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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.

  • Not receiving data via email with API

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    julianJ

    What do you mean by "getting data by email"? It is possible to disable sending of emails, if your users don't want that...

  • Any way to deploy without running setup?

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    @PitaJ figured it out, I need to run nodes build

  • Exifs missing in the resized uploaded photos.

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    Perfect it's now working fine 🙂 Thank you.

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    Hi.

    The page Recent at a forum which uses NodeBB shows only 10 pages of "recent" topics.
    When I am at the 10th page, the ">" sign at the bottom of the page isn't clickable (has no link).

    I even tried to manually go to the next page by means of typing https://thedomain/forum/recent?page=11, but it returns

    There are no recent topics.

    I want to be able to read older topics because I'm trying to catch up (during a few last months I've been reading that forum quite rarely).

    Is it possible for the forum admin to enable showing all previous topics on the Recent page?
    Thank you in advance!

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    Good day, all.

    I'm a user of some forum which uses NodeBB.

    Is it possible (for the admins) to configure the forum so that the Unread section (a relative example here would be https://community.nodebb.org/unread) shows to the logged in user all posts and threads (topics) which were not read by this user?

    I have already consulted my Settings, but I can't see a setting for this.

    Currently there is only quite short range of posts shown in the Unread section. In this forum: only 26, while there are probably hundrends in fact.

    In "my" forum, after I read them, the sections displays:

    There are no unread topics.

    while in fact there are tens of them (in the last months I was visiting the Forum quite rarely).

    Now I'm trying to catch up, but Unread section quickly turned empty.

  • Please help me to fix the issues.

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    How should I do it?
    Please let me know.
    Thank you

  • Is MongoDB 4.2 supported?

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    @baris said in Is MongoDB 4.2 supported?:

    Yes. As always make a backup of your database with mongodump before upgrading.

    Thank you 🙂

  • Administration redirect to admin profile

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    Sometime when I go to /admin I'm redirected to my user admin profile. Bug or feature? 🤣

  • Widgets in users.tpl

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    @y-h I don't think you can do that at the moment. I also requested the @Staff how it could give super powers to the forum if all major views are made available in the widgets section.

    Link Preview Image Profile tpl to be included in Widgets (Extend)

    The best thing I like about Nodebb is the widgets extension. As the title explains, similar to how we have topics.tpl or categories.tpl we should have profil...

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    NodeBB Community (community.nodebb.org)

  • error on mail send

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    hello. I have some issue when sending emails. I use regular node way to send emails (nodemailer), nothing special like SMTP.
    2020-01-12T18:00:55.869Z [4567/10382] - error: self signed certificate {"code":"ESOCKET","command":"CONN"}

  • Issue since upgrading to v1.13.1 from v1.12.1

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    barisB

    @Brophy said in Issue since upgrading to v1.13.1 from v1.12.1:

    Secret Service Civilian Support

    Try creating this group in the mongodb cli. To see what fields you need you can load one of the other groups with

    db.objects.findOne({_key: "group:raceTECH"});

  • Not able to access Persona settings

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    barisB

    Couple things to try.

    Stop nodebb and run ./nodebb build and try again.

    Also run ./nodebb plugins to check active plugins and see if persona is active.

  • Purge leeches & spammers

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    oplik0O

    While I don't know Redis syntax (mogodb user here), so I can't give you specific commands, I can assure you that most of what you want is possible to do in the database (I don't know about groups here).
    The database structure is explained here, and as you can see user objects contains the website, postcount, topiccount etc. You can get the chat messages from message objects and get users that did send at least one message from there to exclude them from the deletion.

  • Disable "change owner" global

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    barisB

    Not right now since it's part of the moderation privilege.

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    @robin4002 @Ne-Ho Does shoutbox completely stops working on 1.13.0 or works with and also throws this error? We have a very active shoutbox, so waiting for fix and figuring out a fix before updating to latest nodebb.

  • NodeBB not working after upgrade.

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    barisB

    Try disabling the custom plugins and see if it helps.

  • Can I integrate with aws translate api ?

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    Hello, there is any plugin to turn on amazon translate api on this forum script ?

  • password reset button

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    Daft PunKD

    Thanks for ignoring, well im switchin to other source.

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  • Fixed: Double Emojis with Apple Plugin

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    0xA4B160

    Self-Fix:

    config.json still had :80 as the port, not 443 🐀