New article notifications - a suggestion

[GillianBPP]

I has just occurred to me that it might be a good idea/useful to allow new article notifications to be sent to specific users. I, as developer, don't want to see every article my client's authors create, but their supervisor/manager might. For example, if several users were set up as type Author and one as type Publisher, then the Publisher would get the notifications, not the SuperUser. Does anyone else agree? If so, I'll put it as a feature request.

I realise that the new Workflow system might have this feature - although I couldn't see anything about notifications, except for an article in 'transition' statge - but for an organisation with just three or four people adding articles under one supervisor, Workflow seems somewhat like a sledgehammer to crack a nut.

[herb200mph]

That would be a nice feature. We have exhaustedly tested Workflows and have yet to get any instance of it to "send" email messages to anyone designated to receive them in the Workflow scheme. We have an inkling that "internal messages" may be conflicting with the emails, but have not experimented to check that out. At some point, Workflows may get updated to working better. Our next test, when time permits, is to use an external email configuration vs. the normal built-in PHP function.

Of course, you know this should be posted in the "Issues Tracker" under the Developer Resources link. Maybe one of the great code guys can look at it. They are usually very good about sorting out these kinds of issues and either putting it on the list if action is needed.

[GillianBPP]

Of course, you know this should be posted in the "Issues Tracker" under the Developer Resources link. Maybe one of the great code guys can look at it. They are usually very good about sorting out these kinds of issues and either putting it on the list if action is needed.

Yes, I have done that many times in the past, but I thought I'd air the idea, first. I haven't used Workflows at all, yet - there aren't enough people involved in each of my clients' sites (two users max) to make it worthwhile.