Dear Claudia, thanks for this tip. I forgot about this option. We want notifications for all items, including the modified ones. We do not mind that we get multiple notifications for an item, e.g. at the time the item is submitted, and some weeks later when the item is modified. That is part of our process. What is strange is that whenever we submit a new item or modify one, we get notifications on at least 2 consecutive days, even when we did not manually modify the item.
The following is the case. - We simply copied the timing for the cronjob from the installation manual. The example schedules the subscription job at 1 AM and the filter-media one hour later at 2AM. - When a new item is submitted anytime before 1 AM, emails are sent out the following day, due to the subscription cronjob at 1AM. (as expected) - At 2 AM, the filter media cronjob adds the extracted text bitstream and and I assume that filter media changes the last modified date to 2AM that day. - So, at 1AM the following day, another subscription email is sent out. Of course for the subscription cronjob this is a modified item. To our users it is not, because seemingly the item is exactly the same as before. We could remedy this by switching the order of the cronjobs, because for our users this second notification . And maybe this could be changed in the manual as well. However, we also get 2 subscription emails after we manually modify an item. I understand why that would happen, because of the media-filter, when we change any of the bitstreams, but that hardly happens. But most of the time the modification is a correction of the metadata and I assume that media-filter than just skips the item and does not update the last-modified date. Best wishes, Francis Brouns ________________________________________ From: Claudia Jürgen [[email protected]] Sent: 13 September 2010 16:16 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] Timing subscription email cronjob Hello Francis, the subscription emails will include all modified items. You can disable this by setting eperson.subscription.onlynew to false in the dspace.cfg, see: # For backwards compatability, the subscription emails by default include any modified items # uncomment the following entry for only new items to be emailed # eperson.subscription.onlynew = true Hope that helps Claudia Jürgen Am 13.09.2010 11:25, schrieb Brouns, Francis: > Hi all, > > For some time now, we have been getting subscription emails for new and > modified items on at least two (sometimes three) consecutive days. This > happened on our previous Dspace 1.4.2 server, but is still happening after we > migrated to Dspace 1.5.2. I assume that has to day with the time the various > cronjobs are running. We copied these from the manual, where the > daily-subscription cronjob is running at 1 AM and the media-filter at 2 AM. > Am I correct in assuming that the media-filter process changes the > last-modified date, and that is why the subscription emails are sent out > again the following day? > > Best wishes, > Francis Brouns > Open Universiteit Nederland > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances > and start using them to simplify application deployment and > accelerate your shift to cloud computing > http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev > _______________________________________________ > DSpace-tech mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech -- Claudia Juergen Universitaetsbibliothek Dortmund Eldorado 0231/755-4043 https://eldorado.tu-dortmund.de/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
