E-Mail if Reservation created for Resource Admin. E-Mail for User if Reservation got approved by a Resource Admin

[chriscasa95]

Hi everyone,

at first I want to thank you for developing and maintaining this project.

Can LibreBooking be configured to automatically send an email to Resource Admins when a user books a resource? Additionally, is it possible to notify the user via email when their booking request is either accepted or declined?

I was looking for those options and decided to ask the question here before I take a deeper look into the code, since it maybe helps also other people. Other than that, the SMTP integration works very well.

[treborin]

Hi, @chriscasa95 ,

Pls. check all these setings in config.php:

Reservation specific configuration

$conf['settings']['reservation']['updates.require.approval'] = 'false';
$conf['settings']['reservation']['enable.reminders'] = 'false'; 

Email notification configuration
 
$conf['settings']['reservation.notify']['resource.admin.add'] = 'false';
$conf['settings']['reservation.notify']['resource.admin.update'] = 'false';
$conf['settings']['reservation.notify']['resource.admin.delete'] = 'false';
$conf['settings']['reservation.notify']['resource.admin.approval'] = 'false';
$conf['settings']['reservation.notify']['application.admin.add'] = 'false';
$conf['settings']['reservation.notify']['application.admin.update'] = 'false';
$conf['settings']['reservation.notify']['application.admin.delete'] = 'false';
$conf['settings']['reservation.notify']['application.admin.approval'] = 'false';
$conf['settings']['reservation.notify']['group.admin.add'] = 'false';
$conf['settings']['reservation.notify']['group.admin.update'] = 'false';
$conf['settings']['reservation.notify']['group.admin.delete'] = 'false';
$conf['settings']['reservation.notify']['group.admin.approval'] = 'false';

The 2 first should be set to 'true', and then play with nitification for resources, app and or groups.
You can find what you are asking for here, for sure.

[supaeasy]

So I set every possible announcement setting to true. But I noticed that new users automatically start with ALL notifications disabled. That is a bad Idea and I will open an issue.

[supaeasy]

This works but it really should be an Option in the GUI: #223 (comment)

[chriscasa95]

Hi @treborin,

thanks for your answer. I verified this with my config.php and everything seems to be as you suggested:

$conf['settings']['reservation']['updates.require.approval'] = 'true';
$conf['settings']['reservation']['enable.reminders'] = 'true';

$conf['settings']['reservation.notify']['resource.admin.add'] = 'true';
$conf['settings']['reservation.notify']['resource.admin.update'] = 'true';
$conf['settings']['reservation.notify']['resource.admin.delete'] = 'true';
$conf['settings']['reservation.notify']['resource.admin.approval'] = 'true';
$conf['settings']['reservation.notify']['application.admin.add'] = 'true';
$conf['settings']['reservation.notify']['application.admin.update'] = 'true';
$conf['settings']['reservation.notify']['application.admin.delete'] = 'true';
$conf['settings']['reservation.notify']['application.admin.approval'] = 'true';
$conf['settings']['reservation.notify']['group.admin.add'] = 'true';
$conf['settings']['reservation.notify']['group.admin.update'] = 'true';
$conf['settings']['reservation.notify']['group.admin.delete'] = 'true';
$conf['settings']['reservation.notify']['group.admin.approval'] = 'true';

@supaeasy, actually my new user get all notifications enabled by default. I just created a dummy user and the user_email_preferences table looked like this:

|       8 | reservation    | approved              |
|       8 | reservation    | created               |
|       8 | reservation    | deleted               |
|       8 | reservation    | participation_changed |
|       8 | reservation    | series_ending         |
|       8 | reservation    | updated               |

I'm using the latest container image librebooking/librebooking:2.8.6.2. Maybe this omits the need of your proposed automation script in #223 (comment).

As for my problem, I will likely debug the Notify method in the AdminEmailNotification class once I have the time for it. A quick look at the code revealed that at least the resource admin notification should work, so I still think there is some misconfiguration on my side.