collective.contentrules.mailtolocalrole 0.6

Introduction

Using content rules in Plone 3 it’s very easy to register for certain events and perform actions upon occurrence. One of these actions provided by Plone 3 is a mail action.

A limitation in the supplied mail action is that one can only provide fixed email addresses. But sometimes you’d like to send an email to a user having a certain role on the object that was involved in triggering the content rule.

An examplary use case and reason for creation of this package is the reviewer role. If an object in a certain location of the site is submitted for publication, you would like to inform the user that has the ‘reviewer’ role on this area of the site that a new document/object is available for review.

Before contentrules was available in Plone 3 the place to add this functionality was to to create a python script and attach it to the workflow ‘submit’ transition that was used for the objects.

Installation

Add collective.contentrules.mailtolocalrole to your buildout as an egg or from source. No (generic setup) installation is necessary, the action is registered using ZCML. So do add the package to the zcml slug list of your [instance] section.

Usage

Go to the Plone Control Panel, select Content Rules and add a new Rule. Under ‘actions’ you now have a new option: Send email to users with local role.

Stability / feedback

this stand alone package has been derived from an implentation done during a customer project. It’s in production use, there are some tests, but it’s not 1.0 yet. Feedback is appreciated.

Credits

Most of this package has been directly copied from the plone.app.contentrules mail action. Additions have been made to check for directly assigned local roles, acquired roles, fetching the e-mail To addresses from the user objects, modification of the control panel action, translations and tests.