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Caution: This documentation is for eZ Publish legacy, from version 3.x to 6.x.
For 5.x documentation covering Platform see eZ Documentation Center, for difference between legacy and Platform see 5.x Architecture overview.

Notifications

eZ Publish has a built-in notification system that allows users to be informed about miscellaneous events that occur. It is possible to be notified when objects are updated or published, when workflows are executed and so on.

There are two built-in types of notifications:

  •  Subtree notifications
  •  Collaboration notifications

Subtree notifications

It is possible to subscribe for notifications about a subtree. For example, if you have a set of articles located under a folder called "Business", a user can subscribe for subtree notifications for this folder. The system will then send an E-mail to the user every time changes are made under the "Business" folder. The following changes will trigger a notification:

  •  When a new node is published within the subtree.
  •  When the contents of an existing node is changed.

A user can choose to receive notifications in the form of a single E-mail or as a digest of messages.

Collaboration notifications

The eZ Publish collaboration system allows you to work together with other people so that you can approve/reject any changes they made when it comes to content. For example, you can specify that all the changes made in the "Standard" section can not be published without your approval. (This can be done by creating a new "Approve" event within a new workflow initiated by the "content-publish-before" trigger function.) If somebody (except you, the administrator) edits content located under the "Standard" section, the system will generate new collaboration messages. For example, if somebody changes article "A", the system will generate a new collaboration message "article A awaits your approval" for you and another collaboration message "article A awaits approval by editor" for the user who changed it.

To view your collaboration messages, click the "My Account" tab in the administration interface and then access the "Collaboration" link on the left. You will be able to review/approve/reject the changes.

You can use collaboration notifications to be notified by E-mail about new collaboration messages. The system will send you an E-mail every time a new collaboration message is generated for you.

Processing notifications

In the root of the eZ Publish directory there is a file called "runcronjobs.php". It takes care of processing the workflows, notifications and other tasks that should be processed in the background. If you are going to use the notification system, "runcronjobs.php" must be executed periodically. The most common way to do this is to set up a scheduled job that runs every 30-60 minutes or so. Please refer to the "Configuring cronjobs" and "Running cronjobs" sections for more information.

Please be aware that all notifications are triggered by the cronjob script "notification.php", which is included by default in the "frequent" cronjob part.
You can run it using the following command:

php runcronjobs.php frequent

Alternately, you can also set your own cronjob group with the cronjob scripts you desire, and make sure to include "notification.php" for execution.
In that case you should call it by the name you defined in your "cronjob.ini.append.php":

php runcronjobs.php <cronjob_name>

Also be sure to add the cronjob execution to your crontab for an automatic execution.

In accordance with the instructions specified in the "cronjobs/notification.php" file, "runcronjobs.php" launches the main notification processing script "kernel/classes/notification/eznotificationeventfilter.php".

If you need to launch this script manually, add the "notification/runfilter" notation to the administration interface URL and then click the "Run notification filter" button there (see the next screenshot).
 


 Please note that processing notifications may cause a timeout error if there is a huge amount of notification events in the database. Because of this, the "runfilter" view of the "notification" module should only be used for testing and debugging.

Svitlana Shatokhina (14/09/2010 11:49 am)

Ricardo Correia (11/03/2013 12:48 pm)

Svitlana Shatokhina, Geir Arne Waaler, Ricardo Correia


Comments

  • Preconfigured Subtree Navigation-Button

    Is it possible to provide a Button which automatically subscribes registered users to a pre-configured subtree? If so, how do I get it?
  • Reject Email Notification

    Hi,
    I already created a workflow and am able to receive email notification for approval,
    but when the article is rejected for publish, I don't receive any email notification.
    Is there a way to get email notification when the article was rejected?
    How to get email notfication for collaboration?


    Thank you very much
    • Re: Reject Email Notification

      I have the same doubt, can anybody help us?
  • about notifications URL in site admin

    It was hard to discover that tha follow phrase: "If you need to launch this script manually, add the "notification/runfilter" notation to the administration interface URL and then click the "Run notification filter" button there (see the next screenshot)."

    So I going to be more clear to help new users...

    lets think the url to your administration interfaz is http://www.midomain.com/index.php/ezwebin_site_admin

    so "add the notification/runfilter" notation to the administration interface URL means, you manually type the url like this:

    http://www.midomain.com/index.php...in_site_admin/notification/runfilter

    And the will appear the below image.