Posted by ebrittwebb on August 29, 2012 at 7:42pm
I want authenticated users of my PTO website (running on D7) to request automatic email notifications when various kinds of content (based on taxonomy terms or content types or authors, etc.). What do people think about using Notifications module vs. Subscriptions module? I had thought that Notifications was becoming more robust and pervasive back in the D6 days (especially being used on this site), but it seems to have stalled a bit on D7, whereas Subscriptions appears to have more commitment going forward.
Any suggestions at to which one I should use?
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Recently developed a site using subscriptions
I just deployed a good size site using subscriptions, worked out of the box quite well for nodes, content-types and taxonomy terms. The integration with email templates is quite nice with subscriptions. I have not used notifications in D7 yet, so I can't give you much in terms of a comparison.
Drupal commons is going with Message Notify
Drupal commons and thus groups.drupal.org is going with the Message / Message_Notify combo for their D7 version upgrades. I don't have any personal experience with it yet, but Drupal commons using it is a pretty good endorsement from that team, and the fact that it'll be crucial for groups.drupal.org implies a certain level of maintenance going forward.
What is Message Notify?
Dustin@PI -- What is Message Notify? Is it part of the Messaging module, or part of the Notifications module, or part of the Notify module? None of them have a stable D7 release out yet.
Erik Britt-Webb
drupal@ebrittwebb.com
He means
He means http://drupal.org/project/message_notify
My guess is you haven't tried
My guess is you haven't tried Rules too much. All skepticism aside, Rules is the right choice.
Those two modules have legacy code from 4.6 and even earlier, but the only function that's needed is drupal_mail(). Everything else is just going to make your work either easier or harder.
I don't use Commons, but from looking through it quickly, it uses Rules too. On another personal note, I used to feel like it was both necessary and difficult to make this point, but I don't feel that way anymore. Look at the usage statistics.
Full disclosure: I'm a maintainer of Rules, and I only visited Boston.
Any Tutorial or Info on this
I've not used Rules a lot. I understand it can be used by the admin to set up automatic notification of updates or changes to the site. But, it's not clear to me how it would be used to allow for users to subscribe to a node.
Can anyone point me to any info that would explain this?
Or did I misunderstand something?
Tim Erickson
Triplo