Send a Private Message to user (and optional user note) when approved for a usergroup

Send a Private Message to user (and optional user note) when approved for a usergroup

This is a product that will send an automatic private message to a user (and optionally place a profile note in their profile) after being approved for a usergroup using the 'group memberships' system (and only the group memberships system).

Difficulty of installation: Easy!
Time to install: About 1 minute.

There are two versions of this product. One will add the profile note and the other will not. The one that adds a profile note works nicely with this plugin that places a note when a user requests to join. These help moderators and admins know who placed a request when and if they were approved, who did the approval and when (without having to dig into the logs).

This was inspired by Amykhar's plugin that emails the usergroup leaders upon a request (but does not replace it). With her permission, I used a bit of her code and thank her greatly for that plugin.

Download Instructions
Choose your version (do not install both):

• product_ug_approval_pm_un.xml
  This version sends the user who was approved a private message and adds the user note to the member's profile
• product_ug_approval_pm.xml
  This version only sends the user who was approved a private message

Install Instructions
Go to your admin cp, then:
Plugin System -> Manage Products -> [Add/Import Product] -> Browse and select the plugin you downloaded to your computer then press 'Import'.

This installs one plugin and one phrase.


Upgrade Instructions
Go to your admin cp, then:
Plugin System -> Manage Products -> find "PM to user when approved by Majorxp" and choose uninstall from the dropdown box. Then reinstall using instructions above.



Usage Instructions
You can edit the phrase UG_approval_pm to change the approval PM. The version that adds the usernote has the usernote hard coded. If enough folks want it phrased, let me know.

Misc Notes
This does not send out a PM or user note if the user request is denied. This was done below by another coder, but I have not yet fully tested it personally.

This also does not send a PM if you use the admincp or moderatorcp to promote users and I have no intentions of working on such a mod.


** If you use this product, please click install so I know that folks actually use this! **


1.0.1 Fixed bug with product_ug_approval_pm_un version
1.0.0 Initial Release Version

Keywords: Private Message, PM, user group, user note, approval, approve, email

[Kihon Kata]

It sure did! Thanks. I am looking for this option:

I'm going to look into adding the functionality of sending an email when a user is approved in the control panels.

[Snake]

Excellent!

[alshehi]

very nice

[majorxp]

Originally Posted by alshehi

very nice

Don't forget to click the install link!

[Hornstar]

What about the option for the usergroup leader to write a note, that then gets sent to the people that dont get accepted so they know why they were not accepted.

[majorxp]

Originally Posted by hornstar1337

What about the option for the usergroup leader to write a note, that then gets sent to the people that dont get accepted so they know why they were not accepted.

This does not send out an PM or user note if the user request is denied. I might add that later if enough folks want that functionality.

[PimvanJ]

It also does not send one if you use the admincp or moderatorcp to promote users, but I might add that in the future.

Is this hard to code?
I'm the only one that promote users to a secondary usergroup, now sending every user a mail by myself.

[majorxp]

Well, I just tested a few things and it turns out that sending emails off the control panel when users are added to a secondary group is a lot harder than I had anticipated.

It would be easier to make a whole new page solely designed to add secondary usergroups to a user and send them a PM.

I would take a stab at it, but I have a bunch of other pet projects I am working on that need to be completed first.

[ChrisBaktis]

I second the request for the ability to send a PM upon an Admin/mod Promtion. At first this was exactly as I needed until I saw your Misc Info section.

[majorxp]

This hack has been updated with a bugfix.

The fix only is needed for the version that inserts a user note (product ug approval pm un.xml). If you have installed this, please download and install the latest version.

Majorxp