Question Push Notification

Hi,

We are looking to send notifications to the forum administrators mobile when a topic is added or replied to. Is this something available in Kunena or is there an add-on that would help us achieve this.

Thanks
Richard

That's an interesting idea.

To answer your questions, literally-speaking, no there is no Kunena add-on specifically for this purpose and, as far as I know, there is no 3rd-party product that will do this specific job, either. But I have some good news.

I, too, was interested in a similar idea a couple of years ago and I successfully achieved a quite satisfactory result for my purposes by using Kunena RSS feeds. The way I worked through the issue was to setup Kunena RSS so that it produced a feed for every new post, and then I simply subscribed to that feed and collected the incoming emails on my mobile phone. It was dead simple. Even today, I am subscribed to the RSS feed from www.kunena.org and those things arrive, seamlessly, along with the other several hundred emails I receive each day on my main desktop computer (which is where I spend a large proportion of my time "working"). Fortunately, Microsoft Outlook - no, this is not a product endorsement :laugh: - does a great job categorising my incoming mail so that the interesting and urgent emails are filtered out from the unimportant stuff.

This, of course, was what worked for me, and I'm not saying that my idea necessarily meets your requirements, but it would easily save the $500 (or thereabouts) you would otherwise have to spend to pay someone to do some custom work to do the job some other way. I like simple, zero-cost solutions

Hi Sozzled,

Thanks for the quick reply.

We will try it out. Sounds like a good idea especially the fact that its a free solution.

Many Thanks
Richard

Hi Sozzled,

Excuse our ignorance but we set up the RSS in the configuration, but how do we subscribe to it.
If we go to the topic and click on the RSS feed icon it displays the feeds xml on a new tab.
How would we get the output to direct to our email.

Once again, Thanks for your help.

Richard

perryworld wrote: Excuse our ignorance but we set up the RSS in the configuration, but how do we subscribe to it?

The answer to this question depends, in part, on the email client software and, in part, on the RSS feed-generation mechanism. Some software, like Microsoft Outlook, have inbuilt tools as do some web-browsers like Firefox and Internet Explorer (as two examples) - see the following partial screenshot from Firefox below:



I am sure there is a lot of information available on the internet that will show you how to subscribe to RSS feeds and have the information piped into an email account. Here is one example that you may find useful to you: rss-tutorial.com/rss-how-to-subscribe-to-feeds.htm

I hope this helps