Transition Technology: Ticket #579: Special email alert for Rob Hopkins blog posts on TN.org

ed — Fri, 23 Aug 2013 16:23:05 GMT

mm? Jim? Or is this something to pass on to Ben?

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jim — Sun, 25 Aug 2013 12:08:40 GMT

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Short answer: yes

Long answer: yes but we'll need to either code something or change it for all blog notifications...

In https://www.transitionnetwork.org/admin/messaging/notifications/events (the list of events the Notifications module will send messages), there is no option to add new ones, and nothing like 'Blogs by Rob'. And in https://www.transitionnetwork.org/admin/messaging/template there's the message by event type, but there's no way to add a new one.

So we can either write some Notifications module code hooks to provide what we need, or simply change the template to handle all blogs/authors.

I think the latter is a better use of resources on D6. The proposed message (with ~~changes~~ in bold) is therefore:

New template: From: [author-name]~~Rob Hopkins~~ at Transition Network <site@…> Subject: New blog post from [author-name]~~Transition Culture~~ To: [subscriber email] Reply to: [< site@…>]

Message: Hello, I've written a new blog ~~Transition Culture~~ post.

You can read it and leave comments here: [LINK]

---

[BLOG POST TITLE] [LINE BREAK - FULL CLEAR LINE] [BLOG POST TEASER] [LINE BREAK - FULL CLEAR LINE]

--- Best regards, [author-name]~~Rob~~ -- [TN EMAIL SUBSCRIPTION AUTO-BLURB]

So the main issue with this is it no longer says 'Transition Culture' since that's not know by Drupal in relation to the user/blog post in the special case of Rob's blog.

However, the wider issue is resolved even if we lose the TC branding a little (which IMHO is fine for a simple notification and the user will see it all again as soon as they arrive at the site).

Hmmm??

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ed — Sun, 25 Aug 2013 17:48:34 GMT

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That's fine - I figured it likely - and as you say - best use of D6 - I'll tweak this this week - moving to Ed list

ed — Mon, 26 Aug 2013 12:21:52 GMT

hmm. So to double check before I do it - please confirm - I'm going to edit this template: https://www.transitionnetwork.org/admin/messaging/template/edit/notifications-content-blog-insert

This does not have options to tweak the 'from' field...

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jim — Mon, 26 Aug 2013 12:37:09 GMT

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Yep, that's the right one.

Given the lack of 'From' then you'll have to just make that clear in the subject line.

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ed — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 13:46:11 GMT

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Done. Thanks. Closing.