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[Tres Seaver]

Jon Edwards wrote:

> seb wrote:
> 
> 
>>Could you explain with an example?  I'm trying to work >outhow an
>>object's state relates to a member's interests.
>>
> 
> Mind if I chime in with my perceived use-cases? This would be a great
> addition to the CMF! I'm assuming only members can subscribe?
> 
> I think this relates to the personalisation thread. A member could
> specifically subscribe to a page or discussion (a composite-doc object?).
> Whenever that page was updated an event would fire (via the proposed
> portal_events tool?) that would tell the portal_mail tool to send an email
> to everyone who had subscribed to that page (either a simple notification,
> or perhaps the plain text version of the change?). Maybe you need an
> additional tool in between, portal_subscription?
> 
> Alternatively, a member subscribes to a subject (by declaring it as an
> interest on his/her member-page). Whenever an item is added (or updated?)
> with that subject, it fires off a message.
> 
> One of the reasons I think it's better to separate the subscriptions into a
> separate tool is that you might not always want a change to fire off an
> email? You might want it to send an IM via Jabber, or to update a list of
> "latest changes" on the member's home-page. Separating subscriptions means
> the subscription tool can fire the change-message at portal_mail, or
> portal_IM, or any other tool, depending on the users choices? The
> subscription tool would pass the message and a list of relevant subscribers
> to the appropriate tool(s).
> 
> Hope that makes sense, it's late and I'm thinking aloud!


Please check out the events tool proposal:
   http://cmf.zope.org/rqmts/proposals/EventsTool
I would expect that any subscription mechanism would be (or use)
filtered subscriptions to the event channel.

Tres.
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