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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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    I think you answered my point, by agreeing there are issues.
    I didn't even attempt to deploy nodebb, I had problems with much smaller projects!
    Nextjs routing was going through a change of design at the time, so perhaps that is less confusing now, but there were multiple other headaches. I would get build errors and issues with package management.

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    You might be interested in this thread, which presents an experiment on adding discussions to existing web pages.

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    how to config my redis

  • Setting Up Generic CORS (settings "Origin: *")

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    Yeah, don't worry, it's not urgent and when I'm setting the specific host URL for my client it works. I just realized that looking at the code, setting "*" will not work. However, I also see now that you added '...Origin-regex' in the latest update, so I guess that is a fine workaround.

  • Purging topics

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    Ill have the engineering department follow up on this and see if its been removed from the template. Will update when i have further details, thanks for the help for now.

  • Any high availability gotchas for AWS

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    PitaJP

    One thing to note: round robin load balancing will not work due to restrictions by the way websockets work in NodeBB.

  • Mobile Push Notification , big problem

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    You don't need a PWA to get push notification. There are providers like FCM, OneSignal etc.

    What you will need is a NodeBB plugin. Kindly make a plugin request or ask quote for a custom plugin.

  • Custom home page?

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    @PitaJ Thanks for your reply. I don't know somehow when I logged in today and tried to repeat that issue but that issue has been gone. LOL, it's working now. Thank you again~

  • Image upload strange problem / nothing happens

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    one more thing I found, at the Uploads section on the admin, I get the following error:

    Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, scandir '/public/uploads'

    although I do have that library, if I do

    ls public/

    while I am at the root of the forum, it does list the folder:

    503.html favicon.ico images js-enabled.css language less logo.png src uploads vendor
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  • Administrators and notifications

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    @baris said in Administrators and notifications:

    nodebb-plugin-category-notifications

    Once I any user subscribe to the category , and close his browser in mobile , then he is not recieving notifications , why

  • Getting Notification

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    How can I get notification on mobile whenever somebody post with new topic.Its big problem actually

  • Upgrading from v1.7.x

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    PitaJP

    Do you not have npm installed? What version of node?

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    Recently we decided to switch to NodeBB from phpBB. We could successfully install nodeBB, however we are using Central Authentication Service (CAS) by Apereo and it is mandate to connect nodeBB with this. Are there any tutorials/ plugin links available for this?

    I came across https://github.com/SUSTC/nodebb-plugin-cas However there is no steps on how to connect CAS to nodeBB. Please suggest.

  • NodeBB forum pages hang on all browsers

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    PitaJP

    What logs are you looking at? Try loading a page while watching ./nodebb log. Also, try running ./nodebb build and restarting.

  • Selecting badges

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    @PitaJ it seems I cant find the "edit profile" link anywhere on our forum (might be an issue with the theme/skin thats currently applied). I can access this manually however so that will do the trick. Thanks a lot. I'm not sure if I can mark it as solved myself but that has resolved my issue for the time being.

    Thank you

  • Composer help modal window

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    @MJ thx bro) very helpful.

    Now is ok.

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  • Recent cards need to change something. how?

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    I installed this plugin. and want this plugins to work with colors.

    1_1533499260703_Inked111_LI.jpg 0_1533499260703_222.png

    Will be good if at this cards will be COLORS like at 2 screenshot.
    Or how to hide symbols at recent cards like this ~[ to be shown "Some example text" instead of "~[some example text]~"

    Or colors.. or hide this symbols.

    What i need to do?

  • plugin-ns-points

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    This plugin does not workin at all.

    My system is -

    NodeBB 1.10.1 / mongodb

    Points does not show at page /points and i cant see it at profile.

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    I dont know why this dont workin and why here i see guest with 0 points.

    I created topics.. writed messages but i didnt get points.
    Tested version 4 - and at /points was all empty

    Now at version 5 of plugin i get this (at screenshot) and at profile no info.

    What i supposed to do? or plugin does not workin at 1.10.1 ?

    @Nicolas does plugin support 1.10.1 ?

  • Ban bugs

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    Actually quite a nice system. Otherwise you would need to either check regularly if a ban has expired and thus probably do a lot of unnecessary checks, or you would need to predict when the next ban expiration will be and thus probably introduce a lot of bugs with the prediction code.

    What might be interesting is a feature request, to not show the flag if the expiration has happened. I assume the flag is stored with a timestamp for when the ban will expire. Thus it should be possible to filter it out when displayed. But actually remove it when the user logs in.