John T Davis

@HeadStand, Hello again. I tested this a bit more, with members belonging to my beta test group both as their primary group and their secondary group, and I never could get the subscriber list to populate. I didn't see anything in the manual that indicated I was doing something wrong. I've attached some screenshots, showing the settings for this particular newsletter, the subscriber list, and the member list for the Feature Beta Test Group I'm trying to distribute the newsletter to. I feel like I'm missing something obvious.

Thank you for patching this so quickly. I'll check the subscribers thing out this morning. I defined a separate "test" user group and right now there's only one subscriber. Maybe there's an off-by-one error of some kind? I also noticed the version number didn't seem to change with this update. It's still at version 2.0.1. (There are now two version 2.0.1 files available. I think the marketplace may have glitched.)

Hello again, I've now published a test newsletter, but I just got a "Delivery Failed" notice, informing me there were no subscribers. That surprised me a bit since I designated a test group to receive the test newsletter, so I went to look at the "Subscribers" page in the newsletter settings. I received EX1054 with the following traceback: My IPS Kung Fu is weak, so I have no idea what could be causing this. I'm guessing it's looking for an "Array" column in a database, and that column does not exist?

Thanks! I'm noticing one odd issue as I test. When I toggle on "Include Number of Comments" for a Topic type Content, I'm seeing one more comment than should be present. That is, threads with no comments indicate "1" comment when using the Test Distribution feature. I just turned that off for now. It's not really something I need since I'm showing the full text of entire threads anyway, but I wanted to mention it in case it's not supposed to do that.

@HeadStand, Hello again. I'm setting up a test letter now. I haven't tried to test anything yet, but so far so good. Thanks for actual manual included with the software. It's awesome. I had a quick question. If I'm inserting Topic-type content, and ask it to draw from a category (i.e.: one of the categories that forums are listed under on the main Forums page of IPS), will that capture the topics from all the forums belonging to that category? Or do I need to list off the individual forums? Thanks!

Thanks! We would definitely test it thoroughly with a small group before rolling it out to everyone.

@HeadStand, Hello! Thanks so much for all the hard work you've put into this. I've not purchased yet, but I can tell from the Marketplace page and the discussion here that it's a really complex app code-side. Your update speed and customer service is super-impressive. I'm looking to purchase this for a ~300-400 member private community (professional organization) that just migrated from Yahoo Groups. Most of our members were set up to get daily digests from Yahoo that contained a table of contents at the top with every single post for Time Period X (daily or weekly). Clicking the link would get you a full text copy of the post inside the email, so you never had to go to the website if you didn't want to. Can I replicate that with Newsletters? This is the one thing people miss from Yahoo--the ability to see all content without ever leaving the daily/weekly digest email. I looked through the pics in the thread but didn't see anything focusing in on the full-text messages. (Our membership and traffic is small enough that the emails are a managable size. Maybe 30 posts a day max, usually. Often less. We use the default IPS mail stuff.) Thanks!

Hello, Thanks for re-releasing this. ? Is this the only way to enable auto-following one's own posts/threads the user comments in for new users? I've been searching for a way to change the default behavior for a while and I'm kind of stunned it's not baked in to 4.x.

Okay, don't ask me why I thought I had to have validation turned on if no outside parties can create accounts, but as soon as I turned that off it started working perfectly. Thanks! One feature request, if I may: an option to designate all existing forums instead of selecting them from a list. Right now when I create a new forum I have to go in and adjust the forum follow list. It would be great to automate that. This is a great plugin. This and Bulk Followers helped make our move to IPS far more frictionless than it could have been. Thanks again.

@Adriano Faria, Thanks for the video. I'm using 1.2.0 on IPS 4.3.x. What counts as validation for users created in the Admin console by an Admin? What validation settings should I use to make sure validation triggers for the purposes of this AFC 1.2.0?

Thank you so much for putting this on the agenda for the next version. Right now I'm running the Bulk Followers Management plugin every time we add a member, which is wonderful (I used it to set follow preferences for 350 members at once when we first set up--it saved me incalculable time), but I'm looking forward to being able to automate this process, especially since I'm not normally the person in charge of adding new member accounts. Thanks again!

Hello, @Adriano Faria, Thanks for your reply, and please accept my apologies for the PM. I'm still learning my way around the Invision Community site, and I PM'd before I found this thread. Is there any combination of settings that would allow the plugin to work on a new user account that has to be approved by an admin? My issue here is that our forum is completely members-only. There is no public portion. So, we cannot allow unapproved sign-ups. At some stage in the process the new member has to be checked against our organization's membership roll before they have viewing/posting access. Thanks again!

I sent this message to @Adriano Faria by PM as well, but I wanted to post it here in case anyone else was also experiencing this issue and had any insight. Hello, I hope you are doing well. Thank you for your hard work this great addition to IPS. Our forum has a large number of users, and we have quite a few sub-forums they need to be automatically subscribed to. This is exactly what we needed. I have a question about using Auto Follow Content with new accounts created in the AdminCP. Our organization's forum is private, only accessible by members, so one of the admins has been creating all new user accounts directly in the Users tab of AdminCP. The public sign-up link is disabled. I set up Auto Follow Content and created a new test account in the AdminCP, but the new test account isn't auto-following anything. I believe this is because when the admins create accounts by hand they aren't technically being validated. Then again, I also had the same issue when I enabled the sign-up link and set it for the simple sign-up option with admin validation. I'm not seeing automatic follows for the test user in either configuration. Am I missing something? I would appreciate any advice. Thanks! Sincerely, John T Davis