mail module to alert people about status of its own nodes

Posted by titouille on February 5, 2008 at 10:32pm

Hi forum,

My question is about the following problem.
I must create an "advertisements" site. any people can create nodes to provide informations about products to sell for x days.
When the node is created from a user, it is unpublish, and wait for an administrator control.
The admin can authorize the publish or not, and I would like to have an automatism to alert the creator of the node about the status of the node (created, published, unpublished, deleted by creator, expired) and ask myself about the module to use to do it...

If anyone has experience about this kind of management, can he tell me the way (the module(s)) he use ?

Thanks in advance,

Thierry

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I've recently been looking

Posted by paulnem on February 5, 2008 at 10:53pm

I've recently been looking into a similar scenario, and I can suggest you look at the following 3 modules.

http://drupal.org/project/sched_act
http://drupal.org/project/actions - Required by the sched_act module

The above two options will let you do the publish/unpublish as well as set and send the default emails.

http://drupal.org/project/workflow

I haven't looked fully into the workflow or workflow-ng modules, but these will be handy in automating things a little further and triggering actions, such as send an email when the node is published/unpublished etc.

Thanks paulnem, I will see

Posted by titouille on February 6, 2008 at 1:42pm

Thanks paulnem, I will see about theses modules to do my job :-)

But about mailing, which kind of module is required ? (if you have an idea...) This is the point I'm not sure, because I just have used simplenews to do mailing list in a project, but don't know which module I can use to create some mails for specific users only (sending mail only for the user who has created/removed a node).

Thanks for your time and suggestions.

Thierry

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The sched_act module will

Posted by paulnem on February 6, 2008 at 3:24pm

The sched_act module will allow you to create, schedule and send emails to node owners.