Include name of category being subscribed to in email notification
By Simon Logan on Tuesday, 26 April 2016
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I'm looking to customise the email notifications being sent via Easyblog so am using template overrides to override the files in the wireframe theme's "emails" folder.

In the subscription notifications (both email subject and the body) is it possible to include the name of the category which is being subscribed to? At the moment it just says "New subscriber for this category" in the subject but doesn't actually say what category that means. Is there a variable I can use in both the sujbect (language override?) and in the email template itself?
Hello Simon,

I'm sorry but there is no category variable you can use there.
Nik Faris
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Wednesday, 27 April 2016 10:55
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Do you agree that it perhaps might make sense to have that info included (or available to include) within these notifications? Otherwise they're not of much use as they currently just say "someone has subscribed to something" without specifying to what? WE just had another one saying that someone has subscribed to a blog post but again have no idea which blog post!

I would imagine it should be possible to do (since that data must be recorded in the subscriptions table) and would really add value to these emails?
Simon Logan
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Wednesday, 04 May 2016 22:17
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Hey Simon,

Thanks for the input on this, I will log this down into our issue tracker as this does makes sense. Will try to see if we could include this in 5.0.36 but please, don't quote me on this
Mark
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Wednesday, 04 May 2016 23:58
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Consider yourself not quoted
Simon Logan
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Thursday, 05 May 2016 00:11
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Thanks for understanding, Simon
Mark
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Thursday, 05 May 2016 00:16
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Hi

Was there any development on this? I'd love to be able to include the category name in the subject line of emails sent when there is a new post.

Thanks.

P.S. I'd be happy to hack to achieve this!! It would be so useful to include.
David Cleworth
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Tuesday, 21 May 2019 18:22
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Hey David,

We doesn't put this into the core because most of the user do not want to display category title in email, but we did added some of the variable in the code file which you can use to display in email content.

For example this variable $blogCategory will return your primary blog category title.

If you would like to show category title in new post email content, you can modify this file and add this variable $blogCategory(JoomlaFolder/components/com_easyblog/themes/wireframe/emails/html/post.new.php).
Arlex Wong
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Tuesday, 21 May 2019 18:33
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That's absolutely fantastic, in the body of the email is a great alternative.

It works a treat! Thank you
David Cleworth
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Tuesday, 21 May 2019 19:03
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You are most welcome. Glad to hear that your issue has been resolved now.

Just for your information, I have locked and marked this thread as resolved to avoid confusions in the future. Please start a new thread if you have any other issue in the future so it will be easier for us to manage your inquiries.

Thanks for understanding.
Arlex Wong
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Tuesday, 21 May 2019 19:18
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