Hello everyone.
I'm trying to migrate my website/forum from e107 to nodebb but i can't handle two things.

First is the ability to use HTML only for administration.
I am familiar with the topic "Allow admins to add custom HTML to composer" and also found issue #1149 on Github. According to the Github issue were "closed this as completed in NodeBB/[email protected]" but I don't see anywhere an option to use HTML for admins. Was trying with Vanilla theme and there isn't also. There is only "Allow HTML" in Markdown menu but it applies to all users.

Second milestone for is using IFRAME inside forum posts (goal is to embed time-series from Grafana). Was trying to add different plugins but no success.

nodebb-plugin-iframely - after activate, nodeBB won't start nodebb-plugin-iframe-resizable - no any additional options in menus and composer after plugin activation nodebb-plugin-iframe - same as above, no any changes after plugin installation/activation and rebuild/restart

Can someone help with above ?

My nodeBB V2.6.1, npm V8.19.2, OS Deb10

0 julianlam committed to NodeBB/nodebb-theme-vanilla adding styles for composer settings in ACP -- closed designcreateplay/NodeBB#1149

NodeBB: Embed

Embed media and rich content in posts: youtube, vimeo, twitch etc. It's a dynamic plugin, it means, you can add your own embed code, you don't need to write separate plugin for it. By default, plugin is shipped with several predefined embeds, you can tune them, remove them or add new ones:

Youtube Vimeo Coub Vine

To install predefined embeds, use utility in ACP.

Don't forget to share your good ideas for embeds with others. Most popular will be included in predefined set.

Links Plugin ACP Look Preview

https://youtu.be/9JfgSHJQM1U

How would you make it so your user registration form on your frontend connects to nodebb? This is where you make your account on the front end and can login to it either from there or with the forum login. Logging in from one also logs you into the other. Is there an easy way to achieve this? I tried using Auth0, but that's not really the kinda thing I want. I suppose in this case, I'd want to connect the nodebb login system itself with my front end so I can register for accounts from there?

When I pin a topic it disappears from recent topics widget. This is only the case when I use custom categories. If I set it to 0, all topics including the pinned ones appear. I'm not sure if this is a bug, can someone help?

Thanks 🙂

I know there are a lot of topics but I did not find a quick answer so just let me ask straight for it.

Is there a way to search with wildcards?

E.g. I am looking for the topic called "Something about chlorofluoromethanes" and if I search for "chlorofluoro" or "chloro" or "methanes" or even "chlorofluoromethane" it simply does not show me any results

So is there a hidden trick or a way to search for e.g. "chloro"* or *"methanes" to make the magic work?

Running the plattform on my isolated server and therefore was curious if enabling HTML would allow me to link on local files - basically what's the described in the following link:

However those links just don't seem to work and I am curious what might be the reason for it. Is this a browser topic (since I am still accessing nodeBB via http(s) and while it works fine in plain html it does not within a post ...

Or is there a better way to achieve this?

Edit: The most promising so far is https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/local-explorer-open-file/eokekhgpaakbkfkmjjcbffibkencdfkl

However, within nodeBB the following does not work:
<a href="localexplorer:C:\Program Files">Test link localexplorer</a>
nor does
[Test link](localexplorer:C:\Program Files)

as the link is just not clickable ... any ideas to make this work?

I've looked around at the plugins and posts and it's really not clear if a voting plugin exists. I see lots of poll mentioned but didn't see anything about voting.

I'd like to find a plugin that is well maintained that would allow members to vote on the best post/s in a thread. Basically, like putting up a prize for the best post then seeing which person wins based on the votes.

Is there anything official that might do this?

Hi,

I want to let users upload pdf files and let other users see the pdf in the browser.
The Idea is that the users upload a business idea and that the other users can comment using the standard nodebb interface.

I would also like to know your estimates how long it would take a programming beginner like me to develop this 😄

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This is not working in my instance - any ideas why? I have installed the extended markdown plugin could this be causing this issue (will try to deactivate the plugin late when I can test) or is this related to sth else?

Persona them btw.

Edit: ok it works but it's veeery decent ... will look into CSS

I'll admit, I've been a bit lazy when it comes to upgrading.

I've noticed you are now on 2.6.1, is there a specific method of upgrading to this version?

I did try doing it directly (luckily I had setup a test environment with the db copied) but everything seems to be broken and js files are showing as not found in development console and admin panel doesn't work at all.

I thought it was plugins and themes, so disabled all the plugins and reset the theme back to persona, rebuilt the assets etc but I still get the same issue.

I just wonder if I'm doing anything wrong.

Hi,

I'm stuck on editing the widgets/recenttopics.tpl so that the link of the topic title brings a user directly to the last post, currently one comes to the first post.

This is the implementation of widgets/recenttopics, bringing you to the first post:

<a href="{relative_path}/topic/{topics.slug}">{topics.title}</a>

This is the implementation in categories.tpl that takes a user to the last post (Slick theme btw):

{{{ each categories.posts }}} .... <a class="permalink" href="{config.relative_path}/topic/{../topic.slug}<!-- IF ../index -->/{../index}<!-- ENDIF ../index -->">

Can someone explain or the send me an link how the hierachy of the templating system? I looked at https://docs.nodebb.org/development/themes/templates/#templating-logic but I don't understand how to deal with it.

I guess I need something like

<a href="{relative_path}/topic/{topic.slug}<!-- IF topics.posts.index -->/{topics.posts.index}<!-- ENDIF topics.posts.index -->">{topics.title}</a>

This doesn't work and I obviously don't understand how to 'navigate' between What is before if I do ../topics for example? How can I learn this?

Thanks 🙂

edit: I thought these are called hooks, but I was wrong

Hi,

i want to start a nodebb forum in the eu and i was wondering if anybody has experience with that considering the EU legislation about data protection and so on.
Are there some options that confilct with the new data protection law?
I dont want to get sued for something that is written in this law.

Hi Team,
I have upgraded nodebb to v2.6.1 by merging with master branch from nodebb git. Also updated my npm to v9.2.0 node to v18.12.1.
After successfully ./nodebb setup , when I start it, its shows below error.

2022-12-08T10:14:09.506Z [4567/30680] - error: TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'hasOwnProperty')
at C:\Users\AmodChaubey\Desktop\AngelOne\Smart Forum\smart-api-forum\node_modules\nodebb-plugin-markdown\index.js:107:18
at Array.forEach (<anonymous>)
at C:\Users\AmodChaubey\Desktop\AngelOne\Smart Forum\smart-api-forum\node_modules\nodebb-plugin-markdown\index.js:105:26
at C:\Users\AmodChaubey\Desktop\AngelOne\Smart Forum\smart-api-forum\src\promisify.js:43:65
at _node_internal (node:util:291:10)
at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:82:21)
2022-12-08T10:14:09.506Z [4567/30680] - info: [app] Shutdown (SIGTERM/SIGINT) Initialised.
2022-12-08T10:14:09.508Z [4567/30680] - error: Error [ERR_SERVER_NOT_RUNNING]: Server is not running.
at new NodeError (node:internal/errors:393:5)
at Server.close (node:net:1827:12)
at Object.onceWrapper (node:events:627:28)
at Server.emit (node:events:525:35)
at emitCloseNT (node:net:1880:8)
at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:81:21

Urgently need assistance .

I gave a moderator privileges to add new categories and this is working fine, but when he tries to upload a custom image it throws an error. The image itself is fine as I can change it without any issues so I guess it has something to do with the settings, but have not found anything regarding that. Any hints? Thx.

Hi everyone, I am using the newest write api in nodebb v2.6.1.

I try to create new topic by this api, but I find it doesn't support to edit publish time.

I confirm I had read this api doc and the master code:

https://docs.nodebb.org/api/write/#tag/topics/paths/~1topics~1/post https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/blob/aeb43b9bb1/src/routes/write/topics.js

So how can I edit this publish time when I create a new topic?
Thanks.

how can..

too`!!!!! many bugs

I'm having trouble uploading images using the nodebb-write-api plugin

Here are the steps I've completed so far. The upload image nodebb-write-api example is at the bottom of this post.

Create NodeBB Instance

docker create --name myNodeBB --init --restart always -e url="http://192.168.0.41:4567" -p 4567:4567 -v nodebb-data:/var/lib/redis -v nodebb-files:/opt/nodebb/public/uploads -v nodebb-config:/etc/nodebb nilsramsperger/nodebb

Start NodeBB Instance

docker start myNodeBB

Install https://github.com/NodeBB/nodebb-plugin-write-api/

docker exec -it myNodeBB sh

download NodeBB write-api plugin

cd /opt/nodebb/node_modules

wget https://github.com/NodeBB/nodebb-plugin-write-api/archive/refs/heads/master.zip

unzip master.zip

NodeBB activate the nodebb-plugin-write-api

activate nodebb api write plugin

Create a master token with uid 0

master token uid 0

Stop/Start NodeBB Instance

docker stop myNodeBB

docker start myNodeBB

CREATE USER (WSL/Ubuntu)

curl \ -H "Authorization: Bearer 9413a049-8faa-49c0-8694-1eda2d93c4b0" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"username":"MY_USERNAME", "password":"MY_PASSWORD", "email":"[email protected]", "_uid":"1"}' \ -X POST http://localhost:4567/api/v3/users/

Make a User an Administarator

curl \ -H "Authorization: Bearer 9413a049-8faa-49c0-8694-1eda2d93c4b0" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"_uid":"1"}' \ -X PUT http://localhost:4567/api/v3/groups/administrators/membership/2

CREATE POST

curl \ -H "Authorization: Bearer 9413a049-8faa-49c0-8694-1eda2d93c4b0" \ -d "title=api test post&content=the contents of the test post&cid=1&_uid=1" \ -X POST http://localhost:4567/api/v3/topics

Create post 2

curl \ -H "Authorization: Bearer 9413a049-8faa-49c0-8694-1eda2d93c4b0" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"title":"another user 2", "content":"content from a different user", "cid":"1", "_uid":"2"}' \ -X POST http://localhost:4567/api/v3/topics

Create Category

curl \ -H "Authorization: Bearer 9413a049-8faa-49c0-8694-1eda2d93c4b0" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"name":"category 1 name", "description":"category 1 description", "_uid":"2"}' \ -X POST http://localhost:4567/api/v3/categories

Create sub category (get parent category id)

# list categories http://localhost:4567/api/categories "cid":"8" -> category 1 name

Create Sub Category

curl \ -H "Authorization: Bearer 9413a049-8faa-49c0-8694-1eda2d93c4b0" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"parentCid":"8", "name":"sub category A", "description":"sub category A", "_uid":"1"}' \ -X POST http://localhost:4567/api/v3/categories

iamge uploads

Image upload (doesn't work)

curl \ -H "Authorization: Bearer 9413a049-8faa-49c0-8694-1eda2d93c4b0" \ -H "Content-Type: multipart/form-data" \ -o '/mnt/c/Users/Terry/Downloads/myimg.jpg' \ -o '/mnt/c/Users/Terry/Downloads/walrus.jpg' \ -X POST http://localhost:4567/api/v3/util/_uid=1 [email protected]:/mnt/c/Users/Terry/Downloads$ [email protected]:/mnt/c/Users/Terry/Downloads$ curl \ thorizat> -H "Authorization: Bearer 9413a049-8faa-49c0-8694-1eda2d93c4b0" \ > -H "Content-Type: multipart/form-data" \ > -o '/mnt/c/Users/Terry/Downloads/myimg.jpg' \ > -o '/mnt/c/Users/Terry/Downloads/walrus.jpg' \ > -X POST http://localhost:4567/api/v3/util/_uid=1 % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 74 100 74 0 0 24666 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 24666 [email protected]:/mnt/c/Users/Terry/Downloads$ ll *.jpg -rwxrwxrwx 1 terry terry 74 Dec 4 16:17 myimg.jpg* -rwxrwxrwx 1 terry terry 4966 Dec 4 14:15 walrus.jpg* [email protected]:/mnt/c/Users/Terry/Downloads$

Image isn't appearing in my uploads

Thank you

I get this error when trying to start nodebb.

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I read here possible solutions, but i dont know if it is applicatble for nodebb.

I started to clean up my installation by changing position of the nodebb folder.
Is that the cause? How to fix that? I tryied bring the folder back in the position 😛