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Event Hooks Feature Request
Following some recent discussion on the Perchology Slack channel. I’ve been encouraged to re-submit some requests for Event Hooks. They have been mentioned in the forum previously but perhaps not in the feature request channel.
- An event hook that fires when a Runway backup task has completed.
At present Runway backup “fails silently” in that if you don’t actively go and look at the results you don’t know you have got problems. This hook will allow app developers to implement notification functionality (email, Pushover, PageDuty, etc).
- An event hook that fires when a form has been processed.
A typical use would be to add tasks/contacts/etc to CRM systems and alike. Although Forms can be submitted to multiple apps this is effectively a parallel operation and what is needed is a sequence so that only form submissions that have passed spam checking etc are processed further. I guess there is a question about this hook being before or after email. My preference is before but it’s not a show stopper either way.
- An event hook that fires when a user login been completed
The most important use of this would be to allow second factor authentication which is becoming more important and common. Would also be useful for audit purposes and for providing information on login about recent changes.
Thanks for these.
Do you mean the Forms app, or forms in general? The ability to template, display, validate and receive a raw form submission is handled by Perch. Sending emails etc is down to the app that is set as the recipient for that form submission (such as Forms).
Runway back-up is a great feature so any enhancements to that get my vote!
Anything that will allow two factor authentication gets my vote.
These get my vote too. Anything that would allow us to leverage the validation of the forms app and then carry out additional processing would really useful.
Backup event is a must as well i think.
Backup event (
backup.run
) is done.The Forms app doesn't have any validation - that's part of Perch core.
There's already a
user.login
event. Is that not sufficient?Drew
user.login is not listed in the docs at https://docs.grabaperch.com/api/events/list/. Am I missing something?
The forms one is not about validation, it's to allow further processing of form data when a form has sucessfully been processed and saved to the database.
Thanks
Kevin
No, it wasn't listed, but I've added it for the next docs build.
You can always listen to see what events are being fired around the event you're interested in:
I've added
perch_forms.received
to the Forms app for a future release.Drew
Many thanks.
Is there anything special with the user.login hook? Using a wildcard listner I'm able to see all the admin hooks fire and the runtime page.publish but not user.login.
Kevin
Ah, yeah. That's not going to work as it's fired before your listener is registered. I'll give it some thought.