Invision Power Board Features
Admin:
- Ability to add a group as a moderator.
- Ability to add individual members to the post moderation queue
- Ability to change the active user list cut off minutes
- Ability to set a limit to auto prune topic subscriptions
- Ability to set up custom profile fields
- Auto redirect to Admin CP after successful log in
- Automated timed "deny posting abilities" system
- Automated, timed "mod queue this members posts" system
- CSS Editing: Find Tool; Search the templates for a CSS definition usage
- CSS Editing: Preview Tool; preview a CSS definition with an easy to read definition breakdown
- CSS Editing: Upload a stylesheet straight from your computer. FTP not required
- Emoticons: Upload an emoticon from your computer to the board. FTP not required
- Enhanced template editing system
- Improved "manage validations" layout
- New account suspension system; totally automated temporary bans.
- New cleaner group permissions layout
- New clearer forum panel layout - inc. revised forum permissions layout
- New macro system giving more flexibility in skinning design
- Quick Help system; offering more information on the more complex Invision Board ACP features
- Redirect choice added; 'HTML' for servers unable to process 'location' and 'redirect'
- Statistics center, giving daily, monthly information for posts, new topics, registrations and topic views
- Template editing: Ability to edit sections independently
- Template editing: Change text area box size tool
- Template editing: Compare tool
- Template editing: Full safe mode upload/download functions
- Template editing: Macro look up tool
- Template editing: Quick HTML entity look up tool
- Template editing: Restore tool
- Template editing: Search tool
- Upload permissions can be set on/off for each group in each forum.
Active Users:
- Admin Group ability to view "anonymous" users
- Admin Group ability to view online user IP addresses
- Link to topic with topic name a user is browsing
Interface:
- "Browse Buddy"; a floating 'pallete' launcher
- "Site Jump" added to "Forum Jump" drop down menu
- Ability to choose posts per page and topics per page
- Ability to edit topic title (group opt.) - editing first post allows title edit
- Ability to resend validation email
- Ability to use an external style sheet and retain dynamic elements
- Auto "new posts" forum marker reset when viewing topic list
- Auto session ID hiding - uses cookies where available
- Base skin font sizes increased
- Board guidelines/rules feature added
- CSS W3C validation
- Custom profile fields can now be used in Topic View (CPU saving option)
- Edited by line now in viewers time zone
- External redirect setting available on all forums; redirects to any specified page/site
- Forum permission system: Enables per user and per group forum masks independent of - member group
- Forum read cookies centralized into one serialized cookie
- Forum rules display above forum, topic and posting screens
- I ntegrity Messenger integration added
- More "number_format" usage for uniformed look
- MSN Icon linked to MSN Messenger Console
- New avatar control panel; including new avatar galleries / auto resizer
- New registration authorization system allows for validation emails to be resent
- New streamlined lost password system; allows member to select their own password
- Personal Photo facility added to enable members to upload/link to a personal photo
- Pinned topics have their own HTML rows and start / end rows
- Report post to moderator link on each post
- Restyled header, combining new link strip with icons
- Short URL tags; easy & quick access to forums & topics; search engine friendlier too!
- Signature separator now fully skinnable
- Users browsing forums feature (can be switched off)
- Users browsing topics feature (can be switched off)
- WCAG / WAI LVL A - A W3C tentative compliance
- Who posted featurette
- XHTML 1.0 Transitional W3C Validation
- Yahoo! Icon linked to Yahoo! Messenger Console
Moderation:
- Ability to merge two topics into one
- Ability to split a topic into two
- Ability to view / unsubscribe all users from a topic
Other:
- COPPA compliance
- Events Calendar
- New, improved layout - turn birthdays on and off
- Ranged Events feature; includes user defined font & bg colours
- Recurring Events; repeat weekly, monthly or annually
Posting:
- "Pin & Close" added to moderators option list when posting.
- Ability to add a new attachment to a post when editing
- Ability to add or remove the "Edit by" line (group setting)
- Ability to remove, or change an attachment when editing
- Ability to restrict the time edits are allowed
- Ability to show inline attached images as thumbnails
- Admin ability to stop quote embedding
- Admin settable word wrap limit - stops long unbroken words from distoring the tables
- BB Code help screen added, shows common code usage
- Error screens show text area with any post material in allowing you to copy it before hitting "back"
- Group Promotion; admin option (per group) to allow a member to be promoted to another group based on posts
- Improved Code Buttons
- More list options added by using [list=1] / [list=i] / [list=I] / [list=a] / [list=A]
- New [doHTML] tag added; executes HTML and keeps the original formatting intact.
- Quick Reply feature added. On/Off switch for each forum
- Root forums can accept sub forums and remain postable
Private Messages:
- Ability to receive email notification of any new private messages
- Carbon Copy Feature
- Forward Message
- Improved UI
- Message Tracking
- Save as draft feature
Search:
- Increase in speed and effiency
- Search flooding added (by member group)
- View results as posts
Subscriptions:
- Ability to "auto track" topics you participate in
- Ability to receive notification of new topics in a forum via "Forum Subscription" feature
- Frequency of emails for tracked topics increased to 1 per board visit
- Viewing current subscriptions list grouped by forum
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