I got my forum set to "aprove member" so I know that the user gets the first email saying that they have registered and they need to wait for the admin to approve the account.
But when I approve the account, it never sends out the email saying that they are approved.
If it helps, I installed the registration password mod that requires a general password to register.
Far as I know SMF only does one or the other for registration. It either lets the admin approve themselves or the user via an email.
Well with it set to approve member where I hae to approve it, it sends them an email saying they have signed up and they have to wait for approval. In that email it does say they will receive an email once they are approved so I figured it should send out a second email.
When you approved did you select approve and send email?
I didnt know there was that option. Where do I choose that?
What I was doing was when i get the email saying someone registered i click the link in there that sends me to their profile page which has an approve link on it, and i just click that.
If I am right there is another link in the email that sends you to a link in the admin panel to activate them their?
Ah.. ya your right, Thanks!
Is there a way i can set it up so it will always send the email even if i go the other option?
From what I remember if you go into registration and tick the "Send welcome email to new members (?):" that should send out your welcome email for you once you have approved the account.
Yes I have that checked already. I think thats what sends them the first email telling them they have to wait to be approved.
Hi, I'm browsing through older topics to see if they are solved.
Do you still need assistance?
Yes a solution to where I dont have to go to the member admin and select all and choose that dropdown list, something simplier then that would be great
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edit: actually im not going to be using a forum soon anyway so either way im good :)
I have the same problem. Is there a way to let smf send the approval notification to the new member no matter how the admin did the approval, i.e. via the link in the member profile.
I have posted more info here (http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=180249.0).
Sorry to dig-up an old thread, but there was never an answer to this problem and I found a solution, so I felt it would be better to revive this than start a stand-alone help file. This applies to SMF 1.1.x (through 1.1.14, at least). It may also work in 1.0.x (if anybody is still using that!) and possibly to 2.x, but I can's confirm that as yet.
In order to change the activation menu, you need merely delete one line in ./Sources/ManageMembers.php:
// Determine which actions we should allow on this page.
if ($context['browse_type'] == 'approve')
{
// If we are approving deleted accounts we have a slightly different list... actually a mirror ;)
if ($context['current_filter'] == 4)
$context['allowed_actions'] = array(
'reject' => $txt['admin_browse_w_approve_deletion'],
'ok' => $txt['admin_browse_w_reject'],
);
else
$context['allowed_actions'] = array(
'ok' => $txt['admin_browse_w_approve'],
'okemail' => $txt['admin_browse_w_approve'] . ' ' . $txt['admin_browse_w_email'],
'require_activation' => $txt['admin_browse_w_approve_require_activate'],
'reject' => $txt['admin_browse_w_reject'],
'rejectemail' => $txt['admin_browse_w_reject'] . ' ' . $txt['admin_browse_w_email'],
);
Delete this line:
ok' => $txt['admin_browse_w_approve'],
By doing this, you remove the top (Approve) link, and the new top of the pull-down list becomes 'Approve With Confirmation E-mail'. This makes it impossible, via the member approval area in the admin panel anyhow (is there another way to approve members that I should address?), to approve a member without sending either a confirmation letter or an activation email.
Personally, I'm in favour of the latter, as it adds yet one more level of security to a forum... You can make sending the activation letter the first option too: Simply swap the entries for confirmation-letter email and Activation Link e-mail if you desire, like so:
// Determine which actions we should allow on this page.
if ($context['browse_type'] == 'approve')
{
// If we are approving deleted accounts we have a slightly different list... actually a mirror ;)
if ($context['current_filter'] == 4)
$context['allowed_actions'] = array(
'reject' => $txt['admin_browse_w_approve_deletion'],
'ok' => $txt['admin_browse_w_reject'],
);
else
$context['allowed_actions'] = array(
'require_activation' => $txt['admin_browse_w_approve_require_activate'],
'okemail' => $txt['admin_browse_w_approve'] . ' ' . $txt['admin_browse_w_email'],
'reject' => $txt['admin_browse_w_reject'],
'rejectemail' => $txt['admin_browse_w_reject'] . ' ' . $txt['admin_browse_w_email'],
);
This places 'Approve and Send Activation Email' at the top of the pull-down list for approval, so your first option on the pull-down approves the member.
I am looking into a way to add a 'Send Welcome Letter' option to the Admin's Member Centre so that you can send an automated welcome letter to members that you approve with one click, or send a new Welcome Letter (in case you later revise or add one) to members; It woyld be nice to have an option to send a message to ALL members as well,; if you add a new feature and want to send user documentation, for example. I was thinking about this myself, due to issues with this problem (as we just switched to 'Member Approval') and we added some new features that require some explanation in their use.
(I'm an idiot: The Newsletter does exactly this, but it isn't in the members section of the admin panel. I'm going to see how hard it will be to add this function (send newsletter) to the members panel; should be a snap, and post the code here when I finish it, whenever that may be.)
If I figure that out, I'll add the details here, or in a thread more appropriate to it, unless that has been solved. I read about it here, but I don.t know if it's solved in another topic.
Keep in mind, I run a 1.1.14 forum, not a 2.0.x forum, and this may not apply to the 2.0.x code. (I haven't examined that yet.) I know a great many if you have switched, but I have no plans to switch for a forum that's been running since 2006. For one thing, our theme hasn't changed in all that time, and there is no 2.0.x version of the theme, and many of our mods don't work in 2.x, so there are many reasons not to switch.
When I start my next forum project, it will likely be built on 2.x code. Anyhow, I hope someone finds this useful... i searched for an answer, found this thread (with no solution), figured it out on my own (pretty easy, as it turned out) and posted about it. If you don.t like me reviving a thread to to this, then that sucks for you, but other people may find it beneficial and I prefer to help out people when I can, especially for software that is 't officially being updated anymore, but is still in common-use.
To those this helped, I'm glad to be of service. I still need to figure out how to manually add a button graphic to the post/message scripts. I know how to add a text-based button, but not how to add a button that has an image (e.g. strike.gif). I can.t find the pointers, but that's a matter for another thread.
On a side-note, it seems my old account was purged due to inactivity (two years), thus I re-registered today...unless I was on another SMF scripts forum in the past and not this one, but I don't think that's the case.