topic Re: Email notification for new replies on any forum in Alfresco Archive

Email notification for new replies on any forum

bruno_borges — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 05:06:10 GMT

Is it possible to define that Alfresco should notify subscribed users that some forum/discussion/thread has new replies?[]'s

Re: Email notification for new replies on any forum

raf — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 05:31:33 GMT

Is it possible to define that Alfresco should notify subscribed users that some forum/discussion/thread has new replies?

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This query is almost a year old. I have the same question. Does anyone know the answer?

Thanks,
Martin

Re: Email notification for new replies on any forum

kevinr — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:17:45 GMT

There is no UI or config to do this. But, you can setup a Rule that fires when any InBound object is created/modified, and you can use the JavaScript to see what type of object that is (See the forumModel.xml in the Alfresco distribution) and then send an email again using the JavaScript API - so it is possible but not as easy as point-and-click
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/JavaScript_API

Kevin

Re: Email notification for new replies on any forum

nuandaeb — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:22:05 GMT

There is no UI or config to do this. But, you can setup a Rule that fires when any InBound object is created/modified, and you can use the JavaScript to see what type of object that is (See the forumModel.xml in the Alfresco distribution) and then send an email again using the JavaScript API - so it is possible but not as easy as point-and-click
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/JavaScript_API

Kevin

Kevin, could you point us to an example of how the Javascript API could be used in this specific instance? Or could you provide an outline if no example exists?

Without this feature, we probably won't be able to get approval for deploying Alfresco in our organization.

Thanks,

EB

Re: Email notification for new replies on any forum

dmatejka — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 21:47:36 GMT

I'm wondering …whether RSS feed could not do the job for you?

best regards,

Daniel

Re: Email notification for new replies on any forum

kevinr — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 10:08:54 GMT

There is no UI or config to do this. But, you can setup a Rule that fires when any InBound object is created/modified, and you can use the JavaScript to see what type of object that is (See the forumModel.xml in the Alfresco distribution) and then send an email again using the JavaScript API - so it is possible but not as easy as point-and-click
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/JavaScript_API

Kevin, could you point us to an example of how the Javascript API could be used in this specific instance? Or could you provide an outline if no example exists?

Without this feature, we probably won't be able to get approval for deploying Alfresco in our organization.

The JavaScript API page provides a number of useful examples. But basically it would be a case of setting up an INBOUND rule against Type:Content that Executed a Script and "Apply rule to sub spaces".

The script itself would examine the current document to see if it was of type fmost and then use the Email repository action (see the Actions API in the JavaScript API docs - there is an example of emailing) to send whatever you want about the post - the content of the post or the posting username etc. could be extracted from the fmost object and sent with the email.

Kevin

Re: Email notification for new replies on any forum

ariellle — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:27:08 GMT

I want to do the same than bruno.borges.

I try to add a rule which execute a script for all new items created.

I don't know javascript so i write this script (which doesn't work) :


if (document.type == fm:post)
{

// create mail action
  var mail = actions.create("mail");
  mail.parameters.to = "me@mydomain.com";
  mail.parameters.subject = "Hello from JavaScript";
  mail.parameters.from = "alfresco@alfresco.com";
  mail.parameters.text = "new forum";
  // execute action against a document    
  mail.execute(doc);

}
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Can you help me to find a correct script?

Thanks,

Re: Email notification for new replies on any forum

nuandaeb — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:25:33 GMT

Kevin, thanks – that was very useful. I can execute a script when a post is produced. However, when I try the email example (that others have tried), it don't get an email.

I'm wondering if my problem has to do with the reference to the node 'doc' in the statement mail.execute(doc) in the code example below. Do I have to select a different node, and if so, how would I go about it? Total newbie question.

// create mail action
var mail = actions.create("mail");
mail.parameters.to = "davidc@alfresco.com";
mail.parameters.subject = "Hello from JavaScript";
mail.parameters.from = "davidc@alfresco.com";
mail.parameters.template = root.childByNamePath("Company Home/Data Dictionary/Email Templates/notify_user_email.ftl");
mail.parameters.text = "some text, in case template is not found";
// execute action against a document
mail.execute(doc);

Thanks.

Re: Email notification for new replies on any forum

kevinr — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 12:36:08 GMT

The document node reference applied to the action is only used when constructing the model for the template if a template is used when generating the email. Basically you can pass any valid node to the execute() method if you are not using a template as it won't get used anyway - probably "document" or similar. The problem is probably that the "doc" object reference does not exist in your script, so try "document" instead.

Kevin

Re: Email notification for new replies on any forum

kevinr — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 12:38:51 GMT

I think you may be able to just pass "null" if you are not using a template i.e.

mail.execute(null);

Kevin

Re: Email notification for new replies on any forum

nitis — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:11:03 GMT

Hi,

Has anyone could send an email from Javascript without using a workflow ???

Thanks

Re: Email notification for new replies on any forum

tejaskanani2920 — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 06:36:33 GMT

we can do it in following manner …

first create a simple space - ex. Test (not forum space). Then by clicking on 'start discussion' from more actions start a discussion.
So it will create forum space inside that space.
then create a rule on Test space.
- for All Items
- send email notification (select the user/group to whom you want to send mail notification)
- select proper option (inbound/outbound & update(alfresco3.1+ supported))

thats it so now onward it will send the mail to the appropriate user/groupd according to the selection of Type(inboud/outbound/update).

Please let me know if you have any question.

Thanks.

Re: Email notification for new replies on any forum

marcobusetto — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 07:56:01 GMT

First create a simple space, then by clicking on 'start discussion' from more actions start a discussion, then create a rule on Test space…
- for All Items
- send email notification (select the user/group to whom you want to send mail notification)
- select proper option (inbound/outbound & update(alfresco3.1+ supported))

I can confirm that this manner works. The problem is that you cannot send the notify only to the forum subscribers but "to the appropriate user/group according to the selection of type" that you must establish upstream.

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Re: Email notification for new replies on any forum

thestorm — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 21:38:16 GMT

if you guys still need it, this snippet does your job:


if (document.type == "{http://www.alfresco.org/model/forum/1.0}post" || document.type == "{http://www.alfresco.org/model/forum/1.0}topic")
{
// create mail action
  var mail = actions.create("mail");
  mail.parameters.to = "sebastian.danninger@googlemail.com";
  mail.parameters.subject = "New Discussion Entry!!";
  mail.parameters.from = "alfresco@saicon-dls.com";
  mail.parameters.text = "new forum entry please check it!!!!";
  // execute action against a document   
  mail.execute(document);
}
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