[#6962] How to send notification to all group members about soemone posting in a group

Hi Kyle,
I have an activity stream and that works fine. How do I make it so that everyone inside the group gets a notification when someone posts inside the group?
I have only seen the "Attempt to send notification for emails" but the stream does not send emails so how can I do it?

You'd need to act on activity_onAfterCreateStreamActivity trigger and set User to Custom then write custom PHP to grab the groups users if the asset is a groupjive asset (which will include the group id). There's no simple way to do what you're wanting (since a User option does not exist for "Group Users"), but it's doable. If you mean for GJ Wall posts then you should just be able to enable "CB GroupJive Wall - Create Notification" system action.

This does give me a great idea to allow the User object to be extendable though. Have added a feature ticket for this.

forge.joomlapolis.com/issues/6962

Basically it'd allow GJ to add a new User option of Group Users, which would handle the GJ asset detection, parsing out the active group users, and sending them through the auto action, but for now you'd have to code that usage your self using the Custom user option.

Having such a variable is exactly what we would need...

Btw lets say that we have two hundred people inside the group. If someone posts, then we have to create 200 notifications? Or can we set a notification (ie an entry into the table) to be sent to several users?

I have not seen yet a possibility to do so...

Btw lets say that we have two hundred people inside the group. If someone posts, then we have to create 200 notifications?

Correct.

Or can we set a notification (ie an entry into the table) to be sent to several users?

At this time, no. Already have a feature ticket to see if I can improve notification handling to not require replication, but need to first add the ability to "delete" (hide) notifications the user doesn't own. Ticket can be found below.

forge.joomlapolis.com/issues/6943

I really don't like that it has to be replicated in situations like what you're trying to do since that's a lot of rows. It's efficient enough to handle it, but it shouldn't be necessary. It however was best I can do before end of year.

Based off my initial investigations the best approach is to likely separate global from asset. The issue with global is it's not specific. Meaning you can't have a global activity or notification entry with a GJ asset to be parsed by GJ. So what needs to happen is a separate efficient column needs to be added to the database for global (1 for global 0 for not global) then asset is free to be whatever it needs to be (e.g. groupjive.group.42) and will be parsed respectfully, but displayed to everyone.