New THREAD Notification Alerts - Based On User Search Criteria
 

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This hack will allow users to define a list of keywords. If a new THREAD is posted where the title or message contains any of these keywords, they will be notified via email, PM, or both with a link to the thread.

Can be set on a usergroup basis.

This only sends alerts on new threads, not replies to threads.

2 template file edits.

Changelog

5/23/06 - Added feature to notify via PM, email, or both.

Follow the Readme file for installation instructions and then:
Click Install

Nice.Will install as soon it gets outta beta ;)

Even as beta, it should work fine if you just restrict it to the administrator user group so only you and your staff can test it out.

Cool hack. I'm definately going to install it later tonight. Thanks!

awesome!

nice idea!

its great .. [installed]

i have other ideas if you like to add it for next Update :

1- if a " user " started any thread .. give a Notification " same idea of forum subscription "
2- Notification go both ways .. pm or/and email .

thanks

Hello,

Any chance you could post some instructions on how to put this extension to use? I've got it installed...now what? As an admin, I'd like to set everyone up who resides in a specific user group to somehow get "all new threads" as well.

I noticed that a few people around here are looking for a way to have specific groups receive an email notification every time there is a new thread. This could be a great way to make that happen.

Thoughts?

Thanks!

M

Go to your User CP, see the link for "Post Notification Setup".

As for getting an email whenever something is posted to a forum, this is already a feature of Vbulletin. Go to the forum in question, click forum tools, then click subscribe.

Built in, though, the only option are daily or weekly digests.

This hack lets you get instant emails:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=98822

...and AFAIK it's not based on usergroup permissions.

Great idea.
I am forced to be very conscious of server loads when adding new features lately. Anything about this addon that could cause increased loads on busy forums? Keeping in mind that I would only have about 50 or so users with access to this out of the almost 20,000 registered users.

Sure, that's fine if you as an individual want to subscribe. What I need to be able to do is force certain usergroups to be subscribed to threads. This way, I don't have to send the "forum post notification" emails to a redirect that then sends to everyone on the list. It's way too tough to manage. Anyway, that's what I think would be cool. If you could somehow as an Admin, change the subscription settings for all your usergroups.

Thanks!

I would also like to see this give the user a choice of email or PM notifacation options. Thanks again.

Bingo! Thanks for the hack!

I have been monitoring on a similar sized site and haven't seen any noticeable increase in load.

No real code gets executed except upon a threads initial post, so the only way I could see it affecting load would be if your site has a new thread (not reply) posted every 3-4 seconds.

Ok, worked on this for a while today and believe I have worked out all the kinks. Users should now be able to set up how they want the notifications, either by email, PM or both.

To upgrade, you will have to uninstall the old product, and re-install. This will wipe out current notification settings, so if your happy with it now, there is no need to upgrade.

Please re-read the readme file as there is a new template edit.

I am pretty caffiened up at the moment, so it is possible I overlooked something, so let me know.

Seems to be working for me for default forums. Getting both emails and PMs. Great job!

Now my problem, I have several forums that use Abe's Forum's Hack and this does not seem to pick up the keywords when a thread is submitted via a form based forum. I understand that it is "not your problem" 100% but perhaps you could have a look at his code or maybe he could look at yours in order to get these to function together? I will not be able to use this without that functionality. I will make a post in his forms hack thread as well.

It seems that hack bypasses the newthread routine and basically uses its own. The only possible way I see doing it MAY be to add the plugin code for the plugin titled "Post Search Mailer" into his plugin titled "Form Hack" right after this line:

That MIGHT work, not sure.

Did you try it?

I use that Forms Hack and I get email notification on new threads created by it, but I think that's because I put my email address in the AdminCP to be alerted on new threads for that forum. Maybe that'll shed some light?

No, Abe had mentioned that it would not do anything.
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=877

May I ask if this beauty is 3.6 compatible? Anyone tested?

Yes, it is 3.6 compatible.

Brilliant, thanks!

does this work on 3.5.4 as i have installed it but cannot see it anywhere?

name of this mod in vBulletin is misleading - new "post" notification is everywhere. which is not how it acts.

thank you for this interesting add-on