When I save as search or a view or a node as favorite, it would be great to have a notification by email, when a favorite is updated.

Also a small icon like "updated" behind or below as favorite link in the favorite block would be great.

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doitDave’s picture

doitDave commented
Priority: Normal » Minor
Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

While this idea sounds good, subscriptions is most likely the proper module for this kind of stuff.

However, if someone has the time to find out whether there is a simple api and a reasonable way to trigger subscriptions whenever adding a node to favorites, you may add your findings here. Otherwise I will look occasionally but not with a high priority, sorry!

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bennos commented

A simple way is to write some rules for the rules module.
Depending on a rule like "The content gets updatet, set status updatet and send out an email"

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doitDave commented

Hi, thanks for your reply!

What I see as a barrier is that we

* not really track content, but just links to content.
* actually not even only track links to content but also to search results or whatever else.

So how would you want to define "updated" here, how will we recognize updates? Firing a Drupal trigger so "action", "rules" or, well, "subscriptions" can be involved is the least work here. Defining "update" and "recognition" is the bigger part. This is why I think the solution is either likely to run into duplication (which I really want to avoid) or not too trivial at all.

But I may simply miss some simple link here. Thus: What would you propose concretely as an addition? Any ideas you could provide as a patch? Or some basic "flowchart" which is on your mind?

Looking forward to your input :)

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doitDave commented
Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Closed (cannot reproduce)