Core Module SystemNotifications: Date Format and Frontend Editing Messages

[Stefanowitsch]

I just installed the Core Module "SystemNotifications". It works as expected: I get a notification when another user is editing the same page in the backend.

I have two questions:

1. Changing the date format that is displayed

What looks ab it weird is the Date Format: %+2024

I found that you can change the Date format in the module settings, but no matter what i enter here, I always get the same formatting: %+2024

2. Displaying the message when doing frontend editing

I am using @bernhard RockPageBuilder for Frontend Editing. Besides from this special module Frontend Editing has been Processwire feature for a long time.

I want to display this warning Message in case two users are editing the same page in the frontend, too. How is this possible? (If it is possible at all...)

 

I just discovered that there is ProModule that is a bit more sophisticated: https://processwire.com/store/pro-dev-tools/user-activity/

Does this Module offer the "Frontend Notices" in some way or the oher?

[szabesz]

On 7/15/2024 at 10:26 AM, Stefanowitsch said:

I just installed the Core Module "SystemNotifications".

I recommend uninstalling it as it has more problems than features. See : https://processwire.com/talk/topic/23457-functionality-clash-with-system-notifications/#comment-215415

 

[AAD Web Team]

We just tracked SystemNotifications down as the cause of extreme slowness in our system (30 seconds wait while logging in/out or redirecting).

On login and redirects there's a database query to clear the field_notifications table for page_id 41 (the admin user), and then in our case insert approximately 13,000 rows back into the the field_notifications table. These rows record every login/logout to the system since its installation many years ago. So in total we were generating about 14,000 database queries for every ProcessWire login, which is why it was so slow.

Going into the SystemNotifications module admin and clearing the tick boxes for all three "Active automatic notification hooks" fixed the problem. I'm tempted to uninstall the module, but I'm not sure if it supports any other function we rely on. Having users notified when someone else is editing the same page is very handy, for example.

[szabesz]

On 5/28/2026 at 4:15 AM, AAD Web Team said:

Having users notified when someone else is editing the same page is very handy, for example.

I would not expect Ryan to fix the SystemNotifications module anysoon, as ProcessWire User Activity does this and more.