Miscellaneous Hacks - Quote Notification via PM

Quote Notification

Description: This plugin will add a "Quote Notification" option for users to select. If selected, your board users will receive a notification by PM whenever someone quotes them in a post.


Installation:

• Import the attached product XML file (product-quotenotification.xml);

More settings:

• If you want to change the content of the PM that gets sent, the phrases are quotenotify_subject and quotenotify_message;
• The email notification has a separate phrase, quotenotify_emailmessage;
• If you want to change the Profile Field options, find the "Quote Notification" field in your User Profile Field Manager in the ACP;
• If you're not sure exactly what you're doing, you better leave these alone.

Warning: DO NOT change the title of the Profile Field from "Quote Notification", or the values from "Private Message", "Email", and "No" or this hack will not work.



User settings:

• Your forum users can set their Quote Notification prefferences via User CP > General Settings > under Messaging & Notification.

This hack is a port of Krohf's modification for vb 3.5.
Since many people might find it handy on their boards, I decided to publish it for 4.0.


If you installed the product please mark as installed, so you can receive future update notifications. If you want to help develop this product further, please post your suggestions on the thread, or share your ideas with me via PM.

[BasicGreatGuy]

Originally Posted by 8thos

Cosign!

This comes standard in XenForo.

How do we add the quote notifications via notifications?

I too would like to be able to do this. Anyone know how?

[Max Taxable]

Originally Posted by BasicGreatGuy

I too would like to be able to do this. Anyone know how?

You want this to not send a private message, because it is filling up the inboxes of members who have a set limit to their PM capacity, am I right?

You would instead like to have it merely give notification in the navbar.

Right so far?

[BasicGreatGuy]

Originally Posted by Max Taxable

You want this to not send a private message, because it is filling up the inboxes of members who have a set limit to their PM capacity, am I right?

You would instead like to have it merely give notification in the navbar.

Right so far?

Correct.

[Max Taxable]

Originally Posted by BasicGreatGuy

Correct.

Okay what do you want to happen when they click that notifier? There's still got to be a way to find out who quoted you in what post, otherwise what's the point of the Mod. Right?

So that if you have a notify that three people quoted you, what should happen on click?

[BasicGreatGuy]

Originally Posted by Max Taxable

Okay what do you want to happen when they click that notifier? There's still got to be a way to find out who quoted you in what post, otherwise what's the point of the Mod. Right?

So that if you have a notify that three people quoted you, what should happen on click?

The person gets a notification alert as shown in the example below. Said person clicks the link, and they are shown their post and the thread where it came from, as well as giving said person the direct link to the quoted post.

[Max Taxable]

Originally Posted by BasicGreatGuy

The person gets a notification alert as shown in the example below. Said person clicks the link, and they are shown their post and the thread where it came from, as well as giving said person the direct link to the quoted post.

But if there exists more than one quote?

[BasicGreatGuy]

Originally Posted by Max Taxable

But if there exists more than one quote?

Then there would be multiple quote alerts (I suppose) unless the quotes all came from the same thread. Then, there would probably be one quote alert from someone using the multi-quote feature from the same thread.

[Max Taxable]

Originally Posted by BasicGreatGuy

Then there would be multiple quote alerts (I suppose) unless the quotes all came from the same thread. Then, there would probably be one quote alert from someone using the multi-quote feature from the same thread.

What you would have is a number (3) or otherwise, however many quotes of your posts there are. Okay then given that, what should happen on click?

[RichieBoy67]

Does anyone have the fix for 4.2?

[Max Taxable]

Originally Posted by RichieBoy67

Does anyone have the fix for 4.2?

I think some enterprising developer here needs to just re-do and update this Mod.