Solved Blue Eagle is always subscribing users to topic

Hi,

When I upgraded to Kunena 4.0.11 I noticed that users were automatically being subscribed to a topic when they replied. The configuration settings were unchanged in the upgrade (as it should) remaining as:
Yet the checkbox would show up checked when replying to a topic that the user was NOT subscribed to.

This to me generates an unnecessary volume of emails that I don't want.

I looked through the code and found the solution (I think, at least so far so good).

In the file
components/com_kunena/template/blue_eagle/html/topic/edit.php

Line 176

Reads:
When it should read:
The issue being:
What this is saying is that if user is NOT subscribed and can subscribe, then check the box/subscribe them.

When it should be saying is that if user IS subscribed and can subscribe, then check the box/subscribe them.

If they are not subscribed the check box should be unchecked, allowing them to check it if they please, but by default should be unchecked.

So I've changed that 0 to a 1, and it seems to work fine. I don't know if there are other places where this should be changed as well.

Please let me know if there are any issues with this.

Thank you, hope this helps,
Tomás

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TomasFC wrote: When I upgraded to Kunena 4.0.11 ...

May I ask you, what version of Kunena were you using before you observed this problem? The problems you refer to commenced in K 4.0.5 and we discussed them >>> here <<<

I was on version 4.0.3.

I did not see that thread, even when I searched... :blink:

This is what that same file had (Lines 167 to 177):

In re-reading the code, I see that there is a redundancy after my alteration. I'm not sure the statement after the OR ( || ) is needed, even if the values could be -1, 0 or 1.

Tomás

No the code is right.

your setting is: subscriptionschecked = 0 (the checkbox is not selected by default)

So we look at the second param:
We can skip the first part, we know that the setting is "0".

Now we come on the user setting.

If the user has enable the option "Select subscription as default" on profile->edit->Forum settings

there you can have 3 options:

1) default = -1
2) Off = 0
3) On = 1

there we see $this->me->canSubscribe == 1, so only if you have turned it on, the box is selected.


So you need to tell your users to change their setting, or you resetting all users their setting, but know that if you change it, nobody get any notifications anymore

Sorry, but it's wrong.

The statement is saying that if the subscriptionschecked is 0 then default subscribe the user when he replies to the topic.

And as I understand it, that is the whole point of the "subscriptionchecked" If I set it in the configuration file to 0, I understand it to mean that the default option of the checkbox will NOT be checked. and if it is 1 then, the default check box will be checked.

The code as you wrote it would not allow me to have that box unchecked.

The -1 comes in for the "undecided" users as I see it. If they are undecided on that subscription and the subscriptionschecked is 1, then they will default to checked, but if they have already unsubscribed (0) then it will not show checked as default, even with the subscriptionschecked=1.

Now having seen that, as I said above my change created a redundancy.

Tomás

Half true, the "subscriptionchecked" is the default option for "New" users.

Users are in control if they want to get notifications, not the website owner.

If a user want to change this option, then they can do it on their profile setting.


If you want to disable the option, then you need to do a sql query that set the option to -1 or 0.

Then hide the option by css.

810 wrote: If a user want to change this option, then they can do it on their profile setting.

That's true, unless the users are using Community Builder :whistle:

Then you can change that on the cb users settings

OK, I think I know what the issue is and what I wasn't understanding.

First I like to say that Kunena is an amazing software and I've been using it since 2009.

The change I made has solved my issue. However, I understand that it's not right for every situation.

This "bug" was pointed out to me by a user after the upgrade.

i notice, when i post something, it automatically subscribes me to the topic? Was that intentional? as previously this was not the case, and i could subscribe only to the topics i wanted to keep track of...

thanks Tomas

Message

You have been subscribed to this topic.
Your message has been successfully posted.

I then tested this and the same happened to me for every topic I tried.

I made the change of code and my issue was solved.

It's important to mention that I have always used CB and I've never given users (I didn't know how) the option to modify their "canSubscribe" setting. In looking at the database, every user's setting for "canSubscribe" is "1". I've never changed this value.

Given this, with the changes in the new template, I have NO option in configuration settings to have the default setting for the checkbox unchecked, neither do the users.

My choice is to have users subscribe to a topic, only when they make the effort to check the box. Most users are unaware of the checkbox when they reply to a topic.

Should users on an individual basis want to have the subscription by default for every topic they reply to, I could enable that in the future, but it's never been an option so far.

So since the canSubscribe setting is "1" for every user, and users don't have the option to change it, that line of code as it was, invalidates the option in the settings for subscriptionschecked variable.

Given all this, I should run a query to change all values to -1 for the cansubscribe value so that on the next update I don't have the same issue again.

Thank you,
Tomás

the sql for that is:

change the yourprefix with yours.