XF 1.4 Manage users watching forums

[otfordnet]

Is there a way through Admin, or as a forum moderator, to see and control (Add / Delete) the list of users who are watching a forum?
I appreciate the normal use of a forum is for the user to watch / un-watch a forum themselves, but for, say, a forum node that represents a club / society it could be a useful way to manage communication using the forum facilities.

 

[Mike]

There isn't a built in way to manage what forums someone watches (other than by them doing it themselves).

 

[otfordnet]

Thanks Mike, as an alternative can you 'act as user' if you are the forum admin to watch / un-watch forum on their behalf or possibly consider for future enhancement?

 

[otfordnet]

Looks like this may help me: https://xenforo.com/community/resources/login-as-user.2493/

 

[Digital Doctor]

Is this what you want ?
https://xenforo.com/community/resources/automatic-watch-thread-and-watch-forum-on-registration.2022/

 

[otfordnet]

I did see that one, thanks, but the use is likely to be for a sub-set of the forum membership rather than apply across the board to all members.

 

[Digital Doctor]

I did see that one, thanks, but the use is likely to be for a sub-set of the forum membership rather than apply across the board to all members.

Message them all and tell them to subscribe \
How many people ?

 

[Digital Doctor]

I certainly think an admin should be able to sign up members to watch a thread.
Probably should be an addon.

 

[sbj]

Is there a way through Admin, or as a forum moderator, to see and control (Add / Delete) the list of users who are watching a forum?

I think you could accomplish this by using 2 add-ons.

If you want to see the list of users who are a watching a thread:
https://xenforo.com/community/resources/thread-watchers.1205/

Then if you want to control the users:
https://xenforo.com/community/resources/bd-forum-watch-for-xenforo-1-2.660/

 

[Mouth]

Would the below SQL be correct to add forum watch for all users in a user group?

insert into xf_forum_watch (user_id, node_id, send_alert)
select user_id, <aa>, 1
from xf_user_group_relation g
left join xf_forum_watch w on w.user_id = w.user_id and w.node_id = g.user_group_id
where user_group_id = <bb>
and w.user_id is null

<aa> = forum id (to watch)
<bb> = user group id
the left join stopping from clash/error if the user is already watching the forum.