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  • Nic Newman 2 posts 22 karma points
    Mar 17, 2014 @ 14:36
    Nic Newman
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    Notifications on Publish

    Hi guys - I'm fairly new to Umbraco and new to this community.

    I'm trying to create a workflow in Umbraco v 4.7.1.1 where contributors/writers get a notification when an editor publishes their page:

    Writer clicks Save and Send for Approval - Editor gets notified by email - (this bit works fine)
    Editor clicks Save and Publish - Writer get notified by emial that their content is now live (this bit doesn't work)

    I've set the writer notifications to Publish (in their user account), but no luck - I can get them notified on everything else, but not Publish.

    I've read up about notifications, searched the excellent community here, but not found any solution or even a mention that this is a bug. Have I missed something?

    Can anyone help?

  • Jan Skovgaard 11280 posts 23678 karma points MVP 11x admin c-trib
    Mar 17, 2014 @ 14:48
    Jan Skovgaard
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    Hi Nic and welcome to our :)

    Hmm, that's odd when all other events seem to work according to what you're writing above. It may be a bug and the reason why it's not been noticed untill now is perhaps because people don't use this excellent feature that much...which is actually a shame.

    But perhaps you could try having a look at the umbraco Log table in the database to see if there is some usefull information about it in there?

    Hope this helps.

    /Jan

  • Fuji Kusaka 2203 posts 4220 karma points
    Mar 17, 2014 @ 14:54
    Fuji Kusaka
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    Hi Nic,

    What if you have Update Checked as well? I used the notifications and i can tell you for multilingual website it is such a great tool. 

     

  • Nic Newman 2 posts 22 karma points
    Mar 17, 2014 @ 16:00
    Nic Newman
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    Thanks for your replies. The workflow notification system was one of the many excellent features that excited me about Umbraco, but sadly it seems to have a bug.

    I have tried setting the user notifications to 'Update' but the problem is whenever a user saves changes to their page they get an email notification every time!

    Looks like the audit trail picked somehting up:

    Error in notification: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at umbraco.cms.businesslogic.workflow.Notification.sendNotification(User performingUser, User mailingUser, Document documentObject, IAction Action) at umbraco.cms.businesslogic.workflow.Notification.GetNotifications(CMSNode Node, User user, IAction Action)

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