Forum OpenACS Q&A: Alert Package

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Posted by David Bell on
Hi,
  I am looking to implement SMS alerts into an existing openacs system. I noticed mention of a general alerts package on the forums in oct 2001. Did this package develop? Is there some place with a listing of all available packages?
Thanks
David
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2: Re: Alert Package (response to 1)
Posted by David Bell on
I have found the notifications package and it seems to suit what I want to do however there is little documentation. Does anyone know where I can look to get started using this package?

David

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3: Re: Alert Package (response to 1)
Posted by Bjorn Thor Jonsson on
I think forums was the first package to use notifications, so you might take a look at that.  The service contract is created in forums/sql/postgresql|oracle/forums-notifications-init.sql and the notifications tcl api is called in forums/tcl/messages-procs.tcl .  lars-blogger also plugs into notifications.

Here's a archive.org copy of the original design document:
http://web.archive.org/web/20020625161109/http://dotlrn.openforce.net/doc/notifications.adp

...would be good to have in notifications/www/doc