Set up Notifications

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  1. Go to Notifications>Main
  2. If you want the person who posted a message to receive a copy of it check Notify poster of own posts. Some mailing lists do this, others do not. I have found that some posters, if they don't receive an email think the post never got there and complain.
  3. If you check the Immediate sending box, when a new email comes in and creates a node subscribers will receive notifications immediately. If this box is unchecked the outgoing emails will be sent on the next cron cycle. On a site with a large amount of traffic sending immediately may cause the server to slow down.
  4. Choose the appropriate radio button under Notifications sender. Selecting the third, Full user data, passes all information needed to format outgoing messages using messaging templates.
  5. Select the appropriate Default send interval. This setting determins which sending interval will appear as the default when new subscriptions are created. This will make more sense after we set the subscription intervals. It has no relationship to the Immediate sending checkbox.
  6. Go to Notifications>Events
  7. Select the events that will trigger email notifications. At a minimum you want to send notifications when new nodes are created. If the mailing list is a discussion you also want to send notifications when new comments are posted. But you may want to send additional notifications when a node or comment is updated. These choices affect which messaging templates will be available to format notifications.
  8. If you changed settings click Save Configuration.
  9. Go to Notifications>Intervals
  10. There are several default intervals.
  11. If you would like to add additional intervals, for example four times daily, go to the first blank line. Put 6 in the first field, select Hours from the dropdown list, and put Four time daily in the Display name field.
  12. The Format dropdown allows you to make basic formatting choices if you don't use messaging templates. Simple sends the full node; Short digest and Long digest send different amounts of information. Experiment to see which works best for your site.
  13. If you selected a Default sending interval on the Notifications>Main page its radio button should be selected under Default. You can change that here.
  14. Click Update.
  15. To to Notificaions>Subscriptions>Options.
  16. Check the subscription types you will allow users to choose among.
  17. Choose the Subscribe and Unsubscribe links you want.
  18. Click Save configuration.
  19. Go to Notifications>Subscriptions>Content.
  20. Decide whether to autosubscribe users by default. This can generate lots of unwanted subscriptsion, so think this through before checking the box. You will set Organic Groups to autosubscribe users to each group they join.
  21. Select the Global options and decide whether you will use global settings or set these options for each node type used. You might need different settings if you use Discussion nodes and Announcement nodes.
  22. If you will use one or more taxonomies with your mailing lists check the ones that will be used.
  23. Check the content types used to create group content.
  24. Click Save configuration.
  25. Go to Notifications>Subscriptions>User Interface.
  26. These settings determine where users will see links to subscribe to content.
  27. There is also a choice to have global settings or to per node type settings.
  28. Click Save configuration.
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