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Gillian Evans,  Fred Pook

Notifications

Version 2.0

Goal:

A stream of activities displaying changes to things that you own and things that you are involved with.

Phase One

Framework for notifications

  • Framework for capturing all changes to links
  • Integrate this with the framework created for "edit history"
  • Replace the forum notifications
  • Framework for grouping/summarizing these captures
  • Possibility for the sysadmin to configure/filter these captures and automatic cleaning up
  • Possibility for users to configure/filter their display of the stream of the change history
  • .... additions and changes by Arjan ....

Breakdown of the stream of activity for a user

Changes to things you own (you 'own' yourself as well):

  • Notification about link changes (excluding KNOWS and FRIEND) that are made to you (e.g. tag in a photo).
  • Notification about contact request/confirms (KNOWS and FRIEND)
  • Notification about links that are changed (added/deleted) to things that you own (e.g. interest, tag/keyword, comment, participant etc)
  • Notification about text edits that others make to things you own.

Phase Two

Notification about new or changed links to things that:

  • …you have linked to, but are not the owner of.
  • …you have edited, but are not the owner of.

Notification about text edits that others make to things that

  • …you are linked to, but are not the owner of.
  • …you have edited, but are not the owner of.

Phase Three

  • Design filters
  • Decide what notifications are sent in a personal mail

Design

Interface

Format:

Person Action Thing Date
Gillian Evans + Actor: Eveline Wiegmans Eveline & Gillian at Kom je ook? 5 Date

Notes about existing notification system

In module: Teleport exists very basic handling of notifying owners of things about changes to the edges of these things. The changes that involve Teleport are only changes to intra-site edges, so no notifications of changes within one website. Notifying is done by email only, not stored in messages inbox.

The system still is functioning by storing all these changes in its own table (teleport_edge_notify_in) but the scheduled daily sending of emails (and cleaning up that table) is switched off.

The actual email that used to be sent is no more that a line “The following relations have been made to your account in the last day.” and 1 or 2 lines like “Jim at Mediamatic Lab made a new INTERESTED connection to Chikako Watanabe in Schokland“. Only exception to these lines are contacts made, with a line like “Mary added You as a contact”

On Mediamatic.net these Teleport changes average about 5 per day.

Notes about existing messaging system

Messaging is basically handled by Anymeta_Message that stores the messages in the database and sends the email by Anymeta_Emailer. There are 2 types of messages: message and notify.
The displaying of message lists and the message is done in a very basic way in module:Message and doesn't differentiate between messages and notifications.

Type Notify are send from:

  • module:Contact

Type: Message are send from:

  • module:Message
  • module:MemberAdministration
  • module:Signup
  • module:Checkout
  • action dialogs

No message, only email is sent by:

  • module: Forum
  • module: Invite

Problems in Messaging
To send messages, 3 different ways are used and have different ACL rules:

  • message_module > sendMessage
  • service anymeta_messages_send
  • message > send

To create all the different e-mail texts only one template is used with a confusing mix of all the possible combinations.
To display the message on the website another template is used with a different confusing mix of all the possible combinations.

The sending of multiple messages (like to your contacts) is mixed up with sending one message.

Recommendations for Messaging (inbox)

  • (De)select all messages
  • Mark as (un)read
  • Auto delete notifications older then one week
  • <Previous Next> message (nice to have)

Telecommunicatiewet: http://wetten.overheid.nl/BWBR0009950/geldigheidsdatum_23-06-2010

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Fred Pook, Eveline Wiegmans 
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