Just as an update: I've installed Rules, and I have an unsatisfactory solution.

- On saving, Rules triggers a View Bulk Operation passing it the nid as an argument - The VBO view uses relationships (and distinct) to currently show a single row for that node if it has child translations that are marked out of date. - If it has, the VBO then executes a Rule Set that sends an email to all members of the translator role

This seems unsatisfactory to me as it seems weird to go Rules -> VBO -> Rules but I can't work out otherwise in VBO how to send to members of a role [presumably write a custom action] and I can't work out in Rules how to test whether on saving the "mark as out of date" box is ticked [presumably write a custom trigger].

My ideal solution would send an email to the translators with a link to their version of the page (and the title in their language). It would also be in either HTML email or turn www.example.com/node/17 (for example) into the www.example.com/foo/bar

The only thing I can currently think of is to write code that loops through all the members of the role, gets their default language and domain (as I'm using Domain Access as well), looks up the path for the translated version of the nid in their language and domain and then fires out an email, but I still think I'm missing some obvious, easy way to do what on the surface seems an easy action.

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 11:52 AM, David Hart david.hart@gmail.com wrote:

In Drupal 6, I want to send an email to all people with the "translator" role when a translation is flagged as out of date.

I'd have thought this was a fairly common task, but I can't seem to work out how to do it as there's no trigger for translations. Do I need to create a trigger in my custom module? Is it easier to install Rules and use that to handle this or is that overkill for one feature? Is there anything I'm missing?