Automated link to PM admin does not work

[Brad]

Forum URL: mycovenantpath.freeforums.net/

In the support webpage, "How to Have Members Agree to Rules Before Accessing Forum" support.proboards.com/thread/663519/members-agree-rules-before-accessing it gives instructions, to which I followed exactly and the code line to insert. However, using test users, on clicking the link "Click to Accept Terms" in the Please Read thread, nothing happens except that it opens a new tab to the Please Read thread.

Does anyone have any ideas?

[Craig]

Hi

Between some [code][/code] tags, could you post the link you put in the post, please.

Craig

[Lynx]

Jan 25, 2021 1:52:11 GMT -8 Brad said:

Forum URL: mycovenantpath.freeforums.net/

In the support webpage, "How to Have Members Agree to Rules Before Accessing Forum" support.proboards.com/thread/663519/members-agree-rules-before-accessing it gives instructions, to which I followed exactly and the code line to insert. However, using test users, on clicking the link "Click to Accept Terms" in the Please Read thread, nothing happens except that it opens a new tab to the Please Read thread.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Try this:


[a href="https://mycovenantpath.freeforums.net/conversation/new/1?subject=Agreement%20Acceptance&message=I%20accept%20the%20agreement%2E%0A%0A%0A%0AClick%20the%20Create%20Message%20button%2C%20bottom%20right%2C%20to%20agree%2E%20"]Click to Accept Terms[/a]


[Craig]

Thanks

I've just tried it on my test forum, and it seems to work ok. Do you have anything in your censored words list which may be interfering with it? If you edit the post, does it still show the coding there?

admin > security > censored words.

[Lynx]

Jan 25, 2021 7:02:04 GMT -8 Craig said:

Thanks

I've just tried it on my test forum, and it seems to work ok. Do you have anything in your censored words list which may be interfering with it? If you edit the post, does it still show the coding there?

admin > security > censored words.

Just to note, Craig, I'm not the OP.

Also to note, there were 2 periods in the URL that I encoded into %2E - thinking the periods in the URL may have interfered with the URL from executing properly.

[Craig]

Jan 25, 2021 7:09:40 GMT -8 Lynx said:

Jan 25, 2021 7:02:04 GMT -8 Craig said:

Thanks

I've just tried it on my test forum, and it seems to work ok. Do you have anything in your censored words list which may be interfering with it? If you edit the post, does it still show the coding there?

admin > security > censored words.

Just to note, Craig , I'm not the OP.

Also to note, there were 2 periods in the URL that I encoded into %2E - thinking the periods in the URL may have interfered with the URL from executing properly.

Haha. Oops.  Thanks 

[Brad]

Hi, Craig and MSG,

I just copied and pasted the provided code from the webpage instructions:


Click to Accept Terms

I haven't even messed with the censored words yet. I just started this forum and haven't had a chance to look at that feature yet. I will try the code you provided, MSG and report back.

[Brad]

Lynx THANKS! That took care of it. I'll have to look and compare your code to what was given on the support webpage. And thanks, Craig, for your help.

How do I change it if I would like it to say instead, "I accept the Rules and Guidelines"?

[Scott]

Brad ,

Look for message= and right after that replace just this part:
I%20accept%20the%20agreement%2E
with
I%20accept%20the%20Rules%20and%20Guidelines

[Lynx]

Jan 25, 2021 10:51:44 GMT -8 Brad said:

Lynx THANKS! That took care of it. I'll have to look and compare your code to what was given on the support webpage. And thanks, Craig, for your help.

How do I change it if I would like it to say instead, "I accept the Rules and Guidelines"?

The only difference in what I gave compared to the Help Guide article is that there were 2 periods in the URL in the Help Guide that I changed to %2E.

[Retread]

Jan 25, 2021 13:10:50 GMT -8 Lynx said:

The only difference in what I gave compared to the Help Guide article is that there were 2 periods in the URL in the Help Guide that I changed to %2E.

... and you substituted mycovenantpath.freeforums.net for Your Forum URL .

[Lynx]

Jan 25, 2021 13:18:09 GMT -8 Retread said:

Jan 25, 2021 13:10:50 GMT -8 Lynx said:

The only difference in what I gave compared to the Help Guide article is that there were 2 periods in the URL in the Help Guide that I changed to %2E.

... and you substituted mycovenantpath.freeforums.net for Your Forum URL .

Eh, technicalities.

[Brad]

Jan 25, 2021 11:51:46 GMT -8 Scott said:

Brad ,

Look for message= and right after that replace just this part:
I%20accept%20the%20agreement%2E
with
I%20accept%20the%20Rules%20and%20Guidelines

Oh, OK, I tried that without the "%2E" and that's why it didn't work. Thanks, Scott.

[Brad]

The only difference in what I gave compared to the Help Guide article is that there were 2 periods in the URL in the Help Guide that I changed to %2E.

So is this something that forum owners need to know about and change in the Help Guide?

[Lynx]

Jan 25, 2021 14:51:33 GMT -8 Brad said:

Jan 25, 2021 11:51:46 GMT -8 Scott said:

Brad ,

Look for message= and right after that replace just this part:
I%20accept%20the%20agreement%2E
with
I%20accept%20the%20Rules%20and%20Guidelines

Oh, OK, I tried that without the "%2E" and that's why it didn't work. Thanks, Scott.

The %2E is not needed - it replaced the "." with it's URL equivalent so the URL would work properly. I could have just as easily just removed the "."'s in the URL and it would've worked that way as well.

Jan 25, 2021 14:56:09 GMT -8 Brad said:

The only difference in what I gave compared to the Help Guide article is that there were 2 periods in the URL in the Help Guide that I changed to %2E.

So is this something that forum owners need to know about and change in the Help Guide?

I believe that will be changed in the Help Guide in the near future.