Social Group and Album Enhancements - 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).

Note: This mod will only work with database and automatic forum read marking!

• 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 mechanisms in place to prevent unnecessary querying.


Version history

• 4.0.006: added option to link notification to custom URL
• 4.0.005: queries completely reworked, should be more stable now and fixes some read marking issues
• 4.0.002: bugfix, use slave servers
• 4.0.001: initial release

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No support if you don't!

This mod is also available for vB 3.8.4:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=228247

[cellarius]

Do you have set this?

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)

It sounds as if you have it set to second option.

[Talk-Pets]

Originally Posted by Alfa1

If your members mark all groups read (one by one) then it will be solved, but its very confusing for members.

Did you read this:
It keeps saying that theres one notification (Groups) and no matter if we go to all the groups created (all groups - not just the one we?re members of - just to be sure and do what we can to get rid of the message)) and even chooses "Mark this group read" it keeps showing one notification for groups

Originally Posted by cellarius

Do you have set this?

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)

It sounds as if you have it set to second option.

The settings are: Database (automatic forum marking) - last option avaible.

[cellarius]

As far as I'm aware, there's no mark all groups read functionality, so the users will have to visit them to get them read, yes. That's how it works, I'm afraid.

As to Talk-Pets problem: I really don't know what the issue at your forum is, then. The mod had such an issue before the rewrite of the querying system for build 5, but since then I have not experienced this on any of my forums. Could you recheck if you are really running version 4.0.006 of both plugins that come with this mod?

[JermaineBelgard]

Originally Posted by Talk-Pets

Great mod which the members seems very pleased about.

We have one problem though. It keeps saying that theres one notification (Groups) and no matter if we go to all the groups created (all groups - not just the one we?re members of - just to be sure and do what we can to get rid of the message)) and even chooses "Mark this group read" it keeps showing one notification for groups

Is this an error or are we doing something wrong? We have had several comments about this so it does not just happen to one or two...

I have the same problem. Running the latest version of this mod with automatic forum marking.

[cellarius]

What is your setting in AdminCP->Options->Thread/Forum Read Marking Limit?

//Addendum:
Have you changed your read marking options when installing this mod, i.e. was it set to something else than the third option before? I may have been able to reproduce this under that circumstance.

[Gleedo]

Sounds interesting this mod. Does this / could this also work for Album picture comments?

[cellarius]

Originally Posted by Gleedo

Sounds interesting this mod. Does this / could this also work for Album picture comments?

It does not and could not, since there is no read marking system in place for album comments.

[cellarius]

Originally Posted by Talk-Pets

Great mod which the members seems very pleased about.

We have one problem though. It keeps saying that theres one notification (Groups) and no matter if we go to all the groups created (all groups - not just the one we?re members of - just to be sure and do what we can to get rid of the message)) and even chooses "Mark this group read" it keeps showing one notification for groups

Is this an error or are we doing something wrong? We have had several comments about this so it does not just happen to one or two...

Originally Posted by cellarius

What is your setting in AdminCP->Options->Thread/Forum Read Marking Limit?

//Addendum:
Have you changed your read marking options when installing this mod, i.e. was it set to something else than the third option before? I may have been able to reproduce this under that circumstance.

To further debug this, I'd additionally like to know:
- what are your exact settings in AdminCP, especially are you running this for groups the user is a member of, subscribed to, or both?
- are the users who experience this are members of groups only, subscribed to groups only, or both (for the individiual member)?

[JermaineBelgard]

Originally Posted by cellarius

What is your setting in AdminCP->Options->Thread/Forum Read Marking Limit?

//Addendum:
Have you changed your read marking options when installing this mod, i.e. was it set to something else than the third option before? I may have been able to reproduce this under that circumstance.

Limit: 10

Addemdum: Yes, it was option 1.

[cellarius]

There may indeed be an issue when read marking is changed that way. Probably this will resolve itself over time, can't think of anything I could do to change that.

Anyway, there seems to be another issue (also one I can do nothing about): there might be a read marking problem if there are more than one page of new discussion entries. I have now had members of my board experience this for the first time, and due to increased traffic in groups (because of the notifications ) they had more than one page of new entries. Read marking seems to hickup then. This not only was influencing my mod, but also read marking on the main groups page (my groups). The discussion was indeed marked read, but the group was not - systemwide, not only for the notifications. I also was able to reproduce this, albeit both was on 3.8 installations. Since there were no changes to the system, I'm pretty sure this will be true for vB4, too.

Anyway, to resolve this if it happens, my users had to use the groups->individual group page->group tools->mark this group read. This worked. Going throug unread discussions or marking individual discussions read will not, since read marking for discussions and groups runs seperately.