgrades. A user could donate to the site costs and if their donation was $50 or more they would automatically be moved into a secondary usergroup called "First Class" with extra permissions for a 1 year duration. I have had donations from $10 to $1,000. In migrating the users, those users that were still current in their 1 year period of being in the First Class usergroup were migrated into the primary member usergroup with First Class usergroup as their secondary group...as they are in XF...interesting note though, in XF you can give a usergroup username display a higher display order so any user that has a secondary usergroup of First Class can have their username displayed in the colour gold, but in IPS it seems the username can only be displayed from what is set in the user's primary usergroup. So now I need to firstly set up in IPS some kind of user donation system like I had in XF and for donations of $50 or greater a usergroup change for 1 year, that can be renewed OR if not renewed moves the user back into a normal member. Then after this I have to try and move the existing First Class members (i.e. those that donated >= $50 within the last year) into that subscription/donation system for the time they have left. Any thoughts on the best way to achieve all this...it looks like I may have to generate an invoice to the user for the time they have left as First Class members even though they have paid for a full year back when etc etc etc.
  6. Also another +1 desperately waiting for an update to 4.5 for this great addon
  7. Hi @Fosters, can you advise if this is going to be updated for v4.5? Thanks
  8. Once you upgrade to 4.5 existing users have to be notified to change the setting even if you change the default. I tried to find the database field to run an sql script but couldn't find where a user's choice is saved...anyone know?
  9. Is there any update on this...I can't suddenly change the way my site has done it for all this time...I need to set all existing users to the same as they have always had it and then let them decide to change it if they want...please this is urgent
  10. Can anyone advise how to fix...thanks
  11. Just upgraded to v4.5.2 and I am suddenly getting multiple entries for new entries in the same thread...any idea how to make it just show the first newest post in a thread...thanks
  12. I'd like access to the new version. I am an existing Clubs Enhancement customer as well...thanks
  13. Hi, can I ask for an approx time when an upgrade to v4.5 will be released?...thanks
  14. Hi Michael, I also need to know when this app is likely to be updated for v4.5? My site depends entirely on this as it is only for Australian users and is holding up my jump to v4.5...thanks
  15. Correct, it has happened to me here on IPS...before purchasing an addon I asked if the addon can do x, developer says yes, purchased addon and found it doesn't, asked developer for refund and developer says he can't give refunds. I have been bitten by so many developers over many many years on vBulletin, on IPS and on Xenforo...it's all the same. BUT, the biggest point I was making here is that I prefer to test addons on my own PC before testing them online. There is so much involved in testing them that I can't be doing it online...to begin with I need to take a current snapshot of my site every time and doing it online with the way my hosting is, is an extreme pain in the but compared to just downloading a copy, which also serves as a local offsite backup, and setting it up in my local xampp environment. There I can test everything without impacting my site and especially my hosting setup. By not being able to do this increases the cost of ownership of IPS dramatically for me especially in time and risk...why do you think my main site is still using Xenforo, because my main site deserves my attention the most and XF allows me to do things so much easier, quicker and better. Already the decision of comparing Xenforo vs IPS is an extremely hard decision to make, IPS are now making the decision much easier and that is not to IPS's favour in my own opinion and solution needs. The thing is, I will always speak up...but what about all those that don't and thus IPS never hear about their wrong decisions. Develop to what your customers tell you and you will always only have those customers, develop to what your non customers also want, and you may increase your customer base two-fold. In other words, If I didn't say something and just said oh stuff it and drop IPS, then you would never know how you could have had another customer...and I have 2 licenses (I have 3 XF licenses) so how many more licenses has IPS not sold??? Cost of ownership (time and inconvenience) has dramatically increased for me with IPS but at least I will say something about it...will you at least listen???
  16. ibaker

    Books

    All good now @Adriano Faria and thanks...i have added a "How To" text at the top and removed the B&N link code in the core file. This means that if the 13 digit code is used, the "Buy Now" B&N link is not shown:
  17. ibaker

    Books

    Thanks @Adriano Faria can you advise what setting I need to change to just have Amazon and disable B&N...thanks
  18. ibaker

    Books

    Thanks @Adriano Faria but I am very confused now. In this post you refer to ISBN 10: New setting to control the ISBN format: 13 digits, 10 digits or both New setting to display a BUY THIS BOOK button in the book view 13 digits ISBN format will add a link to Barnes & Noble store 10 digits ISBN format will add a link to Amazon store I took this as the ISBN-10 number will create a link to Amazon which doesn't seem to be correct as in many cases the ISBN 10 and 13 numbers are whilst different, are sometimes very similar. Both go to Barnes and Noble and a Buy Now link is shown even when Barnes and Noble doesn't have it. The Amazon link in this case works if you use the ASIN number and NOT any of the ISBN numbers however not all Amazon book listings have an ASIN number. Let's take for example the book called "The Hobbit". It has this list taken from the Amazon listing: ISBN-10: 9780007270613 ISBN-13: 978-0007270613 ASIN: 0007270615 The Google Books listing has: ISBN: 0007270615, 9780007270613 Using the ISBN 10 or 13 numbers a Buy Now link appears to Barnes and Noble even though they don't have that book So it is very confusing...yes, a maximum of 10 numbers that are either ISBN OR ASIN will take you to Amazon and ANY 13 number will take you to Barnes and Noble even though they are not in your country and they don't have the book listed anyway. Makes it hard for just a general user of your site to understand. In summary, I would much prefer the addon to just have the option of using Amazon which would make it much simpler and greater opportunity to obtain commissions, just my 10c worth.
  19. Interesting seeing that XF has had one for over 8 years with over 5,000 mods, addons etc from developers for either sale or for free:
  20. This is great and works well...if only you could have multiple instances of the block with different streams on the same page
  21. ibaker

    Books

    No sure what I am doing wrong but when I enter the 10 digit ISBN from Amazon, the Buy This Book link always goes to Barnes and Noble which always shows an error. Plus, Barnes and Noble is not in Australia but we do have Amazon Australia and I have an Australian Amazon affiliate Associate ID which I have entered. (see attached screenshots)
  22. ibaker

    Books

    Thanks Adriano, I was able to download a 4.4 version for Movies but NOT for Books: Can only download from version 1.1.0 which seems to be only for IPS v4.5
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