Email about new posts

[allenuk]

Anyone found a way of getting an email notification when a new posting is made? Most boards have it as an option, but not it seems Proboards.

Unless I just haven't found the button yet!

Allen.

[stonecutter]

Okay - good news folks. I've finally got the answer to your inquiries about how to get an e-mail (or PM (Personal Message)) about threads you'd like to watch or have notification of updates on.

First, you'll need to edit your Bookmark preferences. Go to Profile at the top of the page, then select "Bookmarks" on the next page, towards the right hand side of the table that is shown, select "Manage Bookmarks" On the next page, there will be a question: "By default, when you bookmark a thread, what type of notification would you like to receive when a new post is made in that thread?" In the pulldown below that, select your preference for notification.

Click the "Update Bookmarks and Preferences" button and return to the forum and browse normally.

When you see a thread you'd like to have notification on, down near the bottom of any page in the thread, there's a button that looks like this: Click this button. You will now get updates in accordance with your selection to the e-mail address you've registered with, or by Personal Message the next time you log on.

To remove the bookmark, find the similar button called "Remove Bookmark" and the feature will be removed for that thread.

I'm not sure if that's explained clearly enough... Let me know if I need to clarify...


Thanks!

Trevor

[allenuk]

Thanks for the answer and the hard work, Trevor. I shall now try and set mine up...


Allen.

[romeo1414]

Awesome, appreciate the work in discovering how to set this up. I have set mine up, and bookmarked the threads I am wanting to watch. You would think they would make all this stuff the same, kinda like the credit machines at the stores...

[Tom]

I've posted on a bunch of different message board/newsgroup systems and this is the hardest, least-intuitive one to use. One of the best is at www.delphiforums.com/ and it's free as well.

[allenuk]

See it as keeping your brain active, Tom, like a crossword!

But if/when we do think of changing, we'll ask for suggestions and bear your delphiforums in mind. When we set this one up, stonecutter went for the easy option, as we were just coming out of an unsatisfactory relationship with our last board, or rather the way it was run.

Allen, bka, London

[Tom]

Hey, Allen, looks like the suggestion on getting an email notification worked, so it's all good. Most of my effort on keeping active these days is physical, not mental. ;-)

[allenuk]

Well, I tried modifying my Profile, Managing my Bookmarks, and standing on one leg, but nothing actually worked, i.e. I never get any notifications.

Is it something I'm doing? Stonecutter! Help!


Allen.

[Tom]

Alan, I just got an email notification that a new message was posted in this thread. It would be wonderful if I could remember or figure out what I did to make that happen, but I can't.

[stonecutter]

I'll try to graphically show the steps of bookmarking with notifications and un-bookmarking to stop notifications of each thread.

To set up Proboards to notify you of a response to a thread, follow the following steps:



Step 1: Click the Profile button at the top of the screen.




Step 2: Click the Bookmarks link on the Profile page:




Step 3: Select the link as shown to manage your bookmark preferences.




Step 4: On the next screen, you need to decide which method of notification you'd like when there's a response to a thread. You can select either Personal Message (PM) or e-mail. Make your selection on the pull down as shown.




Step 5: After your selection has been made, be sure to select the Update Bookmarks and Preferences button before you return to the forums...



Step 5a: If you select e-mail as a notification option, you will receive your notification at the e-mail address specified in your profile...



Step 5b: if you select Personal Message (PM) as your notification method, you will receive notification at the top of the screen when you log in as shown...


Your set up is now complete. You only have to do steps 1-5 once. As you now browse the forum and find a thread you'd like to bookmark, find the "bookmark" button at the bottom of the thread and click it once.


You will receive your notifications as explained above.

To stop notifications on the thread, you can simply click the "Remove Bookmark" button located in the same location at the bottom of the thread.




You also need to be aware that you can also manage all of your bookmarks if you get yourself to a point that you want to have numerous threads bookmarked as follows:

Step 1: Click the Profile button at the top of the screen.




Step 2: Click the Bookmarks link on the Profile page:




Step 3: You are now seeing a list of all threads you have bookmarked. Select the Manage Bookmarks link at the top right.




Step 4: Select the threads you want to remove from your bookmark inventory and then click the 'Update Bookmarks and Preferences' button and return to the forum and browse per usual.



I hope all this helps... Let me know if there is further assistance I can provide.

[allenuk]

Thanks for all that hard work, stonecutter. Doesn't work with my setup for some reason (Apple Mac/Firefox), but never mind - the important thing is that it DOES work for other people. I'm quite happy to trawl through the boards!


Allen.