#4725 In-site messaging
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nobody
2019-01-21
2012-08-15
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Need a way to send a user a message in-site - that is, that they'll somehow get the message when they log into the site, perhaps with some kind of a notification that they have messages waiting.
Rationale: We have many users who are active, but who have an email address on file that bounces. This leaves us with no way to contact them, even though they are active.
Note that we currently have support in the notification JS to handle site-wide notifications. That's a slightly different use case where we want to show the same message to everyone rather than to a specific user, but we might be able to leverage it to fit this.
I noticed when I logged in today that I had a notification message about a project that I had put into the upgrade queue yesterday. Is that a new thing, or is it just something i'd never noticed before? Is there a way to inject a message into that box?
That only works for allura pages, but yes it'd be possible to insert mongo records that would cause those notification messages to show up for individuals.
Well, since all the cool kids are moving to Allura, perhaps that's sufficient. :) It would be very handy to have a tool where someone (ie, me) could send a message to a user that would be in their face next time they log in.
For SourceForge, this can replace the classic sendmessage.php
Originally by: earnie
So would the feature being discussed work similar to the PM (Private Message) of some Forum packages? Maybe add that as a tool and leverage the Discussion tool coding to fulfill the requirements. The difference would simply be permissions and there would only be one topic of Private Message.
Originally by: earnie
And there would not be any need to create other Forum so choosing a Forum for the message is meaningless. Subject data might be considered optionally required but that could come at a later date based on other requests.
Originally by: joe_devore
a cross between Instant-messaging and Private Messages.. kinda like what face book does... but on the other hand... crossing a PM with a forum post style as to keep each chat to one topic of discussion :D sounds even better maybe.... :D
Created [#6694] for sending email messages to a user, leaving this ticket specifically for an in-site messaging system that doesn't need email.
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