Update Columns list plugin

Settings​

• Access - Which user group can see the update column buttons
• Button label - The text for the update column button
• Button image - Image to use for button. Looks for the file in the image overrides locations
• Allow user selection - If set to yes then this allows the user to select via a pop up window which Elements and values to update

• Update - If Allow user selection set to no, then you can define a set of element/values which will automatically be used to update records when the plugin button is pressed
  • To access the row data when "Eval = Yes", you first need to call: $data = $model->getData(); after which the $data can be addressed as in the preEval and postEval.
• Update message - Status message after update. You can optionally use %d in your message, first occurrence will be replaced with number of rows updated, second occurrence will be replaced with number of emails sent.
• Update date - Optional, select the Date element to update to the current date
• Update user - Optional, select the User element to update with the current logged on user's id

• Email address - Optional, select either a User element, or a simple text element which contains and email address. If selected, the plugin will send a notification email to the email associated with each updated row. The plugin will automatically detect whether you have selected a User element (in which case it will look up the email from jos_users) or a simple element containing the literal email as text.
• Or email to - alternatively enter an email address here - takes precedence over the 'Email address' option
• Email subject - Optional, if you selected an Email Address above, you must specify the subject for the notification email. You can use normal {tablename___elementname} Placeholders.
• Email Message - Optional, if you selected an Email Address above, you must specify the message body for the notification email. You can use normal {tablename___elementname} Placeholders.
• Eval - Should the message be evaluated as PHP . If so the 'Email message' should 'return' the message to send.

Example​