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

[cellarius]

No prob, as long as we get it working

[Alfa1]

How can I get this to work with vbadvanced?
If a member clicks on the link from a vba page, it will send the use to mysite.com/group.php instead of mysite.com/forum/group.php

[cellarius]

Originally Posted by Alfa1

How can I get this to work with vbadvanced?
If a member clicks on the link from a vba page, it will send the use to mysite.com/group.php instead of mysite.com/forum/group.php

Check out the new build I just uploaded - you now can define a custom URL in AdminCP.

[Alfa1]

Very nice. Thank you.

I added this to a large site, and got many bug reports from confused members, because when I started to use this mod, all members had more notifications, than they could discover. Many groups that where not listed in bold on group.php did cause a notification by this mod. The groups also did not have any bold / unread threads.

Only after they go to each group, one by one and use the 'mark group as read' function, the notification went away.

Its still driving my members mad, though an announcement does help a lot.

[Alfa1]

This modification has really increased activity in my Social Groups! My members are posting up a storm. Where I had only a few new posts to approve a day, I now have a new one every few minutes.

[Mark.B]

This is now pretty much perfect, thanks Cellarius.

Another of those "why isn't it in the default build?" addons - of which there are several for Social Groups.

[Mysterious Ride]

<font color="DarkOrchid">Hello,

I'm not sure what I could be doing wrong, but its not working on my board. I did everything that you said, but it still doesn't show up. Could there be something that I'm missing?</font>

[DieselMinded]

Im using Inactivity/Cookie Based how can i get this to work?

[cellarius]

Originally Posted by DieselMinded

Im using Inactivity/Cookie Based how can i get this to work?

From the mod description:

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

Since I don't put up red waring messages lightly, the answer of course is: You can't. If you want to know why, fell free to read the first post, right unter that red text.

[DieselMinded]

Yeah i read that , Usually after 4 pages on a mod 99% of the things in the first post don't apply anymore