Force digest notifications for users

Thursday 24 November 2005 5:37:05 pm

Hi all, I have set up notifications for my registered users and I've found that every time I make a change or add multiple files to a node that the user wants notification for he/she will receive an email for every change/addition made.

This is great, it works, but if I was to add 30 files my user would start to get a little cranky with all of the emails he/she was receiving.

This means the user should set his/her notification settings up for digest mode, the problem is I'm expecting that a lot of the users for this particular site may not realise they can set this preference or may be too lazy to do so.

So the question is, is there any way to force digest mode for notifications, with a preset time and consistency so that the lazy users don't have to set it them selves?

Keeping in mind I would still like users to be able to change their preferences.

Any suggestions welcome.

Cheers!

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Monday 19 December 2005 3:39:04 pm

Sorry to bump this but this is still an issue I haven't managed to resolve, surely someone knows how this can be done?

Cheers!

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Monday 19 December 2005 9:22:48 pm

Hi Bruce thanks for the ideas, I'll look into it and see what I can come up with.

[update]
Ok I looked... wow there's some PHP in there... Unfortunately I'm not to good with that stuff. I noticed the kernel/notification/settings looks for $availableHandlers, I assume it gets these from notification.ini. If i was to override notification.ini with notification.ini.append.php would it be wise to set it so that only ezgeneraldigest is available? Or would this cause other headaches within the system?

For the traffic this site will attract I don't think anyone will need the standard notification (the one that sends emails for every change), but would removing it from available notification types disable it?
[update]

Cheers!

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