Sending email after collaboration approval/denial of content

Tuesday 07 June 2011 11:07:53 am

Hi,

Is it possible to configure ezpublish to send an email to someone once the content they have sent for publishing has been approved or declined by an editor or administrator?

Andy

Wednesday 08 June 2011 7:40:20 am

By default, eZ Publish doesn't do that kind of stuff. it only e-mails the approvators whenever a new object needs to be approved, but it doesn't send any email when you approve or decline it. 

i'm working in a custom extension trying to add this kind of feature. maybe you can give it at try

https://github.com/crevillo/ezapprovetanta

Thursday 09 June 2011 9:05:42 am

If all went well, you need to add a "Tanta Approve" event to your workflow instead of the default 'Approve' one. it works just exactly as the default one, adding some things in order to difference the approve collaboration items from the default one.

then, you just need to be sure that the people involved in the collaboration workflow are subscribed to "Tanta Approve Notifications" and not only the default "Approve Notifications" one.

Hope it helps.

Thursday 09 June 2011 10:52:08 am

hi again. 

yep, sorry about my english. i know is not very understable :). 

what you need is to edit your before publishing workflow and add a tanta approve event. obviously this will only affect to new items, not the ones you previously have. 

if you add this tanta approve to your before publish workflow, then you can safely remove the default ez publish approve one. what tanta approve does is just create new messages when comment is added to the collaboration item, and also when it's approved or denied. 

in brief, it can replace the default one. 

let me know if you need further help and if you prefer to do it by gtalk or something. 

thanks for trying :). 

Thursday 09 June 2011 11:40:47 am

hi. i'm in madrid. so this is gmt+1

Friday 10 June 2011 1:13:12 am

I haven't changed the cronjob since adding your tanta approve event.  It's set to run the 'frequent' cron jobs every 5 minutes.

Do I need to change something to let the cronjob know about the new event?

Wednesday 15 June 2011 12:54:25 am

Wops. sorry. your cronjob seems to be well configured. notification.php should be the one in charge of sending the emails. if it's not working, it has to be something else.