Subscribe Button
I want to highlight the option to subscribe to a post, thread, or board with a button (instead of having it hidden in the options menu). Does anyone already have code to do that? Thanks, Jon...
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Hey Lainie,
We have a way to place items in the menu bar, but it's in an XML file that we don't expose a way to edit through Studio, so someone in our Professional Services group would need to add this for you. We hope to make it self service at some point in the future. The only way I can think of to do it without Services would be to insert it into the menu bar using Javascript, although that could cause a slight delay before the subscription buttons show up.
-Doug
Thank you, Doug! I apprecate it.
Thanks for the help. I guess I should have been a bit more clear here. I am looking for a way to put it in post and not in the menu bar. When you access the drop down to subscribe to this post the class and links look like:
<a class="lia-link-navigation addMessageUserEmailSubscription lia-component-subscriptions-action-add-message-user-email" rel="nofollow" id="addMessageUserEmailSubscription_0" href="/t5/forums/forumtopicpage.addmessageuseremailsubscription/message-uid/211261?t:ac=board-id/studio/thread-id/3002/page/2&t:cp=subscriptions/contributions/messageactions&ticket=I_M1L7OnU4GP_52367">Subscribe</a>
If I were to create a button in the thread itself with this code, it would only work for me and look something like this:
This is something that wouldn't go into the CSS to change all of the board styles, but instead link to the drop down menu. Is this possible to just link to the:
lia-link-navigation addMessageUserEmailSubscription lia-component-subscriptions-action-add-message-user-email
I believe the component id for the component that subscribes the current user to a message is "subscriptions.action.add-message-user-email", so you could try adding that inside a custom component using the @component directive:
<@component id="subscriptions.action.add-message-user-email" />
It needs to be in the context of the message you want the user to subscribe to, so you would need to add it to a component that you've placed inside the appropariate "message quilt" (if this is for a forum board, it needs to be in a component that is placed inside the ForumMessage quilt, if it's for a blog board it needs to be in a component that is placed inside the BlogMessage quilt, etc.). If you add it there, you will probably also need to add some CSS to style it to look like a button instead of a link in the post options menu drop-down.
I'm not sure if anyone has tried doing this before, so ymmv.
The other options would be to roll your own subscription component using the REST API call for subscibing the current user to a given message.
If you are trying to add a link/button to subscribe the current user to an entire thread, that uses the "subscriptions.action.add-thread-user-email" component (use <@component id="subscriptions.action.add-thread-user-email" />) and you'll need to place the @component directive in a custom component that is in a "thread page quilt" (ForumTopicPage, BlogArticlePage, IdeaPage, etc.) or else roll your own logic to subscribe the current user to the thread, using the REST API call for subscribing the current user to a given thread.
If you are trying to add the link/button to subscribe the current user to a board, that uses the "subscriptions.action.remove-board-user-email" component(use <@component id="subscriptions.action.remove-board-user-email" />) and you'd need to place the @component directive in a custom compoennt that is in a "board page quilt" (ForumPage, BlogPage, IdeaExchangePage, etc.) or else roll your own logic to subscribe the current user to the board, using the REST API call for subscribing the current user to a given board.
I hope that helps!
-Doug
