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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. [image: youtubelogo.png] Setting up SendGrid mailer for NodeBB
  • NodeBB guides, how-to's and general tips and tricks

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    Z
    not sure the plugin worked for firefox. saw a-z in the sort icon. when i used it, i expected the topics in the category would be sorted a-z. they werent
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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.
  • SMTP not working.

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    @andrewweb So... I uninstalled sendmail from the server, even though I wasn't using it, and then changed something in UFW and now the board works. I'll see if the issue with registration and password persists, and I'll open a issue on GitHub. Thank you both for your kind answers.
  • Is there a way to use write api to quote or reply to a post?

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    @julian Very cool! great to see extensions to the write api. Cheers.
  • Unable to login after upgrade to 1.15

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    @baris sorry for the late reply I'm based in Europe. Thank you very much, it's working great now.
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    Hi all, still continuing on my OAuth2 plugin implementation, I've a problem I can't actually solve and need you valuable advises. I've this fragment in my plugin OAuth.getStrategy = function (strategies, callback) { winston.verbose('[maxonID] --> OAuth.getStrategy'); if (configOk) { passportOAuth = require('passport-oauth2'); passportOAuth.Strategy.prototype.userProfile = function (accessToken, done) { if (!accessToken) { done(new Error('Missing token, cannot call the userinfo endpoint without it.')); } this._oauth2.useAuthorizationHeaderforGET(true); this._oauth2.get(constants.userRoute, accessToken, function (err, body, res) { if (err) { console.error(err); return done(new Error('Failed to get user info. Exception was previously logged.')); } if (res.statusCode < 200 || res.statusCode > 299) { return done(new Error('Unexpected response from userInfo. [' + res.statusCode + '] [' + body + ']')); } OAuth.validateEntitlement(accessToken, constants.allowedEntitlement, function (err, accessAllowed) { if (err) { return done(err); } if (!accessAllowed) { // Need to find a way to gracefully notify the user and point back to login page return done(new Error('Forum access is not granted. Please contact your representative.')); } try { var json = JSON.parse(body); OAuth.parseUserReturn(json, function (err, profile) { ... and I'd like to return the user to the forum login page and notify him about the issue, something like when the password is wrong. Is there a smart way to make it happen from such a plugin without rising an error? Thanks a lot for your valuable insights, R.
  • Empty captcha in login page, cant access admin settings

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    barisB
    @jonaski said in Empty captcha in login page, cant access admin settings: onRecaptachaArgsReady Looks like there was an issue in the plugin with the login page. Should be fixed in 0.7.7. Let me know if it works now.
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    barisB
    Yes that should work, we might release 1.15.5 to hot fix https://community.nodebb.org/topic/15155/unable-to-login-after-upgrade-to-1-15 so you could use that too.
  • Adding custom icon made via icomoon

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    Hi all, can you please instruct me on how I can add an icon set made from Icomoon to nodeBB? I thought that adding it in ./public/vendor/icomoon and building the nodebb instance would have helped me to use the icon but looks like I can't. Any experience? Cheers, R
  • Oauth and FusionAuth - undefined callback url

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    Thanks a lot everybody for the contributions to this discussion! Your recommendations were all useful to better understanding the plugin and finally realise a prototype against 10Duke. Cheers, R
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    nhl.plN
    Tested it again on a freshly installed server. Please wait while we try to reconnect shows when NodeBB is installed by a root user and not a normal user. Solution: add new non-privileged system user and do not use root to install NodeBB. Such note should be included on every install guide.
  • replied user box on mobile

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    barisB
    You can close the issue, I think this is simple enough to modify in custom css.
  • Setup parameters

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    PitaJP
    @jaredbusch you can use environment variables or pass a json object with --config I think. Look at ./nodebb setup --help
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  • HTTPS Error Message After Upgrading to 1.15

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    @julian This is working great after updating to 1.15.3. Thank you for addressing it!
  • Bug with checkbox in access rights 1.15.3

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    barisB
    Thanks for reporting opened an issue https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/issues/8963
  • benchpress warning (@value)

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    This error have official NodeBB plugin by @julian https://github.com/NodeBB/nodebb-plugin-poll https://github.com/julianlam/nodebb-plugin-2factor Not work generate backup codes.
  • Show message history in chat for new user

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    Hey! If added a new member to the chat room, he don't see the message history, this is very inconvenient.
  • is there a way to remove all downvotes made so far?

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    barisB
    There is no built-in way to do it. You would have to write a custom script that unvotes all downvotes by going through each user's downvotes.
  • error:invalid-files

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    FrankMF
    Ok, fixed it. npm i [email protected] ./nodebb upgrade But i don't know why!?!?!?
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  • Question | Returns the response button to the previous location

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    barisB
    You have to modify persona to go back to the old style. Then changes are in https://github.com/NodeBB/nodebb-theme-persona/pull/507/files.