Notifications

The Notifications tab lets you setup email alerts to be sent to users for different reasons. You can also setup an automatic reminder to be sent out just before a round closes to remind users to submit their tips!

There are five occasions in which an automated email notification can be sent to either the website user, or the administrator. These occastions are:

• Send Tips Confirmation Email
  When a user submits or updates their tips, an email is automatically sent to them that confirms their Tips.
  
• Notify User on Registration
  When enabled, this option will send an email to users as they are registered for a competition. This option is only applicable if you have enable the Auto Registration option.
• Notify Admin on Registration
  With this option enabled, when a user attempts to join a competition, the administrator is sent an email letting them know about the registration. This is useful if the administrator has opted to manually approve (or reject) applications.
• User Approval
  In the case that the administrator has opted to manually approve (or reject) users applications to join a competition, if this option is enabled, when the administrator approves an application the user will be notified of their approval.
• User Rejection
  When a user is manually removed from a competition, if this option is enabled, they will be sent this notification informing them of their removal.
• Email Reminders
  With this option enabled, and the scheduled cron job setup correctly, users that have elected to receive reminder emails will automatically receive an email at a scheduled time to remind them to log in and submit their tips. To enable the cron job or scheduled task please consult the documentation for your server or system adminstration interface.
  • What is a cron job and how can I change the time it is run?
  Cron jobs or Scheduled Tasks can not be setup through the Joomla! system.

• From Name
  The value you enter for this setting is the name that the email will appear to come from. For example, if you enter 'jTips Registrations', then when a user registers they will receive an email where the sender's name will be 'jTips Registrations <email@address>'.
• From Address
  The value for this field represents the email address the email will appear to have been sent from.
• Message Subject
  This setting will be the subject line of the email sent to users.
• Message Body
  The content of this option is the actual email that will be sent. You can enter some variable field in the email body. These variables will be replaced with values from the actual user when the email is being prepared to be sent. The following variables are available.
  • {name}
    The full name of the user
  • {username}
    The user's login, or username for your website
  • {email}
    The email address of the user