Follow poster (Search all posts by user id)

[valzero]

I was thinking it would be useful to be able to subscribe to a certain poster that you like. Kind of like a follow. It will send me a notification by email every time they post something new. If I could search by user name I could just subscribe to the search. How do I search by user name?

Thank you.

[trains58554]

Hi valzero,

This is a good suggestion. Currently I do not think it is possible to search by user but I can see how that could be useful. You may want to also post this suggestion over on the osclass github page https://github.com/osclass/OSClass/issues

Jay

[maxo]

Good suggestion to subscribe to a user's new posts...but at least there is a plugin so that user can view another user's items for sale.

http://osclass.org/page/plugins

[valzero]

It would all be easy if the search worked for things of interest. If I search by title it will not find it or if I search by typing the address. I think the search only works if you type something that exists on the description field. If I could modify the search to include more things of interest you could subscribe to those searches and this will be as easy as a link to the search results so the user can subscribe to the search.

If only the search worked to the point where you can type anything the user typed and find it.

Subscribing to searches is genius work I love that feature on ebay and love it here too.

[maxo]

If you have the user list plugin installed, you can show all listings by any user and then you can subscribe to that results list using the subscribe tool on the search sidebar. Every time a user ads a new listing, it will be added to your "manage your alerts" lists. Check it out. It works.

So, I guess the feature you want is already there...if you use the following plugin. You could always add another link on the list results to "subscribe to the seller"...and use the same code that's used in the search sidebar form for "subscribe to this seller".

http://sourceforge.net/projects/osclass/files/Plugins/list-seller-items/

Also, I've tested, and the search does get results for both title and description fields for me. You can see the search term highlighted (bold) in the results list. Common words like the, or, for, etc will not show search results for me, which is fine.

[valzero]

I am on to test this right away! Search still does not work for me on user name.

[maxo]

After you click "list all items by seller"...it will perform a search and then you see the search results in a list that show all items by the seller. At this point, if you click 'subscribe' to this search it will at it to alert items for the user. As far as being able to search for user name...maybe look at some of the code, the resulting URLs when you click 'list all items by seller" and you can probably figure out how to create a user search box.

[rcweb31]

good one. inline with this suggestion is it also possible to provide star ratings on ad poster and/or buyer/seller specially the ones being followed, this is to give good or bad rep on poster.