Email Notification on Page Activation

[gabrielav200407]

I want to send an email notification wen a page is activated, but there are also modifications since the last activation.

For now, we have implemented an event handler that detects the ACTIVATE events.

Is there a way to check if the page has also been modified since the last activation?

Thanks

[edubey]

You can read the cq:lastmodifieddate date property of that page stored in jcr:content

[gabrielav200407]

How will that help me? if I activate the same page twice, the last modification date stays the same, while the activation date changes, so my event handler is triggered. How do i know that the modified date changed between two activations?

[edubey]

Use getPath() to check which property gets changes and add PROPERTY_CHANGED  changed event on the node path

if cq:lastmodified  changes, getPath() will return something similar to  path will be [node path]/cq:lastmodified

http://www.day.com/specs/jsr170/javadocs/jcr-1.0/javax/jcr/observation/Event.html#getPath()

[gabrielav200407]

But the event i'm listening to is the activate event, not the PROPERTY_CHANGED event. I need to detect the activation events in order to trigger notification emails.

[edubey · Accepted solution]

You can keep a custom property to track activation date, now when ever you are activating a page,  compare last modified property and custom property ( last activation date). If last modified is greater than last activate date, it means page has been modified and then update this property with new activation date.