Detecting Status Change
Development and Programming
Hey everyone…
I’ve been looking at the developer docs and I can’t seem to figure out which hook to tie into to run some code when a entry is closed (i.e. the status is set to status_id X).
Any advice on how which hook to tie into for that?
Have you looked at using Brandon Kelly’s “Snitch” extension? I don’t know if it’ll e-mail when an entry’s status is changed, but it will e-mail you when an entry is updated and you can specify the alert e-mail to contain the “new” status.
Have you looked at using Brandon Kelly’s “Snitch” extension? I don’t know if it’ll e-mail when an entry’s status is changed, but it will e-mail you when an entry is updated and you can specify the alert e-mail to contain the “new” status.
Thanks for the advice, Jason.
I just cracked Snitch open to see what Brandon was doing. His approach is the same as my standby plan - run some logic each time an entry is updated. I guess I’ll go that route as well. I was sort of hoping that there would be something slightly more specialized to what I wanted to do, but I guess it’s negligible to run a conditional every time an entry is submitted.
Thanks!
Nope, there’s nothing more specialized. Updating an entry is the only event that leads to a change of status after all.