[User Request] Private Message Feedback

[spaniel]

The second vat of feedback i've got so far concerns the PM section. When you open a message in the inbox, the inbox tab stops being a link, is there a way to keep this as a link to give people easy access back to their inbox?

So far users can only choose to reply or save, but a user might not want to do either of those at that particular time.

Also, has anyone coded into their PM system (or knows how to code) a "View Next New Message" icon like we have on the forum?

On the feedback trail...
I've noticed that users are more willing to give feedback these days. I think i'm going to call it the Myspace Effect. They're spoiled by gmail's "conversations" and Yahoo's drag and drop... but we gotta keep 'em happy if we're gonna keep 'em <img>

[CaNNon]

Yea I know what they mean, and adding a button for this would be a great idea.
I know on my site I never have just 1 pm and I have to go to the link in the "where you are" to get back. I'm sure it's confusing for my users.

[spaniel]

Which files deal with the Inbox, Outbox tabs? Maybe if we took a look at them, it might be something straightforward.

Didn't Ptirrik do a mod called Advanced PM? I remember it had folders and forwarding features. Maybe we shud see what we can take from that.

[spaniel]

The template file is templates/yourtemplate/privmsgs_body.tpl

The links seem to be a php function:

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<table><tr><td>{INBOX_IMG}</td><td>{INBOX}  </td><td>{SENTBOX_IMG}</td><td>{SENTBOX}  </td><td>{OUTBOX_IMG}</td><td>{OUTBOX}  </td><td>{SAVEBOX_IMG}</td><td>{SAVEBOX}  </td></tr></table>

I don't understand the template files - i've renamed them and i'm still able to access them <img>

[DjPorkchop]

The second vat of feedback i've got so far concerns the PM section. When you open a message in the inbox, the inbox tab stops being a link, is there a way to keep this as a link to give people easy access back to their inbox?

So far users can only choose to reply or save, but a user might not want to do either of those at that particular time.

Also, has anyone coded into their PM system (or knows how to code) a "View Next New Message" icon like we have on the forum?

Yeah I can most definately agree. I just went to my inbox and had 7 PM's. I just click the link in the upper menu every time to go back to it. A next and previous button would be sweet. Let alone a link that just goes back to inbox such as keeping the tab alive as you have suggested. That would be excellent.

On my IM Portal website, I use Austin's Organised inbox and it actually is pretty sweet. Something like that on Integramod would be sweet as hell.

[CaNNon]

do you have a link handy for "Austin's Organised inbox" No biggie if you don't i'll search it.

[spaniel]

ok i started tweaking when we all kno i shudnt <img> and predictably i've created an intransigent problem.... one i can't figure out at all - it's like something out of the Twilight Zone.

I tried to create a "return to inbox" button at the bottom of the open message alongside the buttons already there. I added it to the wrong file (privmsgs_body.tpl) so now at the bottom of the Mailbox folders I have a white box with a href= inside it. It goes back to the inbox but as it's in the wrong place and doesnt have words in it, I've tried to delete it by removing it from the file and even uploading the backup copy... only to find it's still visible at the bottom of each mailbox!

I've attached a pic. I've tired to put the .script from privmsgs_body.tpl that i tweaked but the code/php/quote bbcode's wont show it. It's the line after

<BEGIN>

on line 106 that i copied and tweaked.

Oh, it gets even weirder - if i rename all the privmsg files, i can still access the whole PM section and open and read msgs even after clearing my cache....how's that possible?

How can I get rid of it? Any ideas how I can get out of the Twilight Zone lol?

[DjPorkchop]

Good luck on that. Hope it works out for you. It sure would be sweet.

And the link to the organised in box, I'm not sure. It is located at [url=http]phpbb-tweaks[/url]

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