[#SVC-2839] Temporary group notices

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Temporary group notices

Created: 03/Oct/07 11:54 AM Updated: 07/Jan/09 11:45 AM

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This issue Relates to:

VWR-5132 Separate 'IM to e-mail' and 'Group Notice to e-mail' options

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~~VWR-2686~~ Allow setting of a time-to-live or expiration for IMs, either individually when created or for Group Ims

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Some groups exist for communication. But the group chat channel is not always good for this, as people can close the channel and miss subsequent communications. So sometimes group notices are used instead.

But there comes some instances where you only want the currently online members of your group to know something. Like an RP group announcing a battle in 5 minutes or such. Sending out notices here will get the message to the online members, but will result in spamming the offline ones with irrelevant notices when they sign in, about events that are long passed.

So what I'm proposing is a temporary group notice. One which will expire after a relatively short time limit. ANyone who is online, or logs in during the time limit, will receive it. Those who log in after the time limit expires, will not get the notice. This could be defineable field when making a notice, which would defauilt to the current 30 days, and be settable as low as 1 minute. There should also be a 0 option, which would send the notice only to those currently online, and not bother those who log in subsequently.

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Mercia Mcmahon added a comment - 03/Oct/07 12:28 PM

Voted for this because I like the idea of a settable duration for the notice. I would like to be able to set notices to longer than 30 days, indeed I would like to set auto-delete off, as I use Group Notices as a form of FAQ.

The Feature Request as described misses the point that members can set themselves to not receive Group Notices, and that if they have an email relay for offline IMs, then the group notices, even those set to 5 mins will spam the email address.

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franko avro added a comment - 29/Oct/08 07:09 AM

Voted for the change proposed by this issue as 1.) I believe it would be a plus for everyone (users, vendors/group owners, and the maybe even theoverworked servers) and 2.) have been thinking of same change to address current operation of group notices.

When logging on currently, first order of business is rapidly deleting a "stack" (days/week worth) of group notices for events or timed anouncements long gone by since last log on. Often notices for "current" events may also get deleted, admittedly due to "operator exhuberance" . But after deleting the 5th or5th "best in .... event* group notice,,, I believe relatively understandable?

Allowing the creator of the notice to set an expiration, or recall of notice would seem to clean up this condition. Valid Group notices would get the attention deserved and somewhere in the deep where these links to notices are maintained until next logon would be kept in cleaner order?

Understand that settings exist for Group notices to be flat out not received at all, and if that is lab ultimate intent, so be it.
But that would appear to eliminate what I am suspecting to be the valid means of communicating timely announcements to its' group members?

Thank you in advance for your consideration of this issue.

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RJ Rappaport added a comment - 07/Jan/09 11:44 AM - edited

Two suggestions to solve the same problem.

linking to VWR-5132