[Contrib: Evaluation System] Evaluation Available Notifications when using Consolidated e-mailing

[Jim Eng]

Hi Michael,

Sorry for the delay getting back to you.  I am no longer working on evaluations, but Beth has asked me to take a look at the issues you raised. 

It sounds like consolidated reminders are working for you, but consolidated available notifications are not.  Is that right?  It's not clear from your email what kind of email template you are using for the available notifications.  The consolidated notifications (both announcements and reminders) have a different set of replacement variables than the individual notifications.  As I recall, when the consolidated notification option is selected, the only email templates that are processed are ConsolidatedAvailable and ConsolidatedReminder templates.  Similarly, those templates will not work with the other option, sending individual emails for each evaluation.  

You mention dead code that can't be reached for consolidated emails.  Can you point to particular classes or methods?  You may be referring to some old code that was added in an earlier attempt at implementing something like consolidated notifications.  I don't think we touched that when we added the consolidated email feature, but we may have removed the UI for selecting that. I will take a look to see if that might be what your message referred to.   

Thanks.

Jim
 

On Apr 10, 2012, at 12:45 PM, Michael Gillian wrote:

> I've run across what appears to be a configuration problem, and I'm curious if I am reading the code correctly.  The scenario is as follows:
> 
> * Under Administrate -> Control Email notification, Send summary emails (one email per student per email template) is checked.
> * Create an evaluation with a distribution list that includes some students and save it.
> 
> By default, no "Evaluation is Available" e-mail is sent.  Reminders are sent correctly on the schedule defined for consolidated e-mails, but the original "Available" e-mail is never sent.
> 
> Consolidated e-mail processing uses a separate jobs processor from regular e-mails.  When an evaluation is created, EvalJobLogicImpl.jobAction() submits notifications, but it looks like the available notice cannot be sent for consolidated jobs - it looks like dead code.  I've just added a parameter to override this behavior (Force Send E-mail Available notification).  
> 
> I'm wondering if I am missing something in the Consolidated Email job processor that should actually handle the available notifications.
> 
> Has anybody else noticed issues sending available e-mails when using Consolidated Emailing?
> 
> Thanks,
> Michael Gillian
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