Extending "Articles" portlet - Sending article by mail

[Julien M, modifié il y a 16 années.]

I have to develop a functionnality which would send the content of an article by email right after approving it.

I have really no idea where to start so I'm asking for some pointers.

Thanks in advance.

[Gaurav Jain, modifié il y a 13 années.]

Hey Julien,

I am looking for some similar functionality to have some link which can email an article to friend.

Have you able to do so?

[Oliver Bayer, modifié il y a 13 années.]

Hi Julien,

take a look at the "JournalArticleLocalServiceImpl.sendEmail"-method where a MailMessage is created. You should override the variable "body".

Greets Oli

[Gaurav Jain, modifié il y a 13 années.]

Hi Oliver,

I want to incorporate such functionality in WebContent Display portlet that any user can have functionality of mailing that article to his friends.

I mean as we have options to enable print/comments/etc in WebContent i.e Journal articles, similarly we could have Enable Mail.

And then a link or icon will appear on clicking it will ask for email ids and then on submitting it will send that article as an email to the entered IDs.

Can you please suggest some ideas.

[Oliver Bayer, modifié il y a 13 années.]

Hi Gaurav,

you can try the following steps:

1) create a new property e.g. "show.send.journalarticle.icon" which you can read in the jsp with "PropsUtil.get("show.send.journalarticle.icon")". Or you can modify the configuration.jsp and ConfigurationAction to save if the icon should be displayed in the portletpreferences table.

2) create a struts-action (struts-config.xml or struts-config-ext.xml) for the new link

3) create a method for the struts action in which you call the method I mentioned above or you can extract the code you need to send an email.

HTH Oli

[Gaurav Jain, modifié il y a 13 années.]

Thanks Oliver,

however is it doable by hook as I don't want to use ext plugin.

And if yes how will I configure struts action in hook?

[Oliver Bayer, modifié il y a 13 années.]

Hi Gaurav,

sorry I'm developing with 5.2.3 and using the ext-environment for most of my changes.

But if I understand it right hooks are only used for overriding existing services, jsps ..... To achieve the new button action you have to write a new struts action so I don't think you can modify it with a hook (but I'm not 100% sure).

If you find a working solution please let me know and if you have additional questions feel free to ask.

Greets Oli