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PRIVATE MESSAGING - forwarding & selection of recipient

7 votes

Submitted by Kimmo, 23rd February 2007, 9:09:23 AM

I believe there's a need for a FORWARDING-option for the private messages.

As a PLUGIN, I would also like to see some kind of configurable tool that allows you to search the userlist for a recipient if you don't remember the username...
something like a button next to the recipient-box for 'search'
this would pop-up a little window that allows you to search by username or a customfield
personally, I've created 2 customfields fid32 and fid33 to store lastname and firstname respectively...so I might want to enable the search for fid32 in the admincp or something..
submitting the search would bring you the list of matches....then you'd just click the one that you want to send to ...and this username is then used to populate the recipient-box

I hope you understand what I mean...I tend to ramble at times... :)

so first one (forwarding) as standard feature and the other one (search) as a plugin

Kimmo

3 Comments

  1. It looks to me like forwarding is already a feature - there's this button that says "Forward", and if you click on it, it works... unless you're thinking of something completely different.

    In response to your plugin suggestion, this isn't a site to share ideas for plugins, it is a site to share ideas for new features or changes that you'd like to see in MyBB.

    Justin S., 23rd February 2007, 11:46:11 AM

  2. hmmm...I better refrain then from comments as I am only able to run 1.1.8 (so don't see the latest changes)
    as far as my plugin-suggestion goes...I think it's still a valid suggestion/request/idea...it just happens to be that I personally believe it might be better as a plugin but the MyBB project-management think it's valid as a standard feature....so I believe this is still in the right place

    Kimmo, 23rd February 2007, 2:57:18 PM

  3. There is already an auto-completer for the PM recipient box, but it only searches username.

    DennisTT, 23rd February 2007, 6:14:42 PM

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