Just found this and I like it!
Couple of issues that would be nice to sort.
(1) I can’t find a way to allow users without access to managing the Admin/Utilities section to add the tab. I tried pasting in the address and it comes up, but clicking the “New Tab” link doesn’t work.
One way round it is to temporarily allow access to manage the Admin/Utilities section for a user group, log in as that user, go into the Extension settings, add the tab, log out, then change the access permissions. Or edit the database directly using phpMyAdmin and paste in the text copied from another user with the tab, not ideal.
(2) When you add the javascript to automatically make the formatting HTML you don’t get the extra box open to add a plain text version.
I think both have been mentioned before and I know you are probably very busy, but if you could find some time to update this extension I’m sure a few people would be very happy.
Here’s a little snippet that I’ve been adding to the custom JavaScript dialog under the extension settings screen to prevent clients from messing things up with the template that the extension parses:
document.forms['0'].message.disabled = true;
Thanks again for this great extension!
UPDATE: Scrub that, it doesn’t work since the field is then not included in the page submission… any bright ideas on how to achieve a similar result whilst still allowing the page to submit.
UPDATE: I’ve sussed it, add this to the JavaScript dialog under the extension settings screen to give your control panel users a live preview of the email they are about to send and also prevent them from fiddling with the email template code prior to sending.
$('#message').after('<iframe src ="/path_to_your_template" width="96%" height="500" style="border: 1px solid;">').hide();
I love this extension…. However, For some odd reason, it’s not working for a new website of mine. I set everything up as before… created the tab.. Have a template with data to be pulled.. but when I click on the tab, nothing appears in my subject or message area. The new site is running 1.6.7 and the older site is still on 1.6.6. Would this be an issue?
Anyone else experiencing this?
I always believe that HTML mailing list is bad idea, however my clients really want it, and this extension is such a life-saver.
After Navigator module that Cocoaholic produce, this should be his other big contribution to EE community.
So Cocoaholic, if you are really into cocoa, I’ll make you nice, milky, warm one for entire week. Thank you so much.
So Cocoaholic, if you are really into cocoa, I’ll make you nice, milky, warm one for entire week. Thank you so much.
Thank you Beeps 😊 that sounds tempting, but I’m really into a different kind of Cocoa.
Hi cocoaholic, I’ve been gearing up to use EE2 for a project, but your extension was what was holding me back since I consider it so useful to what my clients are able to do. I decided to bite the bullet though, and deployed EE2 for a recent project and wrote some custom integration in order to be able to send templates through the communicate panel.
I know the hooks aren’t available in EE2 to allow you to port your extension over to EE2 cleanly, so in the meantime I came up this.
http://ellislab.com/forums/viewthread/141786/
It is a hack, since it requires modifying core files, but it achieves a very similar functionality to your extension but for EE2.
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