Different templates and fields for different content types

One idea is for Notifications is to impement a $node->build_mode and then implement CCK's Extensible Contexts hook so that admins can pick which fields are in and which are out for a given content type. Further, they can pick a formatter like 'teaser' versus 'full'.

I had a similar problem and I solved it by making a new token that called a template file (as in phptemplate, not notifications template). That way in the phptemplate file I could do whatever logic or switching I needed to. I'm sure there is a better way to do it (moshe's sounds interesting), and pre-processing things in the template.php file would definitely be cleaner, but this might be useful to someone.

Basically it gives you a token called [themed-teaser] that you can put in your notifications templates and then do all the fancy stuff in php instead of dealing with tokens.

Just put print_r($node_object); in the template file and send yourself a test notification to see everything you've got available.

ps. I put my notifications.tpl.php in the same folder with my other templates, but if you want it with the module you should change the path in the module code.

Also, there is a difference between choosing which fields are in the notification for each content type and having a real template. As you can see in my example, I'm doing some logic to determine language that you wouldn't be able to do with more/different tokens. For that flexibility, actually using the theme system makes a lot of sense to me.

We are using this (experimental) module atm: Token Logic

Read about it here:

http://www.developmentseed.org/blog/2009/mar/25/tokenlogic-helps-messagi...
http://code.developmentseed.org/token_logic/dashboard

is this module (token logic) bug free ?

Thanks for your responses.

I think this could be useful: http://drupal.org/project/contemplate. It's not perfect though, as you will not be able to make different templates for notifications and pages, and I think it requires you to write PHP code for the template, not use tokens.

UP !

Is it possible to use ONE notification template for each content type ? (contemplate is not useful for that)

Will be in this new branch

An add-on module, alpha is in this Notifications Extra package, check out the 'Content Type extension' module.
(Needed some API extensions in the Notifications module though)

See the screenshot attached.

Forgot to move to Notifications Add-ons

I have installed messaging and notifications modules 6.4.alpha1 and the Notifications extra module (6.4.developpement) and I have actived the Content Type extension BUT I don't see the options (compared to your screenshot in #10).

What is the problem ?

thanks !

With alpha2, the option's configuration display in the administration section but it does not works. It's the "node creation" template that's send.

This 'content type extension' has been moved into Notifications package and got some more releases. Open new issues there if any.

Yes, and it seems really usefull !

THANKS !

Has anyone else had any issues with the token logic module?
http://code.developmentseed.org/token_logic/dashboard

Im getting this error;
Fatal error: Call to undefined function _token_replace_tokens() in /home/myserver/public_html/mysite/sites/all/modules/token_logic/token_logic.module on line 144

Thanks

Ive been using sagannotcarl's module successfully for a while but ive just updated Notifications (which i hadn't done for a while) and now its stopped working. Lots of the fields are not coming through in the email.
Thanks

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Subscribing, issue with token logic module, has that ever worked? That's the easiest way to make notifications logic but I get same error as #16

Will try out #3 method, is there a settings area for this or just enable and customize the notifications template?

any chance this can be added to the 2.x branch, is it possible or just too much work? I don't mind rolling a patch for that, just wonder if it's at all possible?

any chance this can be added to the 2.x branch, is it possible or just too much work? I don't mind rolling a patch for that, just wonder if it's at all possible?

@sagannotcarl thanks. your solution works for me.