Mass PM

[jeep]

Howdy all,

You can now send one private message to multiple recipients. To do so, you separate the users with a semi-colon (;). For example, if you wanted to send a pm to mith and me you would put this in the to line:

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mith;jeep

If you notice any weirdness, let me know.

-JEEP

[jeep]

Oh yeah, do not abuse this or I'll revert it.

-JEEP

[Fritzler]

if i sent this to multiple people, i.e. if i sent 18 people townie pms, would they see the other 17 recieved the roles?

[Mr. Flay]

Shouldn't be, my outbox shows them as separate messages.

P.S. JEEP, disable smilies in your first post.

[jeep]

It just loops through and sends it X times. There is no CC: line.

-JEEP

[GreenLiquid]

Excellent!

I am definately going to make liberal use of that feature. Thanks Jeep!

[Thesp]

Rock on. jeep is my hero.

[Mr. Flay]

This is SO handy for Townie PMs in Newbie Games, woo!

[MeMe]

Is it just me or is there a limit of 25 characters in the "to" box for

everyone

? Basically, I can use this feature only for three or four short names -- usually just two normal sized ones. No way could I send it to all the townies in a newbie game with any regularity.

[jeep]

25? There USED to be a limit of 25 characters... Hmm... I'll check it out again.

-JEEP

[Mr. Flay]

Yeah, I ran into this too in a couple cases; maybe 40 or 50, or higher for mods?

[jeep]

Nah... Those out there using subSilver are scratching their heads wondering what we're smoking, but honest... on mafSepia, I forgot to remove the field length.

-JEEP

[MeMe]

I'm using subSilver.


...so it IS just me.

[jeep]

Are you seeing a 25 character limit? I didn't change anything on subSilver.

The field is only 25 long, but it should scroll if you type more characters.

-JEEP

[MeMe]

It doesn't scroll -- it just stops accepting characters @ 25.

Just tried again with: "jeep;mith;thok;mr. flay;m"

Last name was mr stoofer, which I kept typing despite it not displaying the characters. when I hit "send" I got

Sorry, but no such user exists. 'm <> mith SELECT user_id, username, user_notify_pm, user_email, user_lang, user_active FROM phpbb_users WHERE username IN ('jeep','m','mith','mr. flay','thok' ) AND user_id <> -1 ORDER BY username ASC

As an error above the non-sent message.

[jeep]

Wow, sure enough. It's not in the template so I have no idea why it's only 25 still. I'll have to dig in further.

-JEEP

[jeep]

nm... it helps if I put the template file in the correct location. I messed it up the first time and then I just checked the one in the messed up location...

-JEEP

[MeMe]

Awesome! Perfect, now.

[Zindaras]

Awesome, I've wanted this really badly.

[LyingBrian]

i don't know if this is a problem or not, but i tried sending a mass PM to my players, and for whatever reason,

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_Converge

caused a problem w/ the mass PM feature... just thought i would report it...

[jeep]

What were the symptoms?

-JEEP

[LyingBrian]

i got this error message

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Sorry, but no such user exists. '_converge <> bird1111 SELECT user_id, username, user_notify_pm, user_email, user_lang, user_active FROM phpbb_users WHERE username IN ('_converge','bird1111','ih','john','panzerjager','ripley','simenon','spectrumvoid','the central scrutinizer' ) AND user_id <> -1 ORDER BY username ASC 

and just b/c it might be necessary, here's what was typed in the Username field

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bird1111;IH;John;Panzerjager;Ripley;Simenon;spectrumvoid;The Central Scrutinizer;_Converge

as soon as i removed his name from the Username field, ie

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bird1111;IH;John;Panzerjager;Ripley;Simenon;spectrumvoid;The Central Scrutinizer

then it went through just fine...

[jeep]

Yeah, _ messes things up, but only seriously if it's at the start or end. I'll escape it tomorrow.

-JEEP

[LyingBrian]

i had it at the end of the list b/c i alphabetize my usernames according to the Memberlist... not really a big deal as i only had to send 2 PMs instead of 9... even if we have to send individual PMs to the few players who have underscores in their names, it does cut down on the time factor a bit... thanks, JEEP!!!