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Started 1st October 2017 at 21:48 · Laurence Jones
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    • 1st October 2017 at 21:55 #8275
      John Bleasdale
      Participant

      The post about XJ-SC Production Figures has been viewed 53 times and been read by just 15 members.

      I know Laurence won’t agree but part of the problem is no body gets notified when something is posted.

      I only found Robin’s comment about Rear Seats by chance.

      John

    • 1st October 2017 at 22:40 #8279
      Laurence Jones
      Keymaster

      Below posted in reply by Robin

      Yes, I must admit I sometimes only visit once in a while. I also read the JEC and XKEC forums in similar fashion, so my available time gets divided between them.

      Maybe an email when someone adds to a thread would be useful, as like you I only realise maybe a week or two after original post.

    • 1st October 2017 at 23:31 #8286
      Laurence Jones
      Keymaster

      Hi Robin and John

      I’ve split your discussion into a new topic from the Production Figures thread.

      I have explored, and continue to explore, options to send out an email daily or weekly (configurable by each member’s preference) listing all New Topics or Replies posted in that timeframe. However, I’ve yet to find a module that works satisfactorily and therefore have not updated the site to have this functionality.

      I do however want to introduce this important notification service to our Club site, but not until I can get it working smoothly – the last thing 200+ members need is 5 or 6 notifications emails a day filling up their in-boxes.

    • 2nd October 2017 at 08:25 #8291
      Robin
      Participant

      Hi Laurence, yes I agree it’s best to get it right or not at all. It’s easy to get loads of unwanted mail from forums that just gets disregarded and deleted.
      I obviously got an email this morning though which is why I am responding more quickly than usual, so some notification does work!

      Best regards, Robin

    • 2nd October 2017 at 09:39 #8304
      Laurence Jones
      Keymaster

      Hi Robin,

      There is a feature called @Mention available to all members already – simply include the member’s UserId with the @ sign infront of it and that member gets a notification they’ve been mentioned in the topic/reply @memberid

      Click Here to see that article about that feature.

      Laurence

    • 2nd October 2017 at 13:27 #8316
      Robin
      Participant

      Hi <font color=”blue”>Laurence Jones</font> <!– @laurence_admin –> What a good idea, I must have missed that before as seems a really good yet simple idea as often I do address to individuals even if it’s a genereal topic..

      I’ll try and remember for next time..

      Regards, Robin
      Ps trouble is being a Facebook and Twatter non-believer I don’t already know some of these tricks that are perhaps normal to other folks!

    • 2nd October 2017 at 13:29 #8319
      Robin
      Participant

      <font color=”blue”>Laurence Jones</font> <!– @laurence_admin –> Not sure that worked properly? I thought font detail would disappear on sending..
      Robin

    • 2nd October 2017 at 14:13 #8322
      Laurence Jones
      Keymaster

      Hi Robin

      You’re correct, the HTML shouldn’t be visible – seems the filter isn’t allowing <'font'> through. I’ll have to take a look 🙁

      Laurence

    • 2nd October 2017 at 23:20 #8446
      Laurence Jones
      Keymaster

      Hi Robin

      I’ve just spent a couple of hours playing with the code in the background and I believe I have sorted the problem – the bits of code should indeed be hidden when you save the posting (for all users and not just me).

      Cheers,

      Laurence

    • 3rd October 2017 at 08:18 #8454
      Robin
      Participant

      Thanks Laurence Jones !!

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