Default settings for bookmarks & notifications v5

[richlo]

Hi there

I have become quite confused about how to handle email notifications of posts. All members of our forum want to be notified by email when any new post is put in any thread, in any board. I have read the help files but they seem very confusing and refer to buttons and tabs that don't exist in V5.

From what I can see, the only way to receive an email notification is for every member to bookmark all threads across the hierarchy of topics and then have their profile/notifications set to receive emails for bookmarks.  Q: Is there a way to set up the forum so that all threads within the forum default to be a bookmark for all members? Or does this have to be done by all members individually?

This all seems very clumsy and surely there is a better way to do this. Everything else works really well and it is great forum software, but this issue of email notifications really needs some tidying up and it would be very helpful to have a single click option to receive emails for all new posts in the forum (or at least per board).

Kind regards
Richard

[Melody [MelloLily]]

Feb 20, 2013 10:47:07 GMT -8 Michael said:

Hi,

Users can receive email notifications for a variety of things in v5.

when someone likes your content
when someone quotes you
when someone tags you
when someone follows you
when someone becomes your friend
etc.

As for new posts, or new boards, there are currently no notification options for those at this time. 

Sorry about that, but try requesting for this feature in the "Feature Requests" board.

[trevort]

New proboards user. I have the same issue. Seems the help files and posts on notifications on this forum refer to a different interface than I have available.

I have:

Profile > Member's Bio - Modify Profile - Bookmarks - Social Networks

Select Modify Profile: no further options


How does one access notifications?

[Michael]

Apr 16, 2013 8:57:20 GMT -8 trevort said:

New proboards user. I have the same issue. Seems the help files and posts on notifications on this forum refer to a different interface than I have available.

I have:

Profile > Member's Bio - Modify Profile - Bookmarks - Social Networks

Select Modify Profile: no further options


How does one access notifications?

You're running ProBoards v4. Notifications do not exist in v4. You can upgrade to ProBoards v5 from the admin panel of your forum.

[trevort]

Thanks a lot!

[Melody [MelloLily]]

Apr 16, 2013 9:00:19 GMT -8 Michael said:

Apr 16, 2013 8:57:20 GMT -8 trevort said:

New proboards user. I have the same issue. Seems the help files and posts on notifications on this forum refer to a different interface than I have available.

I have:

Profile > Member's Bio - Modify Profile - Bookmarks - Social Networks

Select Modify Profile: no further options


How does one access notifications?

You're running ProBoards v4. Notifications do not exist in v4. You can upgrade to ProBoards v5 from the admin panel of your forum.

Just curious, how did you know which forum he was talking about?

[Michael]

"Profile > Member's Bio - Modify Profile - Bookmarks - Social Networks

Select Modify Profile: no further options"

This is straight from v4. I used my amazing deductive reasoning skills.

[Melody [MelloLily]]

Apr 16, 2013 10:18:59 GMT -8 Michael said:

"Profile > Member's Bio - Modify Profile - Bookmarks - Social Networks

Select Modify Profile: no further options"

This is straight from v4. I used my amazing deductive reasoning skills.

Great going, I overlooked that.  You should put a custom title on yourself saying "Master Detective" or "Honorary Detective".

[Michael]

Done