Hello John,

I've applied the hack for you. Please have a look. You can do it your self by replacing these to files:
blogs.php : ../administrator/components/com_easyblog/controllers/
dashboard.php : ../components/com_easyblog/controllers/

Hope this helps.

We have a similar issue. Our registered bloggers need to be notified of new blog posts which are readable by registered bloggers only. Unfortunately the new post notifications go out to all subscriber even if they will not have permission to view the new blog post. This creates frustration and confusion. It seems like notices should only go out to subscribers if they would have permission to see the post.

I'm not looking for a hack. I'm looking for a repair in the standard product. I can't keep up with applying all the hacks each time there is a version update.

Please consider this for the next update.

-Gordon

May I suggest that if you need to mix private and public blog subscribers that the easiest is to you use Team Blogs for the private subscribers.
Regards
John Burke

John,

Thanks for the suggestion, but this will not solve our problem. We are using the "submit for approval" workflow and our bloggers collaborate on posts prior to those posts being made viewable by the public which ends their need to collaborate in a private space. We have tried the team blogs and they seem to be only for closed teams. What we have is a single site that is publicly viewable, but the articles being prepared for publication are shared among the authors for peer review.

It seems the notification feature never took into account that any post can be viewable by the pubic, or only viewable by registered members. It's silly to notify of things that can't appear. It makes the site look broken. It seems like this oversight should be fixed.

-Gordon

Hello Gordon,

Thanks for the heads up. By the way, just to check with you, have you turn off this option: http://screencast.com/t/i4Bvnzby ?

No we have not turned off the option to have subscribers notified of new [public] posts. The whole point of the site is to notify our public subscribers when our post are published as viewable by the public.

The problem is that notices should only go out to the subscribing public when a new [public] post is published. Notices should go out to the bloggers-only when a new post is published that has it's view permission set to registered users only. We can't avoid publishing the private posts because the preview option on the blogger dashboard will not correctly locate the page unless the private post is published.

Right now I have to turn off all email processing, publish the article, manually delete the public subscribers from the mail queue, then turn back on email processing so that the bloggers-only get email notification. This is a manual error prone process and will not scale when the number of public site subscribers increases.

Thanks for you consideration for fixing this incorrect and problematic program behavior.

-Gordon

Hello Gordon,

Thanks for the explanation. We will see what we can do about this for the future release. We will fix this behaviour once and for all.