Users don't have permission to view a custom alert

[Lyphiard]

I'm having an interesting problem with one of my addons that will send a user a custom alert. To send them an alert, I use the following code:

XenForo_Model_Alert::alert(
        $user['user_id'],
        $visitor['user_id'],
        $visitor['username'],
        'post',
        $threadId,
        'update_new',
        array('postId' => $postId)
);

Users will receive the alert (there will be the little red flag that shows they have a new alert), but as soon as they hover over the alerts button, it quickly disappears and nothing shows up.

The interesting thing is that if I edit the user's permissions and allow them to see deleted content/threads, the alert will show up for them, even if they previously were not able to see it.

 

[truonglv]

If you use content type of 'post'. You should assign content ID is post_id instead of thread_id.

 

[Lyphiard]

If you use content type of 'post'. You should assign content ID is post_id instead of thread_id.

Thanks! Changing it to $postId still doesn't fix the problem with the notifications only showing up for users with the view deleted posts permission though.

 

[Lyphiard]

I finally resorted to creating a custom content_type, which finally allowed me to send the alert properly.