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Our June release includes enhancements to our various statistics and reporting features included within the community.
Statistics are important for a community platform because they provide valuable insights about user engagement, preferences, and behaviors, which directly inform the platform's strategy and design. Furthermore, statistics enable the monitoring of the platform's growth and user retention, which are essential for maintaining a vibrant and active community.
In our June release, we have made some enhancements to those features that will allow you to more quickly monitor those trends.
Saved Charts
In Invision Community 4.3, we introduced the ability to save charts to allow you to view them multiple times without needing to reset your filters each time. This works well, however there are three notable downsides.
- You could only save a chart if there were filters to apply, such as Warning Types, Device Types, Member Groups, etc.
- Any specified timescale was not retained in your saved chart.
- There was no centralized location to view every chart you have saved.
In our June release, we have resolved both of those issues. Now, every chart can be saved regardless of if there are filters or not, and when saved, will now also retain your timescale as well. In addition to that, we have added an additional My Saved Charts page. This page will show you every chart you have saved, including all filters and timescales that have been selected.
From this page you can quickly review all charts, temporarily adjust their timescales and filters to quickly see other information, as well as download each individual chart as a CSV directly from this page.
Don't worry, though - your saved charts will also still show in their original locations just as they have in the past.
Content Level Statistics
Later on, in Invision Community 4.5, we introduced an improved Topic View that included various statistical information about the topic including the top comments, popular days, top commenters, and more. This, however, was only limited to topics in the forums, and not the rest of the community. In our June release, we have taken this and expanded it to content in every application. This includes Blog Entries, Gallery Albums, Gallery Images, and more.
Each content item (such as a topic, blog entry or image) will show a new button for those with moderator permissions which opens a full statistics and analytics modal, providing expanded statistical information related to that particular piece of content specifically.
Clicking this new button opens up the statistics and analytics modal. Our Classic customers will see the following view:
Cloud Powered Historical View Tracking
For our Invision Community cloud customers, we have expanded our infrastructure to allow for storing historical views for all content.
On the previously mentioned Statistics and Analytics modal, a chart will be shown that outlines the amount of views that content has gotten every single day over a period of time, to allow you to see when specifically content was popular. This chart allows you to view trends for up to a year in the past.
Additionally, we have expanded this to content containers Forums, Downloads Categories, Blogs, Blogs Categories, Gallery Categories, and more will all report their own historical view trends.
Finally, these trends can be exported as a CSV file for your own personal processing if desired - and if needed, you can choose to only include certain types of content if you are focusing on one particular section.
We hope these changes help you to identify trends from within your own community to help you promote and grow it further.
The features and changes presented here are available in the following packages:
- Saved charts and content item level statistics: Beginner, Creator, Creator Pro, Team, Business, Enterprise, Community Classic (Self Hosted).
- Saved charts, content item level statistics, analytic report generation, content level historical view tracking, container level historical view tracking: Beginner, Creator, Creator Pro, Team, Business, Enterprise.
If you do not see your product or package listed, please contact us to talk about upgrading your Invision Community.
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Our June release includes enhancements to our various statistics and reporting features included within the community.
Statistics are important for a community platform because they provide valuable insights about user engagement, preferences, and behaviors, which directly inform the platform's strategy and design. Furthermore, statistics enable the monitoring of the platform's growth and user retention, which are essential for maintaining a vibrant and active community.
In our June release, we have made some enhancements to those features that will allow you to more quickly monitor those trends.
Saved Charts
In Invision Community 4.3, we introduced the ability to save charts to allow you to view them multiple times without needing to reset your filters each time. This works well, however there are three notable downsides.
- You could only save a chart if there were filters to apply, such as Warning Types, Device Types, Member Groups, etc.
- Any specified timescale was not retained in your saved chart.
- There was no centralized location to view every chart you have saved.
In our June release, we have resolved both of those issues. Now, every chart can be saved regardless of if there are filters or not, and when saved, will now also retain your timescale as well. In addition to that, we have added an additional My Saved Charts page. This page will show you every chart you have saved, including all filters and timescales that have been selected.
From this page you can quickly review all charts, temporarily adjust their timescales and filters to quickly see other information, as well as download each individual chart as a CSV directly from this page.
Don't worry, though - your saved charts will also still show in their original locations just as they have in the past.
Content Level Statistics
Later on, in Invision Community 4.5, we introduced an improved Topic View that included various statistical information about the topic including the top comments, popular days, top commenters, and more. This, however, was only limited to topics in the forums, and not the rest of the community. In our June release, we have taken this and expanded it to content in every application. This includes Blog Entries, Gallery Albums, Gallery Images, and more.
Each content item (such as a topic, blog entry or image) will show a new button for those with moderator permissions which opens a full statistics and analytics modal, providing expanded statistical information related to that particular piece of content specifically.
Clicking this new button opens up the statistics and analytics modal. Our Classic customers will see the following view:
Cloud Powered Historical View Tracking
For our Invision Community cloud customers, we have expanded our infrastructure to allow for storing historical views for all content.
On the previously mentioned Statistics and Analytics modal, a chart will be shown that outlines the amount of views that content has gotten every single day over a period of time, to allow you to see when specifically content was popular. This chart allows you to view trends for up to a year in the past.
Additionally, we have expanded this to content containers Forums, Downloads Categories, Blogs, Blogs Categories, Gallery Categories, and more will all report their own historical view trends.
Finally, these trends can be exported as a CSV file for your own personal processing if desired - and if needed, you can choose to only include certain types of content if you are focusing on one particular section.
We hope these changes help you to identify trends from within your own community to help you promote and grow it further.
The features and changes presented here are available in the following packages:
- Saved charts and content item level statistics: Beginner, Creator, Creator Pro, Team, Business, Enterprise, Community Classic (Self Hosted).
- Saved charts, content item level statistics, analytic report generation, content level historical view tracking, container level historical view tracking: Beginner, Creator, Creator Pro, Team, Business, Enterprise.
If you do not see your product or package listed, please contact us to talk about upgrading your Invision Community.
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This application will display how many downloads count/bandwidth remaining before downloading files.
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This application lets you group license keys purchased in the same invoice into a single product.
The grouping works in the "Manage Purchases" page and while viewing the "Product" page itself.
Features:
- The grouping works by default for all licenses.
- ACP setting to disable the grouping for specific types of licenses.
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Option to download a CSV file of all license keys at once.
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This app will force members to start a new topic in a forum of the admin 's choice. They will not be able to browse the forum further until they have done so. An option to add a automated post immediately after to their first topic is also available.
This can be very useful for different scenarios. For example, when you want your new members to introduce themselves to mention one.
The app is compatible with php 8 and the latest current version of Ipb.
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This plugin displays the reputation(reactions) level along with the title in the post view. The appearance of the level can be edited as desired. More features will be added in future updates.
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This modification adds a topic counter to each section.
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Description:
This app will give your members more control in regard as to who can start a new conversation with them.
Privacy Settings:
Members can decide if everyone can start a new conversation with them, or only their followers , or no one but the staff members who belong to groups with the appropriate permissions set by the admin. By default it is set to everyone.
Members History Logs:
Admins can view how members set their conversations privacy from members history logs.
Logs:
Admins can view all members conversations privacy settings from the app's log page. There they can edit members conversations privacy settings as well as reset all conversations privacy settings to Everyone.
Filtering:
Admins can filter each conversations privacy setting to see the members who selected them.
Search:
From the log page admins can also search for a member 's conversations privacy settings.
Compatibility:
The app is compatible with the latest version of Ipb and php 8.
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This resource will give the ability to users follow tags and thus receive a notification every time the tag is used to create new content or a tag is added after the content is created. Users will be able to choose the type of content a tag should be posted to get notified.
Settings:
- Tags per page
- Groups allowed to follow tags
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Content allowed to follow
- It will list all content you have installed in your board that supports tags
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This resource will display, in posts, the total topics created by each member. There's a tool in ACP to recount all topics created by members at any time.
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The template is prepared in two modes, dark and light, with the possibility to change colors in two color palettes. There are many color configuration options that modify the accent colors of the entire template. The user profile and themes are customized for the color version.
This template also includes editing capabilities and additional features such as an editable top bar, a scroll-to-top button, a bottom navigation, a light/dark mode switch, and an editable footer bar.
Information
Supported IPS version: 4.7
List plugins/applications used to create the theme
Free:
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This applications will give members with the appropriate permissions to send mass pms on a topic per topic basis to any/all members who posted in that topic. Admins can see who made use of this at the Moderaor 's log page.
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This app adds a new table to the database that will log all registrations to your forum from the moment of its installation and it will allow you to limit the number of registration to your forum based on devices.
Each time a member will register at your forum, a unique cookie will be added to their devices and then it will be stored in the app 's table. The cookie exparation date is set to one year and its unique string is associated with the users device used to register.
Anytime someone uses the same device to register multiple accounts to your forum, they will be logged and displayed at the app 's log page. The log page has quick search option where you can search the resuts based on members names to see if someone has registered multiple accounts from the same device.
At the settings page, you have an option to limit the number of registrations from the same device and you can also exclude a device or devices from the limit by entering thier the unique key string.
Important: The detection starts from the moment that the app is installed. Past detections are not logged due to the fact that the app uses its own database table to store the cookie information upon regitrations.
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This app will give your members a new option for their profiles, which is who can view them. They can turn their profiles visible for members only, for their followers only or they can turn them private so no one will be able to view them but groups with the appropriate permissions set by the admin. By default it is set to everyone.
Admins can view how members set their privacy from members history logs.
The app is compatible with the latest version of Ipb and php 8.
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Our June release of Invision Community introduces several new improvements for your community to increase privacy controls and consent of personally identifiable information.
In today's digital age, privacy and the protection of personally identifiable information (PII) have become increasingly important. By incorporating improved privacy and PII data features into Invision Community, we are creating a more secure and inclusive environment within your community. In this blog post, we will take a quick look at what PII is, and the new features Invision Community has to improve privacy within your community.
What is PII?
PII, or personally identifiable information, refers to any data that can be used to identify, contact, or locate an individual member. When users sign up and visit your community, they may provide various types of PII, either voluntarily or as required by the platform's registration process. For example, an email address is required to complete the registration, and in some cases and IP address may be logged to authenticate a session, or to provide some context to the person posting content.
Invision Community introduced new data control tools in a previous release, so let's take a look at the improvements coming in our June release that improves cookie management, IP address management, PII data requests, and the right to be forgotten.
PII Data Request and Right to be Forgotten
Your members now have the ability to request their Personally Identifiable Information (PII) data directly from their account settings page. Upon submitting a request, administrators will receive a notification alerting them to the new inquiry, where they can choose to either approve or deny it.
If approved, the member will be notified and provided information on how to download their requested data.
Additionally, members now have the option to request account deletion. After submitting this request, they will receive a confirmation email to verify their intent. Once confirmed, the request is forwarded to administrators, who can then decide whether to approve or reject the account deletion.
IP Address Management
Invision Community has had tools to prune IP addresses within a timeframe for a while, but we have conducted a thorough evaluation of the data framework in Invision Community to ensure that all recorded IP addresses are systematically purged according to the designated timeframe.
Cookie Management
Empowering members to control which cookies are stored is an important aspect of fostering trust and security within an online community. By granting users the autonomy to manage cookie preferences, you demonstrate a commitment to respecting their privacy and protecting their personal data. This level of transparency not only helps build a strong sense of trust between the community and its members but also helps with compliance, ultimately contributing to a more engaging and responsible user experience.
The Invision Community cookie consent page has been revamped and now displays a list of essential cookies. Visitors have the option to opt out of non-essential cookies for a more customized browsing experience.
Additionally, we've introduced a new feature that allows for the inclusion of an optional third-party Cookie Description on the cookie consent page, further enhancing transparency and user control.
We trust that these enhancements to privacy and data collection practices will simplify compliance with various regulations and, most importantly, ensure that your community members feel secure and well-protected while engaging with your platform.
The features and changes presented here are available in the following packages:
- Beginner
- Creator
- Creator Pro
- Team
- Business
- Enterprise
These features are also available in the Invision Community Classic (self-hosted) product.
If you do not see your product or package listed, please contact us to talk about upgrading your Invision Community.
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This feature will add separator text (entered in an editor setting) that will appear between merged posts across the community. You have the option to show how long the new post is relative to the initial post.
NOTE:
- The setting Merge concurrent posts (ACP -> System -> Settings -> Posting) must be enabled.
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This resource will truncate external links across the suite that are larger than 42 characters.
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This is our May maintenance release.
Key changes include:
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Courses is a new, lightweight learning platform designed to help you provide a new learning experience for your members.
Courses are perfect for requiring your community to read and understand documentation and to deliver training and lessons to your community.
Let's take a look at how it works!
Instructor led courses are comprised of separate modules, each containing lessons. New courses are created and managed through the AdminCP under Community. Each course has the option to be assigned one or more instructors. Instructors play a crucial role in developing the course content via the frontend, and they are available to assist members throughout their learning journey in the course.
Courses can be set to be optional, or required meaning members must complete this course before progressing to others. Furthermore, courses tie into Achievement Rules, so you have the ability to grant points and/or badges to a member once they finish a course.
Courses can be free or paid, and comprise of one or more modules, each of which contain multiple sessions and an optional quiz.
Modules and Lessons
Courses wouldn't be much without some lessons! Lessons are grouped into modules, that can have an optional quiz. Quizzes are a great way to verify members' learning progression and understanding.
You have the option to configure modules to be completed sequentially. This pairs nicely with quizzes as you would need to complete the current module before moving on to the next one, ensuring a structured and progressive learning experience!
The lessons themselves are the main content of Courses. Lessons are comprised of the material that students will engage with during their learning journey. Lessons can be designated as optional, so they can be skipped. This is handy when you want to provide organised supplemental information that is not essential.
Managing Enrollments
As an administrator or instructor, you may need to manage course enrolments from time to time. This can involve enrolling a member on their behalf, withdrawing a member from a course, or deleting an enrollment altogether. There are two ways for managing those enrolled in courses, either through the administrative control panel or the course roster on the frontend.
To access the course roster via the frontend - just click on 'View All Members' when on the course homepage.
Course Manager
Managing a course is handled via the frontend. Individuals such as instructors, admins, and other authorized members can create and edit modules, lessons and quizzes for a course. You manage quizzes and lessons from within the module view.
I hope that you have enjoyed this overview of Courses. This is just the beginning, we're already considering various possibilities such as integrating with Live Topics, incorporating discussion sections within a lesson, and enhancing the required courses feature so stay tuned!
The features discussed in this announcement are not available for Invision Community Classic. Click here to learn more about switching to our platform to get this and other benefits.
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This resource will display the topic ratings in 3 places:
- Forum view
- Forum view with Combined Fluid View enabled
- Fluid View
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This resource will allow members from configured groups to toggle blocks down to their titles and back. Supports blocks in the header, footer and sidebar of the site, and the toggled state of each block is remembered as the user browses the site.
Note:
- doesn't support Pages WYSIWYG blocks, because they don't have a title area and therefore I can't add a toggle icon to the title. (Maybe a later version though)
- using Forums as an example: a block on an index page differs from a block on a topic page...collapsing the former will not reflect as a collapse on the latter.
- the toggled state of blocks is browser-specific - actions performed in Chrome, for example, will not be reflected in Firefox. (Maybe a later version though)
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Popp Theme [ Dark/Light ]
A new template for your forum straight from the author. It has many built-in functions. It will be enhanced with additional features in future updates.
( IPS version 4.7 )!! TESTED ON 4.7.9 !!
username: demo
password: demoThe template requires the Better Statistics plugin, I recommend installing this plugin before installing the template.
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Our May update brings Email Bounce Management to our Invision Community cloud platform. In this blog entry, I'll go over what it is, why it's important, and how you can use it when needed.
What is it?
For those who may not know, an email bounce occurs when an email message is sent and the recipient either doesn't exist (hard bounce) or they have blocked the sender (you!) in a spam complaint (soft bounce).
When an email message bounces we block that address at the cloud level so it cannot receive new messages from any community. This is considered good practice for email service providers, and ensures that we maintain a low bounce rate when sending emails on behalf of all the communities on our platform.
Please note this pertains to the Invision Community Cloud platform email service. If you use SMTP or SendGrid, email bounces are managed externally and may enforce different policies.
What Bounce Management Tools are we providing?
We're giving you the ability to see which members have blocked email addresses, and to unblock emails known to be safe.
Seeing which emails are blocked
In the AdminCP Members table (AdminCP > Members > Members), on cloud you will see a new filter: "Email Undeliverable". These are any member accounts that have emails blocked due to soft or hard bounces.
Additionally, on the front end, if a Member's email is blocked, they will see a warning indicator in the Nav/User Bar prompting them to change their email in their account settings.
Lifting Email Blocks
As stated earlier, when an email is blocked, it is blocked on the cloud platform level. If the block is not locked (which can happen if it's unblocked too many times), you will see a warning the Member's AdminCP Profile page.
Clicking into it you will see an option to unblock.
One final note on the Email Block Policy
If a situation occurs when an email is unblocked and gets blocked again a certain number of times, the block becomes permanent. In these cases, you will be able to see that the email is blocked but there won't be an option to unblock, and the member will have to change their email to resume receiving your Community's messages through us. This ensures that the Invision Community cloud platform retains a good email sending reputation.
Thanks for reading and as always stay tuned to for the latest and greatest upcoming features and insights!
The features discussed in this announcement are not available for Invision Community Classic. Click here to learn more about switching to our platform to get this and other benefits.
[Wydanie] 4.7.11 Beta 1
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This is our June maintenance release.
Key changes include:
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