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I would like to ask whether events could have an 'owner' assigned to them. Either the event creator or some-other contact. The reason for this is that on a recent project I had to alert an assigned owner when certain conditions were met for an event i.e. 70% full of participants.

Perhaps it may be possible to build a system that will do alerts like this too. I built my system to run on cron as I have a series of regular tasks to do but I dare say that when someone signs up to an event a check on capacity could be made then.

Drupal has recently made the actions and triggers modules much better. Maybe something similar for Civi could be developed.

I'll see if I can do something about adding in a hook for actions/triggers. Hoping to get something spec'd out over Christmas to see if people agree with the direction its going in. I suspect that the triggers should be reasonably easy to implement but will require adding to all modules that want to send out the trigger events.

We'll create something that will begin with a skeleton and extend it for the Drupal implementation of triggers. I personally don't know enough about Joomla to work on it so some stub code will help anyone who would like to take on the challenge of adding it.

Actions, as they are implemented in Drupal are a set of defined routines that can run when triggers fire. We could add some of the more common routines from CiviCRM into this system but right now, its a case of what ones.

I'll start simple by just firing triggers.