Notify all the concerned users when a content is updated

Hi Itangalo,

Thanks a lot for your help you're a super star!

It sounds like THE solution! but I'm just wondering about something you said: "Make sure you base this view on the User table, or you'll have problem using it for sending e-mail later on." It looks like if I base my view on the user table, I can't use the node ID as argument... Is there a workaround, or can we do it as well with a view based on the node table?

Once again thank you very much for your help!

This is nice, BUT, there's a problem.

You cannot take a nid, pass it views as an argument in a user view and make it list referenced users on the node. It just doesn't work - there's no available argument handler for it. I was pretty surprised to see this actually... seems like an omission in either views or user_reference module. It means I have no idea how to achieve what's being described here though, that's for sure! :)

On another note, the bug that's mentioned above is now fixed in dev and will almost certainly be fixed in versions of VBO above 1.9.

Hello, how can you do that:
"The loop could call another rule set that you use to send the e-mail, but you'd probably want to use something like system_send_email_action directly. (But with a separate rule set you get a more nice-looking way of configuring the content of the e-mail.)"

I cannot find the right API reference to call an action defined in rules with some arguments (user and node variables).

Thanks!

Just to let you know I found how to do it (with a custom field_authorizedusers containing user ids from user reference cck field):
foreach ($node->field_authorizedusers as $r) {
$u = user_load($r['uid']); $m = $u->mail;
rules_invoke_rule_set('rules_send_notification_to_user', array('user' => &$u, 'node' => &$node));
}
rules_send_notification_to_user is the rule set I created and that performs per user actions.
:-)

Hello there,

Sorry for my very late reply but I've been away for two weeks... First of, a BIG thank you to Itangalo, you're definitely a super super star! Thanks to you I finally set up the user notification properly. That's how I made it:

1) I set up a rule that trigers a VBO on a wine node chages passing the node ID along

2) I set up a VBO, based on a node table (it also works with a user table) with
a) the User reference as Relationships
b) the node ID as argument
the VBO action is "Execute arbitrary PHP script"

3) I set up the "arbitrary PHP script" action as follow

What is interesting to mention is that you can basically retrieve any fields that your view display, as it is stored in the $context variable. You just need to use the var_dump() function to find out its name.

That's it!

PS: Itangalo, I first tried your second advice
"The Client -> User reference only refers to a single user. This gets you a no-code solution – step 4–5 becomes "load user account" and "send e-mail" in Rules."
it worked well, but the only thing is that I couldn't pass the wine node ID (that has been updated) to the rule set as it accepts only one argument (in my case the user ID), so I couldn't precise in my email wich wine has been updated.

Thanks again for your help Itangalo, and thanks to NikLP for mentioning the bug fix in VBO.

I have made a code-free solution to this problem, but it requires a patch (that is broken) to userreference.module. See this thread: http://drupal.org/node/375337 - "userreference relationship for views with base 'user'"

If we can fix this patch, so that all userreference fields are reflected in the views UI, then it is simply a matter of adding a relationship from the user table to the relevant node/cck table so that the users in the uref field can be selected. I have tried this and gotten it to succeed.

If you have only one uref field in your site setup, this patch will work - otherwise only the last field added will display in the views UI, currently.

The details outlined by Itangalo above do work - the problem is that currently there is no relationship handler in views or userreference to handle a relationship between the user base table and the userreference cck fields. This patch fixes that.

So basically, you can add the rule set, with an email sending rule, add a VBO view to execute the rule set, where the view is set up to get all users that are in the uref field (given a nid argument), then execute the VBO via triggered rules, and hey presto, you're emailing all the relevant users.

Also check out the "reroute_mail" module, as this allows for total redirection of all your drupal system's outgoing mail to one address, for testing purposes :)

Have you tried this module Views Send? http://drupal.org/project/views_send

Not sure if it is what you want.

I have not needed but if you try it please let us know how it goes.

Hi Itangalo,

I found a solution to send an e-mail if a profile field changes (for Drupal 6). You also need Rules (i have 6.x-1.4) and then a patch to create a 'User profile details have been updated' event: http://drupal.org/node/363682#comment-4097742

If you go 'Add a new rule' under 'Triggerd Rules' you can see the new rule 'User profile details have been updated' under 'User'. Now you can add Conditions like 'User belongs to role..' or something else, as Action you can then choose 'Send a mail to a user'...

I've also added a condition (Custom PHP Code) to check only one profile field update. Check my code below:

Greets,
Gunther