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In case anyone else has an email account with @bellsouth.net address (actually comes through Yahoo.com), they may have to do the same thing. If there is ever a fix to this, please let me know as I would like to switch back.
Lamar, IMO this is a Bellsouth issue, not an AACA forum software issue.
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Most of my tables are too large, so the screenshot method won't work.
Not sure exactly how it will work with initial thumbnails, but I know how to make it work with initial images like I use on my board.
If you would be willing to email me a large table or two, I'll do some testing: greg@slotblog.net.
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I'm a little concerned that members here may think I am sticking my nose in where it doesn't belong or being a bit pushy, and that's not my motivation.
My hobby board has used the IP.Board software for almost ten years and I've had to learn a lot of the nuances the hard way. Just wanted to share that knowledge with my fellow AACA members.
And I am certainly not trying to usurp Peter's leadership in any way whatsoever. He's the boss and can tell me to go away any time he wishes...
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I believe what file formats can be attached is configurable and my test indicates you are correct regarding .docx files here.
Wondering why you have macros enabled in such a simple table...
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BTW, I am happy to assist any member with issues and questions regarding IP.Board privately. Just contact me at greg@slotblog.net.
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To expand on MrEarl's post above, he was not receiving notification of replies to PMs he had sent and/or received and the problem seems to be that Bellsouth was tagging those notifications as spam and not passing them through. Well over 80% of the email activity on the internet these days is spam and the vast majority of spam filters are algorithm-based, meaning they're far from 100 percent accurate.
Peter's "best answer" in post #13 to this thread is accurate as far as it goes.
What notifications you receive is configurable to suit your preferences. To access the notification matrix, click in the downard-pointing arrow after your name in the upper RH corner of any page and then click on "My Settings" then on "Notification Options" on the left side. You'll get this screen:
This is my own notifications matrix and should reflect the default settings, as I don't recall changing any of them.
The Notification List referenced in the matrix can be accessed via "My Settings" (directly below the "Notification Options" click on the left side) or by the icon in the top menu bar highlighted below in red.
Most people will be primarily interested in receiving notifications from Private Message (PM) activity and perhaps from threads/topics they have followed.
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The IP.Board warning system is simply part of the software package, that can be used or not as the admin sees fit.
Warning points are, as mentioned, are visible only to the member himself (and not to the general membership) but also to the various admins and possibly to the moderation team. The system acts more as an information system so the admins and mods teams will know who has been a troublemaker in the past.
The warning system is simply not anything to be concerned about IMO. Only the smallest fraction of the members will ever receive warning points, typically when the AACA Forum Rules are abridged. These are accessible at the bottom RH side of any forum page and, I believe, are the standards of behavior every member agreed to observe during the registration process.
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Ivan,
If you're using a PC, to take a screenshot, press the Print Screen button. This will copy a screenshot to the internal clipboard.
Then open a blank document in, say, Word or some other word-processing software, and click in the document to set an insertion point.
The do Edit -> Paste (or CTL-V) and the image should appear in the document. Save the doc and email it to Peter.
I agree with the poster who indicated that this is most likely a word-wrap setting on your computer, especially (as you indicate) your test looks fine when posted here.
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Regarding attachment types, here's the catch.
File types like .xls, .doc, docx, etc., are coded internally using proprietary file formats and IP.Board cannot display such files types automatically in posts because it does not contain the "translators" that would be needed to read them.
While you can indeed attach to your posts many different file types that viewers can download to their computers, unless they have software on their computers that can read or open the file format of the attachment, they won't be able to open/view the attachment.
As I mentioned in the post above, the best workaround seems to be to covert the files as displayed on your computer to images and to post the images, which will be shown within your posts in most cases.
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Peter et al,
For security reasons, IP.Board requires three steps to enable a member to post HTML.
1) The specific forum itself has to be permissioned to allow HTML posting.
2) The member has to be a member of a group that is permissioned to post HTML.
3) The post itself has to be enabled for HTML posting via a checkbox in the posting screen (which is only visible if the forum where the post is being made has been permission for HTML).
As IPS warns, "Allowing a member to post HTML is a very dangerous thing, you should not enable this functionality on any group that will use it maliciously. Although IPB tries to filter some of the more harmful content, it is NOT foolproof and this tag CAN be used to steal session cookies, redirect members and destroy the topic view layout."
For this reason, I believe the majority of forums using IP.Board do not allow HTML posting by the membership at large. I certainly do not at my forum.
Back to posting tables, what will work in many instances is to covert the table to a screenshot, i.e. a JPG or PNG image file, and post the image. This works well until the tables get too large. -
Matt,
Yes, there is an easy way to organize photos in posts to the new board. I'm going to bring over material from my hobby board that shows the technique and I'm sorry it is not old car related but I think you'll get the idea. If anyone wishes to see the original post on my forum, click HERE; the post I am bringing over is toward the bottom of that thread/topic.I'm going to use a recent post made by my member Casey Scott to help "illustrate" the process.
Here's what Casey's post originally looked like:
Note the boxed-in-red bullet and "Attached Images" label? These indicate that the poster attached the photo to his post but that he did not place an "Image Tag" for the photo in the text field. Therefore the software is displaying the attached image by default at the bottom below the text.If I go into Edit Mode and enter the Full Editor, I see the post text in the text field and the attached image shown beneath the text field.
To add an image tag to the text field, I click on the "Add to Post" highlighted at the bottom right of the following pic and the tag is added to the text field wherever I have my insertion point placed; here it was on the second line below the text line. The image tag is the code boxed in red.
If I save this, here's what it looks like.
Since there's only one image attachment in this post, here's how you would re-arrange the text and image, to place the text below the image. It works the same way with multiple images. Using the image tags in the text field allow you to control where the images appear, in what order, and to intersperse text and images as you wish.Here I have moved the image tag to be above the line of text (using cut and paste):
And when saved, this is what the post looks like:
Hopefully, this will clear up your confusion on the pic posting process and allow your posts with image attachments to appear as you desire.Here on the AACA forum, Peter has configured pics to display initially as thumbnails, but that has no effect on the posting process itself.Does this help? -
I'll give it a shot, but what you're showing looks nothing like what I see when I look at a post. The time and avatar of the poster are on the left and there's nothing to click when I drag the cursor over it.
Ed, the screenshots I posted are not from within a post.
The first one is from from the Forum View page, where you see the various topics/threads listed that are inside that forum. It's the page you're on after clicning, for example, General Discussion.
The second screenshot is the left side of the results page from the View New Content search.
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Gary,
I can help with this, but it'll have to be later tonight. Off to a car show right now!
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Kevin,
As far as I know, IP.Board doesn't store a pic specifically for use in signatures.
You can place a pic in your sig by linking to an image stored elsewhere (for example, at Photobucket) and you can used the My Media function to insert a pic that you have uploaded previously.
Can't advise on the mobile Firefox question, as I remain a cellphone Luddite and don't have a smartphone. Make sure you are aware that the post entry window has two modes that toggle via the switch icon on the left side of the button bar.
When the buttons are active, the fonts are proportional to my eye. When the buttons are greyed out, monospaced for sure. No idea whether it works the same in mobile Firefox.
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What kind of files can we upload directly into a post? I see the Attach Files button but haven't tried any tests yet. Since a max file size of 64 MB is indicated, can we upload a short video clip (mp4, etc)? Or even an audio wav file?
Dave,
Peter will have to reply with the definitive answer to this, as the types of files that can be attached is configurable.
However, almost certainly image files formats of .JPG and .PNG will be "attachable" and will display. .PDF files should also work, but will show as links. Beyond that, it's up to Peter.
I spoke to Peter yesterday and advised him to consider lowering that 64 MB attachment limit, as attaching at level will in my experience result in a post that take a very, very long time to fully load. His call, of course.
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The default IP.Board install includes media tags for other video formats, such as Vimeo and Facebook video, but I'll leave it to Peter to comment on the additional ones, as he may add to or subtract from the default media tag list.
In all almost cases (with the YouTube exception detailed above), if a video IP.Board will recognise is playing on your computer screen, you can insert into a post here by copying the URL and pasting into the text block.
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Someone asked a question about how to post YouTube videos to the new IP.Board forum and as can be seen in my intial post, it is easily done (but I wanted to check to be certain that was the case here!).
Without getting too technical, IP.Board using a "media tag" to parse the YouTube URL so it can auto-display in a post, rather than appear as a link that has to be clicked to get the video.
The "gotcha" is that YouTube has multiple URL formats that will point to the same video and you have to post the URL format that matches the IP.Board media tag. If IP.Board doesn't recognize the format of the YouTube URL you post, it will not play.
If you paste a bare YouTube URL into a post and after hitting send, it appears as a link rather than the video itself, you'll need to go to YouTube and use that URL to start the video playing at YouTube. Let it play for a few seconds, say ten or fifteen. Then copy and paste the title of the YouTube video into the YouTube serach field and search for the video you were just watching. You should see the video you were watching come up in the search results with a "watched" label.
Click on that video and once it starts, copy the URL and paste that one in your post, replacing the first URL that displayed as a link. Just paste the URL; nothing else needed.
Yeah, it sounds a little kludgy, but by locating the YouTube video via YouTube's search, you will almost always get the proper URL for IP.Board to auto-display the video in your post.
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Is it just me or is anyone else not getting a "view unread" option. I'm following some of threads and have posted to one or two.
Ed, not sure if you are asking about viewing unread posts in a topic/thread or unread posts that have been made since you last visited the forum.
To go to the newest/latest post in a topic/thread, click the date under the poster's name on the Topic View page:
If you wish to see unread posts or posts made since you last visited the forum, you can configure "View New Content" to do that. View New Content is simply a user configurable search function. Click View New Content and on the LH side of the resulting screen you'll see this panel.
Where you can customize how the View New Content search works for you.
By content type will almost always be Forums.
By time period can be whatever you want.
Other will usually be left blank, but if you only wanted to see posts made in, say, the Packard forum, you would select Filter by fourm. Ed, if you wanted to see all unread posts in a forum or set of forums, here's how you can make that happen.
Be aware that these settings sometimes get changed inadvertently. So if you click View New Content and get no results, check these settings as that is almost certainly the problem.
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Helfen,
You need to check the configuration of your Notification Options. In IP.Board you have almost total control over what nitification you want the system to email you.
To edit your notification setting, click the downward arrow after your name in the upper RH corner of the page and select My Settings and then Notification Options from the LF navbar.
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Guys,
IP.Board has a mobile theme or "skin" included in the standard install.
To switch to the mobile theme, go to the bottom LH corner of a page, click "Change Theme", and select IP.Board Mobile.
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Again, thanks for the help, gentlemen.
Just for jollies, here's the complete picture. The Atlanta History Center posted "Looking north from Spring St. and Marietta St. c. 1935" and of course, that dating is cannot be accurate.
If anyone sees something else that will help date this image, please let me know. Wish I had access to a larger copy...
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Thanks for the help, gentlemen.
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Fair enough. Anyone else have an opinion?
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Lamar,
Only if the spam was passed onto your computer by your ISP. My experience is that that is often not what happens with email scanners at the ISP level.