Notification Issues

[Jim]

The forum is having issues with the "notification" feature. From a few comments in the "where is this pictures" thread, it seems several have notifications enabled for various forums. Some would like notifications enabled for various forums and the feature is not working.

If you receive notifications for any forum, please respond back as to which forums you receive a notification message. Thank you.

[Max]

Is this in regards to the issue I was asking about? http://www.frontrange4x4.com/forums/...o-the-Calendar

[Jim]

Mostly, yes. I'm not fast with resolution to the notify issue, but I haven't forgotten.

It occurred to me this morning when I was reading a bit of the "photo game" thread. A few commented that certain pix (mine for one, as they are linked from my web site) are given away as they "see" the URL in the notify e-mail. This tells me that some folks are receiving notifications.

I/ formally "the admin" receive notifications for the Intro's thread. Before I was the admin, I did not receive notices for intros. When I, and my test account, try to sign up for notices - they do not work. So, where are the notices coming from. The standard process does not seem to be working but if need be, I can manually add notices (or fix the issue) for folks that want them - you and calendar / run planning / planned runs for one.

[alexb]

I get notifications on a per-thread basis.

If I reply to this thread (like I am now) when the next person replies I'll get an email like this:

[javaman34]

That is what I get and like Alex, it is only for threads I have responded to.

[Chris]

For people not receiving them make sure you have the option turned on: http://www.frontrange4x4.com/forums/...do=editoptions

[zz-ForumTest]

test post

[Chris]

Jim Test previously posted:

[Jim]

Tom said he was receiving status messages and asked "if I did something". Yes, somewhat, but notifications aren't coming through on my account.

[Tom]

Just since 5:15 I've had one for Slaughterhouse and one for the vacation ideas thread

[Jim]

A comment regarding notifications...

Many may know that "at times" (once or twice a year) the forum is down / unavailable with an error - vsession table full. The session table is supposed to auto-purge at many page loads. On each page, in the footer, is supposed to be a 1x1pixel, clear image file that is tied to the scheduled tasks of the forum. One feature is to purge the sessions table. As we're a small forum, I manually clear the sessions table every few months (easier than delving into the "cronimage" that is missing from our footer).

Recently I started to spend time on the cronimage issue and I come to see that it has a large impact with tasks, so, I'm wondering if I get the cronimage issue tended, if notifications will start working again.

Essentially, the reason for this "mostly" coherent post is to say "that is all". Some work is being tended and "some day" I hope to have both the sessions table issue and notification issue off of our plates. Before that happens I have to process the multitudes of Moab pix...

[Chris]

Jim, you can view the default footer in templates and add it back in since I apparently didn't.

However the entire RSVP system is cobbled together and isn't intended to work with this version. Any change could render the system as unusable so keep that in mind. The footer probably isn't relevant at all to the notification issues. Just a heads-up since I'd expect that sooner or later a forum upgrade may kill the RSVP functions.

You can look around at vBulletin hacks to see if there's been any development for that function though, as I recall, the developers are no longer around.

Personally, I wouldn't sweat the notification feature since it's not very hard to check back now and then unless one is too lazy to do that.

On second thought if someone is that lazy I don'y want to be on a run with them because hitting the brakes is much harder.

[Jim]

At this point, via consultation with the forum's host, it is believed the software of the forum will not be upgraded.

They pointed out the cronimage / footer issue to me. I have looked into the templates and variables and, via templates, what is listed is vb default. The footer is getting changed "somewhere". If you have suggestions, I'm all ears.

How my page loaded just now:

<div id="footer_morecopyright" class="shade footer_morecopyright">
<!-- Do not remove cronimage or your scheduled tasks will cease to function -->          

<!-- Do not remove cronimage or your scheduled tasks will cease to function -->     
<strong>All Content &copy; 2008 - 2014 Front Range 4x4, All Rights Reserved.<br /></strong></div>

The footer code for the FR4x4 template has this (which I have found listed is the default):

<div id="footer_morecopyright" class="shade footer_morecopyright">
    <!-- Do not remove cronimage or your scheduled tasks will cease to function -->
    {vb:raw cronimage}
    <!-- Do not remove cronimage or your scheduled tasks will cease to function -->
    {vb:raw vboptions.copyrighttext}
    {vb:raw template_hook.footer_copyright}
</div>

Something's changing "somewhere"...

Our host says we should have something like this (they were telling me to put the ampersand back in):

[Chris]

Jim previously posted:

[Jim]

The head scratcher to me is the issue that we have the default setting but yet it's not working - something is broken. I've searched vB forums and will probably start a support ticket with the host to see if they can shed some light.

[Jim]

Forum code changes have taken place the last two evenings. Test to see if I receive a notice for activity in this thread.

[alexb]

Jim previously posted:

[Jim]

It seems from the prior forum "footer" code changes (I made three changes in the footer) the notification issue is resolved - but the "Back to Top" button is missing.

Additionally, the v_session table looks to be at-issue (still filling and not auto-purging).

Last evening I changed the footer to the forum default (which, it should have been via my prior changes - but this is to ensure that it is).

In my priority list:
1) v_session (it's #1 because if I don't get it manually cleared before it fills, the forum ceases to work for everyone)
2) notifications
3) Top button

More when I have it - I expect I'll dig into it this weekend.

[Jackie]

Has anyone (other than me) had problems with replying to private messages? I tried to reply to someone (on 3 different occasions) with no success. Or at least my "sent messages" don't show up accurately. Not a big deal in this situation, but just thought I'd mention it.

[Jim]

The "Back To Top" button should be active.

This code was put back into the footer

<style type='text/css'>
#bttop{border:1px solid #000000;background:#8c411c;text-align:center;padding:5px;position:fixed;bottom:35px;right:10px;cursor:pointer;display:none;color:#fff;font-size:11px;font-weight:900;}
#bttop:hover{border:1px solid #000000;color:#000;background:#ffec90;}
</style>
<div id='bttop'>BACK TO TOP</div>
<script src='http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js' type='text/javascript'></script>
<script type='text/javascript'>$(function(){$(window).scroll(function(){if($(this).scrollTop()!=0){$('#bttop').fadeIn();}else{$('#bttop').fadeOut();}});$('#bttop').click(function(){$('body,html').animate({scrollTop:0},800);});});</script>