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Automatic mail when Cron updates Member Status
March 15, 2013, 11:58:52 pm
I have searched and couldn't find an answer to this question.

Is there a way to automatically send a canned email message to a member when their status changes due to the 'process_membership' job? 

Very simply I automatically set new members to an approval status for a few days while their application is being reviewed.  After a set period of time their status is updated to approved as specified by the Membership Status roles.  We currently have to manually send out an acceptance email to each person when their status changes, and I was hoping there was some way to tie an email to a status change automatically?

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Re: Automatic mail when Cron updates Member Status
March 16, 2013, 12:17:44 pm
I'm not aware of a built-in way to do that, but of course you could code it via hooks.

However the better way to do it would be using Rules I think. I'm not sure of where the integration is with that today, however, aside from http://drupal.org/sandbox/eileen/1923028
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Re: Automatic mail when Cron updates Member Status
March 16, 2013, 05:30:53 pm
Not sure it is there yet - took a quick look
You have access to
Rule Event = CiviCRM Membership has been updated
And as a Condition = civicrm-membership:status-id
But I can't see that it can currently specify to act when a Membership status changes from x to y

but i am no expert in Rules (or anything)
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Re: Automatic mail when Cron updates Member Status
March 16, 2013, 08:17:15 pm

I have never used the rules module before but will take a look at it.  So do you think the only limitation is that the civicrm-membership status is not exposed to rules, or is the civicrm-membership:status-id an exposed status value from Civi?

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Re: Automatic mail when Cron updates Member Status
March 17, 2013, 01:13:32 pm
The current limitation would probably be that the rules integration available currently only offers you conditions based on what you change it to - ie. you can do rules based on when membership is changed to current, but not discern whether it was changed from 'pending' to 'current', or whether it was changed from 'new' to
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