Notify help

bjrn

Hello!

I recently added the Notify extension to my forum, but it doesn't seem to do anything, at all. So I was wondering what kinds of things might go wrong, and how I could fix them.

The database table is created, and it has entries, so I know that part works. I know that mails can be sent, because when I change the roles of people, they get nice emails telling them about it, so it can't be that, I think. But I can't figure out what else might go wrong, or if I've missed something.

Any ideas?

russlipton

It's not working for me, either, and others. Either the add-on dev or someone with needed expertise needs to look at this when need dictates. It seems to have broken with 1.0.3.

Stash

I think there's a general want/need for this extension to be fixed, but I have not the knowledge to fix it Perhaps Jazzman, Mini or Mark could take this one on as it really is an essential extension and I think Vanilla's long term health may be negatively affected without it working to at least a basic level, ie actually working!

Chris Miller

The Notify extension indeed needs serious fixing. As much as I'd like to encourage the use of RSS, the current RSS feed extension doesn't work on a private forum, and I'm not sure the users of my forum would use it if it did. E-mail is the only way to get these people to visit the forum regularly.

che

Hi guys, Unfortunately I tried using Notify with the latest version of Vanilla before I realized there was an issue, and now folks can't subscribe to the forum, they get the following error: The page could not be displayed A fatal, non-recoverable error has occurred Technical information (for support personel): Definition list of 2 items Error Message = An error occurred while creating a new user. Affected Elements = UserManager.CreateUser(); list end Block quote start The error occurred on or near: Field 'SubscribeOwn' doesn't have a default value Block quote end I didn't see anything about adding elements to my database in the Notify instruction, so I didn't do anything with the database. Folks were getting this error after I turned notify off in my extensions as well. ANy ideas? Thanks.

russlipton

OK, rss/atom still don't work with private forums but Notify is working for me again with the forum private.

I'm not sure why but could it be connected to this oddity?

I (perhaps?) have not made a saved account change since installing 1.0.3. When I fooled with the 'guests can browse' setting today, Vanilla complained it couldn't write to the conf/settings.php file. Huh?

Well, yeah, it couldn't. Now, it can again. But it always used to be able to do that .... I have settings here that were definitely changed after initial installation. Weird. I may go out and test a few other installs.

I still wish (implore) Mark to repair his RSS2 and Atom feeds for HTTP authentication.

Sometimes, it's hard to tell whether the software is idiotic or I am idiotic ... or both.

jefipius

I'm a newbie to Vanilla so take this with a bag of salt, but if you get the : "The error occurred on or near: Field 'SubscribeOwn' doesn't have a default" error, setting the default values to '0' in the Notified and SubscribeOwn columns of the lum_user table of your Vanilla DB seems to work.

fnostro

I believe the error is in the notify setup - Notify adds a number of fields to lum_user, specifically 'SubscribeOwn' & 'Notified', that are defined as "not null", so when a new user record is created and values are not supplied for them and there are no deafults defined, the result is a fatal error.

So, using MySQL Administrator, you can go into the lum_user table and either set defaults like above which may be a mistake/dangerous since I've no idea what values Notify expects. Or you can make the fields allow nulls which can be a mistake as well. But in either case users will be allowed to register again.