shekar73 / 2notify

Package for automated notifications using email and facebook timeline.

#2Notify

Package for automated notifications using email and facebook timeline.

##Installation To install the package use the command

meteor add tsott:2Notify

##Usage 2Notify is a package that sends automatic email notifications and automaticaly posts to users' Facebook timeline. Notifications are send once every hour if the set time to send them has passed.

In order to use ToNotify a collection called notifications is needed. It needs to contain the following fields in a document:

• delay - the date to send notifications
• fb_notify
• mail_notify
• emails
• fb_id
• token

Adding {{> toNotify}} to the applications template places the package's user interface on the page. It creates fields for adding email adresses to send notifications to. Also a Notify FB friends button is created for sending Facebook notifications*. Then in the application event that triggers adding documents to the collection notifications the following code needs to be used.

Meteor.myFunctions.toNotify();
var fb_notify = Session .get('notify_fb ');

When everything is set and the date (delay ) to send notifications has passed the notifications collection is checked for documents that have the mail_notify and fb_notify values set appropriately.

The package needs to have the SMTP address configured for an apllication to be able to send emails. This needs to be done in the Meteor.startup(function()) on the server side. The required format is:

• On first use a configuration form is shown. It allows for setting the notification details for both email notifications and Facebook timeline posts.