Automatic Watch Thread and Watch Forum on Registration [Deleted]
- Thread starter Chris D
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Yep: https://xenforo.com/community/resou...forum-on-registration.2022/update?update=5028
There are implications on large boards, though, whereby if you have a lot of active users you may experience timeouts and hit other limits when posting new threads/posts in the forum being auto watched.
Though recent XF versions mitigate this slightly by limiting watch alerts to only active members.
There are implications on large boards, though, whereby if you have a lot of active users you may experience timeouts and hit other limits when posting new threads/posts in the forum being auto watched.
Though recent XF versions mitigate this slightly by limiting watch alerts to only active members.
Daniel-SP
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Well, I have 500 registered users.. Definitelly not my case. Do you see any problem of setting a large day range in that case?
Thanks
Daniel-SP
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Thanks for support, I meant "time of last activity" I saw a post where I can define how many days of inactivity ( or last activity).
RobinHood
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Hi Chris,
There's an option in this add on I think to rebuild the caches to do the following:
Add all users to watched threads and forums
This is great as a one off when you install the add on, but when you create new nodes users won't be subscribed to it, so won't get any notifications. I'm wary of running the main cache rebuild again in case anyone has since unsubscribed for any forums they don't want to watch.
Would it be possible to add a cache rebuild option where you can specify specific node numbers to subscribe all users to any new nodes created?
There's an option in this add on I think to rebuild the caches to do the following:
Add all users to watched threads and forums
This is great as a one off when you install the add on, but when you create new nodes users won't be subscribed to it, so won't get any notifications. I'm wary of running the main cache rebuild again in case anyone has since unsubscribed for any forums they don't want to watch.
Would it be possible to add a cache rebuild option where you can specify specific node numbers to subscribe all users to any new nodes created?
Mr Lucky
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Bought this just now and have a couple of questions:
After running the cache to make users watch some forums, does it force unwatch for members if you untick the forums then rerun the cache?
EDIT: Or if I want to change it from alerts only to email, will rerunning cache change this? I can't seem to find a way to test this without making test threads which will annoy everyone.
If a member is in a group that doesn't have permission for one of the forums, can you confirm that they won't get notifications?
Thanks
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Mr Lucky
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After running the cache my test users appears to be watching the forums I specified, but not getting notifications. The same test user is getting email notifications and alerts normally for forums they are watching by manually clicking on Watch, and for replies to threads and conversations. They just doesn't seem to get notifications for forums that have been force watched by the addon and cache rebuild.
My answers apply to forums and threads:
No, it does not force unwatch under any circumstances.
No. If a user is already watching a thread or forum and the rebuild is run, it is skipped entirely -- no existing settings are changed.
This is handled by XF. Alerts are only sent to the user if they have permission to view the content generating the alert.
At a glance of the code, I can't see why this would be the case unless they were already watching the forum/thread without notifications set.
Mr Lucky
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OK so to retest, would it work to make the test user unwatch the forum, then rerun the cache which should presumably make it work correctly?
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