Member notifications – Help with matching up members

  • Resolved JPD Studio

    (@jpdstudio)


    8 years, 7 months ago

    Hi Everyone!

    I’d love help determining if this is possible:

    We currently ask members to check off a box if they want to be a mentor and/or if they want to be mentored. It’s a question we integrated into their profile (screenshot of WP dashboard set-up).

    If a member checks of that they want to mentor in “Career Transition” and another member requests to be mentored in “Career Transition”, is it possible to trigger a notification to both members letting them know their selections match up? At that point either user can choose to follow-up with the other member by sending a private message through the site.

    Is it possible to do this type of “matching up and notifying members” with the existing BuddyPress features? Or would we need to hack/customize the plugin?

    Any insight would be extremely helpful! This is our first time working with this plugin.

    Thank you!

    Best,
    Jessica

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/buddypress-docs/

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  • Plugin Author David Cavins

    (@dcavins)

    Hi JPD Studio-

    I think you’re asking about our parent plugin, BuddyPress. What you’re looking for is custom functionality relating to extended profile inputs. Off the top of my head, I’m guessing that you should hook to xprofile_data_after_save to see what’s just been saved, then do a search for users that match (however your pieces match up). Then, you could create an email or notification for the user with links to possible matches.

    If you’re up for learning about BP, you could probably work through it with some help from the BP support forum (https://buddypress.org/support/), but you could probably also find a consultant to put the pieces together. There will be a few moving pieces. ??

    Best of luck!

    -David

    Thread Starter JPD Studio

    (@jpdstudio)

    Hi David,

    Thank you so much for your response! This is very helpful. Yes I was asking about BuddyPress. I will look into your suggestion further and will check out BuddyPress Support. Do you happen to know of an expert BuddyPress consultant that could help us? Thanks again!

    Best,
    Jessica

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