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Chapter 1. Advanced Email Notification

Extension Key: kc_emailnotification

Copyright 2007, Gerrit Kamp, <gerrit.kamp@kampconsulting.com>

This document is published under the Open Content License

available from http://www.opencontent.org/opl.shtml

The content of this document is related to TYPO3

- a GNU/GPL CMS/Framework available from www.typo3.com

1.1. Introduction

What does it do?

The Advanced Email Notification extension enables users to receive email notification of certain types of events. Users (both FE and BE users) can indicate if and what type of notifications they want to receive. Administrators can create custom notification types, both for FE and BE users. The notifications are sent out at regular intervals (typically once per hour) through a cron-job, thus this extension works only on Unix/Linux hosts, not on Windows.

Disclaimer

It is an advanced email notification extension, meaning that you can customize it in many ways and you can create almost any type of notification. However, flexibility may come at the cost of complexity. You will also need some advanced typo3 knowledge to get it working (you will need to make some changes in the .php files for example). The extension is at the moment still beta, although it is used on a few production sites. I am looking for feedback, so please let me know if you can think of improvements, or if you have certain notifications that you think should be part of the predefined set.

Screenshots

FE User set notifications:

BE User set notifications:

Manage predefined notifications (administrator only)

Manage custom notifications (administrator only)

Check which users have notification settings on:

Check history of sent notifications: