Scenario
Agencies may desire notifications to be sent to editors based on recent updates in the system. The notifications may be for individual items or indeed may be an aggregate of many updates and sent on a cadence such as daily or weekly. Such notifications are helpful when editors may not be in the website every day, requiring content to be pushed to them. GovCMS does not contain any modules for this functionality.
Challenge
This requirement is very difficult to solve on a GovCMS SaaS site, as custom logic will need to be deployed to decide who should receive the update and when it will be sent. It is not readily possible. If this is a deal breaker, the agency may consider shifting to a more capable platform.
Solution
There is, however, a solution which may be adequate. It is possible to implement a Node Edit Submit handler so that the updated node can be monitored for a content moderation state change. Where one is detected, an email can be sent out as needed. eg. All Approvers may be notified when a node gets moved to Needs Review.
Outcome
A custom solution as described, may be enough to satisfy the need to send out simple notifications on a per node update. More sophisticated solutions would need a custom module.
