Cel Social Groups Notifications
 

What does this mod do?

This mod adds social groups to the notifications dropdown. Your members will get notified if there are groups containing unread messages; they need to be members of that group or have to be subscribed to that group. The counter will show how many groups with unread messages there are.


Installation:

Just import the product file in AdminCP->Product Manager. Done.
Make sure you understand and comply with the read marking requirements (see note down this post).


Settings:

• Show notification for new messages in groups the user is a member of, subscribed to, or both
• Select usergroups who can use the mod (i.e. who will get notificatons)
• Select whether to link to usercp.php or group.php
• Make sure you understand and comply with the read marking requirements (see note down this post).

• This mod will not work with cookies or simple database read marking. This will not be changed and is due to the limitations of the read marking system.
• If the ressources for this trouble you, you don't want to run this modification anyway. Any workarounds would be more ressource intensive than using this option in the first place.
• To set this, go to AdminCP->Settings->Options->General Settings->Thread/Forum Read Marking Type and set this to the third option: Database (automatic forum marking)

Note on ressources:

Note that this modification adds a maximum of two queries to every pageload. Both are not too heavy, going to slave servers only if existent, and there are several mechanisms in place to prevent unnecessary querying.


Version history

• 3.8.006: added option to link notification to custom URL
• 3.8.005: queries completely reworked, should be more stable now and fixes some read marking issues
• 3.8.002: bugfix, use slave servers
• 3.8.001: initial release

Wow.... people have been wanting this forever...

I will watch and wait to see if any bugs crop up before using this...

Thanks,

Rob

Well, I tested before release, of course - and if everybody did like you, bugs would never be found :)

nope, just will not work at all. 3.8.4 - added the usergroups, tried other templates. tried everything and no go. will tag this mod. thx

Works for me on my live site and two test-installations. :erm:

Yes, well I'm sorry but our development version is 4.0, and i aint putting it on the live 3.8 until it's gone through it's paces.

I'm not being ungrateful..... just careful

Hey, that's perfectly ok ;)

BTW: Updated to 3.8.002, minor bugfix :)

thanks!, however, it isn't working for me aswell.

I wonder why that is - it works fine for me on not only one installation, plus my vB4 testbeds (it's the same code).

If you're interested I'll look if I can add debugging functionality. Nonetheless I have to ask the obvious: There were new messages in social groups you were subscribed to or members of? If set to subscribed, it's not enough to be subscribed to single discussions. This mod works on group level, not discussion level (the latter would be a killer query). And you noticed the Limitations? DB read marking only?

I have to admit I'm not exactly sure how to handle group subscriptions. Actually, I didn't even know there where any.
My db read marking was already set due to another product.

It's working like a charm right now, but only when having “groups the user is a member of” selected. Not when having “both” selected.

Thanks a lot, and much appreciated!