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SMF Support => SMF 2.0.x Support => Topic started by: jobey on September 26, 2012, 03:22:48 AM

Title: Setting up welcome email and email activation
Post by: jobey on September 26, 2012, 03:22:48 AM
Hi,

   Could anybody tell me how to set up these two things.... i have looked for an email template mod but only found one for 1.0 version of smf. Thanks for any suggestions
Title: Re: Setting up welcome email and email activation
Post by: kat on September 26, 2012, 04:51:49 AM
You can edit EmailTemplates.english.php, in the default theme's "languages" directory, for that.

Keep a copy of the original file, as a backup, obviously. ;)

I'm just gonna post, here http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?board=3.0 because I think it'd be good to have that as a standard feature of SMF. :)
Title: Re: Setting up welcome email and email activation
Post by: stylusss on September 26, 2012, 12:40:58 PM
Quote from: jobey on September 26, 2012, 03:22:48 AM
Hi,

   Could anybody tell me how to set up these two things.... i have looked for an email template mod but only found one for 1.0 version of smf. Thanks for any suggestions

Where's the one for 1.x version found?
Title: Re: Setting up welcome email and email activation
Post by: Kindred on September 26, 2012, 02:37:56 PM
this one is for 2.0
http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=2926
(you will have to use the advanced, emulate version feature, but it should install into 2.0.2 with no problems)
Title: Re: Setting up welcome email and email activation
Post by: jobey on September 28, 2012, 04:17:13 AM
Quote from: K@ on September 26, 2012, 04:51:49 AM
You can edit EmailTemplates.english.php, in the default theme's "languages" directory, for that.

Keep a copy of the original file, as a backup, obviously. ;)

I'm just gonna post, here http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?board=3.0 because I think it'd be good to have that as a standard feature of SMF. :)

Im struggling to find this file....i dont see it in the languages directory.

The mod that was mentioned does not seem to work  either  :-\



Title: Re: Setting up welcome email and email activation
Post by: Shambles on September 28, 2012, 04:29:14 AM
Themes/default/languages
Title: Re: Setting up welcome email and email activation
Post by: jobey on September 28, 2012, 04:45:54 AM
I can find the languages file easily enough.... but there does not seem to be any email template within it..
Title: Re: Setting up welcome email and email activation
Post by: jobey on September 28, 2012, 04:48:37 AM
This is what i see...


BoardIndex.template.php   
GenericMenu.template.php   
index.php   
index.template.php   
licence.txt   
Settings.template.php   
theme_info.xml
Title: Re: Setting up welcome email and email activation
Post by: Shambles on September 28, 2012, 04:53:19 AM
Quote from: Shambles™ on September 28, 2012, 04:29:14 AM
Themes/default/languages

Are you sure you posted the contents of above directory?
Title: Re: Setting up welcome email and email activation
Post by: jobey on September 28, 2012, 05:06:42 AM
I have now located the file  :)

Thanks.

I have no experience of html and at the mo the email activation links etc need to be inserted.

Is there a demo anywhere that i could read and basically follow the same procedure but insert my own content?
Title: Re: Setting up welcome email and email activation
Post by: Shambles on September 28, 2012, 05:44:02 AM
Have you set up the standard email activation/welcome configuration yet?

Admin > Members > Registration > Settings

    ... "Method of registration employed for new members"  [email activation]

    ... "Send welcome email to new members"  [tick]

To change the content or layout of the activation/welcome emails, just edit the text of the file that you now can find ;)
Title: Re: Setting up welcome email and email activation
Post by: jobey on September 28, 2012, 07:08:05 AM
The email activation and welcome email have been set up.

When i view the text that is in the template...... it does not appear when the welcome/activation email i sent.

There is simply a ´˝welcome to˝ and ˝regards from˝ text. In the template is tells people to follow a link to activate. This text is not in the welcome email though.
Title: Re: Setting up welcome email and email activation
Post by: Shambles on September 28, 2012, 09:21:28 AM
That is spooky, though it has been reported to sm.org before... somewhere.

Consider having a go with this mod then. Might help...

http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=2926
Title: Re: Setting up welcome email and email activation
Post by: jobey on September 28, 2012, 12:25:46 PM
Thanks for the link. I have uploaded it before and it wouldnt install as it is not for version 2? Is there a way around this?
Title: Re: Setting up welcome email and email activation
Post by: kat on September 28, 2012, 01:15:40 PM
BACKUP!!!

Then, when you go to install it, select "Emulation" from the "Advanced" section.
Title: Re: Setting up welcome email and email activation
Post by: jobey on September 28, 2012, 03:49:26 PM
When i go to install it there is an ˝install˝ button...........where is the advanced or emulation option?
Title: Re: Setting up welcome email and email activation
Post by: Shambles on September 28, 2012, 03:51:52 PM
On the bottom right hand side of the "browse packages" screen
Title: Re: Setting up welcome email and email activation
Post by: kat on September 28, 2012, 03:59:43 PM
Here's the full "How on Earth do I do that!?!?" doc. :)

http://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/How_can_install_a_mod_that_doesn't_work_in_my_SMF_version
Title: Re: Setting up welcome email and email activation
Post by: jobey on September 28, 2012, 04:11:44 PM
Thanks for the link  :)
Title: Re: Setting up welcome email and email activation
Post by: kat on September 28, 2012, 04:16:40 PM
(https://www.simplemachines.org/community/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.katzy.dsl.pipex.com%2FSmileys%2Fc014.gif&hash=f74820123053ff9301b57a2ded5672bfa96b900b)
Title: Re: Setting up welcome email and email activation
Post by: jobey on September 30, 2012, 05:47:47 AM
I maybe being really stupid..... but i just cannot understand how to edit the welcome email.
  I have emulated the email editor but the welcome email has not changed - is it supposed to?
  Do i have to input text into the various templates to change this...... if so, where do i put the text? Is there a demo anywhere?

Thanks
Title: Re: Setting up welcome email and email activation
Post by: kat on September 30, 2012, 01:28:32 PM
If you have hassles with a mod, you'll get the best help in the mod's support topic.

On the mod's download page, you'll see:

(https://www.simplemachines.org/community/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.katzy.dsl.pipex.com%2FSupportComments.gif&hash=eee22bcbe815f431a7f8cc4fedf319328bba6d6c)

If you click that, it'll take you to that topic. :)
Title: Re: Setting up welcome email and email activation
Post by: srs on May 18, 2013, 12:54:52 PM
If the suggested mod package won't work in SMF version 2.0.4 (and following the advice above does NOT produce the install button) then how do I modify the four language files I have so that new members are advised to modify their profile to customise their layout to suit their own requirements?

Any advice on which entries in the language files need changing - and how will be appreciated. (I am not a PHP programmer).

Thanks
Title: Re: Setting up welcome email and email activation
Post by: Kindred on May 18, 2013, 12:58:29 PM
Quote from: K@ on September 28, 2012, 03:59:43 PM
http://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/How_can_install_a_mod_that_doesn't_work_in_my_SMF_version

this works just fine