Unfortunate design flaw, Send to: All

[Caps]

The flaw is allowing a message to default to: "All," can be quite embarrassing if a communication is sent to the wrong party. Basic stuff, why has this not be corrected?

Better to have a tick toggle with all options unticked or unchecked. The many parts that are grand and you have this. Tell me where I can modify the script.

[Eva]

Basic stuff, why has this not be corrected?

Uhm, sorry, but don't you think your attitude is a bit ... snotty?

This was a design decision. If the user selects the wrong recipient(s), it's his fault.

[Caps]

[...edited by administration...] It is indeed a design flaw no matter how many voted. This is not new, good policies do not allow the default to step on the pedal full force. The outcome is that you can loose a client or co-worker for accidentally clicking on send. If you have not ventured outside, you would not be aware of this.

[Philipp]

A staff member with that kind of a response is not professional. It is indeed a design flaw no matter how many voted. This is not new, good policies do not allow the default to step on the pedal full force. The outcome is that you can loose a client or co-worker for accidentally clicking on send. If you have not ventured outside, you would not be aware of this.

I don't think this is as fundamental an issue as you make it out to be.
I think this is a matter of preference, and i like it the way it is.

Also, no one has ever complained about this before.
To change this behaviour, you need to modify the form templates in /templates/standard/

Philipp
Lead developer

[Caps]

Thank you Philipp.

[Caps]

May I ask if you would give me the file and line number where I could make that change.

[some person]

May I ask if you would give me the file and line number where I could make that change.

Here is something I came up with.

In addmessageform.tpl, replace lines 100 to 103 with the following.

Code: Select all

            <select name = "sendto[]" multiple style = "height:100px;" required="1" realname="Notify">
               <option value = "" disabled style = "color:black;font-weight:bold;">{#general#}</option>
               <option value = "all">{#all#}</option>

What I have done there is I have removed the select from all option. This makes it so there is no selection, and you will have to make one each time. Next I added required to the notify options list, this makes it so that it triggers the javascript validation, so if you were to forget to select an option you will get notified.

Now there is a valid reason to changing this. My changes make it so that if the users were to forget the notify options list, he would get notified to select an option. As it is now, the default behavior, if the user were to forget about the notification option, which there is a chance to happen, the users would send an email notification to all, and maybe the user didn't mean, or want to send to all.

[Caps]

Wow, did not say, thank you. Thank you for your assistance.