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    • Does WATCH on ANY new article work.

    Posted by Peter

    Can anyone tell me if WATCH (i.e. auto-email notification) when ANY new article is posted works in 1.9?

    I am having a lot of trouble determining from docs if it is supported or not. I thnk it says it is.. but pretty sure it doesn't have any code behnd it (not to mention it doens't actually work).

    In the UserWatch setup there is a single item that can be ADDED which states:

    A user submits an article (article_submitted) article: *

    which sounds like that should be it... but does this work????

    basic mail does work - i can send newsletters and i can "watch" specific blogs, articles, etc (whereever i get the little EYE icon) - but can i watch new additions????

    And the next questions would be:

    can i watch:

    - new calendar postings
    - new gallery additions

    Would REALY REALLY be great if this worked since i think it likely is the most important thing about my Tiki site since it auto keeps my registered users informed.

    cheers,
    peter....

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    Posted by Peter

    so the answer to my own post is NO - this doesnt work for official release of 1.9 - even though the User Watch page would sort of suggest that it does.. so i fixed it (more testing to do - but it does work)... here are results of my investigation and my fix code:

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    ok, found the bug or missing code.. which ever way you want to look at it.. and likely need to do some more testing but this seems to work so far…


    - only certain cases are allowed for auto email notification as defined in tikilib.php->get_event_watches() ; these include:
    o case ‘wiki_page_changed’
    o case 'blog_post'
    o case 'forum_post_topic'
    o case 'forum_post_thread'
    o case 'file_gallery_changed'

    - so for “article_submitted??? which is the first of a few items I need added to auto-notify I added the following to the SWITCH statement

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    case 'article_submitted':          // p.lindstrom to get notify on new article working
   // p.lindstrom - not sure of use of permissions here
   $res['perm']=($this->user_has_perm_on_object($res['user'],$object,'blog','tiki_p_read_article') ||
                 $this->user_has_perm_on_object($res['user'],$object,'blog','tiki_p_submit_article'));
break;



    This seems to be all that was missing since everything else in the artlib.lib file was already in place

    Will likely post more code to add the other things that I wasn’t added but I suspect this will be much more work. Three parts (well really many many but at a high level) are required:

    1. add item to list in User Watch page to add the watch
    2. ensure the code for editing/adding/etc that object has the setup code to call sendEmailNotification
    3. ensure permissions are granted in get_event_watches

    for Submit Article; items 1 and 2 already done… doubt for other objects though (new image gallery, new event, etc)

    Will likely look at Calendar Events, then new Image Galleries next

    cheers,

    peter....


    Posted by sylvie greverend

    A user can watch a new article in 1.9
    In Mytiki -> My watches, you can activate "a user submits an article"

    You can't watch calendar yet