Checkbox to send automatic notification to users? Patch instructions

Good point. As a developer, I always use the "add multiple users" feature to add test users to new installations. I can see how it would be useful to be able to send a welcome email to users added this way. If anyone wants to take a crack at a patch, I'd welcome it.

I am just adding about 150+ users and was wishing how useful it would be to have this feature. Especially now that drupal implements a checkbox an admin can tick to send a welcome message. It is going to be a pain to click on each user's edit link and check this box:(

I've just been looking for this feature. The only workaround I've found is to patch user.module from this thread: http://drupal.org/node/80614. It adds a checkbox to the edit users screen. This kind of defeats the point of bulk adds though.

Ian

This is a feature that would be really great for userplus. I want to create bulk accounts but would like to avoid having to distribute user info manually to everybody.

I'm setting this to be a 5.x feature. I'd like to get it in there (and if someone wants to submit a patch, I'll test it out and apply it when it's ready) at some point. Once it's in 5.x, someone can backport it to 4.7.x if anyone is still interested.

Marc

seconding everyone here.

I'll add my vote for this.

BTW, the user import module does this, so there might be some code in there to draw from. In particular, there's a function called _user_import_send_email that looks like it will do what's needed.

Here's a patch.

I haven't tried this yet but looked over the code and it looks good.

Has anyone else tried to apply the patch? Does it work for you?

Thanks for providing this. If I can get a little bit of community testing of the patch it'll help me get off my duff and commit the change.

- Marc

Suscribing, because this feature is a long awaited must ;)

Rosamunda - have you tried the patch? Did it work for you?

Way thanks for patch, I have several thousand members to do on D 5.7

Newbee to drupal but can read and tweak most types of code and configure with help from how to's.
Which file and what lines to put the patch?
What possible errors, and how to fix?
Is there a sample page with how the code should look on/in the whole page of code?
or
Step by step instruction for absolute beginners, with a sample?

Thanks again

Committed. Thank you for the patch, Xen.dk.