Read/unread Articles

Hi! I have searched about this matter but have not found anything.

I need the user to know when they have already read (or not read) an article.
Something like {read} Read {/ read}, or any other similar solution that
indicates if they have already accessed an article.

It is something simple but I can't find a solution anywhere. Could this be done
with auto actions? or with some other plugin?

Greetings, Matt.

We do not provide such a feature, but it's possible to implement though with CB Auto Actions and a custom database to hold the read state for each user.

Cool!

I will try to replicate it on the demo site (even without a database) and if I succeed, I will buy the plugin. Any tip or advice you can give me will be welcome.

Thanks for now, Matt.

You likely won't be able to test that on our demo site as we block access to query and code actions for security purposes so you won't be able to execute the database queries you'd need to track read status in a custom database table.

You can probably do something simple like increment a field or change a text fields value using a field action to test the trigger behavior as you'd need to act on a Joomla event in the auto action, which is done by prefixing the trigger in CB Auto Actions with "joomla_". See the below Joomla documentation for content events.

docs.joomla.org/Plugin/Events/Content

onContentAfterDisplay would likely be the best place to check this. Then in the auto action condition against [var1] (this is the context variable of that trigger) to make sure it's com_content.article, which is the context of directly viewing an article. This should be without a doubt doable though.