How to be notofied as admin of new comments SOLVED !!

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GavinB Reply #1, 16 years, 8 months ago

Been working with the excellent tutorial c/o The Coding Pad and been implementing it onto a simple blog site example page here http://www.anotherharddayattheoffice.co.uk/monday-thursday.html this is the comments & ditto just on one page.

I’d like to take it one stage further and as admin be emailed when someone posts a comment so I can then logon as admin to publish it.

I’ve used two parameters that I think you have to use but no joy…am I barking up the wrong tree as it were do I no longer have to have &moderated parameter as I have notify and canmoderate - what field goes in the canmoderate, my email address or do I have to set a group up?

[!Jot? &captcha=`2` &moderated=`1` &canmoderate=`myemailaddresshere` &notify=`1` &customfields=`name,email` &validate=`name:Please enter your name,email:Please enter a valid e-mail address` &subscribe=`1` &pagination=`5` &placeholders=`1` &output=`0`!]

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kp52 Reply #2, 16 years, 8 months ago

Is &canmoderate=`myemailaddresshere` correct? I think you have to specify a web user group here, and the email of the relevant users will then be notified.
See Jot parameters on wiki.

KP

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GavinB Reply #3, 16 years, 8 months ago

Ok have set up a group blogmoderation with a user as a User Manager blogman and users role Administrator and using this in the chunk still not getting any email notification - again driving me mildly crazy wink

[!Jot? &captcha=`2` &moderated=`1` &canmoderate=`blogmoderation` &notify=`2` &customfields=`name,email` &validate=`name:Please enter your name,email:Please enter a valid e-mail address` &subscribe=`1` &pagination=`5` &placeholders=`1` &output=`0`!]

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GavinB Reply #4, 16 years, 8 months ago

Mixture of getting things wrong - first off I thought only Manager Users could moderate so I was creating new Managers and then assigning them to a group :’(

So created a new webuser and assigned them to the group Site Admins and now an email notification is sent:

Dear Blog,

A new reply has been posted to a topic you are moderating.

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Name: Gavin Testing Again 23:25
Email: [email protected]
Subject: Testing again 23:25
Message:

testing again to see how this goes through
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View the published replies at: http://www.anotherharddayattheoffice.co.uk/powderday.html?jvf4737534=1
View the unpublished replies at: http://www.anotherharddayattheoffice.co.uk/powderday.html?jvf4737534=0

Regards,
Site Administrator

I also went for overkill on the email notification by setting up the document author to get an email as well

A new comment has been posted to your post:
"Powder Day"

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Name: Gavin Testing Again 23:25
Email: [email protected]
Subject: Testing again 23:25
Message:

testing again to see how this goes through
-----

View the published replies at: http://www.anotherharddayattheoffice.co.uk/powderday.html?jvf4737534=1
View the unpublished replies at: http://www.anotherharddayattheoffice.co.uk/powderday.html?jvf4737534=0
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Regards,
Site Administrator

And also now the web user Blog can login in through the front end and not the manager frontend and publish / delete the comments

so the final code that works is

[!Jot? &captcha=`2` &moderated=`1` &notify=`2` &notifyAuthor=`1` &canmoderate=`Site Admins` &customfields=`name,email` &validate=`name:Please enter your name,email:Please enter a valid e-mail address` &subscribe=`1` &pagination=`5` &placeholders=`1` &output=`0` !]
<h3> Readers Comments</h3>  
      	  <p> </p>
<p>You too can add a comment at the bottom of this page</p>
      	  <p> </p>
[+jot.html.comments+]  
[+jot.html.navigation+]  
[+jot.html.moderate+]  
[+jot.html.form+]

There is something masochistic about MODx - beating yourself up for hours but the good feeling when you suss it grin