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Tuesday 27 May 2008 4:14:56 am
Hey all, Our client wants to send e-mail messages to a specific group, at a certain preplanned point in time, for about every news item that is published. My idea was that this has a lot of similarity with the eZNewsletter system.
Here's the current situation, the client:
- Create a news item [news_item] on his ezPublish installation;
- Copies the contents of the created ezpublish content in the website layout in an e-mail and does a lot of trial and error editing in Outlook and sends the e-mail to a group of people (not personalised);
- The group to send to depends on the contents of the news item.
Now my thoughts are, if only I can use the following functionality of the newsletter system:
- One standard structure of layout for an e-mail that has the news item contents embedded in it
- Plan e-mail sending
- List management
How I envision this to be for the client is:
- Create a news_item like in the current situation
- However in the new situation two new fields are added to the news_item: datetime to send and opt-out list to send to [people cannot manage their own subscription, editing is done by our client].
- eZNewsletter sees this news_item as a new e-mail
- If no subscription-list is provided, eZ Newsletter will not send any e-mails So I'm only using a tiny bit of eZNewsletter and it probably requires a lot of custom configuring to get it like this? Any hints on how to get there? Do you think eZ Newsletter is the way to go in this situation, or are there more effective extensions for this type? Maybe create my own extension?
Thanks in advance!
Clemens
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