Notification UI for Administration not fully shown to allow use of Notifications [#1272690]

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Problem/Motivation

After countless hours of trying and reading documentation, I cannot get the Drupal 7 Alpha Notifications administration to work correctly, so I don't see any availability to set notifications on forums (or anyplace else for that matter).

Proposed resolution

I am looking for help to figure out the solution

Remaining tasks

Not Applicable

User interface changes

I can show you the configuration below.

API changes

I've not done any PHP changes, I'm only using standard core modules and message framework and notifications.

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My details:

I cannot get the UI to show for Admin nor for registered users.

I simply want registered users to be able to set a checkbox to allow them to get email when someone updates a forum topic or a comment to a forum topic.

I am using drupal 7 and the latest Message and Notification alpha versions as of 2011-09-03. Everything else I have is all core Drupal modules that I've turned on. I have no PHP modifications.

Other than core modules (Forums, reports, etc) I have the following modules turned on:
CHECKED: Messaging
CHECKED: Messaging template
CHECKED: Simple mail (note: a test email does work)

I have the following Notification modules turned on:
CHECKED: Content Notifications
CHECKED: Notifications
CHECKED: Notifications UI
CHECKED: User Account Tabs (I don't think I need this, but turned it on to try to get the UI to show up)
CHECKED: User subscriptions (I'm not certain I need this)

I have the following modules UNCHECKED:
UNCHECKED: Notifications Scheduler (because it says it depends on Job_scheduler_trigger (missing) - but I don't know where to get that)
UNCHECKED: Notifications Taxonomy - I don't want them to be able to get notifications by content tags, so I don't think I need this.

I read in some places that the Token module might be needed, but I don't want that functionality unless it's required for Notifications to work.

I notice if I go to "http://ourURL.com/node/7#overlay=admin/structure/types/manage/forum" it has a link for "notification settings" and it has checkboxes for
"Allowed subscription types: Thread, Content type, Author, Content type by author"
but then at the bottom it says:
"Enable different subscription options for this content type. To enable these options check the Notifications content settings"
When I follow that link to "http://ourURL.com/node/7#overlay=admin/messaging/notifications/content" there are links for "Dashboard" "Content" "structure" "appearance" "people" "modules" "configuration" - I don't understand why those checkboxes (for Allowed Subscription Types) can't be checked and how to turn them on!

I was also wondering about the following:
Do I need to add a "field" to the content for forums or forum comments? If so, what field?

Any help appreciated.

Comments

Comment #2

sachac CreditAttribution: sachac commented 15 September 2011 at 21:18

Have you configured the Subscriptions user interface settings yet? admin/config/messaging/subscriptions/ui . After you check all three boxes and save your settings, see admin/structure/block and add the Page Subscriptions box to your sidebar. Hope that helps.

Comment #3

Jesuscares CreditAttribution: Jesuscares commented 15 September 2011 at 22:45

Sacha, thank you for your input.
I went to admin/config/messaging and there is no "subscriptions" - When I get to Admin/config I only see "Messaging & Notifications" with the following options to configure: "messaging settings" and "send methods"

Note: i only added the messaging and the notifications modules. I didn't add "subscriptions" because there is a video that says you only need "Messaging" and "notifications" here: http://gotdrupal.com/videos/drupal-email and I decided on using these two modules as a result of the table here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/15928

I am more than willing to remove any or all of these modules (can you do that?) and take another route if that makes sense. I've just hit a big roadblock here.

Comment #4

sachac CreditAttribution: sachac commented 16 September 2011 at 12:40

The alpha release for Notifications is from January, while the development version is from August. Please update to the 7.x-1.x-dev version for Notifications - that might fix things. Update your version of Messaging as well.

If you still see only Messaging settings and Send methods after you upgrade, it may be that the menu system hasn't been updated with the new entries. An easy way to clear the caches is to install admin_menu, then use the top right menu to flush all caches. You can then check if Notifications settings and Subscriptions settings now appear on that page. Alternatively, you can clear it from admin/config/development/performance .

Comment #5

Jesuscares CreditAttribution: Jesuscares commented 21 September 2011 at 02:35

I installed the development versions of Message and Notifications, cleared the caches and it still didn't appear. Then I installed the "Admin Menu" module and the messaging admin menus magically appeared. It seems to be working now although I haven't thoroughly tested it.

However, I would like to turn on "Notifications scheduler" (7.x-1.x-dev Configurable scheduler for Notifications.), but it says it Requires: ... Job_scheduler_trigger (missing)

Where do I find that?

Comment #6

webflo CreditAttribution: webflo commented 21 September 2011 at 23:22

job_scheduler_trigger is on github. https://github.com/developmentseed/job_scheduler_trigger

Comment #7

webflo CreditAttribution: webflo commented 21 September 2011 at 23:23

Version:

7.x-1.0-alpha1

» 7.x-1.x-dev

Comment #8

Jesuscares CreditAttribution: Jesuscares commented 26 September 2011 at 02:28

@webflo Thanks for the link to the job_scheduler-trigger in comment #6. I don't think I installed it correctly perhaps. I tried 2 ways: (1) tried copying all those files to a new folder I created under "modules" for "job_scheduler_trigger" and I also tried (2) copying them to same "module" folder as "notification" module folder. Neither one seemed to work, at least I don't see it turning up in the Modules list.
How do I install it?

Comment #9

ggamba CreditAttribution: ggamba commented 22 October 2011 at 16:59

@Jesuscares,

visit https://github.com/developmentseed/job_scheduler_trigger , click on "Zip", download the zip (it will have an horribly long name) and unpack it in /modules directory, as any module.

Comment #10

IWasBornToWin CreditAttribution: IWasBornToWin commented 8 July 2012 at 11:07

Just installed the latest dev version. I see nowhere my users can change or subscribe to anything. Where is the User interface? I set all the settings for ui but can't find it. I installed the page subscriptions block but it's blank. I'd hope that isn't the ui? Thanks

Comment #11

IWasBornToWin CreditAttribution: IWasBornToWin commented 8 July 2012 at 12:08

I found out how to display the ui - didn't realize there is another module - user tab. So now it's enabled and I go there. I try to click on the settings and it takes me to my user edit page...where the passwords and stuff is.....no subscription or notification settings. Also, I do not see where the user can choose any terms or content types from their ui display. It seems the ui, at this point, is only showing the user a list of what they're already subscribed to? Thanks