Email Notification about New Comments

In 3.7, you would subscribe to the "Executing" event in the Global.asax like the below snippet. Is it similar in 4.0?

I see there is a property called "EmailAuthor" when I go to "Administration > Settings > Advanced > News > Controls > NewsCommentsFrontend > Views > CommentsDetailsView > CommentsDefinition". Does this have anything to do with it (configuration instead of coding)?

Hi bemara57,

EmailAuthor - gets or sets a value indicating if author of the post will be notified via email when a new comment is submitted. If it is true the author of the post will be notified via email when a new comment is submitted; otherwise false.

Greetings,
Ivan Dimitrov
the Telerik team

Hello Ivan,
the below code for 3.7, please I need similar to it in 4.x version ?

Hello Ivan,
the below code for 3.7, please I need similar to it in 4.x version ?

Hello Romany,

Can you please check the following blog post.

Regards,
Boyan Barnev
the Telerik team

Dear Boyan,
I am facing a problem that the event with the same command name called multiple times
which if I want to send a notification email when a new news item created the email will sent 3 times

is there a way to solve this problem (in details solution please) ?

Thanks
Romany

Hi,

You can override the data provider and its public methods that are called once where needed and then replace the default data provider through configurations.

Regards,
Ivan Dimitrov
the Telerik team

Hello Ivan,

1- Please can you give me step by step with code, how to override the data provider for "News" to do the following job: when new item created send an email

2- on the following event in "News" I need to get the newely item created data (title, description) but always all propoerties are empty, why this ?

Hi,

Ok, if we are not talking about sending notification when comment is posted, then you can use the workflow by modifying its templates. You should customize NotifyStateChanger EmailText in AnyContentApprovalWorkflow.xamlx. Then you have to map customized templates through Sitefinity/Administration/Settings/Advanced >> Workflows.We use Windows Workflow Foundation and these are the XAML files that you can modify in Visual Studio or another XML editor.

sample


public virtual bool NotfiyForNewItem(string name)
      
           EmailSender sen = EmailSender.Get();
           sen.Send(new MailMessage(new MailAddress("mail"), new MailAddress("address")));
           return true;
      

Have in mind that in standard edition you can have the default workflow only . In the next level - Professional you may have conditional approval steps, safeguards, notifications etc. Here is a related post that you can follow.

If you want to override the data provider here is the code that you can use.

Hi Ivan Dimitrov,

Hello,

The NewsItem has a property Status from which you should be able to identify ContentLifecycleStatus

- Master
- Temp
- Live

and send the email.

Kind regards,
Ivan Dimitrov
the Telerik team

Hi Ivan Dimitrov,

Thanks for your fast reply. In that case all the time i am getting the ContentLifecycleStatus status as "Master" and i am not able to get the "Live" item. Please can you suggest me?

Here is my code belloe:

public override Telerik.Sitefinity.News.Model.NewsItem CreateNewsItem(Guid id)
       
            //return base.CreateNewsItem(id); WE ARE NOT USING THE BASE

            var newsItem = new NewsItem(this.ApplicationName, id);
            newsItem.Owner = SecurityManager.GetCurrentUserId();
            ((IDataItem)newsItem).Provider = this;

            var securityRoot = this.GetSecurityRoot();
            if (securityRoot != null)
           
                this.providerDecorator.CreatePermissionInheritanceAssociation(securityRoot, newsItem);
           
            else
           
                var msg = Res.Get<SecurityResources>().NoSecurityRoot;
                msg = string.Format(msg, typeof(NewsItem).AssemblyQualifiedName);
                throw new InvalidOperationException(msg);
           

            if (id != Guid.Empty)
           
                this.GetContext().Add(newsItem);

                if (newsItem.Status == ContentLifecycleStatus.Live)
               
                    string sTitle = newsItem.Title;
               
           
            // HERE SEND YOUR EMAIL. YOU HAVE THE NEWS ITEM OBJECT ADDED TO THE CONTEXT
            return newsItem;
       

Hi Ivan Dimitrov,

Is there any solution for the above code?  Please reply me ASAP.


Thanks

I chose the second option to override CreateNewsItem function but my question now as following:
I created a class in the portal called SitefinityNewsDataProvider and override the function as below and go to sitefinity->Lists->settings to register the provider and created a new provider but I found the following fields

Name: SitefinityNewsDataProvider
Title:
ResourceClassID:
ProviderType: ?????????? what is the value for this field

because I tried to assign many values to it but my code didn't fire

Please advise
Thanks,
Romany