I have a content type with a user reference field on it, the users are populated here by a view.
When a user saves a comment, I want to access that field and send an email to user in the entity reference field.
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Going to post this here, answering my own question. Not sure if this is hacky or not but I worked around my inability to access the node fields by having the comment update the node changed to the current time. Then created a new rule to fire an email off to the entity reference user on that update. ¯_(ツ)_/¯– rd89May 12 at 17:34
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That is definitely hacky :).– anoopjohnMay 12 at 21:20
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@anoopjohn want to send a little guidance? I will send a cup of coffee for your effort :)– rd89May 13 at 6:18
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Although the question is about doing this with rules, here is how you can do this with some custom code. There could be a rules based approach towards doing the same thing.
You can implement a hook_ENTITY_TYPE_insert hook in your module which will get called when a comment is inserted and then from that comment, get the node and from there you can do whatever you want to do with the node.
function custom_module_comment_insert(\Drupal\Core\Entity\EntityInterface $entity) {
// $entity will be a comment entity.
$node = $entity->getCommentedEntity();
if ($commented_entity && $commented_entity instanceof \Drupal\node\NodeInterface) {
// Do what you want to do with the node
}
}
Hope this helps somebody running into this post.
