It would be good if there was also an option to send users an email before their birthday, for example 7 days before. This is good for sending offers to be used on there Birthday.

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#7 623476-rules_support.patch2.01 KBnevergone
#6 623476-rules_support.patch1.66 KBnevergone

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renzge’s picture

renzge commented

Hello
i am also interessted in an option sending an email eg 14 days before birthday (to get present)
king regards
renzge

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marcus178 commented

This would be a massively useful feature maybe some sort of integration with rules

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moxwai commented

Vote one! i'm interested in this an might have a customer that will pay.

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

I need this feature too.
Is there any way with triggers and/or rules to do so or do we have just to wait for the option?
Thanks.

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Niklas Fiekas commented
Title: Option to send user addition email prior to birthday » Integrate with Rules module (e.g. option to send user addition email prior to birthday)
Version: 6.x-1.0-rc1 » 7.x-1.x-dev
Component: User interface » Code

Bumping to 7.x. This would definitely be useful.

Unless someone volunteers to write a patch or co-maintain the D6 version, this won't happen there.

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nevergone
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Component: Code » Code (Birthdays)
Assigned: Unassigned » nevergone
Issue summary: View changes
Status: Active » Needs work
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new 623476-rules_support.patch1.66 KB

Initial support with variables.

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new 623476-rules_support.patch2.01 KB

Patch formatting

Niklas Fiekas’s picture

Niklas Fiekas commented
Status: Needs work » Fixed

Very nice, thank you!
An extra +1 for fixing this ancient issue.

http://drupalcode.org/project/birthdays.git/commitdiff/43d70bca8b16d015e...

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed - issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.

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hockey2112 commented

Can anyone provide some guidance on how to set up a rule that will auto-send an email to any user whose birthday is "today"? Thanks!

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lukasss commented

Can anyone provide some guidance on how to set up a rule that will auto-send an email to any user whose birthday is "today"? Thanks!

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hockey2112 commented

Here's how I ended up doing it:

1. Go here: admin/structure/trigger/birthdays Assign the "Happy birthday mail" action.

2. Go here: admin/config/system/actions . Click "Configure" next to the happy birthday mail.

3. Edit the subject line, content, etc.

4. Save.

The birthday emails are sent on cron run. I wasn't able to find a good way to test it, so I'm sure a few of my users received birthday emails that needed formatting work, etc. ;)

I would love to handle all of this in Rules... you'd be able to assign it only to certain user roles for purposes of testing, and I think it would give you better fine-tuned control over when the event occurs. Alas, I was unable to figure out how to do so.

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lukasss commented

thank you very much

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lukasss commented

Very strange! After all, the title theme written about Rules. Installed this patch created a rule - does not work. Trigger at all strange works - that the letters come, do not come

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nevergone
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Cron setup?

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lukasss commented

frequency of run 5 minutes

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lukasss commented

Kind of figured out:

Letters are sent to the crown. After sending another memorable moment last run in variable birthdays_last_cron. To properly debug module is necessary at all times to change its value on a year ago)))

Pleased that the rules are working

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hockey2112 commented

I don't understand, how did you get the rules to work?

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lukasss commented

1. create rules "Current birthdays" with any action
2. install module devel: https://www.drupal.org/project/devel
3. go to http://MY_SITE/devel/variable/edit/birthdays_last_cron
4. there is date in the format unix - last cron run
5. Update this variable: "The current date" - "1 year + 1 day"
6. Run cron - Your rule should work

I hope you understand
Sorry very very very bad my english

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igorik commented

is there a chance to move the functionality from trigger to rules?