Flag Module Integration: Subscribe to Flagged Nodes [#670242]

Hey everyone,

I'd love to offer users a way to subscribe to nodes that they have flagged via the Flag module (http://drupal.org/project/flag). Any ideas on how to do this?

One big advantage of the flag module is that it already has extensive integration with Views (making it easy to show all the users who have flagged a particular node) and Trigger/Actions/Rules (making it possible to trigger any action when someone subscribes).

So with Notifications-Flag integration, if you created a flag called "Subscribe," a user could automatically subscribe to all flagged posts via Notifications, a view could be displayed of all of their "Subscribed" nodes (via Flag's views integration), and individual actions could be triggered like displaying a message to the user, changing the user's role to "Subscriber", or awarding the user points via the Userpoints module. And that's only one example.

I'd love to here thoughts from the module maintainers on potential Flag integration...

Cheers,
Ben

Comments

Comment #1

entrigan commented 3 June 2010 at 05:17

This would be a very useful feature, especially because often someone who wants to "subscribe" to something also wants to flag it so they can keep track of it in lists (e.g. views).

Rather than doing notifications - flag integration which then can tether in to rules, I think a more flexible approach would be to do notifications - rules integration and then use rules to tether notifications and flag.