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#1 2007-01-29 20:55:22

sthmtc
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Notification when a freelancer saves a new article?

On our site we have multiple freelancers contributing articles. The core team of the editorial staff consists of three people, which all have “Publisher” rights. Can anyone think of a way to notify these three people if a freelancer saves a new article? That would be really helpful in our situation.

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#2 2007-01-29 22:19:49

Jeremie
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Re: Notification when a freelancer saves a new article?

That’s a nice job for a plugin, but I don’t remember seeing one do this. However I second the motion for one, I could really use this too :-(

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#3 2007-01-30 20:15:04

Mary
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Re: Notification when a freelancer saves a new article?

I could create it, if you want.

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#4 2007-01-30 23:06:39

Jeremie
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Re: Notification when a freelancer saves a new article?

That would be quite nice of you.

As I see it :

  1. The plugin is triggered each time an article is saved with the “waiting for validation” status
  2. It will send an email to a specific email address, with : the article’s title, author, timestamp of saving, section, categories, custom fields, keywords, ID, and body (basically, everything), and a link to directly review/edit/approve the article.

I don’t mind editing the source to localize/customize the mail, and change the mail address (to a external mailing list if I need several moderators to see it).

Refinements are possible (editing the email in a specific tab with a textarea, selecting the email to: with a multiple selection in a dropdown list of TXP user, having it cover the articles approved or directly published by other than the main admin, etc.) but that’s stretching it.

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#5 2007-01-30 23:51:08

Mary
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Re: Notification when a freelancer saves a new article?

On the whole, it’s always easiest to start out small and work outwards adding features bit by bit.

  1. Yes, I would assume “Pending” status is the one we want to use.
  2. I think that all the fields could be included, but only excerpts of the potentially long fields (like body), or you could get rediculously long emails. (Later could be a preference as to what gets included, excerpts or full, etc.)
  3. It makes sense to be emailed to all Publishers to start with, could easily expand it later to only send to specific email addresses.
  4. Should the email notification be sent for any article with a Pending status, or only Pending articles created by users that are not allowed to publish?

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#6 2007-01-31 00:13:37

Jeremie
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Re: Notification when a freelancer saves a new article?

1. Yup “Pending”… spent way too much time on a localized version of TXP :)

2. You can use strings, even PHP one. We can edit the source and hack away what we don’t want.

3. I thought one mail was simpler (I was going for the simplest thing), but that’s fine too.

4. I would say any. If someone has the flag to publish it but doesn’t and set it to Pending instead, he has a reason for it (want someone to check his spelling, that sort of things).

One thing that would be nice is a little message displayed when the article is saved as Pending, something like “Your article has been sent to the Publishers for review and approval”.

Last edited by Jeremie (2007-01-31 00:19:00)

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#7 2007-01-31 01:20:32

sthmtc
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Re: Notification when a freelancer saves a new article?

Wow Mary, awesome that you’re helping us out! I also agree on everything that has been discussed so far, totally makes sense.

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#8 2007-01-31 03:35:36

RenJonsin
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Re: Notification when a freelancer saves a new article?

This would be a great plugin, if it would notify on every posting that was pending, no matter the level of author, that would be even better!

Ren

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#9 2007-02-14 03:02:07

Mary
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Re: Notification when a freelancer saves a new article?

This is still coming, by the way. :) I hope to have a download of it available in the next few days.

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#10 2007-02-14 07:22:07

Jeremie
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Re: Notification when a freelancer saves a new article?

Great :)

I have one additional feature, maybe for later…: when an article under Pending status is now saved as Published, a mail will be sent to the author of the article.

Basically : Joe is a writer, he writes an article, and save it as Pending. Tom is an admin, he get an email asking him to do his job. He goes and validates the article, making it published. Joe get a email saying that his article has been validated, with a link to the published version, so he can call his mum and brag about it.

Last edited by Jeremie (2007-02-14 07:27:36)

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#11 2007-02-14 09:59:00

sthmtc
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Re: Notification when a freelancer saves a new article?

That’s good news, Mary! :)
Also, Jeremies additional feature sounds good.

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#12 2007-02-22 09:53:18

FireFusion
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Re: Notification when a freelancer saves a new article?

Excellent. Thanks Mary.

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