Sending an email to specific contacts (outlook/ldap) when creating a question

Question

Hi,

Has anyone modified the Q2A project to add a field to fill with the email of a person you want to direct the question to? A more interesting approach would be to have that field populated from the user database or even better from an LDAP service.

I know that as per the above question it is very easy -and therefore a partial solution-, for the target expert users to subscribe to the RSS feed. But they wouldn't feel as compelled to reply if they just configure a feed that they really have no motivation on keeping track of.

http://www.question2answer.org/qa/27070/explicitly-sending-a-new-question-to-a-specific-user-by-mail

Comments

I guess my question is close to this one: http://www.question2answer.org/qa/56569/email-specific-question-posted-apart-email-address-messages

Answer 1

Add @expert using mention notifier where expert is the user name.

Comments

Main concern is that when adding a @ within the text area of the Ask a Question page, the list of usernames does not auto populate and so this means that logged user must know exactly the Q2A username(s) of person(s) he/she wants to reach to first when asking such question.
Thank you! :-)

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That's a needed feature. I'm trying to get it done. But might not be possible immediately.

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Thanks a lot! We will try on our side to add a field within the "Ask a Question" page where we could add email addresses during this time. If we succeed in doing that, we will try to publish it within a plugin. Thanks for your nice and quick feedback!

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Thank you, Arjun. I followed the plugin tutorial and I'll check the functions documentation today. Is that 'mention notifier' a function within question2answer?