[pmwiki-users] new group notification

[adam overton]

Hi
i've figured out a fix for receiving notifications when using  
NewGroupBox, (though it's probably not the best solution in most  
situations, for reasons that i note below.)
code and notes here:
http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/NewGroupBox#notify


adam




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Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:30:50 -0700
From: adam overton <a at plus1plus1plus.org>
Subject: [pmwiki-users] new group notification
To: pmwiki-users <pmwiki-users at pmichaud.com>
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hi there

i'd like to be notified when users create a new group.
currently, the default page in each group is 'Index', so to solve
this i've stuck the following into FoxNotifyLists.GeneralNotifyList:

notify=admin at test.net format=#default name=Index group=-Main squelch=120


so far this works if the user creates a group by typing NewGroup/
Index?action=edit into their browser, and then saving - i get the
notification i'm looking for. (and this only works and doesn't become
a nuisance b/c they won't actually be editing their Index page,
instead the templates lead them to other subpages to edit and add
content to their group)

however, users on my site are actually using a modified version of
NewGroupBox to create their groups, which seems to be calling the
following to create a new page:

		SaveAttributes($newpage, $new, $new);
		PostPage($newpage, $new, $new);
		PostRecentChanges($newpage, $new, $new);

when this method is used, no notification is sent out when creating
NewGroup/Index.
is there a single function i could call in NewGroupBox that could
stimulate the Notify or FoxNotify response?
or maybe just a simpler way?


ps - i know about FoxNotify & sendemail, and am using it/loving it in
several other instances, but would like to prevent myself from having
to rewrite my CreateNewGroup page, which is using a customized
version of NewGroupBox...

thanks,
adam