htrev

Thanks for the detailed response Boone. Using user_count I can see all the messages now in the summary page. Also my users report getting emails again this morning – no idea why, but I’ll keep monitoring and try debugging if they disappear again. Will resolve this issue for now. Thanks again!

Thanks – just done so!

Thanks. Sadly not – same thing happens with the default Buddypress theme so I think it’s a problem with Buddypress core.

Bumping this! Anyone got any idea? Can’t believe I’m the only one who’s experienced this problem!

Hi ray – been monitoring this for a week with no reported errors, thanks! NB though none of my users are on weekly digest so can’t vouch for that.

Great thanks – I’ll give it a go and let you know of any problems.

Hi. Thanks for clarifying. By “global settings” I just meant the “Settings > Notifications” options – global in the sense that they apply in all groups regardless of the GES settings for that group.

Anyway, that development priority works for me. I’ll keep my eye on github.

Thanks

H

Hi there

First up, apologies for bothering you guys again. GES is awesome, everyone loves the community I’ve built, and the plugin and does 90% of what I need – just not quite…

So I’ve done some more testing, and it appears the email notifications are working differently for activity updates and forum posts.

Here’s how my users would like it to work:
? Email notification on the first post in a new conversation
? Email notification for subsequent posts, if the first post was theirs or if they have replied to that conversation

I’m currently using BBPress forums within BP groups (with activity updates effectively disabled by hiding the relevant controls with CSS), and I thought this was how it would work with the forums – i.e. that on a post by post basis, the global BP settings for “A member replies in a forum topic you’ve started” and “A member replies after you in a forum topic” would override the GES settings, so that users could leave both of these on, and set the group to New Topics. However this isn’t how it works – these two settings are effectively ignored with GES (same applies to digests and No email).

Then I tried the same thing with Activity updates, and hey presto, the GES settings are overridden by the two global settings – so that even if I’m on No email in GES, I still get notifications on my activity updates and comments on updates I’ve commented on. Trouble is, this won’t work either, because New topics only applies to new forum topics and not new activity updates.

So here’s what I’d like (in order of preference):
1. Global notification settings for forums to override GES settings, as global settings for activity updates do – that way I could continue to use the forums and set it up how people want;
2. “New topics only” to apply to new activity updates too, so that if set, users get an email on a new activity update, but not on subsequent comments on them (unless the update was theirs or they commented) – that way I could replace the forums with activity updates.
3. Implementation of Follow and Mute from bbPress in GES.

So do you have any plans to implement any of these three, and if so approximate timescales? Appreciate that you might have a long list already!

Harry

Thanks r-a-y. Amazing. I applied the patch and it’s working fine. Props for the speedy response!

H

Group settings save OK with the GES plugin disabled.

Seems to be something to do with GES as the dissociation happens when I change the email settings for the group.

So:
Dashboard/View groups/Edit a group – “Yes. I want this group to have a forum.” is ticked
Visit site/Groups/View group/Admin/Settings/Change email settings for the group/Save.
Go back to Dashboard/View groups/Edit a group – “Yes. I want this group to have a forum.” is now ticked. Also, if I go to the group and click the Forum tab, I get a 404.

H

Actually don’t worry – I found it on github. Cool plugin!

Thanks for the rapid response r-a-y. Realise the new feature request might be a long way off!

Re adding follow/mute to forum topics: do you have a rough timescale for implementing this?

Thanks

Harry

Hi r-a-y

The patch works great – thanks a lot!

Great, thanks – I’ll try the patch and let you know how I get on with it.

Thanks a lot r-a-y!