By jjma on

Hello,

I have a client who owns a blog but administration of the blog is run by another group of people. They want to enable comments (to date disabled) so that anyone can post a comment but not published until approved.
All ok so far. Use rules to fire an email on each comment posted.

Normally the client would receive the email to approve the comment but the issue here is that the client still wants to receive the comment but does not want to administrate the comment!

I thought initially to use a rule to send an email to client once a comment has been posted. They would click on a link which once received by the blog would trigger another rule to post another email to the admin group to go to the blog and approve the comment.

Is this possible?

Jon

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jjma’s picture

jjma commented

Is comment notify able to send an email with the comment within it so that the end recipient can click on either approve or decline and this automatically updates the status of the comment post?

Jon

Patroclas’s picture

Patroclas commented

It's strange that the client wants to view the email but not do anything about it. If they are going to click a link in the email, then if that went to the comment approval page, only one more click would be required to approve it (assuming they are logged in). It's difficult to imagine how Rules could deal with this safely if the approver is not logged in.

You could also consider using a user-points module that would remove the need to approve comments once the user is trusted. Or moderate users instead of comments so only trusted users could comment?

I think I might tell the client about taking responsibility for their site or be prepared to accept anonymous comments!

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jjma commented

It's exasperating but the way this site is managedwhere another agency manages the content on a clients behalf has lead to this situation. The client need (when it comes to comments) to view and approve/decline any of the comments added and if they had to manage the comments it must be via email preferably in one click.

I forgot to add that at the moment there is no way to register to post a comment (although this may have to be an option) so all posts are annoymous.

I came accross this module which might do the job:

http://drupal.org/project/commentmail

Any experience of this?

Jon

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edg commented

It sounds like the client wants to do some approving otherwise in your Rule you could just send the message to both users and your client could simply read it and the admin could approve it or not.

As earlier poster said, if your client is logged in approval would just be another click away if your notification email links to the comment edit page - yoursite.com/comment/edit/1234