Moodle plugins directory: Moodle welcome

Yes sir, hat's the frustrating part. The plug in is well laid out and easy to set up and can't figure out for the life of me why only half is working. I've been looking at every setting I can think of in our email system that might be causing a conflict, but I can't see anything. IS there anything in the site admin you can think of that I could take a look at?

If there is an issue sending email that might show up in your server logs. But there is no way to see that in Moodle logs. You could try some other email addresses too but other than that I don't know whats going on.

Ok thank you very much. I'll see what I can find out from the logs.

Hi Bas,

I am using Moodle ver. 3.2.2

Since I wanted to send a welcome message when to a new user, I installed this plugin. The plug in installed successfully, and very easily. However on adding a user, the mail was neither sent out to the user nor to the moderator.

I have confirmed the following:
The 'enable user message' is ticked
Auth Plugins 'manual' and 'email' are ticked
Enable moderator messages is ticked
To confirm the outgoing mail system is working I sent out an automatic mail for new user using 'auto password generation' option. In this case the standard mail was sent out to the new user with a system generated notification mail. The mail was sent by the system and recd. by user successfully. However the welcome mail from this plugin was neither sent out to user nor to the moderator.
Please advise what I may doing wrong.

Thanks.

Is it possible to send the welcome the first time someone logs in rather than when their account is created?

Thanks,
Amy

Hi Amy, The plugin was designed to send it at account creation. Sending it on first login would be a new function that is not part of this plugin.

Any chance you would consider modifying it?

Hi Bas, I am still running 2.6. When I install this plugin, there is a blank page after the user signup page.
This is the error: Fatal error: Call to undefined function local_welcome\profile_get_custom_fields() in /home1/ecourse/public_html/aladylikeyou/programs/local/welcome/classes/message.php on line 64
Any ideas as to what I have done wrong?
Cheers,
Lynda

Hi, Bas!

I'm going to repeat my "wishlist" item from October, 2014: Filter who the message goes to. I'm probably asking WAY too much, but I'd like to send it only to teachers at our school (xxx@ourschool.com) and not students (xxx@student.outschool.com) OR send different messages to the two groups.

Hi Bas.

Thank you for your work on this plugin.

Do you know if you will be releasing a Moodle 3.3 version, and if so any idea when?

Does anyone else know if this plugin works with 3.3?

Thank you.

I have been wondering the same thing. Is this plugin coming to Moodle 3.3

I hope to find some time to do this soon

Hi Bas! Thanks for sharing this plugin with such an important feature!
The version of my moodle is 3.3.2+. I've installed this plugin but I never got the e-mail (I've tryied creating accounts manualy and by e-mail). I got all system e-mails correctely.
I was wondering that is would be a problem about my version, but I just saw that Rajendra Prasad (comment above) got same problem using a compatible version.
So my question for you: is it a version problem, plugin bug or am I doing something wrong?
Thanks a lot for your help.

Hi and thanks for the plugin! Some minor feedback: because the checkboxes for "Auth plugins" are right at the top under "Enable user messages" I originally skipped them because I was only interested in "Enable moderator messages". You might consider visually separating the settings into 3 parts: General Settings, User Message Settings, Moderator Message Settings. Also a pop-up clarifying that the 'moderator' can be anyone you want would be helpful --- I was expecting it to say "Admin messages" and had to look it up to realize it could be anyone you specify in the email. Thanks again for this!

Thanks Margaret! That is some great feedback. I'll use it for the next version.