Hi, I've been using flag for my site and it is working sweet, I've just found out about the module rules and seen flag has rules integration, but from playing around with it I've thought of another way these two module could be integrated.

Flag could send a list of users who have flagged a node to rules and allow rules to have a new action where it could "send a mail to all users who have flagged a node". Similar to the current "send a mail to all users of a role" that rules has currently got.

This would allow you to create a various flags on each node such as a "Flag to be notified by email if content is updated", "Flag to subscribe to comments", "Flag to receive a reminder about this event" etc.

With this added feature I think that flag with rules integration could become an extremely dynamic way of subscribing to content.

Edward

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edwardcuf commented
Title: Sending emails to everyone that has flagged content » Ability to send emails to everyone that has set flag
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culfin commented

great idea ... i would love this feature as well.

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parrottvision commented

subscribe for sure

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quicksketch
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Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

This sounds similar to http://drupal.org/project/views_mail or http://drupal.org/project/notify_by_views. I think the better solution here would be to make a view for people that have flagged content, then send an e-mail to all users within that view. I'm not sure if Rules module already has this integration or not, but it'd be a much more reusable solution than something tied directly to Flag module.

I'm marking this won't fix because I don't support the Rules integration anyway. Please only reopen if submitting a patch.