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Introduction

Registered users can subscribe to communities or collections in DSpace. After subscribing, users will receive a daily regular email containing the new and modified items in the communities/collections they are subscribed to.

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Adding new subscriptions

Adding new email subscriptions is only available to users who are logged in.

In the User interface, new subscriptions are added on the users Profile page. 

In the JSP User Interface, a specific dialog "Receive Email Updates" is available from the dropdown in the top right corner.

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, browse to the Community or Collection you wish to subscribe to, and click on the Subscribe button.

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After clicking that button, you'll see a popup window which allows you to select the frequency of subscription you'd like.

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Currently, three frequency options are available:

• Daily:  Receive a daily email of Items under the Community/Collection which have been updated in the last day.
• Weekly: Receive a weekly email of Items under the Community/Collection which have been updated in the last week.
• Monthly: Receive a monthly email of Items under the Community/Collection which have been updated in the last month.

Managing your subscriptions

To manage your subscriptions, visit your "Subscriptions" page under your user profile:

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From this page, you are able to see all your current Community/Collection subscriptions.  You can choose to edit or delete any in the list.

Enable sending out emails

To send out the subscription emails you need to MUST invoke the subsubscription-dailysend script from the DSpace command launcher-line or Processes UI. It is advised to setup this script as a scheduled task using cron. Scheduled Tasks via Cron.  See sample settings on that page. 

This script requires the "-f" (--frequency) parameter with a value of "D" (Daily), "W" (Weekly), or "M" (Monthly).  Keep in mind, you will want to schedule it to run on a Daily, Weekly and Monthly basis to send the appropriate emails.This script can be run with a parameter -t for testing purposes. When this parameter is passed, the log level is set to DEBUG to ensure that more diagnostic information will be added to the dspace logfile.