Hi there,

This module is exactly what I'm searching for to add to my forums in my quest to make really good feature rich forums!

However, I have a couple of questions about the user interface I would like to resolve before getting it on the site.

1) I see that ALL my content types and categories are listed in the my subscribtions tab when I log in with a test user, I would really much like it to be only the subscribes elements that appear there and not all the not-subscribed elements...Especially since even the forum containers are listed which is not so good?

2)I would like to have a simple checkbox on the bottom of the "add a comment" text area where the person could click right after having wrote a message?

I think that way would be easier than having to click on the subscribe link that is only visible on the first post of a thread? Is there something I could do about this?

Thanks

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dziemecki commented
Assigned: Unassigned » dziemecki
Status: Active » Fixed

RE: "I would really much like it to be only the subscribes elements that appear there"

The current behavior makes it possible to easily subscribe to any topic that interests you. Without it being here, the user would have to find a post in the right topic to enable the subscription. If no post had been made yet, it wouldn't even be possible. I'd say this behavior makes the most sense for right now.

RE: "Especially since even the forum containers are listed which is not so good?"

Correct. There is already a request to address that and, at some point, I probably will.

RE: "I think that way would be easier than having to click on the subscribe link that is only visible on the first post of a thread? Is there something I could do about this?"

That functionality (if I understand it correctly) does not currently exist. Your options at this point are to a) write it in, yourself, or b) submit a feature request and and if it's worth the effort to enough users, it will become part of the road map.

I hope that answers your questions sufficiently.

Dan Ziemecki

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patchak commented

I'm not sure about this, but would it be easy to create a simple checkbox below the text area form saying, click this to subscribe to this thread?

I'm not so good in php, but is it's simple, I could even do it myself yes.

Any idea to get me started?

Thanks

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dziemecki commented

I'm probably missing somehting, but what wrong with the link currently there that says "Subscribe post"? Are you saying prior to submission of a post? If that's the question, not terribly hard.

If that's your request, I'd submit it as separate (non-mixed-information) request, and it will probably be implemented relatively early.

In the shorter term, this functionality can be approximated with the auto-subscribe option in the user's profile.

As for doing it yourself, I can't guage your skill set from here, but an understanding of the Drupal forms API would help, and a hook to read the input would have to added with the insert. The current auto-subscribe code should server as a guild. In a future build, I'd assume the auto-subscribe would pre-populate the checkbox.

Dan Ziemecki

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patchak commented

HI,

The problem I have is this:

The user can subscribe to a post only by clicking on the link that is in the first post of a thread.

But what I woud really like is to have a checkbox below the text area, so that when someones decides to reply to a topic he can choose to subscribe to the thread right after having written a comment.

The person would then check the box, and submit the comment thus posting a reply and at the same time activating the subscribtion to that specific conversation.

Personnaly, this is always how I subscribe to forum threads...

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dziemecki commented
Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

No follow-up. Issue closed.