[Rules] Different arguments for sending alert

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Thank you for update, but I tested it and it sends the alert only to the one who did the action :

example

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It only sends the alert if the targeted comments author is the one who did the action. So flagging other comment results no alert.

Maybe I'm doing something wrong hmm.

I can once again confirm that this doesn't work :/

I did all testing needed and all variations with rules.

Rules set

if comment is flagged under “XXX”

DO:

• load user id of comment author
• send userpoints
• send alert

All of it works, but not send alert, it only works if the flagged comment author is a user who flagged it (the user who did that action (triggered rule)

Same goes for any other rule defined.

So its like if its set 'user' => t('The user who performed the action') in the select form that was before.

DAMN you're right.

Rules cache :( and that's why it had no effect. Sorry for this. I didn't knew that rules have cache system. Now it works perfectly!

Thanks for this great module and your support !

By the way, I wanted to send alert to owner of the comment - to notify the person that someone flagged its comment. For notifying the current user, I use standard drupal $messages.

The above comment that i wrote is because it worked first time, like i described in paragraph above, and i was happy cause of it because at last i found what i was looking for, but after some tests.. i was wrong with early happiness. Later in reading you'll see what i've encountered with.

I was testing this module for full 2 days and i discovered that it cannot give me what i want. That someone else gets alert if his content/comment was changed/flagged by someone else by some strange reason that I cannot understand. First time when you (user ID 1) flag someone else comment (user id 2's comment), user id 2 gets alert. But if user 3 ID flags a comment of User ID 2 the user 2 doesnt gets the alert...

How to fix it ?

DELETE FROM `cache_rules` WHERE (`cid`='set_event_flag_flagged_nameofyourFLAG')

and after you deleted cache_rules record go with USER 3 ID and flag USER 2 ID comment and user 2 ID will get the alert and vice versa. So I think rules cache works really strange when using the [token] value in that textfield - im not php/drupal expert to know how all the code works altogether. If you use "user" in field, it works fine -- the current user gets alert in all variations. (user ID1, user ID3).

Like i said, I was testing this module yesterday and today from 14:00 to 22:00 and I got this conclusions. Also (not tested much but at first i suspected that was the problem) when you change the settings of appbar at admin/settings/appbar it breaks the rules-token integration completely leaving me incapable of solving the problem than uninstalling the module. But later, i uninstalled appbar and installed it again without touching the settings and I got same results of all the testing.

Maybe it works for you just fine because you didn't used it in environment where many modules are involved - maybe cause of that I have conflicts on my site, but nevertheless this module is lightweight and it doesn't contain code that would confuse others (as I noticed reading the logic of the module code).

Tomorrow ill test it on fresh drupal site using rules, token, flags, comments and appbar. If it gives me the same results as before i give up from this module.

Thanks again for responses and support.

Did testing with fresh drupal installation with flags, comments, userpoints, rules and appbar and still same.

You can also test it, just make

3 users

1 flag named rules_appbar_test

userpoints module
rules module
flag module
appbar module
devel (to switch between the users easily)

and insert this rule

array (
  'rules' => 
  array (
    'rules_4' => 
    array (
      '#type' => 'rule',
      '#set' => 'event_flag_flagged_rules_appbar_test',
      '#label' => 'appbar_alert_rule',
      '#active' => 1,
      '#weight' => '0',
      '#categories' => 
      array (
      ),
      '#status' => 'custom',
      '#conditions' => 
      array (
      ),
      '#actions' => 
      array (
        0 => 
        array (
          '#type' => 'action',
          '#settings' => 
          array (
            'username' => '',
            'userid' => '[comment:comment-author-uid]',
            '#argument map' => 
            array (
              'user_loaded' => 'user_loaded',
            ),
            '#eval input' => 
            array (
              'token_rules_input_evaluator' => 
              array (
                'userid' => 
                array (
                  0 => 'comment',
                ),
              ),
            ),
          ),
          '#name' => 'rules_action_load_user',
          '#info' => 
          array (
            'label' => 'Load a user account',
            'new variables' => 
            array (
              'user_loaded' => 
              array (
                'type' => 'user',
                'label' => 'Loaded user',
              ),
            ),
            'module' => 'User',
            'eval input' => 
            array (
              0 => 'userid',
              1 => 'username',
            ),
          ),
          '#weight' => 0,
        ),
        1 => 
        array (
          '#weight' => 0,
          '#info' => 
          array (
            'label' => 'Grant points to a user',
            'arguments' => 
            array (
              'user' => 
              array (
                'type' => 'user',
                'label' => 'User',
              ),
            ),
            'module' => 'Userpoints',
            'eval input' => 
            array (
              0 => 'points',
            ),
          ),
          '#name' => 'userpoints_action_grant_points',
          '#settings' => 
          array (
            'points' => '10',
            '#argument map' => 
            array (
              'user' => 'user_loaded',
            ),
          ),
          '#type' => 'action',
        ),
        2 => 
        array (
          '#weight' => 0,
          '#type' => 'action',
          '#settings' => 
          array (
            'message' => '[user_loaded:user-raw] your comment has been flagged by [flagging_user:user-raw].',
            'account' => '[user_loaded:uid]',
            '#eval input' => 
            array (
              'token_rules_input_evaluator' => 
              array (
                'message' => 
                array (
                  0 => 'user_loaded',
                  1 => 'flagging_user',
                ),
                'account' => 
                array (
                  0 => 'user_loaded',
                ),
              ),
            ),
          ),
          '#name' => 'appbar_action_set_message',
          '#info' => 
          array (
            'label' => 'Set an alert in the Application Toolbar',
            'module' => 'Application Toolbar',
            'eval input' => 
            array (
              0 => 'message',
              1 => 'account',
            ),
          ),
        ),
      ),
      '#version' => 6003,
    ),
  ),
)

When you do all the above, add few comments with different users

comment 1 = user 1
comment 2 = user 2
comment 3 = user 3

comment 1 flag with user 2
comment 2 flag with user 3
commnet 3 flag with user 2

And see for yourself what happens.

Personally, I don't think its problem with Rules because there are other similar modules that integrate with them and there are no issues of this nature.

For example you can see this one that is kinda similar with appbar, the "private message rules integration" at http://drupal.org/node/327938#comment-2190494

Don't understand than how it sends message when private message rules are configured. But never mind, It seems that I won't be in able to find where is the problem inside all that.

BTW - I also tested other types of rules, when there's node update, node delete, comment add and such.. It doesn't work.

So, the rules integration doesn't work at all :|, for me at least.

I made the rules integration (custom module) without using the forms - I thought it will work than, but no.. still the same problem. The fact is that $sendmessage variable gives back results as it should, but the $user does not - always returns NULL which results that global $user is used.

<?php
/**
 * Implementation of hook_rules_action_info().

 */
 

function appbar_integ_rules_action_info() {
  return array(
    'appbar_integ_send_alert' => array(
      'label' => t('Set an alert in the Application Toolbar'),
        'arguments' => array(
        'user' => array('type' => 'user', 'label' => t('Recipient')),
        'sendmessage' => array('type' => 'string', 'label' => t('The text used for Alert'), 'long' => TRUE),
      ),
      'module' => 'Application Toolbar',
    ),
  );
}





function appbar_integ_send_alert($user, $sendmessage) {
  appbar_set_message($sendmessage, 'misc', $user->uid);  
// you can even try $user, still the same results. I also tried with forms (which you're using, but still no results) it still only returns alert for acting user 

// Example you're user 1 and you posted the node. Rule says "send alert to node author if NEW comment is posted". You as a "user 1" post a comment - you get the alert. USER 2 as a random user posts a comment - NOTHING happens :|
}
?>