Feature #2549
Enable the watching of news
| Status: | New | Start: | 2009-01-20 | |
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| Priority: | Normal | Due date: | ||
| Assigned to: | Jean-Philippe Lang | % Done: | 0% |
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| Category: | News | |||
| Target version: | - | Estimated time: | 1.00 hour | |
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Description
At the moment, users can't watch news items. They can subscribe the the provided feeds, but they can't get emails like they do tickets.
I don't know Ruby, but I see the "acts_as_watchable" property that the board, message and issue models have. I gather adding this to news wouldn't watch all news, just a singular news item. Anywho, I leave the implementation details to the Redmine experts. :)
History
Updated by Michael Ball-Marian over 1 year ago
Agree his feature is important. News/Files should either be watchable, or have their own account checkbox, separate from the issues emails. Right now you have to enable notification for everything just to get News updates.
Updated by Russell Hind about 1 year ago
+1 for this feature too. Currently I still have to send an e-mail around about new releases. It would be good if the 'news' section could do this automatically.
Updated by vel pandian about 1 year ago
As an admin i want to put people who can watch project news, file/document uploads
Updated by Ted Lilley about 1 year ago
+1 as well. Email updates are particularly appropriate for the news module, as the first thing you're going to want to do is follow up the announcement by sending it directly to the concerned parties.
A Redmine noob (meaning I don't know how to implement anything),
Ted
Updated by Jim Mullis about 1 year ago
Another extremely useful benefit of this feature combined with the user Group feature is the ability to create News and Info Projects that are watched by one or more customer groups, i.e. AllCustomers, GrpACustomers, GrpBCustomers, etc. It then becomes easy to announce product enhancements, planned outages, etc.
Updated by Jose Luna 11 months ago
+1 This would be very helpful and (I think) not too painful to implement. As Jim Mullis points out, it would be very powerful to include this in addition to groups.
Updated by Alfredo Bonilla 10 months ago
+1
Just to confirm, that it would be really useful specilly for projects with more than a couple of people working, to receive news without receiving all the modifications in the issues.... really useful
Right now, in our project, we have to send an email to the people instead of using the News to avoid that people "track" all the issues mods
Updated by Dennis Gao 9 months ago
+1
Currently I still have to send an e-mail around about new releases. It would be good if the 'news/files/documents' section could do this automatically.
When I add the documents, add news, add files, we can not receive the e-mail.
I have checked all the Administration/Settings/Email notifications/
News added = Yes
Document added = Yes
File added = Yes
and restart apache2, I still have not received e-mail.
Updated by Ted Lilley 5 months ago
As a brutally ugly hack, I made my installation send email notifications about added news to all project members regardless of their notification settings. You can see my article about it here:
http://blogs.trekforth.com/2010/04/patching-redmine-08x-for-email.html
I'm not advocating that anyone use this approach, I'm simply waiting for a better solution.
Updated by Luis Quintero 23 days ago
+ 1
Please, add watching to News and Documents. It would be a really nice feature!