Question

• TWiki version: Revision r1.30
• Perl version: 5.006001
• Web server version: 1.3.27 (Unix)
• Server OS: Linux
• Web browser version: IE 6
• Client OS: XP

I tried to install this plugin. Actually I think I was successful, but I don't know how to activate it, and it doesn't show up in my list of installed plugins. How do you actually trigger the notifications to take action? I set up a topic called WebImmediateNotify?, but am not sure where to go from there.

The install instructions were a little vague on how this should be done.

Also, can the immediate notifications be set per topic? Or just the entire web?

Thanks for your help!

Adrian

-- AdrianBye - 29 Apr 2003

Answer

If it doesn't show up in the list of installed plugins, that probably means it has failed to initialize for some reason. Check in your warning.txt and debug.txt files for errors. Those files should indicate where the problems lies.

-- WalterMundt - 30 Apr 2003

Very interesting. My warning.txt file was empty, but my debug.txt file is now full of this:

17 May 2003 - 14:12 - ImmediateNotifyPlugin: No methods available, initialization failed

Clearly every time the twiki is running, this is generating errors. If you have any suggestions on how to resolve this I'd be very grateful!!

-- AdrianBye - 17 May 2003

Ahh. The plugin isn't locating the "method" modules that allow it to send out notifications. It looks for them under lib/TWiki/Plugins/ImmediateNotify/ in your TWiki installation. There are two at the moment, one for Jabber and one for SMTP. If you installed just the default Jabber one it may be failing to load if you haven't installed the extra CPAN modules it uses.

If you need more info than this, set the DEBUG entry in the plugin topic to 1 and send me an example TWiki invocation's debug.txt output. That should give me a clearer idea of what's happening. For now, I'm marking this issue as "answered". If you still can't find the problem, or have trouble fixing things, switch the status in the WebForm back to "asked" when you post the new info.

-- WalterMundt