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A new alert function
October 12, 2017 at 4:04 pm
(This post was last modified: October 12, 2017 at 4:05 pm by Silver.)
On another forum of which I'm a part, I find this to be extremely useful.
You use a function to link someone's username to your post so that the person receives an alert.
I'm not always quoting someone. Sometimes, I'm creating a new thread or post and want to direct a specific member to it. Therefore, I would use the function to send an alert to that forum member.
It's brilliant, and would work wonders over here.
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RE: A new alert function
October 12, 2017 at 4:28 pm
I think that's a good feature. That's firmly in Tiberius' wheelhouse, our current alert plugin doesn't have that functionality.
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RE: A new alert function
October 12, 2017 at 4:35 pm
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Would you mind if it were via some sort of in-post tagging, i.e:
@[Cthulhu Dreaming]
I could match and hide tags like that so they don't appear, the square brackets are so usernames with spaces can be used (like my example). Square brackets are currently disallowed in usernames so it shouldn't pose an issue.
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RE: A new alert function
October 12, 2017 at 4:36 pm
(October 12, 2017 at 4:35 pm)Tiberius Wrote: Would you mind if it were via some sort of in-post tagging, i.e:
@[Cthulhu Dreaming]
I could match and hide tags like that so they don't appear, the square brackets are so usernames with spaces can be used (like my example). Square brackets are currently disallowed in usernames so it shouldn't pose an issue.
Perfect, yes.
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RE: A new alert function
October 12, 2017 at 4:39 pm
That would be super awesome!
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RE: A new alert function
October 12, 2017 at 4:42 pm
I want it to send me a push notification Tibs. Make it so.
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RE: A new alert function
October 12, 2017 at 4:54 pm
You forgot to mention that push notifications also require his ABA routing and checking account numbers.
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RE: A new alert function
October 12, 2017 at 5:44 pm
Oh this is an awesome idea!
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RE: A new alert function
October 12, 2017 at 6:21 pm
Cool, when I have some time I'll work on this. The alerts system is supposedly pretty extensible, so I should be able to write an alert that detects these tags and handles them accordingly.
