Urgent PM's - PM Marked in Red

[monmonmoney]

On the old version of Proboards we had an option to send an urgent PM. That urgent PM was basically just a message marked in red. Is there any way to get a plugin for that?

Thanks!

[Wormopolis]

Any other features you want to throw in while I work on it? Its going to require a conversation key in order to keep the data.

[monmonmoney]

Wormopolis, I think the message in red was all it did before. If you wanted to do more that that, you could have the option of either having a little pop up box that said "Urgent Message" or having the number of unread messages at the top of the forum turn red showing you had an urgent message. If there was a pop up box, it would be good if it was possible to turn it on or off.

[Wormopolis]

global notification of urgent conversations is going to require a super user key since conversation data isnt available anywhere except when looking at private messages.

red border or background or whatever easily done. I can probably move urgent conversations up to the top of the page as well, but conversations that get pushed to later pages wont be able to get pushed to page 1 or anything.

do the conversations stay marked urgent or do they get set to normal after replied to?

[Wormopolis]

Malagrond

you want to convert your code to a plugin or let someone else do it?

[monmonmoney]

Sept 22, 2014 22:00:57 GMT -8 Wormopolis said:

do the conversations stay marked urgent or do they get set to normal after replied to?

After they are replied to they change back to normal.

[Wormopolis]

Give this a shot and see what you think:

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[monmonmoney]

Wormopolis this is even better than what I had in mind. Awesome work! The people on our forum love it too. Thank you!!!!!!

[Wormopolis]

I got to try out something I learned from Eton along the way, so Im glad you like it.

[temperateporcine]

Wormopolis, this would be incredibly useful if admin or staff only could mark a message as urgent, as it is, permissions only allow those included to see the plugin.

Would it be possible to restrict the 'urgent' feature to just certain groups? I'd certainly use that.

[Wormopolis]

well an easy way to ensure only staff set the key, would be to change key write permission to staff. however they would still see the checkbox. I wrote a key permission check somewhere that I can re-use to hide the checkbox if key cant be written

[monmonmoney]

An option of staff only would be fine, but I like how everyone can use this Urgent option & hope that option remains the default.

[Wormopolis]

yeah if you leave the key at members and staff then everyone will still see it

[temperateporcine]

Sept 27, 2014 19:13:31 GMT -8 Wormopolis said:

well an easy way to ensure only staff set the key, would be to change key write permission to staff. however they would still see the checkbox. I wrote a key permission check somewhere that I can re-use to hide the checkbox if key cant be written

When I set the key write permission to staff only, non staff don't see the urgent flag if you see what I mean, I was hoping to give staff only the ability to flag messages as urgent.

[Wormopolis]

no leave the READ part on members and staff, just change the WRITE one. I just found the function I was looking for so I can add that in for the library release