Email in BEA Content Management Portlet

Question

I would like to send an email when the user check in content and changes status to Ready for approval. How can I do this?

Answer 1

I would say use content selector. In the query, filter for author's content (here you may need user segment).
Since content selector are capable of displaying more than one content, you should be able to display all author's content. (Use <pz:contentSelector> and <es:forEachInArray> tags).
Since you need to do take user to some other page where he can approve/reject. Embed all the content between a <netui:form../> tag implement appropriate action, your jsp should look like below.
<b><netui:form action="takeAction" >
     <pz:contentSelector id="nodes" rule="classic" />
     <es:forEachInArray array="<%=nodes%>" id="node" type="com.bea.content.Node" >
     <img src=<%=request.getContextPath() + "/ShowBinary" + node.getPath()%> >
     <input type="hidden" name="some-content-param" value="<%=some content param value%>"/>
</es:forEachInArray>
</netui:form></b>
In the next page author will take some action, use email control to send email.
Thanks
Srini Vankadaru