Automation Rules

Wow, I didn't even think to try that. That totally fixed it. I'm not sure what was causing the topic not to lock, but that seemed to fix the problem. Thanks for all your help.

There must be some process after the rule action which is undoing the lock action. That's all I can think of. The debug indicates that the lock flag was actually set on the topic. You can try to defer the action until the end of the page load and see if you get a different result.

After enabling the debug - this is what I see. It says the condition was met - but the topic isn't being locked.

This could be what is happening. Is there a workaround to this? I'm basically wanting to have the rules check when a tag "closed" is applied - then it will close the thread.

Only the creation events have that issue. Topic tags are updated should not have a problem with you checking the tags before they exist. I believe the problem you may be having is that the tag prefix is not checked by the "content has specific tags" condition.

Hey Kevin, Still looking for some guidance on this one. Reading your last post where you say The creation event occurs before the tags are added - does this mean when one makes a new topic - the topic is created BEFORE the tag is applied?

https://ipsguru.net/forums/topic/838-duplicate-title?do=findComment&comment=3255

Hello there, spam in one of my forums getting ridiculous, even with some paid plugins (recently people spamming diet stuff). Havent find an option in the ACP for minimum post count before posting links, so I was thinking managing it with automation rules. Is it even possible? Thanks!

I believe it is the "Topic Tag is Updated" event. Here is the overview: Rule: Closed Tag - Close Topic Event: Topic tags have been updated Conditions: Content has specific tags (Closed Tag) Actions: Lock content (Lock Content)

With the last Rules update (which did not update the number of the version of the application, and it is still under 1.4.4 for some unknown reasons), I regretfully noticed, that this bug is still not resolved I hope you didn't forget about this, but just don't know, how to resolve the issue, do you, @Kevin Carwile?

Nice! Thank you so much for this! I'm going to see what we can come up with this, and if it works out, I'll contact you on here and send you all my award information once I have it all complete.

Спасибо, работает надежно, как швейцарские часы. Теперь нужно разобраться с полями, у которых нет категорий для проверки (созданные в админ-панели для каждого пользователя) Например, ссылка на страницу ВКонтакте Спасибо огромное, Вы очень помогли !

Yes, I have checked again and confirmed, that all in the Event "Member has been given a warning" presented variables are not working! Just try to return all of them, or one by one: $string = "$warning, $member, $moderator"; return $string; And it won't trigger the Event at all, but the error will appear. We HAVE to provide all these variables by ourselves, which we do not need to do in Rules with other Events. I believe, this is a bug, @Kevin Carwile

@x7turist вот так попробуйте: Event: "Member profile is updated" Condition: "Check if member has a certain award" Ставьте там NOT ! Action: "Give an award to a member"

@Kevin Carwile Thanks for answered, but i can't understand how it work I have 2 condition Member attribute value & Check if the user has a reward I installed everything correctly, in my opinion But for some reason, now the condition is not even fulfilled I think that there is not enough condition for everything to work properly. For example: "Rules" check if the reward is received from the user, and then there must be a condition that would look like this 1. Check if the user has received a reward 2. a) If YES, do nothing b) If NO - perform an "action" But I do not know how to implement this Just do not think that I'm stupid I read all the topics on this site and on the official website where your application is sold. did not find an answer there, although I try to figure it out on my own for about 5 days. I just need the right direction, I hope, you will understand me! If I figure out how this works, I can help other people in my country with these functions.

Add a condition that the member doesnt already have the award before you attempt to award them.

Hello @Kevin Carwile Thanks for the usefull app for ips4. But i have a small problem with iAward and Rules. When all rules set, and all should work cool, it doesn't work Look at the screenshot of my problem I have "Operation CallBack Exception" and Result "This member already have this award" I want awarded users for update their profile. Add photo or date in profile and then awarded their. But with this problem - i can't First time is't says - all met and awarded, then i have a lot pages in logs ( Can you help me with rules, please

Hi, When using periodically scheduled rules using "one month" periods, it seems to have the same effect than "every 30 days". The expected behaviour in that case is (like a cron) to be scheduled the same day of each month, not "every 30 days" as it currently does... Any chance it could be fixed ? Best regards, Alexander

What is the event you are using. With IPS, the "creation" events occur before the tags are added to the new content.

Hi Kevin, I've set up a rule so that when users choose a "thread prefix" using this extension: https://invisioncommunity.com/files/file/7614-advanced-tags-prefixes/ The rule I've set up is if the user choose the thread prefix "closed" it should then lock the thread. For some reason, it does not lock the thread when I do this. It will lock the thread if I add a tag and manually set it to be the thread prefix.

ok, thankyou !

You guessed it. Last post is the last content creation while the last activity is qnything such as viewing a page.

You guessed it. Last post is the last content creation while the last activity is qnything such as viewing a page.

Hi, Can someone explain me what is the difference between "last post" and "last activity" on a time based activity rule definition ? What does "last post" contains as actions : only create a topic and/or answer/comment a topic ? something else or more ? What does "last activity" contains as actions : does it mean "anything" on the forum (like "log in") ? Thankyou in advance for your answers.

Hi @Kevin Carwile In my rule with the Event "Member has been given a warning" I have an action "Post new topic comment", where I'm trying to implement a php code for the "Topic Comment Content". And now I'm stuck with the variable, which is responsible for the link (url) to the content, the user was warned for. The whole day I am trying to find out the correct variable, but failed I was trying these: 1) $warning = \IPS\Request::i()->_warning; $content = \IPS\core\Warnings\Warning::load( $warning )->url(); 2) $warning = \IPS\core\Warnings\Warning::loadAndCheckPerms( \IPS\Request::i()->w ); 3) $warning = \IPS\core\Warnings\Warning::load( \IPS\Request::i()->id ); 4) $warning = \IPS\forums\Topic\Post::load( \IPS\Request::i()->id ); 5) $warning = \IPS\Request::i()->_warning->id; $content = \IPS\forums\Topic\Post::load( $warning ); 6) $select = \IPS\Db::i()->select( 'wl_content_id2', 'core_members_warn_logs', array( 'wl_id=?', \IPS\Request::i()->id ) ); and many more... Then I've put each of the variants (one by one) into the $string argument and returned it. (for example: $string = " Warned content: $warning "; return $string; ) . No one helped All of the variants caused an error: "Argument Callback Exception (content) : Line: 114 of ActiveRecord.php" Could you please help me to find out the url of the warned content for using it in actions? By the way, it's written there, that But it seems to be not correct: all of the variables I have to provide by myself. If I write something very simple in the php code, like "$moderator warned $member "; return $string; " - it will cause an error immediately.