Thanks Mike, yes I have a 1 minute Cron working fine.

Yeah if you don't mind sending me a PM, I want to take a quick look over your settings first.

New update to the Birthday Greeter application with these changes.

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• A few minor bug fixes.
• Integration with Basic Points application to give out points on members birthday.

 

Season's Greetings @Mike John

Just a few suggestions for Birthday Greeter, if that's okay! 

When the Birthday Greeter sends out an auto birthday email, if there is also a birthday topic that gets/got created, perhaps the email could also include a link to it? This way an absent member would be even more likely to visit the forum if they know there's a topic with greetings.

(This occurred to me because I think we had such a member visit this week after their birthday, but they didn't choose to post in their birthday topic, and I wondered if they'd missed it for some reason.)

Secondly, I wondered if it was possible for the birthday topic to include a tag with the person's name? Before birthday greeter, I used to add a tag like 'Happy Birthday membername' to birthday topics, which was handy as we could click to see previous years greetings.

Last suggestion!  The birthday topics only have one template, so all topics look the same and contain the same message and images/emoji. If we could add up to say 3, or maybe 5 topic templates and birthday greeter used 1 at random, it would add some more variety, they'd have a less automated, more personal feel.

Thanks!

P.S. I lied. Here's another one. Through the use of extra language strings, perhaps the birthday greeter could also optionally send out anniversary greetings based on a member's join date?

 

When the Birthday Greeter sends out an auto birthday email, if there is also a birthday topic that gets/got created, perhaps the email could also include a link to it? This way an absent member would be even more likely to visit the forum if they know there's a topic with greetings.

This shouldn't be a problem, noted this for a future update.

 

Secondly, I wondered if it was possible for the birthday topic to include a tag with the person's name? Before birthday greeter, I used to add a tag like 'Happy Birthday membername' to birthday topics, which was handy as we could click to see previous years greetings.

Like the tag mentions? @The Old Man

 

Last suggestion!  The birthday topics only have one template, so all topics look the same and contain the same message and images/emoji. If we could add up to say 3, or maybe 5 topic templates and birthday greeter used 1 at random, it would add some more variety, they'd have a less automated, more personal feel.

If there's enough demand for this, I'll consider it. If it's just birthday topics, then adding a few additional message settings shouldn't be a problem. But adding multiple settings for personal messages, topics, emails etc... does take some time.

 

P.S. I lied. Here's another one. Through the use of extra language strings, perhaps the birthday greeter could also optionally send out anniversary greetings based on a member's join date?

Possibly... But it might just be easier to have something dedicated to anniversaries instead.

 

This shouldn't be a problem, noted this for a future update.

Great, thanks Michael!

 

Like the tag mentions? @The Old Man

Well I was actually thinking the tags which you can add to a topic. The ones that get separated with a comma if you add more than one.

 

If there's enough demand for this, I'll consider it. If it's just birthday topics, then adding a few additional message settings shouldn't be a problem.

Yes, just for the topic template that you set up in the AdminCP. Currently every Birthday topic's first post looks identical, but if as an admin we could create a few templates instead of just the current one template (with varying fonts, images or wording), the it would add a bit more variety as the app would choose one at random each time it created the topic.

Thanks Mike, have a great New Year!

 

Well I was actually thinking the tags which you can add to a topic. The ones that get separated with a comma if you add more than one.

That's an interesting one. Are you using daily birthday topics or new topics per member? If you've got ftp access, I might be able to put together something you can try. Would anyone else find this useful?

 

Yes, just for the topic template that you set up in the AdminCP. Currently every Birthday topic's first post looks identical, but if as an admin we could create a few templates instead of just the current one template (with varying fonts, images or wording), the it would add a bit more variety as the app would choose one at random each time it created the topic.

Any other criteria to what template is used or just purely random? It's not as versatile as a database section to manage templates but I think I could probably do this with 5 or so fixed template fields. e.g. https://www.devfuse.com/public/screenshots/image_1574836464.png

Is this 4.5 compatible?

Thank you

Strange but it hasn't added the members birthday today. 

Trying to update this for the latest IPBoard update and when I try to update this application it says "Something Went Wrong" and won't let me continue.

Other applications upgraded without incident.

Please advise. Thanks - Steve

 

Is this 4.5 compatible?

Yep has been tested and updated for IPB 4.5.

 

Strange but it hasn't added the members birthday today. 

Didn't display in the widget or send out any birthday alerts? Has the problem repeated or was just a once off?

 

Trying to update this for the latest IPBoard update and when I try to update this application it says "Something Went Wrong" and won't let me continue.

Is there any other detailed error with that? Are you updating this app manually or using the new IPS Marketplace update feature?

 

Unfortunately the chatbox is not recognized, is that even possible with the chatbox +?
Or which chatbox is meant?
I have the chatbox + 2.3.6

 

Unfortunately the chatbox is not recognized, is that even possible with the chatbox +?

Basic chatbox only, I'll be adding for the plus version in the future but haven't had a chance with ipb 4.5 updates keeping me busy.

This app sends greetings to users who had a birthday yesterday. My time zone is GMT +3.

Unfortunately, no integration with Members Shop.

 

This app sends greetings to users who had a birthday yesterday. My time zone is GMT +3.

Unfortunately, no integration with Members Shop.

Have you adjusted the time settings to suit your local timezone? It should then only run the task at those selected times.

https://i.imgur.com/bVz2eJS.png

You'll need to speak to that apps author regarding integration.

New update pending approval.

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IP.Board 4.6.x compatibility check and update. And minor bug fixes.

 

The {member_name} does not replace the username, how can you fix that?

With best regards

 

The {member_name} does not replace the username, how can you fix that?

If you disable the Topic/Post Daily setting, it will create individual birthday topics instead and the member tag will work then.

Hi,

Is this compatible with 4.7?

Thank you

 

Is this compatible with 4.7?

Tested with no issue, updated the IPS Marketplace.

New idea: push notification when the user you are following has a birthday 🙂

Edited September 7, 20222 yr by SeNioR-

 

New idea: push notification when the user you are following has a birthday 🙂

Thanks for the suggestion!

It works for me with errors.

One user is congratulated with a message several times. No other users.

Doesn't send emails at all

Can you help?

What errors are you getting? What do you have set for the Topic/Post Daily setting? Have you enabled the email alerts in that settings tab?