Change Inbox's 'Created By' Column to "Recipients'

[dillonk47polik]

I want my Inbox to display 'Recipients' rather than the who created the first message. If I'm viewing my message list within my inbox, I am not able to see who my conversation is with if I was the one created the conversation. I would like the "Created By' column to be replaced by the 'recipients' column like the outbox utilizes.

Would this be a simple template mod? And could someone help me by providing the code?

[Kiyuo Honoo]

Hi! I went and tried this out and it's a pretty simple mod. Go to Layout Templates > Conversations Page

A bit down the page on the first tab there you should see

{if $[outbox]}
<th class="recipients">Recipients</th>
{else}
<th class="created-by">Created By</th>
{/if}

and you can change "Created By" to "Recipients".

I'm not sure if anything else needs to be changed but this should be a start.

[dillonk47polik]

May 7, 2015 5:36:02 GMT -8 Kiyuo Honoo said:

Hi! I went and tried this out and it's a pretty simple mod. Go to Layout Templates > Conversations Page

A bit down the page on the first tab there you should see

{if $[outbox]}
<th class="recipients">Recipients</th>
{else}
<th class="created-by">Created By</th>
{/if}

and you can change "Created By" to "Recipients".

I'm not sure if anything else needs to be changed but this should be a start.

I thought about that too, and even tried it yesterday, but it doesn't do what I want it to. All it did was change the word to 'recipients'; the column still shows the person who started the conversation for each message.

[Kiyuo Honoo]

Oh, okay.

I just went and tried it again and it seems to work if <th class="created-by">Created By</th> is replaced by <th class="recipients">Recipients</th>. So you can give that a try.

[dillonk47polik]

Still doesn't work. I have a conversation between my account and a test account. In my outbox under recipients it shows "testmember" (like it should), but in my inbox (which I changed to the code above) my account still displays under recipients even though I am not recipient.

[Brian]

You'd want to focus on this part in the Conversation List tab.

{if $[outbox]}
    <td class="recipients clickable">
        $[conversation.recipients]
    </td>
{else}
    <td class="created-by">
        $[conversation.created_by]
    </td>
{/if}

Changing the part in green to $[conversation.recipients] should produce the proper result.

[dillonk47polik]

Thanks Brian, that did what I wanted it to. But after doing that, I realized that the recipient is the person who didn't send the first message, and not the other person involved in the conversation. That means if someone sent the message to me first then my account shows under recipients in my inbox. So I am still not able to see who the other person is in the conversation for all messages.

But I figured out how to put both a created by column and recipients column side by side in the inbox and outbox. I just took from what I learned from the codes you and Kiyuo Honoo gave me



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