Social Group and Album Enhancements - Social Group Emails

This modification will allow social group owners and administrators to send an email to all members of a social group. Each usergroup can be configured to specifically allow or disallow sending to groups they created, if you would like to limit this ability to specific trusted user groups. By default, admins will also be able to send emails to members of any group, regardless of whether they created the group or not.

Note: If a social group member has elected not to receive emails from other members or is invited to a group and has not accepted yet, they will not receive emails sent using this modification.

Installation

1. Upload bitfield_socialgroupemail.xml to your forum/includes/xml directory before you install the product.
2. Use the Product Manager to import the product file product-rah_socialgroup_email.xml.
3. Use the Style Manager to find and edit your socialgroups_group template:

Find:

                <vb:if condition="$show['postlink']">
                    <li><a href="group.php?{vb:raw session.sessionurl}do=message&amp;groupid={vb:raw group.groupid}" rel="nofollow">{vb:rawphrase new_discussion}</a></li>
                </vb:if>

Below that ADD:

                <vb:if condition="$groupoptions['email_group']">
                    <li><a href="sendmessage.php?{vb:raw session.sessionurl}do=groupemail&amp;groupid={vb:raw group.groupid}" rel="nofollow">{vb:rawphrase email_members}</a></li>
                </vb:if>

Configuration:
By default, regular members, moderators, super moderators and administrators are configured to be able to send emails to their own social groups. Additionally, administrators are configured to be able to send email to any group. To change these permissions for these or any other groups:

1. In the AdminCP, goto Usergroups -> Usergroup Manager.
2. Edit the user group.
3. Find the section "Social Groups Permissions," and set the permissions for emailing as desired.

Uninstallation (IMPORTANT)
To properly uninstall this product, follow these instructions exactly:

1. Delete the file bitfield_socialgroupemail.xml from your forum/includes/xml directory.
2. Uninstall the product.

Known Issues

• [Unconfirmed] User group settings may need to be refreshed for permissions to be correctly set. [post]

[angeljs]

Same problem with install, but now working fine, thanks for this, been waiting for it!

[egysc]

could it be personal messages please ?

[MagicThemeParks]

Originally Posted by sciencesway.com

could it be personal messages please ?

4.x Mass PM https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...highlight=mass

3.x Mass PM Social Groups https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...highlight=mass

[perfphysio]

Hi there, this is a great mod. BUT I have found a privacy issue with the email it actually send. Included in that email is MY Email Address. As an administrator I do not want my email getting out. I have privacy settings on my account that don't let people email me, PM is OK but the email you send included my email. Is there a way to prevent that from happening?

It also contains a link to a form that actually is disabled when you click on it (due to my settings). It would be great if that just didn't show in the email if that was going to be the case when you had clicked on that link

e.g. it shows like this

Dear SuperFizz,

The following message was sent to all members of Dance Physiotherapy (Ballet focused).

To email xxxxxxxx, you can use this online form:
http://www.physiobob.com/forum/sendm...mailmember&u=1

OR, by email:
mailto: xxxxxxxxxx@gmail.com

This is the message:

Test email to all members

[zapiy]

Can this be configured so anyone from the group can pm all from the group about new events?

Thanks

[hallenberg]

It looks as though permissions have to be refreshed after install because the install code is a little flakey..

<installcode><![CDATA[$vbulletin->db->hide_errors();
$vbulletin->db->query_write("ALTER TABLE ".TABLE_PREFIX."usergroup ADD social_group_permissions_email INT( 10 ) UNSIGNED DEFAULT 0 NOT NULL");
$vbulletin->db->query_write("UPDATE ".TABLE_PREFIX."usergroup SET social_group_permissions_email = 3 WHERE usergroupid = 6");
build_forum_permissions;
$vbulletin->db->query_write("UPDATE ".TABLE_PREFIX."usergroup SET social_group_permissions_email = 1 WHERE usergroupid IN (2,5,7)");
]]></installcode>

..should probably read like this instead:

<installcode><![CDATA[$vbulletin->db->hide_errors();
$vbulletin->db->query_write("ALTER TABLE ".TABLE_PREFIX."usergroup ADD social_group_permissions_email INT( 10 ) UNSIGNED DEFAULT 0 NOT NULL");
$vbulletin->db->query_write("UPDATE ".TABLE_PREFIX."usergroup SET social_group_permissions_email = 3 WHERE usergroupid = 6");
$vbulletin->db->query_write("UPDATE ".TABLE_PREFIX."usergroup SET social_group_permissions_email = 1 WHERE usergroupid IN (2,5,7)");
build_forum_permissions();
]]></installcode>

Then it works fine.