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Notifications (Pro)

Pro version. This feature is part of the Pro version of Fileshelf. What the Free version does is covered under Free version and Pro version.

Two kinds of mail: visitors hear about new versions, and you hear how often a download was fetched. Fileshelf sends both in the background – never while someone waits for a page.

Subscribing to new versions

Logged-in visitors see Subscribe to new versions on the download page. When the download gets a new file, they receive a mail with the new version label and a link to the page. Every mail has an unsubscribe link that works without logging in. The number of subscribers is shown in the tab Notifications.

Download reports

In the tab Notifications of a download switch on Report downloads by mail and enter the recipients (empty: the author of the download). Instead of one mail per download a summary is sent, at most once in 24 hours.

The Notifications tab with the switch, recipients and the number of subscribers
The tab “Notifications”.

In the plugin Fileshelf - Notifications you set the throttle in hours and, optionally, an address that gets a report of all downloads.

Sending

The scheduled task Fileshelf - Send notifications sends what is due every 15 minutes. Fileshelf creates it during installation; you find it under System → Scheduled Tasks. IfThe links in the schedulermails runsnever from the command line, entertake the address of a request on the sitewebsite in– a visitor could forge it. They come from the global configuration (Live Site) soor, if nothing is set there, from the linksaddress under which you last opened Fileshelf in the mailsbackend are(Fileshelf right.notes it then, also when installing).

The scheduled tasks of Fileshelf: send notifications, retention of the download log, delete addresses after the retention
The three tasks of the Pro version.

Edit the texts of the mails under System → Mail Templates (extension Fileshelf - Notifications).

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