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Kier said that the doodles were just for testing but people liked it so much that he kept them in the beta release
I think the main IPB can do to improve UI is to have less page loads to do simple functions such as posting replies, editing posts etc. I also think that PB should make a default theme that looks more modern. The current theme looks really outdated to be honest.
#2027176 Any plans to improve the UI ?
Posted
on 07 October 2010 - 06:41 PM
#2022454 Any plans to improve the UI ?
Posted
on 24 September 2010 - 02:53 PM
I just want to say that "yes we will be cleaning up the interface". This has been the plan for quite a while.
#1999057 ACP System Statistics
Posted
on 02 August 2010 - 04:40 PM
The point of the change not to turn the dashboard into an advertising platform but mainly because the dashboard had so much information before, that important warnings (like, for example, your software is out of date) were being lost in the noise.
The new design was intended to remove extraneous information and make important notices more prominent and noticable.
What I would prefer to do rather than bring back the box completely is introduce dashboard warnings for important information. For example, you'll notice if there are any accounts pending admin validation, you'll see a big yellow box alerting you to this.
Particularly what statistics do people miss? As Michael mentioned, total members, posts, etc can be viewed on the board index - and the big one (pending admin validations) has been moved to a notification.
To anyone who watched their ACP for changes in those numbers: particularly which numbers were you looking at? We can create notifications for them.
We're of course not out to make anyone's life difficult. The change was intended to make a useless page useful, and ensure that everyone was aware of important information (you should always be running the latest version, for example). We're happy to make adjustments though
The new design was intended to remove extraneous information and make important notices more prominent and noticable.
What I would prefer to do rather than bring back the box completely is introduce dashboard warnings for important information. For example, you'll notice if there are any accounts pending admin validation, you'll see a big yellow box alerting you to this.
Particularly what statistics do people miss? As Michael mentioned, total members, posts, etc can be viewed on the board index - and the big one (pending admin validations) has been moved to a notification.
To anyone who watched their ACP for changes in those numbers: particularly which numbers were you looking at? We can create notifications for them.
We're of course not out to make anyone's life difficult. The change was intended to make a useless page useful, and ensure that everyone was aware of important information (you should always be running the latest version, for example). We're happy to make adjustments though
#1990367 IP.Board 3.1.2 and Applications Released
Posted
on 20 July 2010 - 10:00 AM
Invision Power Services, Inc. is pleased to announce the release of IP.Board 3.1.2 and its Applications
In addition to the core software, the following products and services are also available:
Downloading
You can download these releases in the client area and begin enjoying the new features. You might also read our general upgrading instructions for our software.
What's New
We have fixed many dozens of reported issues and added new features including:
Donations for Autism Research and Support
Our recent fund drive for autism research has been a success. As of today, we have reached our goal of $1000! All the funds were raised from our community of customers and we would like to express our sincere thanks for your donations.
Invision Power Services is happy to be able to 100% match all donations made by our community. Therefore, we are thrilled to be able to make a donation of $2000 to Autism Speaks on behalf of the company and our customer-community. Again, you have our sincerest appreciation for your generosity during this fund raiser.
- IP.Board 3.1.2
Fully featured community platform including forums, members profiles, calendar, status system, integration, and much, much more.
- IP.Gallery 3.2.2
Categories and photo albums for your members to share their images and videos on your community.
- IP.Blog 2.2.2
Allow you and your members to post blogs on your community or syndicate externally hosted blogs easily.
- IP.Downloads 2.2.2
Complete file management application including file version control, commenting, and forum topic linking.
- IP.Content 2.0.2
Content management for your community - run a full web site or a simply community portal. The possibilities are endless.
- IP.Chat 1.1.2
Engage your members in real time chat or send them private chats while in the chat room.
In addition to the core software, the following products and services are also available:
- Microsoft SQL Server Database Drivers for alternate database solutions.
- IP.Board iPhone App for easy mobile access for you and your members!
- Converter Services to convert from other community software to IPS.
- Skin Generator service to easily create a custom skin for your community.
- Spam Monitoring Service to stop spam account registration at the source.
Downloading
You can download these releases in the client area and begin enjoying the new features. You might also read our general upgrading instructions for our software.
What's New
We have fixed many dozens of reported issues and added new features including:
- Improved SQL error display
- Moved topic redirect expiration, archive personal conversations, OpenID email is no longer required: full info
- Live search in AdminCP and Dashboard improvements
- Incomplete registration clarifications
- Various interface improvements to the SQL Toolbox
- Improvements to how secondary member groups are counted in the AdminCP
Donations for Autism Research and Support
Our recent fund drive for autism research has been a success. As of today, we have reached our goal of $1000! All the funds were raised from our community of customers and we would like to express our sincere thanks for your donations.
Invision Power Services is happy to be able to 100% match all donations made by our community. Therefore, we are thrilled to be able to make a donation of $2000 to Autism Speaks on behalf of the company and our customer-community. Again, you have our sincerest appreciation for your generosity during this fund raiser.
#1971659 IP.Board 3.1.1 and Applications Released
Posted
on 15 June 2010 - 09:15 AM
Invision Power Services, Inc. is pleased to announce the release of IP.Board 3.1.1 and its Applications
In addition to the core software, the following products and services are also available:
Downloading
You can download these releases in the client area and begin enjoying the new features. You might also read our general upgrading instructions for our software.
Version 3.1.2 Coming Soon
IPS is dedicated to promptly fixing any reported issues and will do so with the release of version 3.1.2 soon after 3.1.1's release. You may also wish to keep an eye on our knowledge base where we will release patches for any critical issues that come up between the two version releases. There is no set release timeframe for 3.1.2 as we will evaluate based on feedback and and issue reports coming in. As always, follow our company blog for latest information.
What's New
In addition to all the great, new features launched in IP.Board 3.1.0 and the Applications we have fixed many dozens of reported issues and enhanced a few of the new features including:
- IP.Board 3.1.1
Fully featured community platform including forums, members profiles, calendar, status system, integration, and much, much more.
- IP.Gallery 3.2.1
Categories and photo albums for your members to share their images and videos on your community.
- IP.Blog 2.2.1
Allow you and your members to post blogs on your community or syndicate externally hosted blogs easily.
- IP.Downloads 2.2.1
Complete file management application including file version control, commenting, and forum topic linking.
- IP.Content 2.0.1
Content management for your community - run a full web site or a simply community portal. The possibilities are endless.
- IP.Chat 1.1.1
Engage your members in real time chat or send them private chats while in the chat room.
In addition to the core software, the following products and services are also available:
- Microsoft SQL Server Database Drivers for alternate database solutions.
- IP.Board iPhone App for easy mobile access for you and your members!
- Converter Services to convert from other community software to IPS.
- Skin Generator service to easily create a custom skin for your community.
- Spam Monitoring Service to stop spam account registration at the source.
Downloading
You can download these releases in the client area and begin enjoying the new features. You might also read our general upgrading instructions for our software.
Release Notes
- This is the first maintenance release of IP.Board 3.1.x and its applications. We have fixed many reported issues since the first supported released. Even so, as this is only the first maintenance release, there could be as yet undiscovered issues. Please report issues in the bug tracker.
- Important technical support note: During the launch of the new products, and the great interest they will create, support response times (especially for install or upgrade requests) may be delayed. We appreciate your understanding during the launch time. Support response times have greatly improved since the launch of IP.Board 3.1.0 through the tireless work of our support staff and we expect services to continue to normalize.
- Other release notes as specified for the IP.Board 3.1.0 launch still apply for this release.
Version 3.1.2 Coming Soon
IPS is dedicated to promptly fixing any reported issues and will do so with the release of version 3.1.2 soon after 3.1.1's release. You may also wish to keep an eye on our knowledge base where we will release patches for any critical issues that come up between the two version releases. There is no set release timeframe for 3.1.2 as we will evaluate based on feedback and and issue reports coming in. As always, follow our company blog for latest information.
What's New
In addition to all the great, new features launched in IP.Board 3.1.0 and the Applications we have fixed many dozens of reported issues and enhanced a few of the new features including:
- Improved Facebook and Twitter integration
- Usability improvements in the new skin merge center
- Search Engine Optimization (SEO) improvements
- Admin can now modify each member's notification options when editing the member in the AdminCP
- A new tool to test outbound connections has been added to the support tab. Useful for license, chat, or other connection issue diagnostics.
- Support for Push Notifications via IPS iPhone App
#1962045 IP.Board 3.1.0 and Applications Released
Posted
on 01 June 2010 - 01:28 PM
Our free converter scripts have now been updated to work with IP.Board 3.1. Please submit a ticket or post a bug report if you have any issues.
#1961711 IP.Board 3.1.0 and Applications Released
Posted
on 01 June 2010 - 07:54 AM
You may wish to use the "Watch this topic" feature (account required) to receive updates on replies to this topic. We will make replies with more information or updates to fix common issues.
Useful Documentation Articles
- How to Upgrade
- Upgrading Custom Skins
- Upgrading Custom Language Packs
- License Key Missing error message
- Twitter Connect Errors
#1961710 IP.Board 3.1.0 and Applications Released
Posted
on 01 June 2010 - 07:53 AM
Invision Power Services, Inc. is pleased to announce the release of IP.Board 3.1.0 and its Applications!
In addition to the core software, the following products and services are also available:
Downloading
You can download these releases in the client area and begin enjoying the new features.
Version 3.1.1 Coming Soon
IPS is dedicated to promptly fixing any reported issues and will do so with the release of version 3.1.1 soon after 3.1.0's release. You may also wish to keep an eye on our knowledge base where we will release patches for any critical issues that come up between the two version releases.
As defined in the release notes: because this is the first widely-distributed release there will be as yet undiscovered issues. You can expect a maintenance release, IP.Board 3.1.1 (and other application maintenance releases), in the next two to three weeks (around mid-June) to address issues reported in this first supported release. We appreciate your understanding and hope you can assist us in identifying any problems in this first supported release so we can quickly remedy them in our next update.
What's New
We hope you are as excited as IPS staff is about what's new in these product versions. Here are the highlights:
IP.Board 3.1.0
Link Sharing
Easily share links from your community to Facebook, Twitter, and more. Great way to drive traffic to your community!
Status Updates
Enhancements to the existing member status system in IP.Board to include the ability to reply and more.
Topic Preview
Preview the first few lines of a topic without loading the entire topic.
View Reputation
Optionally allow your members to see who gave reputation points on their posts.
Twitter Integration
Your members can now link their account with their Twitter account!
Improved Facebook Integration
Further enhance the link between your community and Facebook to drive traffic. Including new Facebook Graph API
Advertising Code Integration: Part 1 and Part 2
Easily place advertising code throughout your community with simple settings in the admin area.
Profile Customizations: Part 1 and Part 2
Allow your members to customize the look and feel of their profile page.
Skin Upgrader
Upgrading your skin between versions of IP.Board just became a lot easier.
Soft Delete Posts and Topics
Rather than actually deleting a post or topic you can now hide it from view to easily restore it later.
Notification System
An easier way to be notified of all the various events that happen in your community. And Improvements
Modification Development Enhancements
Great tools for those that create modifications for IP.Board
Hook System Improvements
Improvements to the IP.Board hook system to make it easier for modification developers to expand the functions in the software.
Search Engine Optimization: Part 1 and Part 2
Allow search engines to better index and rank your community in results.
Search Engine Overhaul
Search engine rebuilt from the ground up introducing more flexibility and power.
Template Merge Tool
Merge skin changes between versions right in the AdminCP.
All new Mobile Skin
Mobile skin for many popular devices to enable easy access to your community.
Automatic Media Embedding
Automatic parsing of YouTube and other media into posts.
Plus many bugs fixed from the 3.0.5 version and performance improvements.
IP.Content 2.0.0
Feed Block Updates
Great updates to make these blocks even more useful.
Database Improvements: Part 1 and Part 2
Improvements to database usability.
Page Interface Enhancements
Makes working with Pages in the admin area easier.
Friendly URLs for Databases
Database URLs become human and search engine friendly.
Template Improvements
Easier to work with templates and updates.
Forum Integration
More tools to enhance content sharing between your forums and pages.
Articles
Support for a comprehensive articles system.
IP.Chat 1.1.0
Chat Count and Private Chats
Show number of people in the room at top of page and support for private member-to-member chats.
Local Chat Logs
View, search, and interact with your chat logs right in the admin area.
Note that, as of IP.Board 3.1's release, the old Parachat and Addonchat modules are no longer directly supported by IPS.
Skin Generator Service
Introducing Skin Generator
Our new, free service to active IP.Board license holders to easily generate a custom skin for their community.
Improvements to Skin Generator
New features and enhancements to the service.
Spam Monitoring Service
Many Enhancements
Many additions to the spam service both in IP.Board and behind the scenes to help combat spam on your community.
IP.Blog, IP.Gallery, and IP.Downloads
The new versions of these products are maintenance releases to fix known issues and to add compatibility for IP.Board 3.1.0. Also, IP.Blog received the new sharing tools from IP.Board. All of these products will receive full feature upgrades this summer.
CleanCut, MSSQL Database Driver, and Converter Services
CleanCut skin has been updated to support the new application versions.
The MSSQL database driver has been greatly enhanced and stabilized from previous versions, now only support MSSQL 2005+, and we are phasing out deprecated field types for greater efficiency.
Converter Services are now available for IP.Board 3.1.
IP.Board iPhone App
The new IP.Board iPhone App is available and APIs for its use are included in IP.Board 3.1.0.
- IP.Board 3.1.0
Fully featured community platform including forums, members profiles, calendar, status system, integration, and much, much more.
- IP.Gallery 3.2.0
Categories and photo albums for your members to share their images and videos on your community.
- IP.Blog 2.2.0
Allow you and your members to post blogs on your community or syndicate externally hosted blogs easily.
- IP.Downloads 2.2.0
Complete file management application including file version control, commenting, and forum topic linking.
- IP.Content 2.0.0
Content management for your community - run a full web site or a simply community portal. The possibilities are endless.
- IP.Chat 1.1.0
Engage your members in real time chat or send them private chats while in the chat room.
In addition to the core software, the following products and services are also available:
- Microsoft SQL Server Database Drivers for alternate database solutions.
- IP.Board iPhone App for easy mobile access for you and your members!
- Converter Services to convert from other community software to IPS.
- Skin Generator service to easily create a custom skin for your community.
- Spam Monitoring Service to stop spam account registration at the source.
Downloading
You can download these releases in the client area and begin enjoying the new features.
Release Notes
- We have had three beta releases for testing and are confident any major issues have been addressed. However, as this is the first supported release that will be used by thousands of people, there could be as yet undiscovered issues. Please report issues in the bug tracker.
- Important technical support note: During the launch of the new products, and the great interest they will create, support response times (especially for install or upgrade requests) may be delayed. We appreciate your understanding during the launch time. If your community is critical in nature and even the slightest delay in support services would impact you then you may wish to wait until version 3.1.1 to upgrade.
- If you are upgrading from IP.Board 3.0.x then please note that, although this is not a destructive upgrade, you may need to manually update any skins you have using the new merge center to add the new functionality. You may also need to update any custom applications or hooks to use some new file locations. Technical support from IPS for skins is limited. When in doubt contact the author of the skin or use the default skin that ships with IP.Board.
- If you are currently using Facebook Connect integration, you will now need to add your Facebook application ID into the system settings. Please see this article for more information.
- Legacy chat services Addonchat and Parachat are no longer supported from version 3.1 onwards. If you are using these older services and wish to continue doing so: do not upgrade to version 3.1 at this time. You may wish to consider switching to our new IP.Chat service.
- Keep in mind that all the new application versions also require IP.Board 3.1 to operate. Do not try to use them on older versions of IP.Board.
Version 3.1.1 Coming Soon
IPS is dedicated to promptly fixing any reported issues and will do so with the release of version 3.1.1 soon after 3.1.0's release. You may also wish to keep an eye on our knowledge base where we will release patches for any critical issues that come up between the two version releases.
As defined in the release notes: because this is the first widely-distributed release there will be as yet undiscovered issues. You can expect a maintenance release, IP.Board 3.1.1 (and other application maintenance releases), in the next two to three weeks (around mid-June) to address issues reported in this first supported release. We appreciate your understanding and hope you can assist us in identifying any problems in this first supported release so we can quickly remedy them in our next update.
What's New
We hope you are as excited as IPS staff is about what's new in these product versions. Here are the highlights:
IP.Board 3.1.0
Link Sharing
Easily share links from your community to Facebook, Twitter, and more. Great way to drive traffic to your community!
Status Updates
Enhancements to the existing member status system in IP.Board to include the ability to reply and more.
Topic Preview
Preview the first few lines of a topic without loading the entire topic.
View Reputation
Optionally allow your members to see who gave reputation points on their posts.
Twitter Integration
Your members can now link their account with their Twitter account!
Improved Facebook Integration
Further enhance the link between your community and Facebook to drive traffic. Including new Facebook Graph API
Advertising Code Integration: Part 1 and Part 2
Easily place advertising code throughout your community with simple settings in the admin area.
Profile Customizations: Part 1 and Part 2
Allow your members to customize the look and feel of their profile page.
Skin Upgrader
Upgrading your skin between versions of IP.Board just became a lot easier.
Soft Delete Posts and Topics
Rather than actually deleting a post or topic you can now hide it from view to easily restore it later.
Notification System
An easier way to be notified of all the various events that happen in your community. And Improvements
Modification Development Enhancements
Great tools for those that create modifications for IP.Board
Hook System Improvements
Improvements to the IP.Board hook system to make it easier for modification developers to expand the functions in the software.
Search Engine Optimization: Part 1 and Part 2
Allow search engines to better index and rank your community in results.
Search Engine Overhaul
Search engine rebuilt from the ground up introducing more flexibility and power.
Template Merge Tool
Merge skin changes between versions right in the AdminCP.
All new Mobile Skin
Mobile skin for many popular devices to enable easy access to your community.
Automatic Media Embedding
Automatic parsing of YouTube and other media into posts.
Plus many bugs fixed from the 3.0.5 version and performance improvements.
IP.Content 2.0.0
Feed Block Updates
Great updates to make these blocks even more useful.
Database Improvements: Part 1 and Part 2
Improvements to database usability.
Page Interface Enhancements
Makes working with Pages in the admin area easier.
Friendly URLs for Databases
Database URLs become human and search engine friendly.
Template Improvements
Easier to work with templates and updates.
Forum Integration
More tools to enhance content sharing between your forums and pages.
Articles
Support for a comprehensive articles system.
IP.Chat 1.1.0
Chat Count and Private Chats
Show number of people in the room at top of page and support for private member-to-member chats.
Local Chat Logs
View, search, and interact with your chat logs right in the admin area.
Note that, as of IP.Board 3.1's release, the old Parachat and Addonchat modules are no longer directly supported by IPS.
Skin Generator Service
Introducing Skin Generator
Our new, free service to active IP.Board license holders to easily generate a custom skin for their community.
Improvements to Skin Generator
New features and enhancements to the service.
Spam Monitoring Service
Many Enhancements
Many additions to the spam service both in IP.Board and behind the scenes to help combat spam on your community.
IP.Blog, IP.Gallery, and IP.Downloads
The new versions of these products are maintenance releases to fix known issues and to add compatibility for IP.Board 3.1.0. Also, IP.Blog received the new sharing tools from IP.Board. All of these products will receive full feature upgrades this summer.
CleanCut, MSSQL Database Driver, and Converter Services
CleanCut skin has been updated to support the new application versions.
The MSSQL database driver has been greatly enhanced and stabilized from previous versions, now only support MSSQL 2005+, and we are phasing out deprecated field types for greater efficiency.
Converter Services are now available for IP.Board 3.1.
IP.Board iPhone App
The new IP.Board iPhone App is available and APIs for its use are included in IP.Board 3.1.0.
#1900620 IP.Gallery 3.1.0 Released
Posted
on 18 January 2010 - 11:09 AM
We are pleased to announce IP.Gallery 3.1.0 has been released.
The following is a list of what's new in this version of IP.Gallery:
Friendly URLs
We've integrated gallery into the global FURL system used by IP.Board 3, this will allow gallery to create friendly URLs for categories, albums, and images.
Category/Album Covers
When viewing an image, you will have a new option to set that image as the 'cover' for the category or album that contains the image. When a cover image is specified for a category or album, that image will always be displayed, in place of the last uploaded image thumbnail.
Sub Albums
Albums now support unlimited sub albums, which work exactly like gallery sub categories.
Profile Picture Album
You can now create a new kind of album, a 'Profile Picture' Album. After this album has been created, any images that you upload to it will be displayed on the change picture page in your User CP, making them easy to select as your profile image.
Image notes
Image owners are now able to add notes to sections of their images, positioning and resizing them to suit. Other members will be able to see the notes when hovering over the image. (An example)
Image rotation
Images can now be rotated in 90° increments, to compensate for those photos taken in landscape or portrait, but saved in the wrong orientation.
New slideshow
We have completely rewritten the slideshow feature! It is now a unified interface, loading images on demand as necessary. Users can play or pause the slideshow at will, or jump to specific photos using the thumbnail bar.
Friends-only albums
When creating an album, users can now choose to restrict viewing to only those users who are on their friends list.
Reputation support in comments
We have added support for IP.Board's reputation feature in comments posted within IP.Gallery.
Interface tweaks
We have updated the style of categories so that larger versions of the image are used, to give more impact. The image listing has also been updated, and will now show as many images on a row as the users browser can fit. This should improve the display of IP.Gallery for users who have higher screen resolutions. The image view screen has also been improved, including support for those features mentioned above.
Downloading
You can download IP.Gallery 3.1.0 if you have an active license in the client area. As always, make a backup of your community before proceeding.
The following is a list of what's new in this version of IP.Gallery:
Friendly URLs
We've integrated gallery into the global FURL system used by IP.Board 3, this will allow gallery to create friendly URLs for categories, albums, and images.
Category/Album Covers
When viewing an image, you will have a new option to set that image as the 'cover' for the category or album that contains the image. When a cover image is specified for a category or album, that image will always be displayed, in place of the last uploaded image thumbnail.
Sub Albums
Albums now support unlimited sub albums, which work exactly like gallery sub categories.
Profile Picture Album
You can now create a new kind of album, a 'Profile Picture' Album. After this album has been created, any images that you upload to it will be displayed on the change picture page in your User CP, making them easy to select as your profile image.
Image notes
Image owners are now able to add notes to sections of their images, positioning and resizing them to suit. Other members will be able to see the notes when hovering over the image. (An example)
Image rotation
Images can now be rotated in 90° increments, to compensate for those photos taken in landscape or portrait, but saved in the wrong orientation.
New slideshow
We have completely rewritten the slideshow feature! It is now a unified interface, loading images on demand as necessary. Users can play or pause the slideshow at will, or jump to specific photos using the thumbnail bar.
Friends-only albums
When creating an album, users can now choose to restrict viewing to only those users who are on their friends list.
Reputation support in comments
We have added support for IP.Board's reputation feature in comments posted within IP.Gallery.
Interface tweaks
We have updated the style of categories so that larger versions of the image are used, to give more impact. The image listing has also been updated, and will now show as many images on a row as the users browser can fit. This should improve the display of IP.Gallery for users who have higher screen resolutions. The image view screen has also been improved, including support for those features mentioned above.
Downloading
You can download IP.Gallery 3.1.0 if you have an active license in the client area. As always, make a backup of your community before proceeding.
#1900391 cleancut skin
Posted
on 17 January 2010 - 05:18 PM
Cleancut is the format I need for my site (reason being is the login menu in the header is an outrageous design fault). Yet cleancut doesn't format well in any version of IE. I wish someone would help us out and get this issue fixed up before inventing more half developed features.
Not sure why someone doesn't hear the message. I am wasting more time than ever on this board trying to fix half-assed developed features. Can we light a fire on some pressing issues? I get more frustrated by the minute with IP3.
Not sure why someone doesn't hear the message. I am wasting more time than ever on this board trying to fix half-assed developed features. Can we light a fire on some pressing issues? I get more frustrated by the minute with IP3.
#1899615 IP.Content 1.2.0 Released
Posted
on 15 January 2010 - 03:18 PM
We are pleased to announce IP.Content 1.2.0 is now available in the client area.
The following is a list of what's new in this version of IP.Content, our community content system for IP.Board:
Field default values
There is now a per-field option to define the default value for the field. This default value will be used when the "add new record" form is displayed as the default value to place in the field. The user can still, of course, change this value while configuring their record.
Disable fields in listing and display templates
Many have requested a method of disabling specific fields from displaying in listing and display templates without having to modify the default templates (i.e. to exclude certain fields in the foreach loop, or to manually define the layout). As of 1.2.0 there are two new settings when configuring your fields to do just that. If you disable a field in the listing template, it simply won't show up there. You can even disable a field in the listing and display template and have a hidden field attached to the record, if you wish.
Additional sorting for database feeds
You will now be able to sort database feeds by meta-data fields (record id, last updated, submitted date, comment count, etc.). This will allow you to more easily create database feeds to show latest records, for instance.
Text formatting options for text input fields
There are now per-field settings on text-input fields (only) to allow you to define the following automatic formatting options:
Attachment parsing for forum and blog feeds
Attachment parsing has been added for forum and blog feeds (provided you do not use the default strip tags and truncate calls in the template for the content value).
Attachment data available programatically
Some users have expressed interest in having access to attachment data in a more robust manner than simply passing the field through the IP.Content attachment parser. For instance, you may want to display 1 image from an attachment field in the listing, without having to worry about whether there are more than 1 images associated with the field.
Attachment data has now been added to a global cache during normal parsing routines, so that you may be able to programatically access the attachment data for the record and do more unique things with the data. A resource article on how to access this data will be forthcoming following the release.
WYSIWYG and Code Highlighter Support
We have added support into IP.Content to integrate with the following WYSIWYG and Code Editors:
Downloading
You can download IP.Content 1.2.0 if you have an active license in the client area. As always, make a backup of your community before proceeding.
The following is a list of what's new in this version of IP.Content, our community content system for IP.Board:
Field default values
There is now a per-field option to define the default value for the field. This default value will be used when the "add new record" form is displayed as the default value to place in the field. The user can still, of course, change this value while configuring their record.
Disable fields in listing and display templates
Many have requested a method of disabling specific fields from displaying in listing and display templates without having to modify the default templates (i.e. to exclude certain fields in the foreach loop, or to manually define the layout). As of 1.2.0 there are two new settings when configuring your fields to do just that. If you disable a field in the listing template, it simply won't show up there. You can even disable a field in the listing and display template and have a hidden field attached to the record, if you wish.
Additional sorting for database feeds
You will now be able to sort database feeds by meta-data fields (record id, last updated, submitted date, comment count, etc.). This will allow you to more easily create database feeds to show latest records, for instance.
Text formatting options for text input fields
There are now per-field settings on text-input fields (only) to allow you to define the following automatic formatting options:
- Capitalize all letters
- Lower-case all letters
- Capitalize just the first letter of the string
- Capitalize the first letter of each word in the string
- Remove excess punctuation
Attachment parsing for forum and blog feeds
Attachment parsing has been added for forum and blog feeds (provided you do not use the default strip tags and truncate calls in the template for the content value).
Attachment data available programatically
Some users have expressed interest in having access to attachment data in a more robust manner than simply passing the field through the IP.Content attachment parser. For instance, you may want to display 1 image from an attachment field in the listing, without having to worry about whether there are more than 1 images associated with the field.
Attachment data has now been added to a global cache during normal parsing routines, so that you may be able to programatically access the attachment data for the record and do more unique things with the data. A resource article on how to access this data will be forthcoming following the release.
WYSIWYG and Code Highlighter Support
We have added support into IP.Content to integrate with the following WYSIWYG and Code Editors:
- TinyMCE
- CKEditor
- CodePress
- EditArea
- (None/default textarea)
Downloading
You can download IP.Content 1.2.0 if you have an active license in the client area. As always, make a backup of your community before proceeding.
#1890896 [Suggestion] Blog This
Posted
on 22 December 2009 - 07:36 AM
Following on from my bug report , I thought I'd post it as a feature suggestion as I did think it was currently WAI.
Currently, the Blog This option is global. I would like to suggest it is added to be group selectable (in the same way you can restrict RSS importing to certain groups)
A good example, you may only want your staff or perhaps certain groups to be able to access this feature.
Currently, the Blog This option is global. I would like to suggest it is added to be group selectable (in the same way you can restrict RSS importing to certain groups)
A good example, you may only want your staff or perhaps certain groups to be able to access this feature.
#1884341 IP.Chat help!
Posted
on 02 December 2009 - 01:51 PM
This chat bites. After uploading the files to the directories required, there is no option to install this in the ACP. There are no settings in ACP. And nowhere to enter in the chat key. This was just a waste of time.
#1884320 IP.Chat help!
Posted
on 02 December 2009 - 12:37 PM
When the final version is released, is it going to be free to those who have an active license to IPB?
#1886299 Invision Power Board 3.0.5 Released
Posted
on 08 December 2009 - 04:59 PM
We are pleased to announce Invision Power Board 3.0.5 has been released.
This is a maintenance release for IP.Board 3 and addresses various bugs, security enhancements, and performance improvements.
Major Changes Since 3.0.4
Among many dozens of smaller bugs fixed and performance improvements, the following security enhancements were made:
Downloading
You can download IP.Board 3.0.5 and any applications you have an active license for in the client area. As always, make a backup of your community before proceeding.
IP.Board 2.3.6 Security Update
Below is a zip containing the patched files for 2.3.6.
ipb236-dec-patch.zip 14.09K
1216 downloads
This is a maintenance release for IP.Board 3 and addresses various bugs, security enhancements, and performance improvements.
Major Changes Since 3.0.4
Among many dozens of smaller bugs fixed and performance improvements, the following security enhancements were made:
- SQL and local file include issue fixed. Note: Due to protection within the SQL driver classes, it is very difficult to effectively exploit IP.Board using this attack. Also you need moderator permissions to perform any exploit. We've hardened this code regardless. Also, due to the input cleaning functions IP.Board uses, the local file include is limited to PHP files on the file system as the usual 'null byte' trick is ineffective.
- Internet Explorer XSS Issue due to incorrect attachment handling fixed.
Downloading
You can download IP.Board 3.0.5 and any applications you have an active license for in the client area. As always, make a backup of your community before proceeding.
IP.Board 2.3.6 Security Update
Below is a zip containing the patched files for 2.3.6.
ipb236-dec-patch.zip 14.09K
1216 downloadsAttached Files
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IPBDiff-305.html.zip 41.47K
2751 downloads
