Feature #2549
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Enable the watching of news
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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. :)
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Updated by Robert Pollak about 15 years ago
I also would like to watch a project's news.
Updated by Michael Ball-Marian almost 15 years 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 Anonymous almost 15 years 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 over 14 years ago
As an admin i want to put people who can watch project news, file/document uploads
Updated by Ted Lilley over 14 years 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 over 14 years 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.
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Updated by Jose Luna over 14 years 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 over 14 years 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 over 14 years 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.
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Updated by Ted Lilley about 14 years 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.
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Updated by Luis Quintero over 13 years ago
+ 1
Please, add watching to News and Documents. It would be a really nice feature!
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Updated by Dmitry Pupinin over 13 years ago
Updated by Bruno Medeiros over 13 years ago
- File news_to_all_members.diff news_to_all_members.diff added
- Assignee deleted (
Jean-Philippe Lang)
I created a patch with the Dmitry's solution, it's attached.
It's created against Redmine 1.0.1, and seems to be working fine.
The option 'Don't notify my of my own changes' is still working after this patch, don't know if it is expected.
Updated by Ciprian Hodorogea over 13 years ago
I have applied this patch but unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work for me. Although emails are sent for other events, nothing is sent out for news added.
Could you please suggest where I should be looking / what could be wrong?
Thx
Updated by Ciprian Hodorogea over 13 years ago
Ok, it worked for me as well after I marked "News added" under Settings > Email notifications.
Thank you
Updated by Terence Mill over 13 years ago
Please move that feature into the branch!
+1
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Updated by Ant Cunningham over 13 years ago
+1 from me... +100 from each of my clients :-)
Updated by Ryan H about 13 years ago
+1 .. Would be great if you want all your users to receive an email, and track it was sent.. IE. a new release or baseline available.
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Updated by Stefan Bellus about 13 years ago
+1!
I want to use it to announce new release/important bug-fixes for all that subscribe for this information as watchers (not only to project members).
My project is library that is used by other teams. I don't know who use it. I have to make possible that all teams that uses my library can get information about new releases/important bug-fixes. I think news are right solution.
I will release my library on Hudson and let hudson to send mail to add news. On redmine site I want to use https://github.com/titas/redmine-news-via-email-plugin.
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Updated by Katie Nelson about 13 years ago
+1
Any plans for the feature? This is something you can do in Basecamp that is very useful.
Updated by Robert Schneider about 13 years ago
+1
Is the adding of this feature too complex? Otherwise put it into version 1.2.0 if possible, please.
Updated by Drew Keller over 12 years ago
I created a plugin that sends an email digest of project activity. This includes news items. It's not very configurable (yet), but at least it's a start: http://www.redmine.org/plugins/digest.
I'm new to Ruby coding, so improvement patches are welcome.
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Updated by Robert Pollak over 12 years ago
I have filed a corresponding issue with ChiliProject, the Redmine fork.
Updated by Nick Nguyen over 12 years ago
- File redmine_example.jpg redmine_example.jpg added
I've added the patch, and it is working. Except for when there is more than 6 people assigned to a project. The first 6 people get added to the TO: in the email, and than everyone after that gets added to the email itself. Seems like it adds a line break after the 6 people that messes up the email.
The email is also malformed. I've attached an example. Any idea how to make it from stop doing that?
Updated by Drew Keller over 12 years ago
There is a bug in TMail that affects certain email clients. See http://www.redmine.org/issues/8751 (comments have a monkey patch to fix it).
Updated by Martti Laakso over 12 years ago
Why are there two different places to adjust the email settings anyway?
If I want to get news, I'm currently bombarded with all these issue updates I have no interest in. Just let the user use checkboxes to select what updates one want's to receive (issues, news, wiki..) and under what circumstances (member, watcher, all..), and let the administrator just set some sane defaults.
Updated by Andriy Lesyuk about 12 years ago
Need help testing my plugin which implements news subscription: http://projects.andriylesyuk.com/projects/subscription
Updated by Jean-Philippe Lang about 10 years ago
- Status changed from New to Closed
- Assignee set to Jean-Philippe Lang
- Target version set to 2.5.0
- Resolution set to Fixed
Feature added in r12866. It's now possible to watch project news. All watchers will be notified when a new news is added.
Updated by Daniel Felix about 10 years ago
- Related to Feature #8241: Advanced notification: per user, per project configurable schedule, event filter and notification format added
Updated by Toshi MARUYAMA almost 8 years ago
- Related to Defect #22635: Get news notification even though unwatch added
Updated by Toshi MARUYAMA almost 8 years ago
- Related to Defect #4700: Adding news does not send notification to all project members added