so ... wondering again how to tackle this notification issue.
Do you have suggestions as to what I could do now (pre-next-round-of-updates) to alert pending group member requests and to alert owners of pending groups that have been created and approved?
I was thinking of building a field required at registration that would be a checkbox that says "notify me of approvals"
User registrations are sending emails to site owner. But how would a field like this send back to a group-owner that the pending user is requesting notification that they have been approved to join the group?
Once a group-owner sets their notifications to receive notice of member joins, the group-owner is getting emails about new users requesting to join group and needing approval. The group-onwer can then log in and approve the user to join. But the user is not getting notification that they have been approved.
(this all goes for users who have created new nested sub-groups as well. They are not receiving notification that their nested sub-group has been approved)
So if I build a field that requests "notification of approval" - as in "let me know that I have been approved to join a group or the group I have created has been approved" -- how is that filtering back to the group-owner and/or site owner?
Another option maybe is to have the email address optional to show/not show when a user registers and explain in a fields delimiter field that if they choose to show their email on their profile, that the group owner-creator can then notify them via email of the group-creation approval or group-join approval. And if they choose not to publish their email, then they will have to check back in to see if they've been approved.
But - isn't there another plugin, a "security" option, I would have to install to allow a user to choose what fields they want to have show on their profile?
It's CB PRIVACY right?
Still, seems like a lot of legwork for site owners and group owners to let the users know they've been approved when requesting to join a group or create a group.
Thank you for including this in the next round of updates. I see that forge#3893 will include group creation approval notification, but will it also include pending user group-joins notification?
Thanks
LrG