Turn Option to Send Email Alerts Off By Default

[Nat Katin-Borland]

For the Board Meeting Calendar, the moderators would like to have the send email alert option turned off by default. There is a lot of anxiety about emailing 500 important users by accident. Whether we have this be a new option for moderators on the Edit Overview screen or whether we make it an admin only option, or something else, doesn't really matter to me, we should just do whatever is easiest.

[Paul Everitt (paul-agendaless)]

I believe the least disruptive thing will be a knob on the Edit Community screen that lets you adjust the behavior of default on send alert. This would prevent us from having to special case this with some bandaid that we all forget about later.

[Nat Katin-Borland (nborland)]

That makes sense to me.

[Paul Everitt (paul-agendaless)]

Tres and I are working on this now.

[Paul Everitt (paul-agendaless)]

Some notes for Nat on the approach we're doing, as well as some testing notes.

We are adding a knob on the community that lets you set this policy. Then, we are changing each content type's add form (add calendar event, add blog entry, etc.) so that the "Send Alert?" field sets its default based on this setting.

We already have some policy that hides this field on intranet side. But we should test to make sure that adding, for example, a calendar event outside a community (i.e. under /offices somewhere) doesn't trigger an alert.

[Nat Katin-Borland (nborland)]

Sounds like a good approach! This will be a knob on the Edit Overview page?

[Tres Seaver (tseaver)]

Fix now on karldev on branch 'community-sendalert_default-1207087'.

[Paul Everitt (paul-agendaless)]

Test at: https://karldev.gocept.com/community-sendalert_default-1207087/osf/communities/default/view.html

[Nat Katin-Borland (nborland)]

Seems to work on the communities side in both public and private communities. I also added intranet content and didn't get any alerts.