subscription for blog and providing e-mail alert.

[svisveswaraiya]

Hi,

Whenever a new post is up in blog an email has to be notified to a particular email id or multiple email id. So in this case should I subscribe the blog thing and then provide alert using manage alert option? 

How can I make it possible?

Please provide some guidance.

Thanks,

V Shalini.

[CarlesColl]

Yes you can subscribe to Add event on Blog and user Marketplace Mail Extension to send an email.

[svisveswaraiya]

Hi Carles,

I need to add subscription to Blog thing or blog thing shape and how do i connect mail extension to this?

I have already imported mailserver extension.

The source code to be used for subscription has to be entities or snippet?

[CarlesColl]

You just need to go to Subscriptions section on the Blog Thing or ThingTemplate and add the subscription to the corresponding event. 

[svisveswaraiya]

Hi Carles,

In my blog thing, I gave my source as a mailThing which I created using MailServer template.

and the property I gave as mailalert.

In entites for the blog thing I gave the add event and it appears to be like this.

Is this the right way to do it?

Please provide some guidance.

[svisveswaraiya]

Hi Carles,

I created a sample thing and gave its base template as mailserver and in that subscription part

I gave source as the blog which i created and property as description,

in its entities column when i gave AddBlogEntry its source code is :

var params = {
sourceType: undefined /* STRING */,
location: undefined /* LOCATION */,
source: undefined /* STRING */,
title: undefined /* STRING */,
content: undefined /* STRING */,
timestamp: undefined /* DATETIME */,
tags: undefined /* TAGS */
};

// result: STRING
var result = Things["KPCL_Blog"].AddBlogEntry(params);

Here I donot find any from and to adress to be given to send email.

Am I not supposed to do it this way?

Please help me with this as am missing some concept.

Thanks,

V Shalini.