Topic-icon Auto-post for articles created outside UI?

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7 years 7 months ago #59509 by scochi
So I have auto-post configured and working correctly for K2 articles and that works as expected when a new article is created through the UI. Problem comes as to when the article is created by an external module. In my case, this is Blogsten, which monitors a given mailbox and creates a K2 article from the email contents.

How can I make JFBConnect periodically poll the articles in the database and auto-post new ones instead of reacting to the article creation event?
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7 years 7 months ago #59515 by alzander
JFBConnect isn't designed to do what you're looking for and it's not something we support. We use the Joomla event system for a reason.. it's a standard way of notifying other extensions (like JFBConnect) when something has happened (a new article is created). We wouldn't add polling for new articles as that's a tedious, processing-hungry task that's error-prone.

Instead, I'd recommend contacting the developer of the other extension that's automatically creating content and ask them to update their code to properly call the event triggers in Joomla so that all extensions (not just JFBConnect) can react appropriately to the new content.

I hope that helps explain,
Alex
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7 years 7 months ago #59520 by scochi
Thanks for the quick reply. I understand your position and don't disagree. Will work with the vendor creating the item to determine whether they can throw the proper event.
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