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Thanks Boone, normally don’t like aps like poedit but actually it’s faster to use as it generated the .mo same time you save the working .po file so a swift upload and done, I now have the archaic British spelling of Favorite

hey Boone,

so you are saying it would be better to just remove the Tab “Send Invites” from the “Group Creation Process” ?

Generally speaking, its hard for me to understand why there is the Tab “Send Invites” (at Group Creation) available in BP-Standard, but there are no 5 e-mail-fields available to invite external friends…..is this intentional ?

Many thanks,

Erich

Erich my concern is that – given your assertion on the other thread “Now your site Is up and running” that it is very difficult to get a new site off the ground without being able to send email when you create groups – you are perceiving an issue where one doesn’t necessarily exist, certainly it might be nice to have the email address fields available on the group send invites screen but it’s not a necessity as there is a reasonably simple path to the profile send emails from the group creation stage, a little explanatory text would smooth things along a little for users. I won’t ramble on as I covered some of these points on the other thread, and I’m in danger of repeating myself and of being boring

Hi Boone,

I found 2 more issues I do not know how to fix:

1)

the e-mail which the persin receives whom I invites looks like the following:

You have been invited by %INVITERNAME% to join the community.

Visit %INVITERNAME%’s profile at %INVITERURL%.

How to change the “%INVITERNAME% and %INVITERURL% to something different ?

2)

when sending an invitation to somebody, then there is the Tab “Sent Invites”. There is the section named “Group” or “Invited to Group”. But this section does not show the Group-Name.

Many thanks,

Could this possibly be extended to also have a contacts importer..??

users just enter their Gmail, Yahoo or Windows Live email address and password and it finds if their friends are already on the site, if not it will give an option to send invites to the email addresses you want..

it could be tedious for some people to enter an email address again and again..just to make it simple for the user..

Hey Boone,

– do I need to activate your Plugin “Side-Wide” or just for my “Main Blog” ?

– is there a chance to have an option like this: Allow email invitations to be sent by GROUP-ADMINS ?

Many thanks,

Thanks a lot Boone !

can you also make a placeholder for the Website-URL and the Group-URL ?

something like this, but for the Website-URL and the Group-URL:

%%INVITERURL%% – URL to the profile of the inviter

Hi Boone,

there is the option “4. (optional) Select some groups. Invitees will receive invitations to these groups when they join the site.”.

This is showing 20 Groups, but those look like being taken from the first 20 Groups out of the full list of Groups.

Lets say I do have 300 Groups, then only the ones starting with the letter “A” are being listed under this “option”.

Is there a way to make this like a Random-List of Groups ?

Or even better: is there a way to remove this “4. option” in the backend ?

@boone, these are probably already on your list, but here’s 3 quick suggestions.

1. Make the width of the message/subject boxes a percentage. My custom theme cuts off the ends.

2. On the message “You’ve been invited by NAME to join…”, make the NAME a link, to open that member’s profile page in a new window.

3. We need to be able to delete old invitations.

And I’m excited to see the Widget version. I’m hoping it has text that can be easily tweaked. I want mine to say “Invite your friends to join”

Great work Boone.

There is a todo.txt in the folder where BG lists features to be implemented and in that ‘Sent Invites’ has a few entries one of which is to look into method of clearing individual accepted/all invites.

@gregfielding – at present there don’t appear to be any rules for the widget markup probably because it’s a dev version, likely styles will be added later in stable release but if you are using the widget ( which appears perfectly stable) live then until stable version released you probably ought to add these two rulesets to either the invite-anyone stylesheet or your custom stylesheet if using one – if thast is you haven’t already sorted this out:

.widget.invite-anyone li {

margin:5px 0;

}

.widget.invite-anyone form li input {

width:96%;

}

This is especially important as without these rules the default layout as rendered in IE6 is borked.