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!!

[greenhybrid]

It does? Not for me. At least not that I've noticed...

[cmiller1014]

It must just be me who has all these problems with this hack. Or everyone else is blind to the fact that calendar events dont show up, deleted posts are displayed, and there are a number of other small bugs. Sorry to be so blunt, but the entire thig is just sloppy.

[nnjj.net]

Originally Posted by cmiller1014

Depends on what you consider "working" . It has a ton of bugs, and sends links to threads that are deleted. The entire thing is a waste of time in my opinion.

Is there ANY OTHER option out there for something like this???

well this is not a happy idea :disappointed:

[mikehawk]

Dear god is this good sh!t! INSTALL AND USED! Just what I needed...

[mikehawk]

I wish you could send e-mail to all users (even ones that have declined Admin e-mails) like you can in the "send e-mail to users" option....

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[Snitz]

I wanna ask a question....

can I add a custom text to the generated mailing list email ??

[simple_john]

i love the newsletter.. but have a question..

when specifying who gets the newsletter.. i can check which user group should get it..
The selected groups only send to the members 'primary group' not additional group

meaning: i have user set up as 'registered user' but they also pay subscription so the get an added group called 'sponsor'

if i select to send to 'sponsors' they dont get a letter because it only sends to those whose primary group is set as sponsor... not the additional group.... is there a way to change this so that it sends to additional group types also?

and yes, the obvious suggestion would be to change the subscription manager to change their primary group to 'sponsor'.. But if i do this.. then mods who are sponsors would have their primary group set as sponsor.. so then if i wanted to send a newsletter to only mods.. i would not be able to do this.. because mods would be their added user group not their primary group..



thanks in advance for any suggestions...

[pagekeeper]

Just curious, im sure most of you are aware of godaddy, and if you've ever geninly used their email system ... each email you recieve allows you to contact support back ... i was thinking if there could be a possiblity of adding that ablity to reply to a post in an email ? might be stupid but i guess some people might have long on a computer or cant be bothered logining in or something.. whatever and might reply quickly in the email something like <<<<< reply above this line >>>>>>> becomes a post ???

[The Geek]

Wow - that took the cake for 'the biggest pain in the butt to alter to my liking award' - not that I dont like the hack as it was... I think its a superb mod... I just wanted a very different look and functionality.

It would be cool to see this reworked to use templates and better block configuration.

Once again - cool mod.
You can see how mines coming along here

[cmiller1014]

Would still love to have a good working version of this. I will pay someone to create one for me. CommBull has way too many bugs.