When I manually assign a member to a group in the back-end, the email notification is incorrect. Only the language labels show:

COM_COMMUNITY_GROUPS_EMAIL_NEW_MEMBER_JOINED_SUBJECT

COM_COMMUNITY_GREETING
COM_COMMUNITY_GROUPS_EMAIL_NEW_MEMBER_JOINED

The email formatting is otherwise normal.
The language files in the front-end and admin section appear to contain the appropriate strings.
This affects back-end group assignments only. Front-end group joiners appear to generate correct email notifications.

NB: there is another open ticket with this issue

Hi, Patrick.

You use 3 languages on your site. Those constants are only in English.
If user has set other language in account configuration then system will try to send message in this language... thats theory :)

Could you post a printscreen of email that you have issues with?
Also, post a link to other thread you mentioned.

I see three references in the forum to this issue

www.jomsocial.com/forum/groups/18911-ema...ation-to-admin#96268
www.jomsocial.com/forum/groups/19660-ema...ation-to-admin#99784
www.jomsocial.com/forum/socialize-templa...olbar?start=14#97039

There seem to have been efforts to track this down, but I don't see it resolved. In one case, your team tested notifications for front-end group joiners, but my problem relates to back-end manual group assignments. Front-end joiners appear to be fine, which may be why it hasn't been nailed down yet.

The non-english language files are there, yes, but they are for future use only. They are not being used, and to the best of my knowledge no user has selected an alternative language to English. I have not selected an alternative language, and I have received the defective notification emails as group admin. No other notifications of any kind have ever arrived with this problem.

The emails look the same as all of the other notification emails with the exception noted earlier that the language strings are not translated. So I would prefer not to take the time to screenshot and redact if that's OK.

Thanks for your quick response.

Hi, Patrick.

I confirm, I was able to replicate it on my installation.
I'll reported it as a bug to our developers.

Hi Patrick,

This is the patch, open this file administrator/language/en-GB/en-GB.com_community.ini, add this code after the last line :

; notif 
COM_COMMUNITY_GREETING="Hi {target},"

; notif groups
COM_COMMUNITY_GROUPS_EMAIL_NEW_MEMBER_JOINED="%1$s joined your group, %2$s \n\nTo view the group, follow the link below:\n\n <a href=_QQQ_{url}_QQQ_>{url}</a>"
COM_COMMUNITY_GROUPS_EMAIL_NEW_MEMBER_JOINED_SUBJECT="\n%1$s joined your group, %2$s ."
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