Apologies for the dumb question, but I’ve installed subscriptions and membership subscriptions, and I can’t see how a user can ‘opt-in’ to subscribing to an entire forum? I don’t want to auto-subscribe anyone.
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Have you enabled forum subscriptions in your subscription options? forum – components – subscriptions…
If so, do users have permission to subscribe? you would need to check your permission sets on forum – permissions – manage permissions…
once those two are enabled, users can subscribe in one of two ways…
1) the subscribe forum button/icon on group view… its in the status icons (middle) of each listed forum… its the heart with plus sign…
2) or using the template tag sp_SubscriptionsSubscribeForumButtonTag() you could add another subscribe forum button on the topic view pages (but many users found it confusing there so we dont do it by default in our themes)… see the link below for more details on this tag…
more info: http://codex.simple-press.com/codex/plugins/our-plugins/available-plugins/subscriptions/
Just for future reference I found I had to either create a new permission which clones an existing permission and adds ‘can subscribe to forum’ or update an existing permission to add ‘can subscribe to forum’.
what? why? the steps you mention would create an entire new permission set… any and all permission sets would contain the individual permission ‘can subscribe to forums (if enabled) and topics’…
Maybe I was mistaken, but I didn’t see the option to set the default permission set for a group to be able to subscribe to a forum. Is there another way to set it at the group level?
i don’t understand the question.
Are you sang that you do NOT see the permission ‘Can subscribe to forums (if enabled) and topics’ in your permission sets?
I think that maybe there was a misunderstanding that occurred after my post # 5 above.
In that post I stated that one way I had found to do it was to update the existing permission set to add ‘can subscribe to forum’, which I think is what you guys were stating was the preferred way to do it. I was wondering if there was a way to do it at a group level e.g. state that any forum created in the group should automatically allow anybody in any permission set to be able to subscribe to those forums, but it doesn’t sound like it’s set up that way, and I’m happy to update the existing permission set(s).
yes… at the group level, you a can assign a permission set and usergroup to every forum in the group… you can also set a default permission for a user group and permission set so that any new forums created will inherit that permission…