I wonder if it is possible to change the way the subject line of emailed forum posts are generated. I would prefer to have the course code (Short Name), the forum name, and then topic of the post.
As it is I find it difficult to find the forum postings in my local moodle inbox. This will also allow a person to filter messages into different folders for different forums.
TIA
Riaan
Subject of emailed forum posting
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Probably a good suggestion, though the subject lines might get a bit long sometimes ...
Anyone object?
Anyone object?
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Sounds like a good idea to me. 
-- Art
-- Art
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Perhaps there is some clever way of shortening the Forum names.
Examples of some of my forums:
Structure of Networks, Networking Fundamentals, Static vs Dynamic IP addressing, Understanding how DNS and name resolution works.
Now, I realise that these are pretty long names (and I chose some of the shorter ones) Perhaps we/I can use the Forum ID as it is in the sql DB to identify the forum, (or maybe Martin or someone else can explain to me how I can hack it so that I can use the forumid for my installation). Or I should think of better Forum names 
The courses I am 'moodle-izing" are fairly technical and are aimed at technical people so I am sure that a number to differentiate the forums would not be a big problem.
Just a thought ...
Examples of some of my forums:
Structure of Networks, Networking Fundamentals, Static vs Dynamic IP addressing, Understanding how DNS and name resolution works.
Now, I realise that these are pretty long names (and I chose some of the shorter ones
The courses I am 'moodle-izing" are fairly technical and are aimed at technical people so I am sure that a number to differentiate the forums would not be a big problem.
Just a thought ...
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Well, that would be easy but numbers would not be generally applicable for most sites.
You can hack your site in the forum_cron() function in mod/forum/lib.php
You can hack your site in the forum_cron() function in mod/forum/lib.php
Re: Subject of emailed forum posting
I think that your idea is great! No objections from my part. The only things that may be sensible is to make this admin configurable. Just a default setting with the options of making your own subject line with the existing variables. Would that be easy or too difficult?