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July 9, 2014
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Blog Comment Notification

  • July 9, 2014
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Hello,

I am wondering if there is a snippet I could use to have an email sent to a user when their blog post gets commented on. I have noticed that I receive an email when a post on the community site gets commented on and wanted to know how I could incorporate that.

Thank you,
Mike

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    smanley5-Regular Member
    5-Regular Member
    July 9, 2014

    Hi Michael,

    There is the

    SendMessage

    service snippet on the MailServer ThingTemplate that you can call from a subscription on your blog. 


    1.) Create a Notification Thing that implements the MailServer Template and configure your SMTP settings here. 

    2.) On your Blog Thing, create a service to send messages using the SentMessage Snippet from your Notification Thing in the Entities tab.           Set the message, subject, and email address in the parameters of this service.

    3.) On your Blog, add a subscription with

    AddComment

    as the event trigger and call your send message

    Service

     from this

    Subscription

    .


    Thanks,

    Saeed



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    ptc-62921441-VisitorAuthor
    1-Visitor
    July 9, 2014

    Nevermind Saeed, I was able to figure it out.

    Thank you,

    Mike



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    ptc-62921441-VisitorAuthor
    1-Visitor
    July 9, 2014

    Saeed,

    Thank you for the response! For the "from" portion of the SentMessage snippet should I put the name of the Notification Thing or the email address I setup within the Notification Thing?

    Thank you,

    Mike



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    adamtrainer5-Regular Member
    5-Regular Member
    July 9, 2014

    Hi Mike,

    You'll put the email address that you are using to send email, not the name of the Thing sending it.

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    ptc-62921441-VisitorAuthor
    1-Visitor
    July 9, 2014

    Also,

    How do I set the email address to the user's email address who's post was commented on as well as reference what the comment said?

    Thank you,

    Mike



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    adamtrainer5-Regular Member
    5-Regular Member
    July 10, 2014

    Mike,

    When an Event is triggered, it sends relevant data to any Thing that subscribes to it. In the case of CommentAdd, you get the id of the Blog entry, the type of entry and the comment's id and the parent's id. With this information, you can retrieve the Blog entry using GetComment() or a similar Service and retrieve the source of the comment's email address by access his emailAddress User Extension.

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    adamtrainer5-Regular Member
    5-Regular Member
    July 10, 2014

    Mike,

    Just wanted to touch base with you and see how you're making out with this functionality. If necessary, I can provide you with a simple example of how to send emails when a new comment is added.

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