Hello Stephen,

I am really sorry for the delay of this reply as it is a weekend for us here. Please find the response to your inquiries below:

1) Is there a way to set the system up so that my authors can send notifications only for the posts they select by simply clicking on the "Notify" button in the Blog Entries list?

Unfortunately right now this is not possible. Only site admins can do this from the post listings at the back end of EasyBlog

2) It seems via testing that Send Notification Emails needs to be set to Yes for the Notify button to work. If a post is published and saved with Send Notification Emails set to No, will a notification be sent out if I reopen the post and set Send Notification Emails to Yes and save the item or would I have to click the Notify button after saving the post?

"Send notification emails on page load" will dispatch the emails that are pending in the mail activities. If you do not have cron setup, you will need to enable this option. You don't need to click on the "notify" button again as this is a feature where some site owners wants to send notification multiple times.

Hope this helps.

Hi Mark,

Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately, I'm still a little confused on the details.

My authors are staff members and are using the back-end interface, so they have access to the admin Notify button. We want to publish a blog post and view it as a part of the blog without sending a notification. Then, we want to send out a notification for that post, ideally by clicking on the Notify button. How would we set it up this way? We also want to be sure we don't send out 2 notifications, which leads to the second question.

For question 2, we have published and saved a post with Send Notification Emails set to No. Are you saying that when we edit the post, set Send Notification Emails to Yes, and save, then notification emails will begin sending the next time the front-end page loads or the cron job runs? If that's the case, we wouldn't need a Notify button to meet our goal, correct?

Thanks,
Steve

Hi Stephen Thompson,

I am really sorry for the delay of this reply as it is a weekend for us here.

please find your answer in your queries below :

My authors are staff members and are using the back-end interface, so they have access to the admin Notify button. We want to publish a blog post and view it as a part of the blog without sending a notification. Then, we want to send out a notification for that post, ideally by clicking on the Notify button. How would we set it up this way? We also want to be sure we don't send out 2 notifications, which leads to the second question.

Based on your situation, I would like to suggest you my ideas here :
If you would like to preview with your blog post before publish, you can set unpublish status and set "send notification email" to NO first > then save (screenshot 11). Go back your blog listing page, click on the drop down button > click preview. (Screenshot 2)
If everything is okay, you can click publish button then click on the notify button. So it will send new blog post published notification email to your user.

For question 2, we have published and saved a post with Send Notification Emails set to No. Are you saying that when we edit the post, set Send Notification Emails to Yes, and save, then notification emails will begin sending the next time the front-end page loads or the cron job runs? If that's the case, we wouldn't need a Notify button to meet our goal, correct?

As long as if you edit the blog post set the "send notification email" to YES, it will not process the notification email to the user.
What you need to do is click on the "Notify" button from your blog listing page. (Screenshot 3)