Problems with PMs

[Tallmaris]

Two suggestions about PMs:

1) Since some usare can choose to disable PMs, he will not receive any. Obviously when I try to send him a PM, I am prompted that the user doesn't want to receive them... The problem is that this message is prompted AFTER I've already written... and if the PM is very long, I've lost a lot of time!
I think is better to be prompted BEFORE trying even to write the PM.

2) This also apply to the above problem: when I tried to send a PM to my friend, I wrote this message, then I was gently advised that my friend is not able to receive them, so I pressed BACK on my browser only to find THAT ALL FORM FIELDS WERE DELETED! And this also happen in the normal forum, when I go back all the fields are deleted...

[Chen]

2) Nothing to do with vBulletin, it's a browser thing.
Sometimes it will save your message, sometimes not.
The reason is simple - sometimes the browser uses the page in its cache, and then you will have your message.
But sometimes the broswer downloads the page again from the server, and then you won't see your message.

1) The probelm is when you follow this (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/private.php?s=&action=newmessage) link from this page (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/private.php?s=).
As you can see, the Recipient field is empty.
But I believe a check can be added if a userid is specified.

[Tallmaris]

1) I told you of yhis problem because I have selected PM from the buddy list... so the recipient was not empty...

2)This happen ALWAYS, and I don't think is a browser problem... If I recall correctly, forms in html does not have "memory", after clicking the "submit" button (or whatever the name). To circumvent this problem is usually used a javascript that stores all fields data in the case the user goes back with the browser.
vBB is entirely made in php, so I think there's little problem adding a short-time memory of all fields...

[tubedogg]

Actually FireFly is right - it's purely dependent on the browser's cache. It happens about 50% of the time for me.

I don't know of any JavaScript methods that will save the contents of fields if a user hits "back".

[Raz Meister]

I guess a "Back" button in VBulletin could be added where when pressing it displays the previous page and defaults the fields with your message.