How to set up email notifications?

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I don’t understand how to set up email notifications in Squidex. I’d like contributors to be emailed when they are mentioned in a comment. The email should include the comment, the content item the comment relates to, and a link to get to it in the Squidex interface. I’m sorry if this is already documented somewhere.

Great product, by the way!

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You can use a rule for that.

On the left side (action) you have “User mentioned” and on the right side (action) you use the squidex email with the $MENTIONED_EMAIL as placeholder for the email address.

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But I am working on a new notification system, which will be announced soon. So I hope that in a few weeks it is not necessary anymore. You can then also subscribe to content items or schemas or whatever is interesting for you.

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Thanks very much, Sebastian. That worked well. One thing that didn’t work was “$CONTENT_URL” — which I was hoping would point to the item that had the mention related to it.

Great news about the new notification system.

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hi Sebastian — where are you up to with the notifications?

When I tag people (in this case myself) in a comment, I want to be able to get to the content item being talked about.

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Thank you
Matthew

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In general notifications are removed from newer versions.

But in your version you can use a the “User mentioned” trigger to send emails via rules.

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Hi Sebastian

Some of the fields I include in my rule work, and some are just rendered as ‘null’:

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I’m guessing on the ‘COMMENT_TEXT’ one, but the rest are from the documentation: https://docs.squidex.io/02-documentation/developer-guides/rule-formatting

Help please!
Matthew

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Hi,

the comment system is generic and independent from content. Therefore not everything is available.

$CONTENT_URL and $SCHEMA_NAME is not available, but ${EVENT_URL} is. Unfortunanetaly it does not contain the host

Please always use this syntax ${EVENT_URL}

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Thank you Sebastian.

This worked well:

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In an ideal world I would also be able to supply the name of the item in the email, but it doesn’t look like that is possible.

Matthew

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Perhaps later, the problem is the generic design that makes it hard to implement that.