#1330 - When emailing a member, allow for CC or BCC to other site members

By Rishi Saravanan
Added 2nd Aug 2013, 3:04 PM
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Identifier	#1330
Issue type	Minor issue (breaks specific functionality)
Title	When emailing a member, allow for CC or BCC to other site members
Status	Completed
Handling member	Chris Graham
Addon	cns_contact_member
Description	One of our website members asked about having this feature, and it hadn't occurred to me before, but it sounds useful. Besides the normal function of starting to type someone's username and selecting from popop list, probably good to be flexible enough for allowing an actual email address to be typed in the CC or BCC field which is not necessarily a member of the site
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By Guest posted 13th Aug 2013, 3:50 PM

Deployed and tested :).

By Guest posted 14th Aug 2013, 12:20 AM

Testing just now, I don't see user names popping up when I start to type various members' names.

Also, the CC and BCC field description boxes need to extend further to the right. The text is getting cut off,

By Guest posted 14th Aug 2013, 12:41 AM

I can see I misinterpreted your requirements here. I read this as "Besides how we can find a member and contact them using the normal features (such as username autocompletion when starting a private topic), it would be good to additionally create CC and BCC fields". I now see my reading was a bit odd ;-).

I will revisit.

By Guest posted 14th Aug 2013, 12:55 AM

oops, sorry it wasn't exactly clear! You can charge some more credits if you like

By Guest posted 14th Aug 2013, 9:25 AM

It wasn't really ambiguous, it's more my fault for skim reading. This one issue I actually finished ahead of time anyway, so making some further tuning is fine. Most of the time quoted for was adding CC support to the email system, which wasn't there before.

By Guest posted 14th Aug 2013, 9:41 AM

Fixed :)

By Guest posted 14th Aug 2013, 11:36 PM

Great, thanks! I used the translate/rephrase software pane to complete the field descriptions (missing the word 'message' on the end I believe)

By Guest posted 15th Aug 2013, 5:18 AM

That's odd, it was showing in full for me. The very first time I put it in, I did have the end chopped off, but I fixed it and didn't see that again. But it may have somehow got stuck in the language cache.

By Guest posted 16th Aug 2013, 12:58 AM

Hello Chris,
The same user that asked for this functionality is now asking about 'Save' function. She says she was typing an email to someone, "had to leave the site, I lost the email and had to start again."

What is the current status of autosave or 'draft' functionality?

By Guest posted 17th Aug 2013, 9:03 AM

Hello,

I could add that in 1 hours work. We have the framework for this, but it currently only applies to Composr "posting forms" (e.g. news, forum posts), which this form doesn't count as.

By Guest posted 17th Aug 2013, 11:21 AM

okay, let's do that, thank you.

By Guest posted 17th Aug 2013, 2:43 PM

That's now deployed. I also did a few tweaks to make it perform a bit better, and worked around a nasty bug on Google Chrome (https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=274983).

By Guest posted 17th Aug 2013, 3:18 PM

Great, thank you, works well!