email notifications to Project Admin

[dirkpetersen]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Currently the project admin does not get notified when there is something in the dashboard queue that needs approval.

Describe the solution you'd like
a simple email notification to the project admin about pending approvals would be nice. For AWS based dashboards this could simply be a call to AWS SES

[chesterxgchen]

in Dashboard, we did not integrate with email/SMTP related system, so the user invitation and notification will be done by project admin outside of the FLARE. If we have to support this feature, we have to consider all kinds of deployments: AWS, Azure, other CSPs as well as on-prem, then we have to do more work.

[dirkpetersen]

Thanks, I understand. Then perhaps some event trigger that goes to a shell script whenever something needs to be approved ? The local sysadmin could then implement something that would meet the requirements or if that is not possible some documentation how one could accomplish this ? One not very elegant option would simply be reading the sqllite db with a cron Job

[chesterxgchen]

thanks for the suggestion. Let us consider this in the future improvement.

[yanchengnv]

Another idea could be that the webserver provides a "project_report" method, which reports current status of the project and things that need admin actions (e.g. site approval needed). Then the site admin could write a cron job that periodically "curl" this method and does email notification or whatever it wants.