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New Private Message Tools!

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    Thanks to @Daniel Boden for this suggestion.

    Within your conversations/private messages, you now have the ability to:
    • Add Labels/Folders. This option provides you with the ability to create your own labels and assign them to their conversations for easy referencing. Conversations are searchable by prefix and functions like mail-like folders.
    • Multiple Conversations Organisation. All conversations now have a checkbox beside their title, allowing for the selection of multiple conversations to be processed inline all at once. You can also easily copy messages to a new thread (particularly useful if one of the forum team asks if you can create a thread instead!).
    • Conversation rules. Forum team - you now have a feature which allows limited mail-box like rules to automatically assign conversations to labels as they are received.
    • Auto Respond to conversation starter. With this option, you are able to set an auto response message to new conversations you receive. Each member can set a start date, an end date, and the message that will be automatically posted for them whenever they receive a new conversation/reply. There is also the ability to exclude people you follow from receiving this response.
    • Sticky a conversation. Conversations can now be set as Stickies. A Sticky ensures the conversation will always remain at the top of the list.
    • Locked conversations display a 'locked' icon as well provide the appropriate status text when viewing the conversation.
    Hopefully this is working for everyone now, but do let me know if there are any issues!
     
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    Jaysen

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    Further to this, we've now added the ability to 'search' through conversations:

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    I imagine this will be very useful to those who receive a lot of private messages (@Jessica Booker).
     

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