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Post edited 8:48 am – February 17, 2010 by WPHReditor
Post edited 8:48 am – February 17, 2010 by WPHReditor
Post edited 8:53 am – February 17, 2010 by WPHReditor

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Hello,

 My name is Markus Wells and I am the editor at large of World Poverty and Human Rights online located at http://wphr.org. I want to first thank the creators of Edit Flow for providing a very much needed addition to the wordpress universe, and allowing me to manage my posters' submissions a little better.

 I'm not much of a coder, but I am kind of desperate to get the finer-grained email controls idea that has been discussed up and working, and was wondering if anyone could help me get started working on it, or would be interested in working with me.

 Right now I am getting dozens and soon hundreds of student article submissions, and I REALLY need to be able to make sure that certain people are notified when they are submitted, updated, or commented on by editors. Right now it can be done if the submitter checks off a box for notification, but human error means some will forget to do this or not know about it. As this is in an academic setting, if notifications aren't sent to the right parties automatically, it can result in student complaints, missed grades, etc. etc.

 Anyway, the bottom line is, you can't imagine what a HUGE help it would be to have this in place, so I'll do whatever I can to help make it happen. The problem is, the term "Poverty" is part of the site's title and focus, and unfortunately, "there just ain't a whole lot of money in poverty" – or I would just pay a good php coder to do it for me. 

 Any help or suggestions greatly appreciated!

Mark

Dear Mo,

 Thank you for your reply. I think that's getting closer, but here the situation:

 I have over 100 authors, divided into 4-5 groups. They submit articles(posts) and then they need to be reviewed by an editor assigned to their group.

 What would REALLY be incredibly helpful would be if any posts made by an author assigned to a given group were automatically forwarded to the editor(s) for that group, or a link to the post anyway, so that the editor could then provide feedback for each post and decide whether/when to publish.

 The reason this needs to be automatic/compulsory is because it would be very easy for the authors to forget to check off the box for their particular editor, and then we would never know they had submitted it on time. This is important(for us) because students get dinged on their grade for being late.

 Basically all we need is for any post(s) submitted by a member of a given group to cause email to go out to an assiciated group(or individual) automatically.

 Does that make sense?

 Thank you so much for all your efforts – I will make it a particular point to credit you and your folks for all your hard work!

Mark