That sounds interesting. I suppose we could even combine the two and
have paid subscriptions to events...
-David
On Jul 21, 2008, at 1:18 PM, Adrian Crum wrote:
Well, in my conversion I used the subscription entities and services.
Each application that implements this process has its own set of
subscription resources that the user can choose from (using the
parentResourceId). The user can then specify the from and through
dates for the subscription, and a notification email address.
Various SECAS exist to check to see if the user is subscribed to the
event notification, and if so, a notification email is sent to the
address found in the subscription. The SECAS are attached to the
corresponding CRUD services, of course.
I understand the subscription entities were originally developed to
represent a product that is sold, but they made a really good fit in
this scenario.
-Adrian
David E Jones wrote:
It sounds like a nice tool.
I'm a little confused though, what do you mean by the "built-in
OFBiz subscription services"? There are some things with names like
"subscription", and there are some email notification services and
such, but maybe you're referring to something else even?
-David
On Jul 21, 2008, at 11:47 AM, Adrian Crum wrote:
Some time ago I implemented a subscription system on our local
OFBiz copy, where users can subscribe to notifications about OFBiz
application events. Users can subscribe to events like new
calendar items, new forum messages, etc and the system sends the
user an email when the event occurs. At the time, either the built-
in OFBiz subscription services didn't exist or I didn't notice
them, so I wrote my own.
I recently converted our in-house subscription code to use the
OFBiz subscription services and it works quite well. I also
modified our Asset Maintenance component to allow maintenance
workers (or outside services) to subscribe to email notifications
when they are assigned to new maintenances.
Now our OFBiz users have a cool subscription summary page in the
MyPage component where they can see all of the events they are
subscribed to.
Would there be any interest in porting this back into the project?
-Adrian
