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| 10:46:42 AM - Thursday 26th, November 2009 |
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hey what happened to whoes here?? if i just copy back the "config folder" from my backed up version of mediawiki before i uninstalled will it still work? email notifications not working either 
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| 2:37:20 AM - Saturday 28th, November 2009 |
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Quote:Met4tron Nov 26th 9:38 amif i just copy back the "config folder" from my backed up version of mediawiki before i uninstalled will it still work? email notifications not working either
Yup:
extensions/awc/forums/config/
If you made any custom CSS or Skin edits you will want to 'export' them.
Special:AWCforum/admin/css/css_edit_get then export
Special:AWCforum/admin/tplt/display then export
The files will be saved:
/extensions/awc/forums/skins/
and the image folder if you made any edits there:
/extensions/awc/forums/images/
Gonna have to look into the email, seams to be a problem on some private 'corporate' servers.
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| 7:54:06 AM - Thursday 03rd, December 2009 |
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| hi awc. yeah whos here is back. its just the email thing still. very strange as it used to work but i havent amended any of the configs to prevent it from functioning. if you need any of my config files etc let me know and i will send them over
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| 9:46:10 PM - Friday 18th, December 2009 |
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Met4tron, when you say it used to work...
Was the working forum the same version as the none working ?
If not can you post the version of the working.
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| 8:04:23 AM - Tuesday 05th, January 2010 |
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im using forum v2.4
php v5.2.9-1 (cgi-fcgi)
and mediawiki v 1.14.0
thats what i found from some previous threads on here...however 2.4 broke for some reason thats why i upgraded to 2.5.7. 2.4 DID work at some point though 
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| 4:47:18 PM - Thursday 07th, January 2010 |
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hi awc. done that. is it the case that if i am subscribed to the thread it wont email me only if someone else adds posts to it? because i logged in as someone else and did receive an email. this wasnt happening before so i think your updated pm.php has done the trick
thanks mate!
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Edited On 5:34:03 PM - Thursday 07th, January 2010 by Met4tron
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| 2:34:54 AM - Friday 08th, January 2010 |
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Quote:Met4tron Jan 7th 3:39 pm...is it the case that if i am subscribed to the thread it wont email me only if someone else adds posts to it?...
Correct
If you create a thread and then subscript to that thread, you will only recieve an email if someone else responds to that thread... and ... you will only receive one email "per-session".
If you create a thread, subscribe to it and receive a notification because someone else posted in it, you will not receive any more notifications in-till you view the thread while you are logged in.
So if five people posts in that thread, and you nver read the thread while logged in, you will only receive one single notifications, after you read the thread while logged in and a sixth person posts you will then receive another notification for the sixth poster.
I hope that makes sense, if not, sorry and ill try and explain better.
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| 9:06:50 AM - Friday 08th, January 2010 |
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| i understand what you are saying. can this be changed so every post thats posted gets a notification email. we dont have that many threads so its not going to be spam central if this is enabled. i use this board as an internal board for the IT team to post and talk about current issues. what happens is ive signed up and used a distribution list for my registered email in wiki options. this way whenever anyone posts on my watched thread they get the notification email that a new post has been added. like a crap version of RSS!
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| 3:32:24 PM - Friday 08th, January 2010 |
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Forum member, Kenyu73, has created an extension for the forum which will do this:
Extension page
http://wiki.anotherwebcom.com/Kenyu73%27s_Email_Hook
More info about his extension.
http://wiki.anotherwebcom.com/Special:AWCforum/st/id1125
Is that what you want ?
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| 12:04:23 PM - Thursday 28th, January 2010 |
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hi awc me again!
quick question about this email subscription notification thing. if someone else posts on my subscribed forum thread and then posts again will i get 2 emails 1 for each post or just 1 the first time they replied to my thread? email notifications worked one per person and have now stopped working again
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| 3:08:45 PM - Thursday 28th, January 2010 |
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Hey Met4tron...
The email subscription works just like any other forum software; vbulletin, phpbb, simplemachines, etc. (default settings, with-out any "mods").
You have to be logged into your wiki and view the thread for the email subscription "flag" to be cleared (so you can receive more emails for thread activity). If you create a thread and someone posts two replies to your thread AND you never checked the thread while logged in, you will receive only one email.
Key thing, checking the thread while logged in.
Example...
You create a thread.
- Someone replies to your thread, you will get an email.
-- You check the thread while being logged in - your subscription "flag" is cleared.
- Someone replies to your thread again (second reply) (does not matter if it is the same person as before or a different person), you get an email
-- You do NOT check the thread after getting the email
- Another person posts a reply, you do NOT get an email because you never "cleared your flag"
-- You now check the thread while logged in, your flag is cleared
- Another reply is posted, you get an email
Thats how forum software works, its a forum, not email or IM-ing or chat software or a wiki article, but a forum.
If you want emails all the time, no matter if you "clear your flag" or not, try what Kenyu73 made.
Im sorry to say, but thats how the default code of the this forum will work. Ive been adding HOOK's (just like the HOOKs used in Mediawiki) so people can customize the forum to work how they want and not have to worry about re-editing the "mods" when there is a new forum release.
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| 7:37:11 AM - Friday 29th, January 2010 |
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ok thanks
i think i understand. regarding kenyu's work how would i go about implementing it? i went on the link and it was just a bunch of code. sorry im a PHP novice.
so to clarify if im subscribed to a thread i need to check back after ever reply in order to receive a new email and clear the flag
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| 3:28:58 PM - Friday 29th, January 2010 |
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Quote:Met4tron Jan 29th 6:29 amso to clarify if im subscribed to a thread i need to check back after ever reply in order to receive a new email and clear the flag
Correct.
Here the link to Kenyu's extension.
http://wiki.anotherwebcom.com/Kenyu73's_Email_Hook
I just added a little "howto".
Please post back if you are still having problems.
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| 5:58:05 PM - Tuesday 02nd, February 2010 |
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Resolved issue with getting this working....
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To get this working, I did the following:
First, I had to assure that all users had an email entry in the wikidb:
USE wikidb;
SELECT user_email FROM user;
UPDATE user SET user_email='some@email.address' WHERE user_name='SomeUser';
UPDATE user SET user_email_authenticated='20100202000000' WHERE (user_email_authenticated IS NULL) AND length(user_email);
exit;
Next, have your users check that the email options are enabled:
http://WIKIADDRESS/mediawiki/index.php5/Special:AWCforum/member_options/getPMoptions
Finally, to assure that the subscription information is correct in the DB, have them remove and re-add their subscriptions via the MemCP.
This resolved all the problems that we were having at Minerva with the extension. Thanks for the patience with us, Joe.
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| 4:14:51 PM - Saturday 06th, February 2010 |
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| Gald its working correctly now, and thanks for the update, Gary.
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