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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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    eeeeeE

    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.

  • crazycellsC

    CSS codes for icon color change according to the categories

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    crazycellsC

    In case anyone else might be intrested, I fixed this color problem using these codes:

    .category-1 , .category-70 , .category-120 { .category-children-item .fa-caret-right { color: #ff9800 !important ; } } .category-111 { .category-children-item .fa-caret-right { color: #e91e63 !important ; } } .category-2 , .category-77 , .category-78 , .category-126 , .category-127 , .category-132 , .category-93 , .category-115 { .category-children-item .fa-caret-right { color: #4caf50 !important ; } }

    Basically I had to name each category separately... So, if there is any suggestion to shorten the code, I would love to hear... 🤣

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    Send email notification to admin from new registered users.

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    barisB

    I've updated this plugin to nodebb 3.2 and up, new version is 3.0.0.

  • dave1904D

    Bulk move users to group?

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    barisB

    You would have to run a custom script like below. Place it in your nodebb folder, change the group name your special access group and run it with node myscript.js. It will add all users who have 10 posts or more into that group.

    'use strict'; const nconf = require('nconf'); nconf.file({ file: 'config.json', }); nconf.defaults({ base_dir: __dirname, views_dir: './build/public/templates', upload_path: 'public/uploads', }); const db = require('./src/database'); const groupName = '<Replace with your groupname>'; db.init((err) => { if (err) { console.log(`NodeBB could not connect to your database. Error: ${err.message}`); process.exit(); } addUsersToGroup((err) => { if (err) { console.error(err); process.exit(); } console.log('done'); process.exit(); }); }); async function addUsersToGroup(callback) { const user = require('./src/user'); const groups = require('./src/groups'); const batch = require('./src/batch'); // check if target group exists const exists = await groups.exists(groupName); if (!exists) { return callback(new Error('group does not exist')); } try { const now = Date.now(); await batch.processSortedSet('users:joindate', async (uids) => { const userData = (await user.getUsersData(uids)) .filter(u => u && u.postcount >= 10); await db.sortedSetAdd( `group:${groupName}:members`, userData.map(() => now), userData.map(u => u.uid) ); }, { batch: 500, }); const memberCount = await db.sortedSetCard(`group:${groupName}:members`); console.log('total count', memberCount); await db.setObjectField(`group:${groupName}`, 'memberCount', memberCount); await db.sortedSetAdd( 'groups:visible:memberCount', memberCount, groupName, ); callback(); } catch (err) { callback(err); } }
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    OKta + react native + OKta custom login page + okta login in offline

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    phenomlabP

    @ursyaathi You'd be better placed using SSO for that - see https://community.nodebb.org/topic/17484/a-more-standardised-sso-implementation/2?_=1709300209014

  • R

    Navigating to specific post

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    R

    Thanks!, I was able to debug the issue.

  • crazycellsC

    Targeted Multi-User tagging

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    crazycellsC

    @baris i know it is nothing urgent, but looking forward to having this addition 😄

    Link Preview Image Targeted Multi-User tagging · Issue #244 · julianlam/nodebb-plugin-mentions

    I suggest the usage of @everyone and @here to notify all users in the forum and on the topic respectively... please see this: https://community.nodebb.org/topic/17283/targeted-multi-user-tagging

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    GitHub (github.com)

  • Rui RamosR

    Hiding a widget in a custom page

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    Rui RamosR

    Thanks @baris that option worked like a charm.

  • ww9riversW

    Testing nodebb-plugin-sso-google

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    ww9riversW

    @baris Thank you for the quick fix! It works now.

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    Clean Up Popular Topics

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    T

    @baris gotcha, i'll give this one a shot. TY!

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    Updating meta tags in a custom topic template

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    R

    Thanks, that works perfectly

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    NodeBB in inframe throws invalid csrf token

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    E

    were you actually able to solve that? Running into a very related problem here (Nodebb running in an iframe, authenticated through session-sharing plugin. Users are logged in but any interaction results in an 403 / invalid csrf token... I'm running the board on a different domain than the embedding page.

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    Configure session-sharing plugin with JSON file instead of UI for docker

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    C

    @julian Thank you so much for getting back to me, I'll give that a shot!

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    Customize email titles

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    S

    this was fixed in NodeBB v3.6.6
    🙂

  • barisB

    3.0.0 Upgrade Support Thread

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    barisB

    @Sebastián-Cisneros maybe you are missing this file in your composer-default plugin?

    It was added in nodebb 3.4.0 https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/issues/11949

    So add that file into plugin.json of quill,

    "composer/post-queue.js": "../nodebb-plugin-composer-default/static/lib/composer/post-queue.js",
  • dave1904D

    Error getaddrinfo EAI_AGAIN after running out of memory

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    dave1904D

    Fortunately, the problem has been solved. I don't know yet if DigitalOcean has changed anything, but the last thing I did were these prompts for diagnostics:

    ping 8.8.8.8 ping google.com dig google.com dig google.com @1.1.1.1 cat /etc/resolv.conf systemd-resolve --status cat /etc/*release
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    Clustering across multiple machines - duplicate key errors

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    barisB

    Make sure you add jobsDisabled: true to all the machines except one so they don't run jobs.

    That error is usually fine since multiple machines will try to write out their analytics at the same time. The ones failing will retry and it will work on the second try.

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    Displaying an image when the topic is shared on social media.

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    phenomlabP

    @enzo said in Displaying an image when the topic is shared on social media.:

    (btw, I'm using the S3 plugin, so all images are hosted there, not sure if this affects the behavior)

    This is a good point. Can the S3 bin be viewed publicly? If not, then this may restrict the ability to retrieve the image. On checking the URL from @baris, there is nothing wrong with this

    f38e1a48-de98-4b93-a512-a7c2bb4e138d-image.png

    The same applies to mine

    7415f46b-fa3e-4d71-b835-e5ad2781f888-image.png

    Are you using any browser plugins that could potentially alter the result?

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    Migrating existing forum from / to a subpath

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    barisB

    That should be it, all the paths in template use {config.relative_path} as a prefix so things should work as normal

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    This topic is deleted!

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    Login failing, "likely due to an expired session."

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    M

    Are you able to make the appropriate changes in our docs?

    Yes, can do, I should have something ready to go soon-ish.

    [edit]
    https://github.com/NodeBB/docs/pull/89
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