Announcement Portlet seems that by default when a user is created the delivery option for receiving announcements by email isn't active.

Hi,
it seems that by default when a user is created the delivery option for receiving announcements by email isn't active.

I would like to configuration Liferay so that by default all users get announcements by email.


1st Method
You can add a ModelListener to Liferay and then you get informed when a new user is created.
With the Plugins SDK it's very simple to achieve.
All you have to do is (also consider tutorials about hooks and how to build them):

1. Create the file liferay-hooks.xml indocroot/WEB_INF

<hook>
  <model-listener>
    <model-listener-class>my.class.path.UserListener</model-listener-class>
    <model-name>com.liferay.portal.model.User</model-name>
</model-listener>
</hook>

2. Create the class UserListener.java in docroot/WEB-INF/src/my/class/path

public class UserListener extends BaseModelListener<User> {

    @Override
    public void onAfterCreate(User user) throws ModelListenerException {
        super.onAfterCreate(user);

        final long userId = user.getUserId();
        AnnouncementsDeliveryLocalService adls = AnnouncementsDeliveryLocalServiceUtil.getService();

        try {
            adls.updateDelivery(userId, "general", true, false, true);
            adls.updateDelivery(userId, "news", true, false, true);
            adls.updateDelivery(userId, "test", false, false, true);
        } catch (PortalException e) {
            throw new ModelListenerException("Could not update announcement delivery.", e);
        } catch (SystemException e) {
            throw new ModelListenerException("Could not update announcement delivery.", e);
        }
    }
}



2nd Method
Edit the below syntex given in tomcat/webapps/root/html/portlet/user_admin/user/announcement_cheakbox.jsp

<aui:input disabled="<%= disabled %>" label="" name="<%= param %>" type="checkbox" value="<%= defaultValue %>" />

into

<aui:input disabled="<%= disabled %>" label="" name="<%= param %>" type="checkbox" value="true" />