CommBull (Community Bulletin)

vb3.5 Commbull
vb3.6 Commbull

Note:
The 3.6 version is a commercial product, any queries on it should be submitted to: vb3.6 Support Site

THIS THREAD IS FOR SUPPORT FOR 3.0 VERSIONS ONLY. PLEASE VISIT THE APPROPRIATE FORUMS (links above) FOR THEIR SUPPORT

[valid point]
it's been brought to my attention that not everyone knows what this is ... fair enough: This hack is considered a "weekly newsletter" by the fact that it will email members (only sent by an admin) who have opted to receive it new posts, hot threads, etc ... basically a summary of what has been going on since the last time the newsletter was sent out. However there is a vast number of options, and I won't go into detail of all of them ... you can view the the images that I've attached, but u will only get a full idea by installing it.
I would say that there is 0 risk of this installation doing any damage to your current install as these are the changes that it does (manually and automatically):
- change profile.php and admincp/index.php
- add a couple columns to user table (receivebulletin and receivebulletin_type)
- add some phrases to phrase table (receive_email_from_commbull, type_email_from_commbull, newsletterformat, commbul)
- add a row to datastore table (commbull)
- add some html to nav template for admin side
So, if you are unhappy with the install. you can just ignore that it's there and it'll never cause any problems ... your next upgrade will overwrite any changes to the index and profile pages and the extra columns in the DB won't be an issue

[mods that i've added from vB2 version]
- to change languages, comment/uncomment line 22 and 23 to switch from English to German
- save prefs (option)
- skip to page X in case of mailout freeze
- auto redirect to next page (option)
- adding personalized text to top of newsletter w/out searching through the two text & html fields ... u'll c what i mean :ermm:

[INSTALL]
drop the 3 files into the admincp directory and then go to admincp/commbull.php ... follow the instructions and you are good to go.
If you find that the option isn't showing up on the control panel after the install, then it's because you aren't using the default phrases. Go into phrase manager, search for 'commbull' and update the fields appropriately.

If something goes wrong, don't worry .. it checks for already completed updates to the database to avoid redundancy ... enjoy!!

[sabret00the]

the second bit, i have no idea what you're on about, but the reason the option wasn't installed was because you never installed the phrases correctly, repease the installtion steps.

[Pseudomizer]

Originally Posted by H2k

Hello


After Installing this hack .. i check the Profile .. ther eis one options is blank ihave attach the Pic u can see it blow..



other think i try to send Mailling .. and i t send only for 100 user and i have over then 10000 user why it dont send for all .. it just show me

100

and ALL DONE

and retern me to the Admin Page . :ermm:

Depends to what group of people you are sending it to. You can choose this in the configuration menu. If you have done this for all groups and its still sending it only to 100 people then i would check the total number of emails per page and if you have activated the automatic javascript next page option. Perhaps you have disabled javascript in your browser.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

[internetjunkie]

Originally Posted by memobug

Well, I did not have that problem (you are expanding the Users block and not just looking beneath it) but if you go into Languages&Phrases under it you will see Search In Phrases and in there you can type in commbull (two mm!), click Phrase Text AND Variable name and see if anything comes up.

For instance, if you click receive_email_from_commbull you should see the phrase "Receive Community Bulletin Newsletter (Approximately 1 per month)" which, by the way is a question someone was asking here. Sometimes if you simply Save it with no changes it will fix up the phrases. I don't know why.

particularly you want to be sure you have this:

Control Panel Global Phrases Containing 'commbull'
Varname $vbphrase[commbull]
Text Send Community Bulletin

Hope that helps. Sorry it is not a problem I had so I am a little amiss as to how to fix it.

Regards,

Matt

that worked for me as well. thank you very much!!!

[skizzy203]

I dont think that my phrases installed correctly either because I had both issues with the installation: memobugs "community bulletin option" not showing up in admin CP. - It constructs the table, but there is no text in the table because the phrase is not available (installed correctly).

Can someone check on this as I have noticed that there are a few people that are having this problem and it should be resolved so that everyone can take advantage of this excellent hack.

Fixing this "phrase installation issue" would address the concerns about the blank subscription options in the user profile.php as it is refrencing phrases that aren't installed as well.

- As for the phrases being installed, there is not an option to do this once your files are online, i go to click install instructions and get the following:

User table altered... Failed (Possibly already updated)
User table altered... Failed (Possibly already updated)
Phrase table updated (profile.php 1 of 3)...Already Update
Phrase table updated (profile.php 2 of 3)...Already Update
Phrase table updated (profile.php 3 of 3)...Already Update
Phrase table updated (admincp/index.php) ...Already Update

When I search for commbull in the phrase manager, I only find 3 phrases...

How can I reinstall just the phrases without manually adding them all..

- Nevermind... I went back into those 3 phrases and resaved without editing them as suggested memobug... now the options show up.

Sidenote: I would really like to see someone come up with a solution to the "Upcoming Events" issue as well because this feature would be very useful on my bulletin because I post many car events.

[Reeve of shinra]

Question: we are creating our own weekly newsletter. We're adding alot of hot stuff, whats going on around the forum, etc and some of the info in this hack would be a perfect compliment. Is it possible to output the info on a page, so our staff can copy/paste it into thier thread rather than emailing it out to everyone? Thanks!

[Pseudomizer]

Originally Posted by Reeve of shinra

Question: we are creating our own weekly newsletter. We're adding alot of hot stuff, whats going on around the forum, etc and some of the info in this hack would be a perfect compliment. Is it possible to output the info on a page, so our staff can copy/paste it into thier thread rather than emailing it out to everyone? Thanks!

Sure. It should work like this:

- Create a hidden forum where your staff has access
- Create a user for the newsletter with access to this forum
- in the commbull options check the create a thread with user blabla in subforum xyz
- uncomment in the commbull PHP file the mail command

Solution: Thread will be created, your staff can copy and paste it wherever they want, and no emails will be sent out

Cheers,

[Reeve of shinra]

Simple enough =) Thanks.

[jzewatsky]

Great Hack.... I too had an issue with Admin CP phrase not showing up and found that it was actually there, it was just covered by the box around it. Searching for the phrase and saving it again brought it into view....same for the user CP. I'll be watching this thread for additons specifically a way to select a certian number of threads out of a specific forum and the ability to automate the bulletin...great hack.

[Viks]

Having issues with Events and Calender not showing up in bulletins.. if anyone knows how to fix.. please share!

thanks

Vik

[LadyBeth]

We have that issue also...