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Friday, 06 January 2012

Next week we start building events system.

Events system is the same concept as we invented on AngelDesk. I think you all use it and already know how it works. This system will not allow you to miss any important event without spamming your email. I am sure you all like event system on AngelDesk.

It will be possible to subscribe not only to watch article but also section or category. There will be special view to show events list and separate list to show subscriptions. User will be able to unsubscribe any topic or category as in topic or topic list as in special subscriptions list.

Of course it leads to 3 new elements in user menu

  1. articles in section he subscribed
  2. articles with new events
  3. Subscribe/Unsubscribe section

When Subscribe/Unsubscribe section user will be able to choose categories if he want to subscribe only some categories. Also select type if section is multiple type.

Email alert will be made as it is made on AngelDesk. User will not get new email on every new event like it was before. Once a day, week or month (depending on user settings) he will get email alert summary of all events.

By the way every section will have options. It is also user menu element which will open popup where user will be able to set what events he what to receive and what he do not.

I am ready to listen any ideas you have regarding events system.

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Sergey Romanov STAFF
 
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nuclearcrashAvatar
Written by: nuclearcrash
On 07 January 2012

Hi, correct the title of this tread :

.....| Evets system

nuclearcrashAvatar
Written by: nuclearcrash
On 09 January 2012

Hi, emails generated from events can be multilanguage? Ex : if member use french frontend language will receive alert email in french language.

SerhioAvatar
Written by: Serhio STAFF
On 09 January 2012

Yes, it will be multilanguage emails. There is one problem to identify user default language. I mean for example someone added comment on French and event registered to user who use English. How do i know that?

There is default language parameter but it is only in admin. We rae thinking and if we find the way we will do it. But letetrs will be translatable for sure.

nuclearcrashAvatar
Written by: nuclearcrash
On 09 January 2012

ok thank you ! for this informations :)

saeedghAvatar
Written by: saeedgh VIP
On 10 January 2012

It is good to have Follow events for moderators too .

for example for :
. Articles pending approval
,...

sackgesichtAvatar
Written by: sackgesicht VIP
On 10 January 2012

Regarding the email notification system, i would highly recommend an email template system.

As of now (Resources 1.5.9), the jos_js_res_alerts table consumes always a lot of space (compared to the other tables) because of the stored HTML emails.

Another aspect for consideration would be "imported records". It would be good to provide an interface for importing records and automatically apply the necessary settings from the "events system" to these articles/records. There might be occassions, where records/articles will be generated from other sources and not only by manual entering them into the database. 
Example: Reading RSS, XML feeds etc etc ...

Btw, nice mind mapping graphics ... ;-)

SerhioAvatar
Written by: Serhio STAFF
On 10 January 2012

There will be only one email alert. It is Digest. In 1.5.9 every event send email. Now events are saved and only once a day or week depending on user settings user get events summary. Actualy user will be able even turn alers off. Now if admin have turned it on user will receive no matter what.  

Regarding subscription on import sounds good. Only one thing. there are 1000 users. Whom I have o subscribe to new importen article? May be user can set parameter "Automatically subscribe me to every new article"?

sackgesichtAvatar
Written by: sackgesicht VIP
On 10 January 2012

Sergey,

"Regarding subscription on import sounds good. Only one thing. there are 1000 users. Whom I have o subscribe to new importen article? "

See the answer in your original post:

When Subscribe/Unsubscribe section user will be able to choose categories if he want to subscribe only some categories. 

Depending on his category/section setting, the user will be notified when a new article/record was imported or manually created ... ;-)  

SerhioAvatar
Written by: Serhio STAFF
On 11 January 2012

Yee, That will be like this.

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