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Need notifications module help
My goal is to automatically notify by email ALL existing users when ANY new content is put on my site (blog post, forum topic, etc.)?
EDIT: I have decided to use the notifications module and notifications_extras (add-ons). They look to be the best for my requirements.
My problem is that I cannot get custom subscriptions to work. I can get standard subscriptions to work, no problem. So I need help solving the problem with custom subscriptions.
I will pay you for a solution.
More info:
I'm running Drupal 6.12 on Ubuntu 8.04 hosted at Linode.com. My configuration is a multisite with 4 sites.
Here is my list of enabled modules:
FCKeditor - WYSIWYG HTML editor 6.x-2.0-alpha5
Global Redirect 6.x-1.2
Image 6.x-1.0-alpha4
Messaging 6.x-2.0
Mollom 6.x-1.7
Notifications 6.x-2.x-dev (2009-May-18)
Notifications Add-ons 6.x-2.x-dev (2009-Apr-28)
Recommended version: 6.x-2.0-beta2 (2009-Apr-29)
Pathauto 6.x-1.x-dev (2009-May-02)
SMTP Authentication Support 6.x-1.0-beta3
Token 6.x-1.x-dev (2009-Apr-20)
Watcher 6.x-1.2
Themes
Marinelli 6.x-2.95
My problem is that nothing ever gets added to notifications_queue table (unless I use standard, non-custom notification types). Immediately after adding new content that should trigger a custom subscription notification, here is what I see:
mysql> select * from notifications_queue;
Empty set (0.00 sec)
If you want to help me please provide me with a price quote and a time frame. Let me know when are you available. I want to resolve this today if possible. Thanks.
There is a good module
There is a good module available that can do this (and much more), called Rules: http://drupal.org/project/rules
Thanks. Rules is good, but it
Thanks. Rules is good, but it is not as good as notifications for this type of task (IMO).
And why is that? Are you
And why is that? Are you after some features not available in Rules?
I haven't used notifications myself but with Rules you just add a new condition/rule e.g. "whenever there is a new blog post, email every user in role X". That resolves your main problem in about 10 minutes.
I have tried both Rules and
I have tried both Rules and Notifications. The problem I had with rules is that it doesn't seem to queue & process emails as smoothly. It crashed my site when it tried to send emails to all users. I think it was just too many emails at once. I had the feeling Rules wasn't designed for the job in the same way that Notifications is. (But I still use Rules to send notices to myself when a new member registers, and it works great for that.)
So far I can't get either one to work well for notifying all users of new content. Rules crashes my site, but Notifications doesn't send emails when I use custom subscription rules... :(
I see, good to know that info
I see, good to know that info regarding Rules. I just found modules http://drupal.org/project/job_queue and http://drupal.org/project/queue_mail. Perhaps these would help together with Rules? The Queue Mail hasn't been updated for a while and has been left at dev-stage - but it might work just as well.
What is standard and custom notification types.
Can you explain what is custom and non-custom notification types.
custom and non-custom notification types
standard notification types are:
Thread
Author
Node Type
custom subscriptions are created with the notifications_extras (add ons) module.
The custom subscription I created contains all node types (blogs, forums, polls, images, story, book page, etc.)
It is also working for non-custom notification types.
I have tested the above mentioned modules with 'send method' as 'Mail' with both default and custom content types.I am not getting any empty table.Notifications_queue table is being get truncated only after completing all the notifications process.May be you know that.
I have now learned that this
I have now learned that this bug is hard to reproduce. I have 2 sites running on the same code base (multi-site) with the same modules enabled and the same settings. The custom subscriptions work in one site, but not the other. This is a very strange bug.
Hi MountainX. A bug (or a
Hi MountainX.
A bug (or a configuration error) i always hard to reproduce. I'm not sure we can help you without access to your site (for debugging).
So one advice: Hire a trustful developer, give him credentials and let him debug this.
Hope this help.
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If the problem comes back, I
If the problem comes back, I will contact you and give you access to the site.
This may work but it is not the right solution
You download the related modules again and
1.change names of those modules(may add some suffix or prefix) i.e..replace the module names with new names .
2.similarly change the names of tables in the installation file
3.change the .INFO file ETC..
4.change names of drupal variables
.............do all similar necessary changes
I mean to say that install the new modules(with same functionality) in the site which got problem.This might need enough of testing before implementing on to original sites.
A very strange bug
Thanks for the responses and offers for help. My second site started working "magically". I did not change anything that I had not changed previously. I do not know what made it start working, but now both sites work.
I am convinced this is a bug. I am sure the strange behavior was not due to any settings I misconfigured. However, now that it is working for me, I will leave it alone and let it continue to work!
This is good to hear. it seen
This is good to hear.
it seen you've get in a lot of trouble about this issues. as you said, it could be anything (maybe a bug/ who know).
Hope this bug won't show up again.
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