Support Forum

Advanced Search
Forum Scope


Match



Forum Options



Minimum search word length is 3 characters - maximum search word length is 84 characters
plugins-topic
Forum subscription button missing
Avatar
Les Smith
Member
sp_UserOfflineSmall Offline
Dec 11, 2017 - 2:38 pm

The Subscriptions plugin implies that a forum page, there should be an option for a user to subscribe to that forum (which I assume means notifications for all new topics created, replies, etc.).

I see the subscribe button on the topic page, but not on the forum page.

Topic page:

topic.JPGImage Enlarger

 

Forum page:

forum.JPGImage Enlarger

 

Thoughts?

Avatar
Yellow Swordfish
Glinton, England
SP Master
sp_UserOfflineSmall Offline
Dec 11, 2017 - 3:25 pm

Have you turned on the option to allow forum subscriptions? Components > Subscriptions admin panel.

You may also need to visit the permissions to set which user groups/permission sets you wish to allow to use this.

andy-signature.png
YELLOW
SWORDFISH
Avatar
Les Smith
Member
sp_UserOfflineSmall Offline
Dec 11, 2017 - 4:53 pm

Everything seems to be enabled in both sections. "Allow members to subscribe to forums in addition to topics" in the former and "Can subscribe to forums" in the latter.

Avatar
Yellow Swordfish
Glinton, England
SP Master
sp_UserOfflineSmall Offline
Dec 11, 2017 - 6:02 pm

OK - next question would be what SP theme are you using?

andy-signature.png
YELLOW
SWORDFISH
Avatar
Les Smith
Member
sp_UserOfflineSmall Offline
Dec 12, 2017 - 1:53 am

Looks like tbtheme

Avatar
Les Smith
Member
sp_UserOfflineSmall Offline
Dec 12, 2017 - 1:57 am

Ah wait, that's clearly had some customization, based on the Default theme.

I swapped back to Default and still do not see buttons to subscribe to an entire forum.

Avatar
Yellow Swordfish
Glinton, England
SP Master
sp_UserOfflineSmall Offline
Dec 12, 2017 - 10:20 am

You will need to add it to your custom theme. There is an explanation of the code and an example here in our Codex:

https://simple-press.com/docum.....orumButton

This will need to go in the spForumView.php template. Normally it would appear beside the add topic button so go down and find the block of code named the pageLinks section. By default and with the addition of the forum subscribe button, the code should now like:

# Start the 'pagelinks' section
 # ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 sp_SectionStart('tagClass=spPlainSection', 'pageLinks');
    sp_TopicNewButton('tagId=spTopicNewButtonBottom&tagClass=spButton spRight', __sp('Add Topic'), __sp('Start a new topic'), __sp('This forum is locked'), __sp('No permission to start topics'));
     sp_SubscriptionsSubscribeForumButton('tagClass=spSubscriptionsSubscribeForumButton spButton spRight', 'Subscribe', 'UnSubscribe','Subscribe to this forum', 'UnSubscribe from this forum');
     sp_TopicIndexPageLinks('', __sp('Page: '), __sp('Jump to page %PAGE% of topics'), __sp('Jump to page'));
     sp_InsertBreak();
 sp_SectionEnd('', 'pageLinks');
andy-signature.png
YELLOW
SWORDFISH
Avatar
Les Smith
Member
sp_UserOfflineSmall Offline
Dec 12, 2017 - 11:56 am

Making sure we're on the same page - it isn't included, out of the box, with the Default theme?

Avatar
Yellow Swordfish
Glinton, England
SP Master
sp_UserOfflineSmall Offline
Dec 12, 2017 - 12:26 pm

Apparently not. Unsure why but there are several tags that are not included by default.

andy-signature.png
YELLOW
SWORDFISH
Avatar
Les Smith
Member
sp_UserOfflineSmall Offline
Dec 12, 2017 - 12:42 pm

Good enough.

Semi-related, if a user subscribes to a forum, are they automatically subscribed to all child forums (existing and created down the road)?

Forum Timezone: Europe/Stockholm
Most Users Ever Online: 1170
Currently Online:
Guest(s) 1
Currently Browsing this Page:
1 Guest(s)
Top Posters:
Mr Papa: 19448
Ike: 2086
Brandon: 864
kvr28: 804
jim: 650
FidoSysop: 577
Conrad_Farlow: 531
fiddlerman: 358
Stefano Prete: 325
Member Stats:
Guest Posters: 619
Members: 17362
Moderators: 0
Admins: 4
Forum Stats:
Groups: 7
Forums: 17
Topics: 10127
Posts: 79625