Archive For September, 2007

Some changes have been made to the CinVin site recently:
* There is a new option in the UserCP to not include threads from the ‘vBulletin Community’ forums when you do a New Posts or Get Daily command. The ‘vBulletin Community’ forums are an aggregate of RSS feeds from various sites that are…

IP.Gallery and IP.Converge Updates Released

We are pleased to announce updates to IP.Gallery software now available to current customers of this product. The next Release Candidate of IP.Converge is also now available. Please login to your client area to download.

IP.Gallery 2.2.0 Released

New Features and Changes

• Use of IP.Board internal and alternative cache stores to reduce overhead
• ACP language abstraction
• IP.Gallery has been converted to a component from a module
• Redesigned ACP interfaces for managing categories, post form, and groups
• Post form fields automatically insert into the post form and image view page without manual skin edits
• Import/export of media types to allow sharing of media type codes
• Zip import capabilities for members
• Latest images honor permissions accurately / Improved recursive latest image and count handling for albums and categories
• Image dimensions display on fileview
• Slimmed templates, better use of foreach and other html logic to make skinning easier
• Added “Forum style” for album listings
• Various image listing pages use the global settings (as opposed to hard-coded 9 image display)
• Internal code overhaul - reduced queries, reduced number of queries in SQL cache files, less template files loaded
• Improved search - search capabilities expanded, search results use image listing format
• Improved full image popup options: show in new window, show in popup, use IPB attachment (Gallery 2.1) style, and lightbox integration capabilities
• Added ability for members to choose default sorting for albums when creating them, added sort options to album view
• Notification option for new comments to an image (with ability to subscribe during image submission)
• Notification options for new images in a category or album
• Control panel to manage notification options
• Ability to view more than last 10 comments (view all, 10 per page, ordered by submission date desc)
• Ability for administrators to disable private albums
• Added easy bbcode options to image view page
• Added ability to set an image as your avatar
• Redesigned image view page slightly to clean it up a little
• Added ajax controlled photostrip navigation
• Added ability to find all images by a user from the Gallery tab in profiles
• Ability to moderate albums, including move images to and from albums, hide and unhide images in albums, pin and unpin images in albums, etc.

Plus dozens of small cleanups here and there. Much of the work went into the backend - there was a lot of abstraction of common functions, and a lot of work put into making Gallery run more efficiently. There is now a much stronger base moving forward to work from than before, and adding new features should be much easier than it was previously.

IP.Converge 1.0.0 RC 2 Available

IP.Converge is our system which allows you to link multiple IPS products allowing them to use one central login authentication system. Power users can also write their own authentication modules to allow for single sign on across other applications. This is the second public release candidate for IP.Converge. As a release candidate, we will not be able to provide technical support. Please submit any bugs you may find to our bug tracker. IP.Converge requires IP.Board 2.3.1 to function.

IP.Gallery and IP.Converge Updates Released

We are pleased to announce updates to IP.Gallery software now available to current customers of this product. The next Release Candidate of IP.Converge is also now available. Please login to your client area to download.

IP.Gallery 2.2.0 Released

New Features and Changes

• Use of IP.Board internal and alternative cache stores to reduce overhead
• ACP language abstraction
• IP.Gallery has been converted to a component from a module
• Redesigned ACP interfaces for managing categories, post form, and groups
• Post form fields automatically insert into the post form and image view page without manual skin edits
• Import/export of media types to allow sharing of media type codes
• Zip import capabilities for members
• Latest images honor permissions accurately / Improved recursive latest image and count handling for albums and categories
• Image dimensions display on fileview
• Slimmed templates, better use of foreach and other html logic to make skinning easier
• Added “Forum style” for album listings
• Various image listing pages use the global settings (as opposed to hard-coded 9 image display)
• Internal code overhaul - reduced queries, reduced number of queries in SQL cache files, less template files loaded
• Improved search - search capabilities expanded, search results use image listing format
• Improved full image popup options: show in new window, show in popup, use IPB attachment (Gallery 2.1) style, and lightbox integration capabilities
• Added ability for members to choose default sorting for albums when creating them, added sort options to album view
• Notification option for new comments to an image (with ability to subscribe during image submission)
• Notification options for new images in a category or album
• Control panel to manage notification options
• Ability to view more than last 10 comments (view all, 10 per page, ordered by submission date desc)
• Ability for administrators to disable private albums
• Added easy bbcode options to image view page
• Added ability to set an image as your avatar
• Redesigned image view page slightly to clean it up a little
• Added ajax controlled photostrip navigation
• Added ability to find all images by a user from the Gallery tab in profiles
• Ability to moderate albums, including move images to and from albums, hide and unhide images in albums, pin and unpin images in albums, etc.

Plus dozens of small cleanups here and there. Much of the work went into the backend - there was a lot of abstraction of common functions, and a lot of work put into making Gallery run more efficiently. There is now a much stronger base moving forward to work from than before, and adding new features should be much easier than it was previously.

IP.Converge 1.0.0 RC 2 Available

IP.Converge is our system which allows you to link multiple IPS products allowing them to use one central login authentication system. Power users can also write their own authentication modules to allow for single sign on across other applications. This is the second public release candidate for IP.Converge. As a release candidate, we will not be able to provide technical support. Please submit any bugs you may find to our bug tracker. IP.Converge requires IP.Board 2.3.1 to function.

*As you know we only “officially” offer support and design the skins to work with the “core” forum software. Add on products, hacks, etc. are not officially supported.*

*Unofficially* please read below
The brand new vBulletin Blog (http://www.dpbolvw.net/oi121ft1zt0GNIJJIIGIHJQLHMI) has gone…