Alerts and reminders


This feature is available for version 3.1 or later

CMS manages 4 types of email alerts :

  • contents awaiting validation
  • contents sleeping
  • custom reminder
  • end of publication of a page

The e-mail alerts or reminders are sent once a day, to a hour chosen by the administrator of the application. To not decrease performance, it is adviced to choose to send mail at the middle of the night.

Contents awaiting validation

A e-mail reminder is sent when a content is still awaiting validation since X days

X is a configuration setting . You can disable this alert for all contents by setting to 0.

The mail is sent to the validators of the concerned contents.

Email content:

Subject : [SITE] Content [CONTENT] awaiting validation
Object :
The content "[CONTENT]" on page "[PAGE]" of site [SITE] has been awaiting validation for [X] days
To go to the content page, click on the following link [LINK]

The email is sent each X days since the date of proposal, until the content is validated or the alert is desactivated.

Contents sleeping

A e-mail reminder is sent when a content has not been modified since X days.

X is a configuration setting . You can disable this alert for all contents by setting it to 0.

This alert can be activated or desactivated for each content. By defaults, it is desactivated.

To activate this alert on a content, select the content and click on Alerts and reminders button (NB: if the alert is activated, the button is toggled) :

In dialog box, check the case "Content unmodified for x days" :

The email is sent each X days since the last modification, until the content is modified or the alert is desactivated.

Email content:

Subject : [SITE] Content [CONTENT] awaiting modification
Object :
The content "[CONTENT]" on page "[PAGE]" of site [SITE] has not been modified for X days.
To go to the content page, click on the following link [LINK]

Custom reminder

On each content you can schedule a reminder email to a chosen date.

Select the content and click on Alerts and reminders button (NB: if a reminder is scheduled, the button is toggled) :

In dialog box, enter the message to add to the reminder email :

The email is sent once, to the chosen date, to all the redactors of the content.

Email content:

Subject : [SITE] Reminder on [CONTENT]

Object :
You are receiving this message because a reminder was scheduled to this date for content "[CONTENT]" on page "[PAGE]" of site [SITE] .
Please, thanks to update this article for the new year.
Think to wish a happy new year to our visitors !
John Doe.

End of publication of a page

For each page on which an end date of publication is scheduled, an email alert is sent to validators X days before the date is reached.

X is a configuration setting. You can disable this alert for all pages by setting to 0.

The alert is sent once.

Email content:

Subject : [SITE] The page [PAGE] will soon reach its end of publication

Object :
In [X] days, the page [PAGE] of site [SITE] will reach its end of publication.
To go to the page, click on the following link [LINK]

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