Email notification when events added

I’ve been able to set up some key users in our calendar to submit their areas’ events and they come in as hidden until I publish. How can I get an email notification to me when they have entered something?

Hi Robyn,

Sure thing! I think this section of the docs is a good place to start: Receiving notifications of public submissions and feel free to reply here if you have additional questions.

Karl

Isn’t that specifically for submissions using a public submission form? I’m referring to a logged in user adding events that require my approval.

Ah, yes, sorry I thought you meant the public form. For logged-in users, there isn’t currently a built-in way to let you know that an Editor has posted a Hidden event for approval (we’re considering this for our roadmap with upcoming drafts/workflow features). In the meantime, you could add a process step to have them “Suggest” the event to one of the groups you manage when they’re ready for approval, that way LiveWhale will notify you – or, it’s possible with a custom module to get notified (say) every time someone saves a Hidden event, though that might not always correspond to when they’re asking it be published.

Hmm. Disappointing. Thanks for answering.

Thanks – I’ve filed this as a suggestion for our roadmap to explore adding additional built-in notifications for editors. If anyone else has any suggestions for how they handle this internally, please chime in! Otherwise, I could see this being something that adding additional back-end help text could improve, or feel free to reach out if you’d like to explore building a customized solution.