Auto status

Last updated: Saturday 31 March 2012 12:46

UNIX name	Owner	Status	Version	Compatible with
autostatus	Damien Pobel	stable	0.2	4.4, 4.5, 4.6 and all community edition

Update status in Twitter, Identi.ca, ... when creating or updating content in eZ Publish.

Auto status provides an after publish workflow event type that can update your status in social networks using a content attribute of the published object. Currently only Twitter and Identi.ca are supported, feel free to join the project if you want to add others social networks.

Extension setup

Download the extension
Unpack it in the eZ Publish root directory
Import the SQL file extension/autostatus/sql/statusupdateevent.sql
Enable the extension
Regenerate the autload array
Clear all cache

Workflow creation

Create or choose an existing workflow group (Setup > Workflows)
In this group, create a workflow and add an "Event / Auto status" to it
Fill the "Event / Auto status" form (see the screenshot below) and save the event
Assign the created workflow to the "content publish after" trigger (Setup > Triggers)

How does it work ?

With the above setup, eZ Publish will trigger the auto status event when an object is published. The auto status event will update the status only if the content class of the newly published object is the one configured in the event settings and if the choosen message attribute of this object is not empty.

In the message attribute, the following variables are available :