CUNY Academic Commons

great catch, Colin!

Just bumping this ticket to see if it is manageable for our release this fall. If so, who should run point on it from dev?

I will handle implementation.

It appears to me that we don't actually send emails at all for the creation of new external links. So what we need is to implement this feature, and then add a 'Silent' toggle to turn it off. Colin, does that seem right to you?

Adding Sara in case she has any thoughts. I hate to make it more complicated if emails aren't being sent at all right now, but it does make sense to me that each type of addition to the Library works in the same way (notifies the group upon upload, unless it's marked Silent).

Just noting this as a bit of a priority -- as a teacher using the Commons, I expected that students were notified when I uploaded a reading. not having that notification go out could affect classes, so I'd bump this up ahead of some of our other word. Not urgent, certainly, but also not something to put off if we can help it

Just noting that we do have this pegged for our fall release, which we've been planning to have out in November. We could discuss breaking this out to ship earlier.

Thanks Boone!

In https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/8e0bbee95924545a162705e3c77dadbd244b1cdf, I've tweaked the external link email so that:
- The subject line is New Link - [LINK TITLE]
- The full URL for the external link is displayed for those using plain-text emails.
- The main CTA button is renamed to "View Group Links" and links directly to the Group Library, filtered by External Link.

Also in https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac-group-library/commit/9de5ab408271074dbba3748f9da7d961da9b1c37, when the external link is deleted, the corresponding activity item is also removed.

Thanks, Ray! I took care of the parts of the email that made sense to me, but I missed a few :) Thanks for cleaning up.

I tested all aspects of this, and I think it's ready to go. Thanks, Boone and Ray!