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Logged In Users, How to Display Username & Password of
There are myriad uses of attributes, including their use
in a way that personally greets each user who is ...
January 28, 2007     Notes: 0     Views: 545     Rating: 5.0
Plugin, PHPBB, Configuration Procedure


1...

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Category Items:
Attributes, General
Throughout the OSS Login Form HTML code you will ...
February 18, 2008     Notes: 0     Views: 381     Rating: 5.0
Attributes, How to Use on Your Web Pages
There are myriad uses of attributes, including their use
in a way that personally greets each user who is ...
August 26, 2008     Notes: 0     Views: 337     Rating: 0.0
Autoresponder, Not Sending All Email
Unknown to most website owners, your host controls a kind of
EMAIL WINDOW  which remains open for on...
May 29, 2008     Notes: 0     Views: 299     Rating: 0.0
AUTORESPONDER: Multiple Email Problems
Q: Why aren't all of my emai...
August 18, 2009     Notes: 0     Views: 312     Rating: 0.0
Browse Button, Clicking Results in Blank Page

A common error encountered when your firewall is set too high,
disallowing popups to be opened.
October 08, 2008     Notes: 0     Views: 308     Rating: 0.0
Captcha, How to Enable
To enable Captcha, go to the Signup Form configuration
and enable the option, "Use Captcha". Thi...
March 08, 2009     Notes: 0     Views: 305     Rating: 0.0
Checklist of Your OSS Software, Pre-launch
     Once you've setup OSS in accordance with the
steps in the Tutorial (don't skip a...
June 12, 2007     Notes: 0     Views: 330     Rating: 0.0
CHMOD 755, Which Folders to CHMOD

Q: Which OSS5 directories should I CHMOD to 755?
A: All of the...
July 14, 2008     Notes: 0     Views: 323     Rating: 0.0
Compatibility, Backwards, with OSS Versions
     It may not be possible to transfer some or even
most customizations made to earli...
November 27, 2007     Notes: 0     Views: 287     Rating: 0.0
CONFIRMATION: Important you Test New Changes and Confirm Proper Working Order
This is to confirm completion of one of the following actions
to your copy of the OSS software;

August 24, 2009     Notes: 0     Views: 286     Rating: 0.0
Contact In Error
Our software is used by many thousands of companies
for managing the products and services they use. ...
February 09, 2009     Notes: 0     Views: 314     Rating: 0.0
Cookies, Lifetime

Cookies are not removed by the OSS software nor controlled
by it. In all instanc...
May 19, 2008     Notes: 0     Views: 287     Rating: 1.0
CRON Jobs, What They Are & How They Are Set Up

OSS cron jobs must be added to, and configured on, your host server. Moreover,
th...
April 28, 2008     Notes: 0     Views: 301     Rating: 0.0
Customization, Scripting of the OSS Software

Because OSS is built on Open Source we get frequent requests from
prospective cus...
September 11, 2008     Notes: 0     Views: 296     Rating: 0.0
Download Link To Lastest Pro Version
You are able to download the latest version of Pro here:

September 11, 2008     Notes: 0     Views: 311     Rating: 0.0
Download Link to Latest Deluxe Version
You are able to download the latest version of Deluxe here:

January 21, 2009     Notes: 0     Views: 303     Rating: 0.0
Email URL in your copy of OSS is Misdirected to Us Instead of You

If you receive this email from us it is because we may
need to correct an email URL path in your co...
December 11, 2008     Notes: 0     Views: 286     Rating: 0.0
Email Verification, How Should User Respond
The user signs up using the OSS Signup Form. He sees the page, "verification email sent
to your emai...
May 29, 2008     Notes: 0     Views: 284     Rating: 0.0
Email Verification, How to Activate
The option to activate Email Verification is located here:

Code Generation->Signup F...
May 29, 2008     Notes: 0     Views: 286     Rating: 0.0
Email, Advantages of Direct Email vs SMTP


You are better opting for Direct Mail than SMTP if your
ho...
May 05, 2009     Notes: 0     Views: 278     Rating: 0.0
Email, Browse Button, Clicking Results in Blank Screen

A common error encountered when your firewall is set too high,
disallowing popups to be opened.
October 08, 2008     Notes: 0     Views: 325     Rating: 0.0
Email, Browse Button, Clicking Results in Blank Screen

A common error encountered when your firewall is set too high,
disallowing popups to be opened.
October 08, 2008     Notes: 0     Views: 288     Rating: 0.0
Email, Configure System
It is your host that provides you with the information for your SMTP server and which you will need for sending ...
May 04, 2009     Notes: 0     Views: 297     Rating: 0.0
Email, Problem Delivering All Mail
Unknown to most website owners, your host controls a kind of
EMAIL WINDOW  which remains open for on...
May 29, 2008     Notes: 0     Views: 290     Rating: 0.0
Email, Verification Feature Fails When IP Not Yet Resolved
Usually results when email verification is tested before a new
server DNS has resolved to the IP.  Wa...
July 16, 2009     Notes: 0     Views: 268     Rating: 0.0
EMAIL: How User Edits Email Address
By default, a User may not edit his email address unless
the Administrator enables the "Editable by U...
September 04, 2009     Notes: 0     Views: 284     Rating: 0.0
EMAIL: Not All Email is Being Sent
Hosts have the ability to set a customer's
"send email window" to whatever length of
time...
July 09, 2009     Notes: 0     Views: 275     Rating: 0.0
Error Message 3005, PayPal
      A PayPal Error Me...
February 17, 2008     Notes: 0     Views: 304     Rating: 0.0
Error Message, Error 500
If you have this error appear, immediately report it to your
host.  In the vast majority of instances...
July 20, 2007     Notes: 0     Views: 298     Rating: 0.0
Error Message, LAST CRON RUN TIME, OK ERROR!
     Anytime you receive an error message that looks similar
to the following:
...
May 17, 2007     Notes: 0     Views: 292     Rating: 0.0
Error Message, PHP Problem Resulting when Frontpage is Used
If you have just uploaded through Frontpage and the result is a group
or PHP error message like the follow...
July 09, 2009     Notes: 0     Views: 301     Rating: 0.0
Error Message, "No Such User"

Cleaning your browser cache will usually resolve this problem. Upgrading your browser(s)...
June 29, 2008     Notes: 0     Views: 310     Rating: 0.0
Error Message, "User Already Exists"

This meessage results because ,on the Signup Form, you have checked the field named &quo...
June 29, 2008     Notes: 0     Views: 296     Rating: 0.0
Error Message, 404 Page Not Found
There are myriad causes of this error, but in OSS the most
frequent is a failure to correctly name the UR...
July 15, 2008     Notes: 0     Views: 279     Rating: 0.0
Error Message, Admin Page of OSS

Q: We are on Blue Host and we keep getting this messa...
March 12, 2010     Notes: 0     Views: 61     Rating: 0.0
Error Message, Call to a Member Function...line 193
The full error message looks something like this:

Fatal error: Call to a member function getMessage...
August 03, 2009     Notes: 0     Views: 280     Rating: 0.0
Error Message, Class Controller not found in ...
The full error message reads something more like this:

Fatal error: Class 'Controller' not found in...
March 29, 2010     Notes: 0     Views: 49     Rating: 0.0
Error Message, DB Error, No Such Table (FormGenerator.class.php, line 207)
     This error message appears to occur only in revisions 120 - 130.

   ...

July 05, 2007     Notes: 0     Views: 293     Rating: 0.0
Error Message, Invalid License Key
If you get this error message, paste the following in your browser:

http://www.SiteWhereYouHaveOSSI...
February 16, 2010     Notes: 0     Views: 80     Rating: 0.0
Error Message, Page Not Found when Creating New Group

Many plugins -- most, in fact -- add additional fields to the
OSS CREATE NEW GROUP page.
July 24, 2008     Notes: 0     Views: 278     Rating: 0.0
Error Message, PayPal Plugin Failed


After one of your Users completes the OSS Signu...
July 29, 2008     Notes: 2     Views: 321     Rating: 2.5
Error Message, PHP, Front Page
If you have just uploaded through Frontpage and the result is a group
or PHP error message like the follow...
April 24, 2008     Notes: 0     Views: 282     Rating: 0.0
Error Message: "404 Page Not Found"

There are many 404 errors, but in OSS the most common reason for
this error is an incorrect URL for...
July 15, 2008     Notes: 0     Views: 288     Rating: 0.0
Error Messages Caused by Front Page
If you have just uploaded through Frontpage and the result is a group
or PHP error message like the follow...
May 17, 2007     Notes: 0     Views: 303     Rating: 0.0
Expiration Date, Administrator
The expiration date that appears for the Administrator is meaningless
and is only randomly generated. ...
July 05, 2007     Notes: 0     Views: 270     Rating: 0.0
Express Setup
Thank you for your request to have our team walk you through
the setting up of your files.

We...
April 30, 2009     Notes: 0     Views: 306     Rating: 0.0
File Protecting of Groups, How To
The system known as File Protection (.htaccess), not only requires you to
protect single files one at a ti...
April 24, 2008     Notes: 0     Views: 274     Rating: 0.0
File Protection, HTML File Resists Being Protected

Resolve this problem by reappending the .html file in question to .php,
and  If this resolves...
November 16, 2008     Notes: 0     Views: 302     Rating: 0.0
Folder Protection, Which Folders to Protect?
GENERAL:
NEVER protect the root directory or the OSS directory.
July 14, 2008     Notes: 0     Views: 306     Rating: 0.0
FREE TRIAL Setup of an OSS Group
You are able to setup a Free Trial Group in OSS quickly and easily.
Fir...
September 11, 2008     Notes: 0     Views: 300     Rating: 0.0
Front Page, Error Messages Caused By
If you have just uploaded through Frontpage and the result is a group
or PHP error message like the follow...
February 17, 2008     Notes: 0     Views: 299     Rating: 0.0
FTP/CP Request New or Corrected

To complete your recently requested:

+ Installation
+  Transfer
+  Upg...
December 03, 2008     Notes: 0     Views: 265     Rating: 0.0
Groups, Free Trial
Even though the OSS software allows for setting up Free Trial Groups, some merchant gateway software solutions d...
December 05, 2008     Notes: 0     Views: 279     Rating: 0.0
Groups, Page Created Causes "Page Not Found" error
If you're new to this kind of thing, be prepared! Plugins can
be a little frustrating, when really, they m...
July 24, 2008     Notes: 0     Views: 287     Rating: 0.0
Hosts and Hosting of OSS Software
With respect to frequently asked questions about hosting your
site on Yahoo or GoDaddy:

October 20, 2008     Notes: 0     Views: 317     Rating: 0.0

Installation Free Requirements
We're happy to install OSS for you at no charge.

Just send us the following:
Site URL:  ...
July 17, 2008     Notes: 0     Views: 293     Rating: 0.0
Installation Problem
Please note that we either do not have your FTP/CP
on file or that the information we have contains one
July 18, 2008     Notes: 0     Views: 286     Rating: 0.0
JOOMLA, Plugin to: How to Setup

1.  First setup the Joomla Database configuration parameters.
2.  Use these exact same Da...
September 22, 2009     Notes: 0     Views: 281     Rating: 0.0
LINK SUPPORT SETUP
Simply click on this link:

http://www.omni-secure.com/support_restore.php

then enter e...
January 19, 2010     Notes: 0     Views: 109     Rating: 0.0
Lockout, Admin
This usually results from using an incorrect username/password.

We are happy to unlock the account ...
April 13, 2009     Notes: 0     Views: 311     Rating: 0.0
Logged In Users, How to Display Username & Password of
There are myriad uses of attributes, including their use
in a way that personally greets each user who is ...
January 28, 2007     Notes: 0     Views: 545     Rating: 5.0
Login Blocked after Protection Folders

After protecting all my folders, if you are blocked ...
May 22, 2008     Notes: 0     Views: 275     Rating: 0.0
Login Form Attributes, Altering of
      Throughout the OSS...
February 18, 2008     Notes: 0     Views: 279     Rating: 0.0
Login Form, Customized
If you wish to set up a custom login form somewhere
on your site,  please review:

Code g...
January 31, 2007     Notes: 1     Views: 296     Rating: 0.0
Login Forms, General Overview

The idea behind OSS prote...

February 05, 2007     Notes: 0     Views: 289     Rating: 0.0
Login, Admin and User, General

The User must first accesses:

www.TheNameOfYour...
July 28, 2008     Notes: 1     Views: 290     Rating: 0.0
Login, Concurrent
Your version of OSS may be defaulted to allow concurrent
logins.

To disable this so that a us...
February 27, 2007     Notes: 0     Views: 295     Rating: 0.0
Login, How Does it Work?
The OSS Login feature is designed such that it remembers
a user's session ID. Then, using this session ID,...
June 14, 2009     Notes: 0     Views: 279     Rating: 0.0
LOGIN, REMEMBER ME FUnction, How to Remove In Forms->Login: Design Form, click on the "source" button, which will reveal a clear HTML of the login page. Find the box named: "rememberme' and remove this section. This exercise presumes you know HTML. We

In Forms->Login: Design Form,

click on the "source" button, which will reveal a...
May 10, 2010     Notes: 0     Views: 44     Rating: 0.0
LOGIN: Admin Login and User Login Differ

Only Admins may log in to the directory at:
 
/oss5/  

Users may not l...
July 09, 2009     Notes: 0     Views: 280     Rating: 0.0
Logout, General

1.  The Admin logs out from the Admin Page.

2.  ...
July 28, 2008     Notes: 0     Views: 295     Rating: 5.0
MDR (Multiple Domain Rights)
Multiple Domain Rights -- MDR -- is an advanced
technology that enables OSS to offer umbrella
prot...
January 21, 2009     Notes: 0     Views: 277     Rating: 0.0
Member Area Username and Password
There is no member/user at this time because, except for our
Tutorial and FAQ, all OSS Support is 100% liv...
December 02, 2008     Notes: 0     Views: 281     Rating: 0.0
Modification of Earlier Versions of OSS
     It may not be possible to transfer some or even
most customizations made to earli...
February 18, 2008     Notes: 0     Views: 287     Rating: 0.0
Navigation Guide, OSS5 and OSS6 Compared

Navigation Guide, OSS 6.0

July 14, 2008     Notes: 0     Views: 265     Rating: 0.0
OSS Billing: Manual vs Automated
There are two types of subscriptions that may be set
up in OSS:   Manual Subscriptions and Autom...
July 09, 2009     Notes: 0     Views: 264     Rating: 0.0
OSS Overview

The following OVERVIEW hopes to give visitors possibly interested in the purchase of OSS a general idea o...
December 04, 2008     Notes: 0     Views: 268     Rating: 0.0
Payment Plugins, How Do They Process Payments?

Each merchant employs radically different guidelines and policies in processing approved...
July 19, 2008     Notes: 0     Views: 265     Rating: 0.0
Payment: Charge Period and Charge Amount Can Vary for Each OSS Group


For each of the 3 OSS Gr...
September 09, 2008     Notes: 0     Views: 282     Rating: 0.0
Payments, Offline: How to Configure
Offline payments -- such as by personal check -- are allowed by the
OSS software.

Each of the...
October 30, 2008     Notes: 0     Views: 280     Rating: 0.0
PAYPAL ERROR MESSAGE

"The link you have used to enter the PayPal system is invalid. Please review the link and try again....
January 21, 2010     Notes: 0     Views: 100     Rating: 0.0
PayPal Error Message 3005
      PayPal Error Message 3005: Should you rec...
February 17, 2008     Notes: 0     Views: 315     Rating: 0.0
PHP 5 Advisory
This error message you are getting is the
result of a bug in the somewhat newly released
version of...
July 09, 2009     Notes: 0     Views: 276     Rating: 0.0
PHPBB: How to Install and Configure
The phpBB plugin is located in the OSS Admin Panel
under the SYSTEM tab.  Before plugging it in do th...
July 09, 2009     Notes: 0     Views: 278     Rating: 0.0
Plugin, Authorize Net, Charges Always Pending

Often it occurs that the OSS software will pass your ...
June 27, 2008     Notes: 0     Views: 278     Rating: 0.0
Plugin, PayPal, for GoDaddy Users
It has been brought to our attention by many GoDaddy customers
that a problem exists with the GoDaddy serv...
February 12, 2008     Notes: 0     Views: 303     Rating: 0.0
Plugin, PayPal, Signature Hash, How to Create
Many customers decline to opt for the 3-token option offered by PayPal when they join.  Th...
May 23, 2008     Notes: 0     Views: 297     Rating: 0.0
Plugin, PHPBB, Configuration Procedure


1...

February 17, 2008     Notes: 0     Views: 468     Rating: 0.0
Plugins, General Configuration Procedures

February 17, 2008     Notes: 0     Views: 301     Rating: 0.0
Plugins, List of OSS Types Offered
PLUGINS, OSS
We are happy to offer a large variety of plugins, both Integratio...
December 02, 2008     Notes: 0     Views: 294     Rating: 0.0
Redirect Feature
We are frequently asked what the Redirect Feature in Deluxe offers
that is not available ...
August 05, 2008     Notes: 0     Views: 283     Rating: 0.0
Rename OSS Directory, How to

  To rename the oss5 directory , in the Admin Page, open:

     ...
June 02, 2008     Notes: 0     Views: 277     Rating: 0.0
REPAIR ALERT: Please Reconfigure An OSS Directory File
Thank you for your support query.  The issue you are having is the
result of a misconfiguration of th...
August 24, 2009     Notes: 0     Views: 281     Rating: 0.0
Session Update, User Profile
Session updates occur  in the User Profile only upon login.
May 23, 2008     Notes: 0     Views: 278     Rating: 0.0
Signup Form, Configuring Payment Plugin

There are 2 types of OSS plugins:   payment plugins and integration plugins.

When a...
May 02, 2008     Notes: 0     Views: 300     Rating: 0.0
Signup Form, Eliminating Username and Password Fields

It is possible to remove the username and password fields from the OSS Signup Form
altogether and u...
July 07, 2008     Notes: 0     Views: 276     Rating: 0.0
Signup Form, General

You may not add multiple users to the Signup Form using the same username or password. To allow this woul...
April 12, 2009     Notes: 0     Views: 279     Rating: 0.0
Strings, Long Form, Must Remain Unaltered

February 01, 2007     Notes: 0     Views: 284     Rating: 0.0
Support Acknowledgment

Thanks for your support query.  This will acknowledge that our team
is looking into your situ...
December 18, 2008     Notes: 0     Views: 293     Rating: 0.0
Support Issues: Copy Your Host and Merchant with your Problems

It is a wise administrator who copies his host and merchant
with any issue addressed to us since a ...
December 01, 2008     Notes: 0     Views: 305     Rating: 0.0
Support Ticket: How to Submit to Us
      Please make sure you have sub...
February 13, 2006     Notes: 2     Views: 345     Rating: 0.0
Support, How Soon Should You Expect A Resolution?

We greatly appreciate the time you invest as a customer or
potential customer in configuring and un...
May 31, 2009     Notes: 0     Views: 275     Rating: 0.0
Support, What is Provided and What is Not

Many simple adjustments to the software are explained in our
FAQ and Tutorial and...
August 17, 2008     Notes: 0     Views: 293     Rating: 0.0
Trial Version versus Full Version
We download the full version of Omni, irrespective of which
model you may be testing on Free Trial. ...
August 15, 2008     Notes: 0     Views: 301     Rating: 0.0
Unsubscribe, How do Admin and User

In OSS2-OSS5, a trash icon on the Admin Page under:
June 25, 2008     Notes: 0     Views: 273     Rating: 0.0
UPGRADE, Produre to Do Yourself
The single most important step in upgrading to the most recent
version of Omni is to BACKUP YOUR CURRENT O...
August 13, 2009     Notes: 0     Views: 333     Rating: 0.0
User Account, How Is This Edited?
In OSS2 through OSS5, edit here:
Management->User->Accounts

In ...
July 14, 2008     Notes: 0     Views: 309     Rating: 0.0
User List of Members
You may access a single user or all of your users/members
at any time.

To do this, start here...
October 30, 2008     Notes: 0     Views: 283     Rating: 0.0
Username, Where Does Admin Find?


+ Your Control Panel
+ ...
July 14, 2008     Notes: 0     Views: 295     Rating: 0.0
Users, Adding Multiple Users Simultaneously

The very security of the OSS software would be compromised
by an action that allowed multiple (pen...
April 23, 2009     Notes: 0     Views: 278     Rating: 0.0
Yahoo Servers and Windows IIS Disallow 3rd Party Software
Thank you for your request to have us install a
FREE TRAIL of Omni Secure on your server.

It...
December 11, 2008     Notes: 0     Views: 264     Rating: 0.0