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 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

#### Don't forget to click install! ####
No support if you don't!

This mod is also available for vB4:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=228280

[Naan-Kadavul]

thankssss

[MrRem]

Does this need any template edits to appear in a custom theme?
I have changed my database read settings but still this isn't working :S

EDIT: Works fine

[Mark.B]

I have this installed but turned off as I can't quite get it working correctly.

1) When there are new messages, I can get the notification to show up in the notifications list, but when there are none, the entry should still be there but marked with a "zero" to make it consistent with the other notifications, but this isn't the case.

2) Sometimes when someone posts a new group message, two notifications show up but you cannot get rid of the first one - it still thinks there is a new message when there is not one.

But thank you for developing this, with tweaks it will become a must-have.

[cellarius]

This new build entails:

• complete rewrite of the database queries. This should some problems some users have been experiencing.
• the groups line is now always showing in the notices dropdown (i.e. also if it's at 0), as requested.

I hope that in this version, the mod will work for everyone who had issues before. Please remember that you will find subscribed threads marked as new only in UserCP and groups you are a member of on the groups page. This is somewhat disparate, but can't be helped.

[Thelonius Beck]

Thank you. This has been long awaited.

*Edit; Product failing to recognize when messages have been "Read".

[Taragon]

Thanks!
Do you suggest upgrading to the latest version, even if the previous one worked(s) like a charm? (meaning, except for the altered dropdown menue, have any new features been added?)

Again, much appreciated!

[cellarius]

Yes, I do suggest upgrading. The new queries are lighter and more "robust". The news are under the hood

[Thelonius Beck]

Originally Posted by Thelonius Beck

Thank you. This has been long awaited.


*Edit; Product failing to recognize when messages have been "Read".

Originally Posted by cellarius

Yes, I do suggest upgrading. The new queries are lighter and more "robust". The news are under the hood

My comment was in reference to the upgrade. Please advise.

[cellarius]

Do you use this setting (see note in red in mod description):
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)

With any other setting there the mod won't work.

[Thelonius Beck]

Originally Posted by cellarius

Do you use this setting (see note in red in mod description):
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)

With any other setting there the mod won't work.

Thank you for doing the thinking for me :blush: My bad. Great mod, thank you very much.