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Ability to send global PM/email when editing an existing post

FO formbet
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May 1, 2013 · 7:45 pm · Edited

I have fixed locked daily topics where I upload an information spreadsheet each day.

ie. Monday Ratings

Tuesday Ratings 

etc etc

In SMF I was able to use the “Announce Topic” checkbox which would then send out an email to those who had subscriber to the level above topic containing each day’s data – is there a way to do this now within the post when ‘editing’ it without manually sending a global PM each time.

If there isn’t I would like to request it as a feature as at the moment I am using the “Announce” banner along the top of the forum which Mr Papa kindly created – please advise on how I could proceed. Thanks.

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MP Mr Papa
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May 1, 2013 · 9:23 pm

not sure I follow…  users can already subscribe to forums and topics and get an auto email on new posts…  the subscription emails can either be immediate or a daily/weekly digest…

am I missing something?

FO formbet
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May 2, 2013 · 3:12 am

It’s not a new post though – I just EDIT the existing post for whatever day of the week  and upload a new daily excel file each day. It’s kind of like a placeholder.

FO formbet
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May 2, 2013 · 4:30 am

I guess a good logical place for it to be would be in the Forum Toolset under “Notify User” with an option to notify ALL forum members ie. with a checkbox ?

MP Mr Papa
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May 2, 2013 · 9:39 am

We can certainly add it to our list… but first time anything like this has been requested…

YS Yellow Swordfish
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May 2, 2013 · 10:00 am

It might actually be worth your while to investigate mail list plugins. That would give you more options and control I suspect as well as an easy way to customise the message being sent,

FO formbet
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May 3, 2013 · 9:00 am

Yellow Swordfish said
It might actually be worth your while to investigate mail list plugins. That would give you more options and control I suspect as well as an easy way to customise the message being sent,

You mean a mail list plugin specifically for the forum or for wordpress ? 

At the moment I have a membership plugin which protects the forum for subscriber use only. I upload a daily ratings file under ‘Monday’, ‘Tuesday’ etc and would just like everyone notified when I have updated that post via PM – I previously used SMF forum and this was possible so hope it can be an option for a future Simple-Press release but for the moment I am using the Announce banner that Mr Papa put together which I think is fine for now. Thanks for the updates guys.

YS Yellow Swordfish
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May 3, 2013 · 1:11 pm

I don’t fully understand. If t is a PM you need them why can you just not PM all users when you need to?

As to the email plugin suggestion then yes – a plugin for WordPress.