[support] custom trigger

[Christopher M. Jones]

I may not understand the problem completely, but it seems that what you 
need are conditions attached to the existing events.

With Rules, you would hook onto the 'new node' event and set up 
conditions to test for, e.g., the type of the node created, the status 
of the user, and so on. You can even test for the value of a cck field. 
So your options are pretty granular for restricting your action to fire 
only under certain conditions.

UC conditional actions is a bit more work, and in my experience a little 
less flexible. You would need to find an event that suits your purpose, 
or implement a new one. Then you would probably need to write your own 
conditions, since UC doesn't provide many useful ones out of the box.

On 11/30/2010 08:47 PM, Don wrote:
> If you can't use the rules module, you might be able to turn off
> automatic emails and then put some code in a hook_nodeapi on save.
> You would send email on insert of a new product type node.
>
> -Don-
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>
> On 11/30/2010 8:29 PM, Marty Landman wrote:
>> I'm working on a site using Ubercart. Users register and then may
>> list an item for sale - after creating the item as a new node.
>>
>> There's a requirement that the user be sent an email when their item
>> is created on the site but the only trigger - either Drupal or UC I
>> can find that will help me here is "After saving a new post". This
>> works well because the only nodes these users can save are their for
>> sale items; the only problem is that they also create a node - their
>> user profile - when they register for the site. Which generates what
>> turns out to be an ugly looking email to each new user, because it's
>> tailored for a new item listing.
>>
>> Ideally if I could insert a bit of PHP code into the action it'd be
>> easy to tease out the triggers I want to act on and those I don't.
>> But at this point I'm totally stuck as to how I can proceed.
>>
>> Marty
>>
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