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Anyone know if a more robust Inbox is coming in future releases?

DoyceTDoyceT Model Questioner ✭✭✭
edited March 2015 in Vanilla 2.0 - 2.8

Hi all,

I'm currently running a Vanilla install for an MFA program. Part of that setup involves a LOT of 1-on-1 categories (where only one student and one Faculty can view/post). Obviously, this is a suboptimal setup for Vanilla, since it means literally hundreds of categories with two-user access (or one user + admin), and complex individual roles for each user.

The ideal replacement for the one-on-one spaces would be a more robust Inbox that (off the top of my head) allowed for attachments (critical) and a generally more user-friendly/obvious way to add message recipients, via drop-down or some kind of address book (I can't ask 87 year old faculty members to just remember student UserIDs off the top of their head).

I was a little surprised to find nothing Inbox-related in the addon repository, so here's a few questions:

  • Am I blind? Did I just miss it?
  • Does the "main" version of the code (2.2.100.x) have the same sort of Inbox, or something more advanced?
  • Is there anything in development that would implement some of this functionality, and I'm asking for something already en route?

Thanks!

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    AdrianAdrian Wandering Spirit Montreal MVP

    @Doyce, I'll be sending you a PM.

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    hgtonighthgtonight ∞ · New Moderator

    Not that I know of.

    I am pretty sure I wrote a modification for the file uploads to work in the inbox, check out this thread: http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/comment/184781/#Comment_184781

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    DoyceTDoyceT Model Questioner ✭✭✭

    It sounds like a lot of the functionality I'm looking for within Inbox exists for the hosted version, but as the MFA director is very committed to keeping everything on their own domain, that's a bit of a non-starter as a solution. Hopefully, that portion of main will be ported out to open sooner rather than later.

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    R_JR_J Ex-Fanboy Munich Admin
    edited March 2015

    Why don't they they just use good old mail?
    I just ask because I'm really bored of everyone favoring the messenger of another Web service

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    x00x00 MVP

    @DoyceT said:
    It sounds like a lot of the functionality I'm looking for within Inbox exists for the hosted version, but as the MFA director is very committed to keeping everything on their own domain, that's a bit of a non-starter as a solution. Hopefully, that portion of main will be ported out to open sooner rather than later.

    I don't think you are limited by domain on the hosted solution. You just point you domain to their servers, you can also use a sub-domain.

    grep is your friend.

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    DoyceTDoyceT Model Questioner ✭✭✭
    edited March 2015

    @R_J said:
    Why don't they they just use good old mail?
    I just ask because I'm really bored of everyone favoring the messenger of another Web service

    The main reason is because we need to keep records of faculty/student communications on file for national/regional certification purposes, and the faculty don't have email accounts hosted by the program (for reasons unrelated to this - the IT guy basically doesn't want to enable email accounts for the faculty because he's sodding lazy - it drives me crazy).

    But yeah, aside from that one problem, it would be MUCH easier to just let all 1 on 1 communications take place via email.

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