Broadcast in Organic Group module

I Tested by rerouting and capturing (rerouting to me) all outgoing email from site.

No messages were received in my inbox. As far as i can tell, the broadcast function does not trigger the sending of any messages to anyone in the group.This function did work successfully in a previous version of OG where the tab was called "email" rather than "broadcast".

Is there some way/workaround by which the previous code/functionality could be restored temporarily as a patch until the broadcast function can be fixed correctly?

Isn't anyone else having this problem?
Or perhaps more to the point ... Is anyone having any success getting the broadcast functionality to actually send out emails to an organic group?

thanks

From a look at the OG code for broadcasts, it doesn't seem that the broadcast functionality is intended to create a node. It seems like it's intended to simply email the members.

Creating a new OG Group Page should do that, if the site is correctly set up with OG Notifications and all the extras required for OG Notifications (eg, working mail, notifications and messaging modules, etc).

You could use the mailhandler module to capture the broadcast email and generate a node, by subscribing your mailhandler address and then having it generate a node. But that approach would preclude you being able to include the node's URL in the email, so it's probably not what you want.

You could also perhaps use hook_og to capture the outgoing message and create a node before the broadcast was sent, but again it doesn't seem that you'd be able to specify the node's URL in the message body that way either. (Perhaps if og_broadcast_form_submit() passed $message by reference you could?)

Just a few thoughts from looking at the code - I'm not (yet) intimate with OG and notifications - but I intend to be shortly :)

i am on notifications 6.x-2.1 and og notifications 6.x-1.1

similar to the initial problem statement above, i would get the 'message queued to x users' and no errors, but the queue would never process. the settings on all the messages in the queue visible at: admin/messaging/subscriptions/admin looks correct.

looking at the database table notifications_queue the send_interval field value was null for everything in the queue. stepping through the code to notifications_process_queue function's query, its clear that a null send_interval will never get retrieved and processed.

here's the funky part.

the only change i made (and it was made as part of debugging), was in notifications_lite_queue_event. I moved the function call get the user setting for send interval into its own line of code and put its value in a variable before sending it into the array like this:

function notifications_lite_queue_event($event) {
  $uid = $event->params['for-uid'];
  $account = user_load(array('uid' => $uid));
  $send_interval = notifications_user_setting('send_interval', $account); //this is new
  watchdog('notifications', $send_interval);
  $queue = array(
    'uid' => $uid,
    'sid' => 0,
    'module' => 'notifications',
    'eid' => $event->eid,
    'send_interval' => $send_interval,
    'send_method' => notifications_user_setting('send_method', $account),
    'cron' => 1,
    'created' => time(),
    'conditions' => 0,
  );
  return drupal_write_record('notifications_queue', $queue);
}

after that change, from now on broadcasts are put into the queue table with the proper settings and everything seems to work.

I was having problem with notifications not sending at all. If I tried to use the "Broadcast" feature, messages would be added to the queue but would never be sent out. Once I changed the send interval to "Immediate," it started functioning correctly and messages are sent. I'd prefer to have a queue and let cron send messages at an interval, but I can't seem to get it to work unless it's immediate

Hi,
Same issue , went to /admin/messaging/notifications/events and enabled "Notifications lite message", all works perfectly now,
S:)

Hi,
Same issue , went to /admin/messaging/notifications/events and enabled "Notifications lite message", all works perfectly now,
S:)

I'm also on a system where I don't run Cron automatically - what I used to get mails to be sent directly was to go to admin/messaging/notifications and check "Immediate sending". This wasn't mentioned yet I think (I hope I didn't just miss it :-)).