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  • User documentation for NodeBB

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    Jay MoonahJ

    One of the first important things to do after setting up NodeBB is to set up an emailer plugin. While NodeBB does include a local emailer, if your forum is particularly active we recommend using an third-party emailer such as SendGrid which provides better deliverability for sites that send a high volume of email. Setting up SendGrid in NodeBB is very easy.

    Open the administrative dashboard using the 'gear' icon on your forum. Open the Extend > Plugins menu, and select the Find Plugins tab. Use the search on the right. Type 'SendGrid' and the plugin should appear -- select Install when you see it. From Installed tab on the Plugins menu, search again for 'SendGrid' and select Activate. Activating the plugin will require a restart of your forum. To restart, select the Dashboard menu and press the Restart button to the right. After NodeBB restarts, the SendGrid plugin will be active.

    After you restart, there should be a item called Emailer (SendGrid) under the Plugins menu -- if you don't see this right away, try refreshing your browser.

    Sign up to SendGrid

    Go to the SendGrid website, open the pricing page and scroll to the bottom. Click on the link and create your free account. Once you've confirmed your SendGrid account via email, you should be able to login to the SendGrid website. On the left side of your SendGrid dashboard, open Settings and click on API Keys. Click the button in the top right to create a new key. Make sure that the key has Full Access for Send Mail and Alerts.  When you are done, the new key to your clipboard.

    Now, return to the SendGrid menu on your NodeBB admin panel. Paste the API key into the field, and save your changes. Now go back to the Dashboard to restart your forum one more time.

    SendGrid should now be working for your forum.

    YouTube Setting up SendGrid mailer for NodeBB

  • NodeBB guides, how-to's and general tips and tricks

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    barisB

    Quick start plugin has an example on how to add a new api route https://github.com/NodeBB/nodebb-plugin-quickstart/blob/master/library.js#L40-L76.

    The hooks that are fired client side are for client side code in plugins. If you want to pass data from the client to the server you have two options.

    Create an api route like in quick start plugin Create a new socket event listener on the server side and use socket.emit() client side. Example here
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    phenomlabP

    @baris updated to 3.7.2 and now just waiting for the plugin to be updated.

  • Cloud 9 Help PLS urgent 🙂

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    @Friendship said in Cloud 9 Help PLS urgent 🙂:

    @pichalite Is there a way to prevent it? (Darn the reputation thing xD)

    yeah switch to their paid plan or keep doing something in the IDE every few hours (I think it freezes after 2 or 3 hours of inactivity)..

  • Font Awesome - When or how is it updated?

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    @rod I believe it's manual

  • Error Database

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    Dawid GlombaD

    im have this error :
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  • Get a list of recent topics though the API

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    julianJ

    If you go into the ACP and change the behaviour of teaser to "first", then the API will return data for the original post only.

  • What happened to "Follow Topics I reply to"?

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    barisB

    If you were on master, you can update to latest and run npm i and it will be re-added.

  • Cannot restore database

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    julianJ

    Unfortunately we cannot debug docker installs as that is a community contributed installation guide. Perhaps someone else here can help you out (e.g. @Ben-Lubar ?)

  • Possible Memory Leak - Widget Essentials

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    julianJ

    @Leonardo-Galani is there anything you need to do to reproduce this issue? Opening and closing the notifications?

  • Help me!

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    julianJ

    Error suggests MongoDB authentication is incorrect.

    If you don't have a MongoDB password, don't specify one during setup. If you do have one, specify it during setup.

  • Upgrade nodebb to latest version on docker

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    Mario PachecoM

    @flex it works, thanks

  • Running a plugin on one node

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    BriB

    Thanks for this @yariplus! So I'm trying to run a three-node cluster on 1GB of ram... needless to say things are a bit... crowded in terms of memory haha.

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    barisB

    This is fixed now, will be available in 1.1

  • Email notification

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    @hnahli under ACP -> Settings -> Email use the "Test Email" button to verify if NodeBB is able to send emails

  • Lazy Load Problem

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    I would give them a couple of days to respond. If there is no response then create an issue.

  • Response design menu button does not work

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    nullcxN

    @pichalite

    I've removed the ADS and it's not working again ?

  • Database

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    Dawid GlombaD

    I think I was able to solve. I changed: # nano /etc/mongodb.conf
    #auth = true
    to
    auth = true

    and added to config.json

    {
    "url": "http://x.x",
    "secret": "x",
    "database": "mongo",
    "port": 4567,
    "mongo": {
    "host": "127.0.0.1",
    "port": "27017",
    "password": "XXX",
    "username": "x",
    "database": "x"
    }
    }

    if everything done correctly?

  • MongoDB directory Location?

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    For anyone interested, I was able to trace some information down 😄

    so using: "ps -xa | grep mongod" I was able to locate the config file for mongo in /etc/ (different than etc/)

    if you open the config file (mongodb.conf) -- some use gedit (if your distro has it or not), I use vim: vim mongodb.conf

    you can then find the path for the database =o -- for me that was: /var/lib/mongodb

    Hope this helps if anyone stumbles across this post 🙂

    ps:
    If you're stuck in vim be sure to press "esc" on your keyboard, and then type ":q"

    I would recommend looking up vim and how it works if you plan on editing files with it -- alternatively, you could use sftp if you're using a VPS.

    Cheers!
    -ZenOokami

  • Max allowed file size setting not respected

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    Edit: I just tried again, and everything is working as expected. Thx anyway! 🙂

    //
    The file (mp3) is part of a post, not a profile picture.

  • Sub/child groups

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    Hi community.
    I would like to have a parent group which automatically collects all users from sub or child groups. E.g. all member of group A, B and C should be members of group D without assigning them to group D manually.
    Is there any possibility to realize this?
    Thank you for your help and ideas!

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    @frissdiegurke
    That's perfect . Thank you so much for everything.

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    yariplusY

    You would need to edit the theme, to change the widget areas and sizes. The current widget system isn't advanced enough to do that alone. Also, the widgets currently reload every page change, which will look strange if widget content doesn't. But overall, it would work.

    I would ditch the widgets and use a theme with that as the main layout. Then if you need to change the side bar, you can use some simple js to change it when a particular page is loading. Of course, this would not work if you are planning to use a lot of the existing widgets.