This is possible, but depends on the forum integrating with the PM module, e.g. you can link to it now to send a message by specifying a "SendTo" which contains the UserID.

http://www.smcculloch.net/tabid/201/type/Compose/SendTo/83/Default.aspx

I know will is working something, but I am going to send him an email to see if we can work together.

Is there any possibility of it being tied in with the new core forum in DNN 3?

I was thinking the other day, perhaps it would be a good idea for the core to add a new interface called perhaps INotifiable, which module developers can implement in their modules.

The implementation would consist of listing the events that trigger a notification, roles/users to notify etc.

A provider model could be used for the process of actually performing the notification, of which your PM module could be one - a pop-up notification provider could be another..

This way any modules that need some sort of notification system (such as the forum) could link to it in a standard way without having to worry about integration issues such as this.

Any thoughts?  I might post it in the core forum.

Cheers,
Andrew

I got this working with dnnbb.com forum and my own custom user profiles module. The way I got it to work was to put this module on its own hidden tab called "MSG". Then, anywhere where I want to refer to it, I just make a link using navigateurl, the "MSG" tab and the first moduleID on that tab and whatever parameters I want to use appended to the end (such as the parameters to compose a msg to someone and the userid).

Works very easily. So in my case, I have my own custom user search module and it has a pm link that you can click which takes you to the "MSG" tab.

I would hope future version of this module continue to allow for this implementation.

Thanks,

Jason

I've spoken to Will about integration with this forum, he is out of town at the moment, but when he gets back we're going to discuss how to integrate.

I'll also contact Tam, and talk about how we can integrate into the core forums.

I've just updated to the latest version of this forum, (2.2.12), and it now allows me to integrate private messaging with the PostInfo section so you can contact authors who post in a thread. Thanks Will!

To do this, edit the PostInfo Template through the control panel -> templates, and apply a link as follows:-

Create an hyperlink pointing at the following url, http://www.smcculloch.net/tabid/201/type/Compose/SendTo/[USERID]/Default.aspx, I have placed an image in the hyperlink, you could place text or an image.

The TabID 201 relates to the tab I have private messages on, the [USERID] token relates to user id of the poster. It will pass the user ID through to the send screen on private messages ready to send to that user.

How easy is that! You can see I have used on image to the left.

So this is just too cool. THanks Will and Scott

Is there a way to do this same thing outside the forums?

Yep, just link to the tab specifying the UserID you want to send to.

In the next release of the PM module i'll also allow a subject argument.

Scott, 1 more question.

I have a real need to allow "Unathenticated" users to be able to send messages. Will it be possible in the future. I have someone working on a custom project for this, but I would really prefer to use the PM module.

Thanks.

Yep - I'll add an option to allow anonymous users to send PM's, turned off by default.

Is there anything in the search area you need adjusted ?

Hector,

http://www.yoursite.com/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20PrivateMessages/images/icon_pm_message.gif

Hey, Thanks!

It works great.
Question: Can the link be configured to work with friendly URLs off?

To link in with friendly urls off would be:-

http://www.smcculloch.net/default.aspx?tabid=201&type=Compose&SendTo=[USERID]

Standard querystring params - great!

Thanks Scott

I would very much like to have PM on my site, I already have Active Forums and do miss the PM feature on my old PHPBB forum site. How do I get this added? PLEASE smculloch, please reply!

I am just a newbie,so please explain where to get this added!