Notify

Last updated: 28 March 2022

DOCman Notify is a plugin that sends notification emails to document owners, category owners and document groups about changes in those documents and categories that they manage.

Installation

Download DOCman Notify for DOCman 3 or for DOCman 2
Install the plugin using the Joomla’s Extensions Manager
Publish the plugin

Parameters

When?

Define when users receive notifications:

Add: when a document gets added
Edit: when a document gets edited
Delete: when a document gets deleted
Submit: when a document is submitted from the front-end
Publish: when a document gets published
Assign: when a document is assigned (owner change)
Download: when a document gets downloaded

Who?

Define who will receive notification emails:

Document owner: the user owns the document
Category owner: the user owning the category that contains the document
Document groups: users who belong to user groups granting access to the document

Tip 1: Emails are not sent to the user performing the action. When testing the plugin yourself you can debug notifications.

Tip 2: To make a registered user a document or category owner select the user in the ‘owner’ select box in the category or document form.

Debug notifications

When Joomla's Debug System is enabled, debug notifications will be sent by the plugin as follow:

System message

The current logged-in user will get a Joomla system message for each notification being triggered.

Email

Users who enabled Joomla's Receive System Emails setting on their profile will receive the notifications with a list of recipients by email.

Customizations

Notifications sent by the plugin can be customized with a template override. The location of the original view is:

/plugins/docman/notify/view/default.html.php

Copy the file to your template and make your own customizations:

/templates/template_name/html/plg_docman_notify/default.html.php