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We are well into development on IPS Community Suite 4.2 and are excited to start announcing all the new features and improvements.

Our next big release is focused on engagement with your members. You will see enhancements to our Reputation system, new ways to encourage people to register on your community, and enhancements to existing features to make them more interactive. There are also entirely new capabilities we cannot wait to show you ranging from new ways to organize content to tools to help promote your community.

Version 4.2 also features a refreshed AdminCP and default front-end design. Theme changes in 4.2 are mostly in the CSS framework so your existing themes will either work without issue or require minor changes to work in the new version.

Over the next several weeks we will be posting news entries with previews of upcoming features fairly often. Be sure to follow our News section, our Facebook, or Twitter to stay up to date.

We expect IPS Community Suite 4.2 to be out in mid-2017 with a public preview available sooner.

Everyone at IPS has worked very hard on this update and we think you will love it!

"Our next big release is focused on engagement with your members."

O @Kinas_ e o @ccrgs vão adorar a nova versão.

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New: Recommended Replies
 

This entry is about our IPS Community Suite 4.2 release.

Sometimes you may find situations where you want to highlight one or more replies to a content item to bring attention to a really great response. This is especially true on busy communities where you might have dozens or even hundreds of replies in a single discussion.

There is now an ability for a moderator to Recommend a reply (or multiple replies) and even leave an optional note explaining why they think you should view that post.

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Moderator Permission

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Optional note for recommended reply

When a reply is Recommended you will see a snippet at the top of the content item along with the optional moderator note and a link to jump right to that reply.

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A topic with a recommended reply.

You can Recommend more than one reply and this feature works through IPS Community Suite in forum topic, blog entries, gallery images, and so on. You can set this permission along with other moderator permissions in the AdminCP.

We really think this will allow moderators to bring attention to some of the best replies and guide users to the best content your community has to offer.

 

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New: Content Message

Following on from our previous entry about the new Recommended Replies feature, we also have one more small feature change that will be very useful.

Content Message is a small feature available in all IPS Community Suite content areas (forums, blogs, gallery, etc.) and allows a moderator to put a message at the top of any item.

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Topic with a moderator message

This is useful if you have a special use for the area people are posting in, need to encourage conversation to stay on topic, or perhaps the conversation is becoming heated and you need to remind people to behave.

Sometimes the smallest features can prove the most useful and already I have found myself reaching for this feature out of habit from using it on our test 4.2 installs and missing it on our production site. I cannot wait to have it available and I am sure you will enjoy the ability to add custom notes to any area of the Suite.

 

Development Note

For our power users: this feature and the Recommended Replies feature use a new content meta data capability. This allows you to store miscellaneous data that is attached to a content item which does not need to be otherwise searched or exposed unless you are viewing that item. We will provide technical details on this later but it is a really easy way to store data about content without having to create additional tables or methods.

 

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New: Calendar Event Reminders
 

There are many Calendar related improvements in 4.2 designed to make adding and engaging with events easier than ever before. First of these is Event Reminders. 

Reminders are easy to create. Simply use the Set Reminder button shown on all future events and specify when you would like your reminder.

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Choose when you would like to be reminded

Changed your mind? Simply adjust the reminder or remove it altogether.

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Easily adjust existing reminders

When the time comes a notification will be sent via the member's chosen email or inline method.

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Receive inline or email reminders using the standard notification settings

Event reminders are a simple but often requested feature and we're excited to be introducing it with 4.2. Don't forget to follow the News & Updates section as we have many more announcements to help keep your members engaged.

 

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New: Delayed Deletes

I am sure we have all accidentally clicked delete on a post in your community and then realized you needed it. Luckily we now have Delayed Deletes to easily restore deleted content.

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Settings in AdminCP

You can delete just as you normally do as you moderate and your posts will be removed just like now. The main difference is that you can now view recently deleted content and restore as needed in the Moderator Control Panel.

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Easily view what is pending delete

All you have to do is click the deleted item and you will be taken to that item in context of where it used to be. This makes is much easier to understand why it was deleted and decide if you should restore.

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Restore and view deleted content in context

Delayed Deletes is a feature that could be a life saver for your community and we cannot wait to get it out to you.

 

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New: Device Management

One of our more technically-oriented features for 4.2, we have added more detailed logs of user logins, and the devices and IP addresses used. This brings several new features:

 

Notification of a new device sign in

If enabled, users can receive an email notification when a new device is used to log into their account:

 

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Email sent when a login from a new device is detected

When a user signs in for the first time, a special key is set to recognise the browser on subsequent logins. This mean the notification email does not trigger on a new IP address, which would be annoying when travelling or if using a network where the IP address changes regularly. Instead, the notification is only triggered if someone signs into your account from a new physical device or web browser.

 

UserCP Device Management

If enabled, a new page will show in the user's settings page showing all the devices which have been used to log into their within the last 90 days (which is recent enough that could still be logged in if "Remember Me" was checked).

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Recently Used Devices

Users can see the device, browser, physical location (obtained by a GeoIP lookup) and if applicable, how the login was processed (for example, if the sign in was with Facebook or Twitter, this will show). If they chose "Remember Me" when logging in, they can undo that (handy if you realise you accidentally left yourself signed in on a public computer).

If they see anything they don't recognise, a page to walk them through the necessary steps to re-secure their account is available.

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Secure Account Information

 

New Two-Factor Authentication Setting

"Logging into the front-end" is one of the options of when to prompt for Two Factor Authentication. In 4.2, this has been separated into two distinct settings:

  • Logging into the front-end from a new device
  • Logging into the front-end from a known device

If you enable the former, but not the latter, and the user has previously logged in devices, the system will automatically show an explanation to users alongside the other available recovery option. This can be useful especially if you do not want to offer other recovery options.

 

AdminCP Device Management

In the AdminCP, administrators can see all the device and IPs a member has used. They can also disable automatic login for any device.

 

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Edit member page shows most recently used device and IP address

 

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Viewing a device's details

The system can also detect if another user is using the same device and will show this in the list of devices.

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Users sharing the same device

 

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29 minutes ago, Perks said:

Ó @Revenge isso é tudo muito cool, mas e uma API para os users, para poderem fazer retrieve das notificações ou posts por exemplo? 

Isso é que era de valor em vez deste hack que temos

Eles não trabalham para nós :-..

Tens que ir lá dar a sugestão, que muito provavelmente será rejeitada ;)

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20 minutes ago, Mini0n said:

A bem dizer, nem lhes custava muito...

Sim... se eles fizessem todos os pequenso pedidos que toda a gente pede, a suite tornava-se uma confusão. Por isso é que existem os plugins.

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IPS4 is much more structured. We have an internal project manager (Trello, if you're curious) and if it's not on the roadmap, it doesn't get done. We pull things from the feature/feedback forum here, our own feature tracker, sales calls, etc. then organize (Charles is our in-house master organizer) the roadmap accordingly. 

Unfortunately, just like clients, nobody at IPS always gets what they want 100% of the time. We build things for the collective. :)

Eles desenvolvem para o colectivo, não para pedidos individuais.

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Desculpa lá mas não concordo nada, uma API neste momento é a base de qualquer negócio online, aliás até te digo mais, desafio-te a dizer um grande negócio online para massas que não tenha

Uma API seduz developers que desenvolvem soluções e aplicações que puxam utilizadores e fazem a diferença entre escolher uma plataforma ou outra, cada vez mais o negócio é virado para o mobile e aplicações dedicadas, com apps ou progressive web apps, coisa que a invision ignora

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12 minutes ago, Perks said:

Desculpa lá mas não concordo nada, uma API neste momento é a base de qualquer negócio online, aliás até te digo mais, desafio-te a dizer um grande negócio online para massas que não tenha

Uma API seduz developers que desenvolvem soluções e aplicações que puxam utilizadores e fazem a diferença entre escolher uma plataforma ou outra, cada vez mais o negócio é virado para o mobile e aplicações dedicadas, com apps ou progressive web apps, coisa que a invision ignora

Qual é a Bulletin Board que tem essa API?


@Perks até estive a ver a documentação da REST API que o IPS4 implementou e faz isso tudo.

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Não faz tudo, penso que para administradores sim

O ideal duma api seria o user logava teria o seu access token que permitiria usar nos endpoints e fazer retrieve das notificações por exemplo e a menos que queiras criar access Keys para cada user que queria instalar a extensão por exemplo faz o sentido duma batata

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10 minutes ago, Perks said:

Não faz tudo, penso que para administradores sim

O ideal duma api seria o user logava teria o seu access token que permitiria usar nos endpoints e fazer retrieve das notificações por exemplo e a menos que queiras criar access Keys para cada user que queria instalar a extensão por exemplo faz o sentido duma batata

Podes criar um plugin para o Chrome e comunica atraves da REST API para ir buscar as notificações do user logado.

Posso-te dar um exemplo, o Tapatalk faz isso. Só que em vez de ser um plugin para o Chrome, é uma app para Android/iOS.

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A rest API não tem endpoint para notificações acho

Já foi há uns meses que andei à procura como sabes, mas tenho quase a certeza que não tem

Deves conseguir ver o que existe no admincp em System -> REST API -> API Reference 

Eu não consigo ver como sabes, mas acho que isso não existe

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On 2017-3-17 at 5:39 PM, Perks said:

A rest API não tem endpoint para notificações acho

Já foi há uns meses que andei à procura como sabes, mas tenho quase a certeza que não tem

Deves conseguir ver o que existe no admincp em System -> REST API -> API Reference 

Eu não consigo ver como sabes, mas acho que isso não existe

Quanto muito, basta criares um plugin para o IPS que faça isso. Nada é impossível.
Tens de aprender a programar php, mas isso é outra historia :-..

 

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