As site member, I would like to be notified when my content receives a comment. This is important since it helps me being aware of and respond to feedback.
How to Demo:
- Log in to the site. Verify that the user account has an e-mail you can access.
- Create a documentation page.
- Log out and log in as another user. Post a comment to the new documentation page.
- Verify that a notification is sent node author, with a link to the comment.
- Log out and log in as the first user again. Post a reply to the comment.
- Verify that no notification is sent to the user when commenting her own content.
Required Preparations:
- The site should have a documentation page content type, as provided by the first exercise in this suite.
Additional Comments:
- This feature could be extended by using a checkbox field on the user page, where each user may select if she wants comment notifications or not.
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Suggested Solution:
- Create a new reaction rule with the name comment notification. Have it react on the even after saving a new comment. (See configuring reaction rules in chapter 12.)
- Add a condition data comparison, and use data selection to compare comment:author with comment:node:author. Check the negate option, to have this condition return true if the two objects are different. (See managing conditions in chapter 12.)
- Add an action send mail. Set the to field to comment:node:author:mail (using data selection), the subject to new comment to [comment:node:title] and make sure to include the [comment:url] replacement pattern in the message to have a link to the comment. Leave the from field empty to use the site default e-mail address.
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