Notifications_Utils module (attached) - Support for Views Bulk Operations and some UI enhancements.

Tried it on my setup and got the following error:

During view edit:

An error occurred at /admin/build/views/ajax/preview/notification_bulk_update.

Error Description: 
Fatal error: Call to undefined function notifications_add_subscription_form() in /var/www/sites/all/modules/notifications_utils/actions/actions_common.inc on line 43

Was still able to save the view, and when I try to open it:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function notifications_add_subscription_form() in /var/www/sites/all/modules/notifications_utils/actions/actions_common.inc on line 43

My goal is to create a VBO to bulk subscribe users with role x to a specific content type.

My setup:
Pressflow 6.22
Views 6.x-2.16
Notifications 6.x-4.0-beta7

Let me know when you've got another version I can test. I'm on 4.0-Beta7 btw...

I really needed this feature, so I rolled back my Messaging and Notifications to 6.x-2.3 and this module works perfectly.

Thank you ! You saved me from having to manually subscribe 350 users to forum posts...

Hi I installed this module because I urgently need the function of being able to subscribe users to content types.

It installed perfectly, I was able to evoke the action via VBO, no errors occurred, but nothing happened. The user I'd selected with VBO was not subscribed to the content type.

I'm working with
Notifications 6.x-2.3
Notifications Utilities 6.x-1.0
Views 6.x-2.16
Views Bulk Operations 6.x-1.12

Any suggestions?

I've tried installing devel to see if it shows up anything, but it produces so much output that I can't work out if any of it has to do with this action.

Tried installing on a separate, fairly clean drupal, nothing doing.

Can't figure out what the problem could be if it works for other people.

VBO runs other actions no prob, so that is not the issue.

Would really like to get this working.

Been looking through the devel log a bit searching for things related to the user I'm trying to modify who is ID 94

All I can see is
SELECT n.* FROM drupalvayira_test_notifications n INNER JOIN drupalvayira_test_notifications_fields nf0 ON n.sid = nf0.sid WHERE (n.type = 'nodetype') AND (n.uid = 94) AND (n.conditions = 1) AND (nf0.field = 'type')

There is no update statement other than the session at the end of the page.

Looks like I spoke too soon. Although I got successful messages after running the VBO, users are not subscribed. In my case, I created a custom subscription to node type forum topic. If I masquerade as a user, I can subscribe, so it's not a rights issue, but the VBO action has no effect whatsoever...

@cgmonroe thanks for your reply. I'd figured out that about them needing their own rights to subscribe, but just in case I ran through it all as you said.

When I am the user concerned I can add the content type, but when I use VBO as an admin nothing happens & there are no errors.

I have selected Invoke them directly and not Use Batch API

Any more info I can give to help you see what is going on? Looks like @Skidz has the same problem.

I'm using immediate processing as well. Here's an export of my view:

$view = new view;
$view->name = 'notification_bulk_update';
$view->description = 'Bulk subscribe';
$view->tag = '';
$view->base_table = 'users';
$view->core = 6;
$view->api_version = '2';
$view->disabled = FALSE; /* Edit this to true to make a default view disabled initially */
$handler = $view->new_display('default', 'Defaults', 'default');
$handler->override_option('fields', array(
  'name' => array(
    'label' => 'Name',
    'alter' => array(
      'alter_text' => 0,
      'text' => '',
      'make_link' => 0,
      'path' => '',
      'absolute' => 0,
      'link_class' => '',
      'alt' => '',
      'rel' => '',
      'prefix' => '',
      'suffix' => '',
      'target' => '',
      'help' => '',
      'trim' => 0,
      'max_length' => '',
      'word_boundary' => 1,
      'ellipsis' => 1,
      'html' => 0,
      'strip_tags' => 0,
    ),
    'empty' => '',
    'hide_empty' => 0,
    'empty_zero' => 0,
    'hide_alter_empty' => 1,
    'link_to_user' => 1,
    'overwrite_anonymous' => 0,
    'anonymous_text' => '',
    'exclude' => 0,
    'id' => 'name',
    'table' => 'users',
    'field' => 'name',
    'relationship' => 'none',
  ),
  'rid' => array(
    'label' => 'Roles',
    'alter' => array(
      'alter_text' => 0,
      'text' => '',
      'make_link' => 0,
      'path' => '',
      'absolute' => 0,
      'link_class' => '',
      'alt' => '',
      'rel' => '',
      'prefix' => '',
      'suffix' => '',
      'target' => '',
      'help' => '',
      'trim' => 0,
      'max_length' => '',
      'word_boundary' => 1,
      'ellipsis' => 1,
      'html' => 0,
      'strip_tags' => 0,
    ),
    'empty' => '',
    'hide_empty' => 0,
    'empty_zero' => 0,
    'hide_alter_empty' => 1,
    'type' => 'separator',
    'separator' => ', ',
    'exclude' => 0,
    'id' => 'rid',
    'table' => 'users_roles',
    'field' => 'rid',
    'relationship' => 'none',
  ),
  'uid' => array(
    'label' => 'Uid',
    'alter' => array(
      'alter_text' => 0,
      'text' => '',
      'make_link' => 0,
      'path' => '',
      'absolute' => 0,
      'link_class' => '',
      'alt' => '',
      'rel' => '',
      'prefix' => '',
      'suffix' => '',
      'target' => '',
      'help' => '',
      'trim' => 0,
      'max_length' => '',
      'word_boundary' => 1,
      'ellipsis' => 1,
      'html' => 0,
      'strip_tags' => 0,
    ),
    'empty' => '',
    'hide_empty' => 0,
    'empty_zero' => 0,
    'hide_alter_empty' => 1,
    'link_to_user' => 1,
    'exclude' => 0,
    'id' => 'uid',
    'table' => 'users',
    'field' => 'uid',
    'override' => array(
      'button' => 'Supplanter',
    ),
    'relationship' => 'none',
  ),
));
$handler->override_option('sorts', array(
  'uid' => array(
    'order' => 'ASC',
    'id' => 'uid',
    'table' => 'users',
    'field' => 'uid',
    'override' => array(
      'button' => 'Supplanter',
    ),
    'relationship' => 'none',
  ),
));
$handler->override_option('filters', array(
  'rid' => array(
    'operator' => 'or',
    'value' => array(
      4 => '4',
    ),
    'group' => '0',
    'exposed' => FALSE,
    'expose' => array(
      'operator' => FALSE,
      'label' => '',
    ),
    'id' => 'rid',
    'table' => 'users_roles',
    'field' => 'rid',
    'relationship' => 'none',
    'reduce_duplicates' => 0,
  ),
));
$handler->override_option('access', array(
  'type' => 'role',
  'role' => array(
    3 => 3,
    5 => 5,
  ),
));
$handler->override_option('cache', array(
  'type' => 'none',
));
$handler->override_option('items_per_page', 100);
$handler->override_option('use_pager', '1');
$handler->override_option('style_plugin', 'bulk');
$handler->override_option('style_options', array(
  'grouping' => '',
  'override' => 1,
  'sticky' => 0,
  'order' => 'asc',
  'summary' => '',
  'columns' => array(
    'name' => 'name',
    'rid' => 'rid',
    'uid' => 'uid',
  ),
  'info' => array(
    'name' => array(
      'sortable' => 1,
      'separator' => '',
    ),
    'rid' => array(
      'separator' => '',
    ),
    'uid' => array(
      'sortable' => 1,
      'separator' => '',
    ),
  ),
  'default' => 'uid',
  'execution_type' => '1',
  'max_performance' => 0,
  'display_type' => '0',
  'hide_selector' => 0,
  'preserve_selection' => 1,
  'display_result' => 1,
  'merge_single_action' => 1,
  'operations' => array(
    'token_actions_message_action' => array(
      'selected' => 0,
      'skip_confirmation' => 0,
      'label' => '',
    ),
    'system_message_action' => array(
      'selected' => 0,
      'skip_confirmation' => 0,
      'label' => '',
    ),
    'user_block_ip_action' => array(
      'selected' => 0,
      'skip_confirmation' => 0,
      'label' => '',
    ),
    'user_block_user_action' => array(
      'selected' => 0,
      'skip_confirmation' => 0,
      'label' => '',
    ),
    'user_user_operations_block' => array(
      'selected' => 0,
      'skip_confirmation' => 0,
      'label' => '',
    ),
    'user_user_operations_unblock' => array(
      'selected' => 0,
      'skip_confirmation' => 0,
      'label' => '',
    ),
    'system_send_email_action' => array(
      'selected' => 0,
      'skip_confirmation' => 0,
      'label' => '',
    ),
    'token_actions_send_email_action' => array(
      'selected' => 0,
      'skip_confirmation' => 0,
      'label' => '',
    ),
    'views_bulk_operations_action' => array(
      'selected' => 0,
      'skip_confirmation' => 0,
      'label' => '',
    ),
    'views_bulk_operations_script_action' => array(
      'selected' => 0,
      'skip_confirmation' => 0,
      'label' => '',
    ),
    'pathauto_user_update_alias_multiple-620e193b20ba9caa374fea9ca0ad38f0' => array(
      'selected' => 0,
      'skip_confirmation' => 0,
      'label' => '',
    ),
    'views_bulk_operations_user_roles_action' => array(
      'selected' => 0,
      'skip_confirmation' => 0,
      'label' => '',
    ),
    'notifications_utils_modify_user_defaults_action' => array(
      'selected' => 0,
      'skip_confirmation' => 0,
      'label' => '',
    ),
    'views_bulk_operations_profile_action' => array(
      'selected' => 0,
      'skip_confirmation' => 0,
      'label' => '',
    ),
    'views_bulk_operations_argument_selector_action' => array(
      'selected' => 0,
      'skip_confirmation' => 0,
      'label' => '',
    ),
    'system_goto_action' => array(
      'selected' => 0,
      'skip_confirmation' => 0,
      'label' => '',
    ),
    'token_actions_goto_action' => array(
      'selected' => 0,
      'skip_confirmation' => 0,
      'label' => '',
    ),
    'user_stats_login_count_reset_action' => array(
      'selected' => 0,
      'skip_confirmation' => 0,
      'label' => '',
    ),
    'user_stats_post_count_reset_action' => array(
      'selected' => 0,
      'skip_confirmation' => 0,
      'label' => '',
    ),
    'mimemail_send_mail_action' => array(
      'selected' => 0,
      'skip_confirmation' => 0,
      'label' => '',
    ),
    'views_send_mail_action' => array(
      'selected' => 0,
      'skip_confirmation' => 0,
      'label' => '',
    ),
    'notifications_utils_subscribe_content_type_action' => array(
      'selected' => 1,
      'skip_confirmation' => 0,
      'label' => 'Sub to content type',
    ),
    'notifications_utils_subscribe_thread_action' => array(
      'selected' => 0,
      'skip_confirmation' => 0,
      'label' => '',
    ),
    'notifications_utils_subscribe_taxonomy_action' => array(
      'selected' => 0,
      'skip_confirmation' => 0,
      'label' => '',
    ),
    'notifications_utils_subscribe_author_action' => array(
      'selected' => 0,
      'skip_confirmation' => 0,
      'label' => '',
    ),
    'views_bulk_operations_delete_user_action' => array(
      'selected' => 0,
      'skip_confirmation' => 0,
      'label' => '',
    ),
    'notifications_utils_unsubscribe_content_type_action' => array(
      'selected' => 0,
      'skip_confirmation' => 0,
      'label' => '',
    ),
    'notifications_utils_unsubscribe_thread_action' => array(
      'selected' => 0,
      'skip_confirmation' => 0,
      'label' => '',
    ),
    'notifications_utils_unsubscribe_taxonomy_action' => array(
      'selected' => 0,
      'skip_confirmation' => 0,
      'label' => '',
    ),
    'notifications_utils_unsubscribe_author_action' => array(
      'selected' => 0,
      'skip_confirmation' => 0,
      'label' => '',
    ),
  ),
));
$handler = $view->new_display('page', 'Page', 'page_1');
$handler->override_option('path', 'bulk_subscribe');
$handler->override_option('menu', array(
  'type' => 'none',
  'title' => '',
  'description' => '',
  'weight' => 0,
  'name' => 'navigation',
));
$handler->override_option('tab_options', array(
  'type' => 'none',
  'title' => '',
  'description' => '',
  'weight' => 0,
  'name' => 'navigation',
));

Just out of interest I tried notifications_utils_unsubscribe_content_type_action
instead of notifications_utils_subscribe_content_type_action

That does work. I can unsubscribe the user. So this means the prob is with subscribe.

Looking at your code for unsubscribe I see

function notifications_utils_unsubscribe_content_type_action_submit($form, $form_state) {
  $results = array();
  $results['subscription_parameters'] = array(
    'type' => $form_state['values']['type'],
    'uid' => '',
  );
  $results['subscription_conditions'] = array(
    'type' => $subscription['fields'][0]['value'],
  );
  return $results;
}

But subscribe only has

function notifications_utils_subscribe_content_type_action_submit($form, $form_state) {
  $results = notifications_utils_subscribe_form_submit($form, $form_state);
  return $results;
}

I can't actually understand this, but it does seem to be much simpler.

I'd be very interested in helping to get this to work.

none of the users have existing subscriptions, but I've tried both with & without "replace existing subscriptions"

Is your setup identical to mine?
Notifications 6.x-2.3
Notifications Utilities 6.x-1.0
Views 6.x-2.16
Views Bulk Operations 6.x-1.12

#16 works ! I was able to bulk subscribe my users to different content types without any issues. Let me know if you need any further testing.

Hold the phone ! I think we've got another issue here: If I bulk subscribe users to say content type 'Forum post', and then use the tool again and bulk subscribe the same users to another content type, the previous subscription is removed and only the last subscription remains...

I did a bit of further testing tonight. Once I've bulk subscribed a user to a content type. If I try to bulk subscribe them to an additional content type, it doesn't work. If I don't tick the 'Replace existing subscriptions with these settings.', nothing happens. If I do tick it, then the new content type subscription replaces the one that was there previously. The tool doesn't allow me to choose multiple content types either, which would be a nice feature.

Now for the good news: I can bulk subscribe users to as many terms as I want, so that part works fine (although I hadn't tested it before the updated code, so perhaps that worked all along). Here again, it would be nice to be able to select multiple terms at once.

Time to hit the sack. Tomorrow's another day... :-)

Congratulations!

By changing both those files I now have the functionality I was looking for. I can subscribe / unsubcribe users to content types with VBO.

That was the only action I was planning to use, so I haven't actually tested anything else.

I'll carry on testing a bit more just to make sure there are no unusual cases.

Thanks for your work.

I'll test it tonite.

Sorry for the delay. Was called out of town for a couple days. Just did my tests. Everything now seems to work as it's supposed to. My tests aren't necessarily exhaustive, mind you. I am working on a live site here... ;-)

I have a question regarding one the other options added by this module:

By default, all of my users are getting notifications for all updates/comments for any content they're subscribed to. I want to make it so that they only get notified of new content, and notifications for updates or comments only if they've updated/commented on that content themselves, or are the author of the initial content. This is typically the kind of notifications setup by default for forums like smf or ipb. I just can't seem to find the right settings for it to work that way for me. I thought that by unticking the checkbox 'Send notifications for updated nodes/comments' that would be the behaviour. Are there additional steps I need to take ?

I've checked everything you've mentioned above. Users have the 'Skip Notifications' permission, and notification_utils has a weight of 2000 in the system table (all other notifications modules have a weight of 0, except for notifications_ananymous, which is set to 200, and notifications_content, which is set to 100).

I don't see any options in the forms allowing users to subscribe only to new content. If for example, a user creates a subscription to term 'xyz', which happens to be a forum, they will receive a notification when a new topic is created in forum xyz, as well as notification for any updates or comments to that topic. There is no option in the forms to exclude these updates and/or comments.

Ok. I get it. However, in my case, the 'Do not send notifications' checkbox is always un-checked, regardless of what options I chose in the utils module.

After doing a fair bit of research, seems version 4 has much more granularity. However, after testing it in my dev environment, I discovered that it doesn't play nice with existing subscriptions created under v 2. This would require me to flush all existing subscriptions and start from scratch, without the possibility of batch subscribing users.

Looks like I'm screwed either way... :-|

Ok. After messing around with the options, here's the behaviour I'm encountering:

If I un-check 'Send notifications for new nodes/comments.', the 'Do not send notifications for this update.' checkbox is checked for any new content or comments. This is of no help to me, because in this condition, no notifications go out at all. Furthermore, with the 'Do not send notifications for this update.' checkbox checked, people subscribed to threads are not getting notified of new comments.

This is just getting more and more frustrating every day. I have 350 users pissed off with me because they either get flooded with notifications they don't want, or get none at all... I really need to find a workable solution to this problem. Fast !

Sorry for the ranting. To answer your questions:

1) The notifications fieldset appears normally. I can change it's weight and move it around the forms with the utils module.

2) Yes.

3) Yes. Everything works as designed. As mentioned above, the design doesn't fit my requirements. Every comment to a node is a new comment. Not much point in blocking updates to comments...

4) Not much point, as everything seems to be working as designed...