As part of umbraco workflow after a document has been sent to publish and the editor who has notifications turned on recieves email. Is it possible for them to send back the document to the writer so that they know they have to do something with it? If not then is it possible to update the notification email that gets sent out so that the from address is set to the writers email and the editor can reply to the email and writer gets email notification (thinking maybe in before send to publish event could change the from address?).
I might be off but I think you could write a custom beforepublish event handler and have it email the writer...but I am unclear if you are trying to email the writer even before the editor sees the document...if he needs to see it first and refuses the publish then I'm guessing you'd have to add a new button in the backend (since I don't see which other event than pressing that "refuse to publish" button event could you use to trigger the email back to the writer). maybe someone else has better insight.
2 possible ways round this one is to update core code and submit patch so that the email sender instead of being default email set in umbracoSettings.config is set to email address of writer submitting doc to send to publish. The editor gets the email and can reply directly to the email using email client and tell them issue with document.
The other quick work around is to install the excellent notifications dashboard and update the source code so that the list of notifications also has a reject button. On clicking reject editor gets pop up where they can put message for rejection on submit that sends email to writer and also puts line item into audit trail.
I think the Update of the Notifications Dashboar is the best thing to do for this moment. You never know if your patch will be accepted in the next version and when your customer wants to update to a new Release you have a serious issue....
I think you should also contact Darren since he was talkin about a workflow package for Umbraco a few days back....
Dashboard makes sense, also like the fact that stuff cant be written into audit trail from there. Just waiting for client to give approval and I will code up.
Darren if your reading this what's this about workflow package?
Workflow send page back to writer
Hello,
As part of umbraco workflow after a document has been sent to publish and the editor who has notifications turned on recieves email. Is it possible for them to send back the document to the writer so that they know they have to do something with it? If not then is it possible to update the notification email that gets sent out so that the from address is set to the writers email and the editor can reply to the email and writer gets email notification (thinking maybe in before send to publish event could change the from address?).
Regards
Ismail
I might be off but I think you could write a custom beforepublish event handler and have it email the writer...but I am unclear if you are trying to email the writer even before the editor sees the document...if he needs to see it first and refuses the publish then I'm guessing you'd have to add a new button in the backend (since I don't see which other event than pressing that "refuse to publish" button event could you use to trigger the email back to the writer). maybe someone else has better insight.
stc,
2 possible ways round this one is to update core code and submit patch so that the email sender instead of being default email set in umbracoSettings.config is set to email address of writer submitting doc to send to publish. The editor gets the email and can reply directly to the email using email client and tell them issue with document.
The other quick work around is to install the excellent notifications dashboard and update the source code so that the list of notifications also has a reject button. On clicking reject editor gets pop up where they can put message for rejection on submit that sends email to writer and also puts line item into audit trail.
Regards
Ismail
HI Ismail,
I think the Update of the Notifications Dashboar is the best thing to do for this moment. You never know if your patch will be accepted in the next version and when your customer wants to update to a new Release you have a serious issue....
I think you should also contact Darren since he was talkin about a workflow package for Umbraco a few days back....
Cheers,
Richard
Richard,
Dashboard makes sense, also like the fact that stuff cant be written into audit trail from there. Just waiting for client to give approval and I will code up.
Darren if your reading this what's this about workflow package?
Regards
Ismail
Richard, were you able to work this up? How difficult was it?
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