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Rob Bowman
Iron Contributor
Nov 21, 2017
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Alerts on Comments in Modern Pages?

So now that we are beginning to take advantage of Communications Sites, Modern Pages and News, we are starting to get comments on our pages - which is awesome, but... Nobody knows there are comments ...
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  • Egor Tsvetkov's avatar
    Egor Tsvetkov
    Dec 29, 2017

    Hi Rob,

    I had a similar task: send the email notification to the author of the modern page in SharePoint online if the new comment added.

    I have done this using MS Flow and MS Graph API because standard SharePoint actions in MS Flow didn't help me. 

     

    I've described the solution in https://www.infopulse.com/blog/using-microsoft-graph-api-inside-microsoft-flow-office-365/ on the public blog of my company.

     

    Hope, it helps you.

     

    UPDATE: This solution was implemented for teams site. We found new challenges for brand new communications sites.

     

Anonymous's avatar
Anonymous
Nov 21, 2017
Scratch that ... tried it and it didn't seem to work.
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Rob Bowman
Iron Contributor
Nov 21, 2017

Deleted Also my first instinct! Glad I am not crazy in thinking that way. Appreciate the input. It looks like adding a comment does not even trigger the "modified" flag. It would be a shame to turn comments off for these.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Nov 21, 2017
    This is an api call I don’t see why you still couldn’t use flow to monitor the page via the API call and alert when changes it count increases. If I get some time tonight I’ll play with it. Been getting hitched yesterday time limited lol.
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      Rob Bowman
      Iron Contributor
      Nov 22, 2017

      Deleted first - trust me on this - "Happy Wife, Happy Life", just say that over and over. :) Next, I love that idea, but really trying to find a simple solution for 9000+ users to get alerts on those comments if they want. I like your idea, but...

      • Anonymous's avatar
        Anonymous
        Nov 22, 2017
        Yeah I messed with it last night and stepped back and thought the same thing. This is going to be a pain for setting up even if you could get it to work lol. This would be easy if it was stored in a list like blog comments used to work!

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