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We recently blogged about our new profile customization options. I've made a few updates since and wanted to update you on them. As you may already be aware, we have added Twitter integration... Kompletten Blogeintrag lesen

While not a particular interesting blog entry I wanted anyone interested to know that our demo service... Kompletten Blogeintrag lesen

We read virtually every piece of feedback we receive, even if we don't reply and we often see the same requests coming up. The ability to 'preview' the topic by viewing an excerpt from the first post is often requested and we've added this into IP.Board 3.1. We've made it a little more useful by also including the last time... Kompletten Blogeintrag lesen

The IP.Board 2 series introduced a number of new profile features designed to make your profile page a little more interactive. Besides the usual stats and figures, we introduced a personal photo and the ability to leave comments and list recent visitors. This made your profile page a little more personal and encouraged repeat visits. With the... Kompletten Blogeintrag lesen

IP.Content is a complex framework that allows you to create and manage website content in many different ways. You can embed blocks and databases into pages, and pages can be wrapped by templates. You can define page names and use friendly URLs through the IP.Board built-in FURL system, you can use friendly URL's through the included index.php... Kompletten Blogeintrag lesen

Users of Firefox 3.6 have experienced problems using the rich text editor in Invision Power Board 2.3.6. This is not a security issue but simply a feature usability problem. IMPORTANT: This issue does NOT impact the IP.Board 3 series and those on the IP.Board 3 versions can safely ignore this message. Administrators of a 2.3.6 installation can choose one of the following options to resolve the issue: [*]Instruct members to simply switch to the basic text editor in 2.3.6 [*]Upgrade to latest version of IP.Board 3 [*]Download the patch file attached to this announcement, unzip, and upload to: /jscripts ips_text_editor_func.js.zip (2.7K) : 7 Quelle: http://community.invisionpower.com/topic/304407-rich-text-editor-and-firefox-36-patch-for-ipboard-236/

The page manager, introduced with IP.Content 1.0, is a core feature to IP.Content. It allows you to create pages and folders, and manage those pages and folders, core functionality that IP.Content relies on for everything else. Page management has been pretty reliable and functional, but we decided we wanted to improve the interface for IP.Content... Kompletten Blogeintrag lesen

Please be advised that our corporate websites will be unavailable from 11:30PM (EST) to 3:30AM (EST) as we perform hardware and software upgrades. The invisionpower.com website and client area will be unavailable during this time, however, the company community and resources will not be impacted. We will update this topic when all maintenance is complete. Thank you for your patience and understanding. Update: During this time, IP.Chat services will still be operating but users may experience occasional issues joining rooms. Quelle: http://community.invisionpower.com/topic/304331-scheduled-maintenance/

Over the past year we have introduced new services that are available to our IP.Board Standard Licenses holders, such as the spam service and the chat service. We also have plans for more services that will be tied to your license. While this provides a lot of value to your license, managing these services is a cumbersome process, you need to... Kompletten Blogeintrag lesen

When we were developing IP.Board 3.0 we were looking for ways to lower the barrier for registering. There are many single sign in providers but most of them required separate registration and set-up. Around this time, Facebook released their emerging API "Facebook Connect". We seized the opportunity to implement it within IP.Board 3 and... Kompletten Blogeintrag lesen

Following on from our recent blog entry about Twitter Integration... Kompletten Blogeintrag lesen

Database "Tweaks"... Kompletten Blogeintrag lesen

A critical security patch has been released for IP.Content 1.2.0 IPS has been notified of a security issue with IP.Content 1.2.0 which may introduce the ability for a remote user to inject malicious SQL into a URL. This SQL could damage or compromise the security of your community. We would like to thank Alex Smith for reporting this issue to us. Patching your IP.Content Install If you are running a version of IP.Content less than 1.2.0: upgrade your install today. The IP.Content 1.2.0 download in the client area has already been updated to include the patched files. If you are running IP.Content 1.2.0: upload the attached file to: admin/applications_addon/IPS/ccs/sources/functions.php Please submit a support ticket if you have any questions. functions.zip (2K) : 4 Quelle: http://community.invisionpower.com/topic/303859-ipcontent-120-critical-security-patch-released/

Last year we introduced a Spam Monitoring service to combat the increasing problem of forum spam and the response to this service has been great! The spam service has been a great success so far and we would like to take the time to share some stats about how effective the service has been. The service is only as effective as the number of... Kompletten Blogeintrag lesen

IP.Content 1.x has turned out to be a very solid, stable, and extensible application, allowing for a vastly diverse number of implementations that showcase many of it's capabilities. We're thrilled to see so many of our customers using IP.Content in different and creative ways. We've been gathering feedback from all of you to help... Kompletten Blogeintrag lesen

IP.Board already has many moderation tools, including the ability to "approve" and "un-approve" posts and topics to make them hidden from the general community. IP.Board also has a "Trash Can" forum which collects all deleted topics and posts giving you a chance to keep them and manually move them back if you wanted... Kompletten Blogeintrag lesen

Yesterday we showed IP.Board 3.1's ad code integration for the first time, today we'd like to give a quick update on the status of this new feature. First of all, we were excited to read all of the positive feedback and great suggestions. We like to write these blog entries before features are 'set in stone', so that we can more... Kompletten Blogeintrag lesen

Advertising integration has been an often requested feature for a long time, so we're pleased to announce that IP.Board 3.1 will include this feature! We've create a simple system that will allow you to insert ad code at various locations throughout the forum. The integration is not specific to any ad platform, so you can use this... Kompletten Blogeintrag lesen

One of the neat new features of IP.Board 3.0 was its integrated application/hook installer and upgrader. Using this took a lot of the headache out of updating modifications when the author produced a new version as you would have either needed to use a custom installer script or install a component dedicated to modification installations. This has... Kompletten Blogeintrag lesen

IP.Board 3 was released on June 25, 2009 and through the various update cycles is now a stable, mature product with a version 3.1 release forthcoming. So that we can focus all of our development, support, and service efforts on our new version 3 platform, we are announcing the end of support (sometimes called end of life or EOL) for the following IPS software versions (and earlier versions than those listed): [*]IP.Board 2.3.6 [*]IP.Blog 1.4.2 [*]IP.Gallery 2.2.4 [*]IP.Downloads 1.2.2 Technical support, installations, and related services will end for these products on July 1, 2010. On that date all technical or service requests will be advised to simply upgrade to the most recent versions of the products. We will not force upgrades but will also not be able to diagnose issues or answer questions relating to the older software. Also, on that date, IPS will no longer address any new issues or bugs reported in the older software versions. Security Updates In the event an issue is discovered impacting the security of these older versions of the software, IPS will provide a patch posted in our announcements forum. We will continue to provide security updates until January 1, 2011. Quelle: http://community.invisionpower.com/topic/302922-ipboard-236-and-related-applications-end-of-life-announcement/

I had previously blogged about the status update improvements... Kompletten Blogeintrag lesen

There are a lot of enhancements being made to the application/hook system in IPB 3.1, many of which were discussed in a previous blog post... Kompletten Blogeintrag lesen

We are pleased to announce IP.Blog 2.1.0 has been released. The following is a list of what's new in this version of IP.Blog: User Interface The user interface has had a complete facelift to bring it up to standard. The new look feels more 'bloggish' and enhances the experience. We have added drop down menus at the top so that you can quickly access common areas and start new entries where you have permission to. The post screen has been overhauled to add functionality. You should find the new version much easier to navigate and easier to use. Group Blogs This is a new feature that allows you, the admin, to set up a group-wide blog. This blog is a normal blog in every other way. For example, you could set up a blog for your staff and everyone in the staff group will instantly be able to start writing new blog entries and managing comments, etc. Blog This! This is a brand new feature that adds a "Blog This" button to every post. This allows you to use post content in your blog entry. Furthermore, the relationship is remembered and all linked blog entries appear at the bottom of the topic when viewed. Per-Entry Rating You can now rate each blog entry rather than just the entire blog itself. The blog rating is still shown on the homepage as an aggregate of all rated entries. Report Item and Reputation You can now report an entire blog entry, or just a single comment. You can now also give someone a reputation increase/decrease in comments. List View A common request was the return of a fully sortable and filterable list view for blogs that emulated a forum view. We have added this in. You'll notice you can click the table headers to sort on that column and click again to reverse the sort. There is also a "List Blogs" sidebar block to quickly filter and list the blogs. There's even a little 'preview the latest entry' icon that shows the entry excerpt in a pop-up so you don't have to leave the page to preview it. Dynamic Sidebar We have moved some the footer links (Top 10 bloggers, etc) into a dynamic sidebar along with Recent Entries. This makes it easier to locate and saves a bit of space. RSS Imports Another long requested feature was to be able to create entries from an RSS feed. This is now a feature. You can control which member groups have access to this as well as limit the number of items imported on each cycle. Banish Entries You can now banish entries from the front page to remove any 'clutter' such as 'testing' blogs or other unsuitable content. ACP Clean-up We have gone through and cleaned up some of the Admin CP pages to make them a little easier to understand and navigate. We have added explanations to the 'Headers' / 'Dynamic Headers' pages so it's clear what they do. Efficiency We have removed several slow queries and introduced several more caching layers to substantially reduce SQL overhead when dealing with large numbers of blogs. Downloading You can download IP.Blog 2.1.0 if you have an active license in the client area. As always, make a backup of your community before proceeding. Quelle: http://community.invisionpower.com/topic/302677-ipblog-210-released/

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. Quelle: http://community.invisionpower.com/topic/302580-ipgallery-310-released/

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: [*]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 You can mix and match, using more than one option, but of course some options will have no effect when used together (i.e. capitalize all letters, and lower-case all letters). 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) You can select which editor interface you would like to use (be careful using WYSIWYG editors when editing certain content, as they will strip special tags) and the editor will be available when editing templates and content throughout the ACP. Even better, the code highlighters will be "smart" and recognize what type of content you are editing (javascript, css, html or php, depending on the block, template or page details). If you have a favorite editor that you would like to see integrated let us know. We've designed the system to make it easy to drop in (and remove) editor types as needed, so if we can integrate with your favorite editor, we're happy to do so. 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. Quelle: http://community.invisionpower.com/topic/302389-ipcontent-120-released/