Content After Save for Joomla

Starts Joomla automation when an article (or other content item) finishes saving — the onContentAfterSave hook. Use it instead of a content plugin to notify, sync, or continue a workflow after Joomla persists the record.

Typical hook for sync, notifications, or workflows tied to created/updated items (articles by default).

Each run also includes who was logged in at the time and what kind of item was involved — see audit_user and audit_type in Payload Fields below.

This trigger is active when Platform Events are turned on in Joomla (System → JOrchestrator) and matching flows are set to Active.

When this trigger fires, JOrchestrator starts the flow and passes the incoming event or request data to the next connected step. Configure filtering, payload shape, and security on the Design tab.

Content After Save is a trigger in the Joomla Events › Content Events group. Triggers start a flow. They listen for an external signal — a CMS event, inbound HTTP call, payment notification, or schedule — and pass the incoming data to the first downstream step.

Typical reasons teams add Content After Save to a flow:

• Run Joomla workflow automation when an article is created or updated
• Notify editors or Slack without a custom onContentAfterSave plugin
• Sync the saved item to a CRM, sheet, or search index
• Branch on featured/state and only continue when the article should go further

After a content-model save succeeds and the record is persisted.

Common patterns on the canvas:

1. Content After Save → Send Notification (admin alert)
2. Content After Save → Insert Row (audit log)
3. Content After Save → If → Send Email / Update Article

General → Joomla context filter — com_content.article for article saves only.

The designer shows these tabs for this node:

After this step runs, later nodes can reference these fields using placeholders such as {{content_after_save.context}}.

Other steps in the same area of the palette:

• Content After Delete (event-onContentAfterDelete) — Joomla Events › Content Events
• Content After Display (event-onContentAfterDisplay) — Joomla Events › Content Events
• Content After Title (event-onContentAfterTitle) — Joomla Events › Content Events
• Content Before Change State (event-onContentBeforeChangeState) — Joomla Events › Content Events
• Content Before Delete (event-onContentBeforeDelete) — Joomla Events › Content Events