I am looking for a way to subscribe users to specific Forums or Forum containers. This module however only seems to be able to subscribe to all Forum posts (all nodes of the "Forum topic" content type). The Subscriptions module into text mentions: "This module enables users to subscribe to be notified of changes to nodes or taxonomies, such as new comments in specific forums". Does this mean that this is only possible with the Subscriptions module, but not with Notifications?

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michelle
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Location Wisconsin, USA
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Notifications will let you subscribe to a taxonomy term, which means you can subscribe to a forum. However, I couldn't see any UI for it outside of going into the settings on your account and typing the term in. If there's not already a better way that I'm just not seeing, I could add something to AF for it.

Michelle

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roball commented

Hi Michelle,

yes, it seems the Taxonomy Notifications module is missing a config page that allows signing up to selected forums, similar to what Taxonomy Subscriptions provides at Administer » Site configuration » Subscriptions -> [ User defaults ] -> Categories.

There is even an option "Limit the displayed taxonomy terms" at admin/messaging/notifications/content to avoid displaying terms on "the Tags tab", but there is no such tab.

Assuming my User ID is 123 and there is a forum with the term ID 456, I can subscribe to this forum using notifications/subscribe/123/taxonomy/tid/456.

If this module lacks this feature, it sure would be useful to see it in your Advanced Forum.

Thank you.

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jose reyero commented
Version: 6.x-2.1 » 6.x-4.x-dev
Category: support » feature

@Michelle,

Yes, we are lacking some specific UI.

The problem with 'generic' taxonomy subscriptions is that we cannot just add as 'Subscribe to' link for each term, as there may be too many of them. Old versions of the module did though, it was just very confusing.

However, a simple add-on that would provide that link for 'forum' terms would make a lot of sense, it would be welcomed as a simple patch for 'notifications_tags' or as an add on module if you want more complex UI.

For anyone who wants to try, it's all about the notifications_object_node('options', $node) hook (it was hook_notifications('node options') in 2.x)

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michelle
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I'm not using Notifications anymore because of #637320: Nodecomment Integration. If someone wants to write a patch for AF, I'll take a look but that's all the more I can commit to right now.

Michelle

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miro_dietiker
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I was working on an integration that exposes a "Forum" subscription list in addition to the "Tags".
It's called notifications_forum and provides a separate clean ui with selectable forums.

Note it doesn't take nodecomment into account.

Is there some interest in integrating this in notifications? (although we have a potential overlap to taxonomy..)
Note the overlap can be eliminated by unselecting the forum vocabulary in the taxonomy candidate list.

jose reyero’s picture

jose reyero commented

I thin extending notifications_tags' page subscriptions to include forum pages too, would be ok.

For more forum-specific features, a new module will be fine, but better as stand alone or into 'notifications_extra' so we keep the core package as small as possible.

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ohnobinki commented

+

Adding UI to taxonomy notifications would sound great.