Notification when replying to someone, or when quoting them?

peripatew

If I start a discussion, and people reply to it, there doesn't appear to be any notifications sent to them via email, or that appear in the menu next to there name.

But if they start a discussion, they are notified of replies to it.

I'm asking as I start ALL the discussions, so when I reply to someones post within my discussion, they aren't getting any notifications of that. I'd like them to get an email, as well as a visual indication of that when they're on the forum.

Does this make sense? If not I'll try to clarify. How would I go about achieving this sort of functionality?

vrijvlinder

These are user settings that they can check and un check to get notifications.

• Notify me when people write on my wall.
• Notify me when people reply to my wall comments.
• Notify me of private messages.
• Notify me when I am added to private conversations.
• Notify me when people comment on my discussions.
• Notify me when people mention me in discussion titles.
• Notify me when people mention me in comments.
• Notify me when people comment on my bookmarked discussions.
• Notify me when people start new discussions.
• Notify me when people comment on a discussion.
• Notify me when a comment is flagged.

peripatew

So, with the quote plugin, it won't notify the person, unless they started the discussion, or unless their @username is typed out though correct?

vrijvlinder

Why don't you make a test user and test it out . That way you can see what happens when you do these things and adjust where you can.

hydn

@vrijvlinder said:
These are user settings that they can check and un check to get notifications.

• Notify me when people write on my wall.
• Notify me when people reply to my wall comments.
• Notify me of private messages.
• Notify me when I am added to private conversations.
• Notify me when people comment on my discussions.
• Notify me when people mention me in discussion titles.
• Notify me when people mention me in comments.
• Notify me when people comment on my bookmarked discussions.
• Notify me when people start new discussions.
• Notify me when people comment on a discussion.
• Notify me when a comment is flagged.

Same issue here no one in the thread is being notified that I replied (i checked outgoing mail server). How do you set it so that new members are auto subscribed to all the options you listed above?

vrijvlinder

@hydn

// Default Preferences
$Configuration['Preferences']['Email']['ConversationMessage']   = '1';
$Configuration['Preferences']['Email']['AddedToConversation']   = '1';
$Configuration['Preferences']['Email']['BookmarkComment']       = '1';
$Configuration['Preferences']['Email']['WallComment']           = '0';
$Configuration['Preferences']['Email']['ActivityComment']       = '0';
$Configuration['Preferences']['Email']['DiscussionComment']     = '0';
$Configuration['Preferences']['Email']['DiscussionMention']     = '0';
$Configuration['Preferences']['Email']['CommentMention']        = '0';
$Configuration['Preferences']['Popup']['ConversationMessage']   = '1';
$Configuration['Preferences']['Popup']['AddedToConversation']   = '1';
$Configuration['Preferences']['Popup']['BookmarkComment']       = '1';
$Configuration['Preferences']['Popup']['WallComment']           = '1';
$Configuration['Preferences']['Popup']['ActivityComment']       = '1';
$Configuration['Preferences']['Popup']['DiscussionComment']     = '1';
$Configuration['Preferences']['Popup']['DiscussionMention']     = '1';
$Configuration['Preferences']['Popup']['CommentMention']        = '1';

These are the default configuration settings for the user notification preferences . The number 1 represents get notification, 0 represents no notification. I think if you paste these into the config.php and put them all as 1 then you will have set the preferences to all send notification. I need someone to confirm this , I am not an expert.

hydn

yes. I just need to confirm if I should edit them to 1's in config-defaults.php or if I should paste the block from config-defaults.php into config.php and set to 1's there.

vrijvlinder

Do not edit the default-configs, copy the block and paste into config.php then change the 0 to 1.

peripatew

I've done this, but it still doesn't notify if someone just quotes, I have to manually add @username for them toget notified.

businessdad

@peripatew said:
I've done this, but it still doesn't notify if someone just quotes, I have to manually add username for them toget notified.

If I understood what you mean, such behaviour is correct.

When a User A quotes User B, there must be a reference to User B so that he can be notified. For example, if I just quoted you, all I would have written in the post would have been

> I've done this, but it still doesn't notify if someone just quotes....

The above is just text, with no reference to where it comes from. Therefore, Vanilla cannot notify the original poster. That's where @UserB comes into play.

Also, keep in mind that the User reference is also just text. That is, you could very well write something like this:

@UserB said:
I've done this, but it still doesn't notify if someone just quotes

And UserB would get the notification. That is, there is no real "hard" link between the User reference and the text in the quote.

peripatew

@businessdad so what would be needed to change within the plugin to have it add the @username when quoting someone?

businessdad

@peripatew said:
businessdad so what would be needed to change within the plugin to have it add the username when quoting someone?

As far as I can see, it already does it. If you go on any message, and click on "Quote" (bottom left), it automatically populates the input box with the content of the message, together with a @Username at the top.

Are you using a different method to quote text?

hydn

Isn't the quote issue only if you use the quote plugin?

businessdad

@hydn said:
Isn't the quote issue only if you use the quote plugin?

That's right. In fact, I thought that the Quote Plugin was what @peripatew was referring to:

@peripatew said:
So, with the quote plugin, it won't notify the person, unless they started the discussion, or unless their username is typed out though correct?

peripatew

@businessdad said:
Are you using a different method to quote text?

Sorry for the slow response. Here's what it looks like for me: http://d.pr/i/s03J

When I quote, it doesn't put the @ in front of the username. So I have to manually reference that. Here's what it looks like when I hit the quote button in the comment editor: http://d.pr/i/KcSq

Sorry for the confusion, but hopefully the images make it clear.

peripatew

Any thought's here?

Is this something with the theme I'm using? Nebula by @aery ?

hbf

my version of quotes does not use @...

but i also use HTML markup so it can't use @ to define a block quote. it uses < blockquote>someone< /blockquote>

Jone

@vrijvlinder said:
hydn

// Default Preferences
$Configuration['Preferences']['Email']['ConversationMessage']   = '1';
$Configuration['Preferences']['Email']['AddedToConversation']   = '1';
$Configuration['Preferences']['Email']['BookmarkComment']       = '1';
$Configuration['Preferences']['Email']['WallComment']           = '0';
$Configuration['Preferences']['Email']['ActivityComment']       = '0';
$Configuration['Preferences']['Email']['DiscussionComment']     = '0';
$Configuration['Preferences']['Email']['DiscussionMention']     = '0';
$Configuration['Preferences']['Email']['CommentMention']        = '0';
$Configuration['Preferences']['Popup']['ConversationMessage']   = '1';
$Configuration['Preferences']['Popup']['AddedToConversation']   = '1';
$Configuration['Preferences']['Popup']['BookmarkComment']       = '1';
$Configuration['Preferences']['Popup']['WallComment']           = '1';
$Configuration['Preferences']['Popup']['ActivityComment']       = '1';
$Configuration['Preferences']['Popup']['DiscussionComment']     = '1';
$Configuration['Preferences']['Popup']['DiscussionMention']     = '1';
$Configuration['Preferences']['Popup']['CommentMention']        = '1';

These are the default configuration settings for the user notification preferences . The number 1 represents get notification, 0 represents no notification. I think if you paste these into the config.php and put them all as 1 then you will have set the preferences to all send notification. I need someone to confirm this , I am not an expert.

@vrijvlinder interesting! How can i include categories notification here?

like:

$Configuration['Preferences']['Email']['category-1'] = '1';

subscribe all to get new post notification when someone posts a new topic under that category?

Thanks,

vrijvlinder

I think that comes with advanced notifications,

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/22596

Jone

@vrijvlinder said:
I think that comes with advanced notifications,

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/22596

Thanks, I activated that option, But, those option not enabled for all users. any idea

Thanks,

vrijvlinder

@Jone
I believe you have to set permissions for that as well.