Hi,
long time user of j!mailalert and in the middle of upgrading our website to Joomla 3.2... Time to also get rid of some long outstanding bugs and feature requests:
bugs:
1. j!mailalert Kunena discuss plugin shows introtext even when introtext is disabled in plugin
Feature requests:
1. j!mailalert Kunena discuss output differs from Latestnews output (introtext)
2. when using Kunena discuss plugin, a new topic is created for every new article: this results in two newsletter items: 1. a new article and 2. a new kunena topic which is technically correct but unnecessary.
3. The topic that is automatically created with the Kunena discuss plugin holds a refference to the article it originated from: [article]xyz][/article]. Therefore the introtext in the newsletter would end-up to be: 'xyz ...'
I recreated the following file to 'sync' the layout of the latestnews part of the alert with the kunena part:
./plugins/emailalerts/jma_latest_posts_kunena/jma_latest_posts_kunena/jma_latest_posts_kunena.php
this file solves bugs 1, and feature request 1, 2, 3.
for feature request 2 and 3 also the following file needs to be changed: ./plugins/emailalerts/jma_latest_posts_kunena/jma_latest_posts_kunena.php
What this does is identify a automatically created Kunena discuss topic (replace message text with 'Kunena.Discuss' so when creating the mailalert these topics will be skipped.
I am not a developer so using this is completely for your own risk.
I would love to have these incorporated or reflected upon by a (mailalert) developer,
regards,
Ruud.
UPDATE: Hi, was able to attach changed files, also made a small change to handle the case when there are only (one or more) Kunena Discuss topics > display nothing (in previous version it would display the header)
long time user of j!mailalert and in the middle of upgrading our website to Joomla 3.2... Time to also get rid of some long outstanding bugs and feature requests:
bugs:
1. j!mailalert Kunena discuss plugin shows introtext even when introtext is disabled in plugin
Feature requests:
1. j!mailalert Kunena discuss output differs from Latestnews output (introtext)
2. when using Kunena discuss plugin, a new topic is created for every new article: this results in two newsletter items: 1. a new article and 2. a new kunena topic which is technically correct but unnecessary.
3. The topic that is automatically created with the Kunena discuss plugin holds a refference to the article it originated from: [article]xyz][/article]. Therefore the introtext in the newsletter would end-up to be: 'xyz ...'
I recreated the following file to 'sync' the layout of the latestnews part of the alert with the kunena part:
./plugins/emailalerts/jma_latest_posts_kunena/jma_latest_posts_kunena/jma_latest_posts_kunena.php
this file solves bugs 1, and feature request 1, 2, 3.
for feature request 2 and 3 also the following file needs to be changed: ./plugins/emailalerts/jma_latest_posts_kunena/jma_latest_posts_kunena.php
What this does is identify a automatically created Kunena discuss topic (replace message text with 'Kunena.Discuss' so when creating the mailalert these topics will be skipped.
I am not a developer so using this is completely for your own risk.
I would love to have these incorporated or reflected upon by a (mailalert) developer,
regards,
Ruud.
UPDATE: Hi, was able to attach changed files, also made a small change to handle the case when there are only (one or more) Kunena Discuss topics > display nothing (in previous version it would display the header)