Hi
At some point i think I noticed a community project adding functionality to let a user "subscribe" to item updates. We have users who ask for functionality so they can select to subscribe on by instance a specific part to let them receive an email every time this part, ECO or whatever is updated. Does anyone have information about this old community project or have anyone tried to build such functionality?
Best Regards
Henrik Olesen
Kamstrup A/S
Denmark
Hi Henrik,
Stefan is correct - one way is to create a custom onAfterUpdate method that sends emails to a list of users. However if you are using Visual Collaboration (VC), users also have the option to "follow" specific VC-enabled items inside Innovator under "My Discussions".
When VC is enabled on an ItemType, users can "Add Item(s) to Bookmarks" by right clicking on the item or using the Actions menu. This adds the item to the user's "Item Bookmark" forum. Users can access the bookmarked items and discussion feed via My Innovator > My Discussions in the TOC. Users can also opt-in to receive an email for each VC message they're subscribed to, or an email digest summary. If you have VC notifications enabled in your Innovator environment, the user will also get notifications when a discussion or history message is created for a followed item.
This demo of Visual Collaboration may help you with your use case: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQip8PVYSRI
It discusses notifications and emails around the 23:00 minute mark.
Eli
Eli Donahue
Aras Labs Software Engineer
Hi Henrik,
Stefan is correct - one way is to create a custom onAfterUpdate method that sends emails to a list of users. However if you are using Visual Collaboration (VC), users also have the option to "follow" specific VC-enabled items inside Innovator under "My Discussions".
When VC is enabled on an ItemType, users can "Add Item(s) to Bookmarks" by right clicking on the item or using the Actions menu. This adds the item to the user's "Item Bookmark" forum. Users can access the bookmarked items and discussion feed via My Innovator > My Discussions in the TOC. Users can also opt-in to receive an email for each VC message they're subscribed to, or an email digest summary. If you have VC notifications enabled in your Innovator environment, the user will also get notifications when a discussion or history message is created for a followed item.
This demo of Visual Collaboration may help you with your use case: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQip8PVYSRI
It discusses notifications and emails around the 23:00 minute mark.
Eli
Eli Donahue
Aras Labs Software Engineer
