New extension: Entry Mailing
Development and Programming
The Entry Mailing extension builds a bridge between ExpressionEngine’s Publish- and the Communicate-Tab.
It allows you to easily send notifications of new weblog entries to custom recipient lists, member groups and / or mailing lists (managed by ExpressionEngine’s Mailing List Module).
This is done by setting up “templates” for the Communicate-Page. The extension not only allows you to predefine all settings in advance but also to use weblog fields inside your message-texts. Since version 1.1 you can even use a regular ExpressionEngine template to build your message giving you the full power of EEs template engine.The actual mailing is processed 100% by ExpressionEngine’s native mail handling routine.
silenz,
This looks good.
We are looking for something similar and I wondered if your extension could be modified to achieve what we are looking for.
Essentially all entries bar 1 or 2 will exist from when we launch the site. We will update each entry 1 or 2 times per year. Members will be able to save entries as favourites using Solspace’s module.
Once we update an entry, we would like to send an email to our members which have marked the entry as a Favourite.
Probably not in sensible manner.
The recipients are determined by the Communicate/Email-Module. Those modules do not have any extension hooks. Therefore it would require to hack core files to achieve such functionality. That’s what this extension particularly circumvented. It utilizes the Email-Module despite the absence of hooks.
Of course one could think of other ways like creating a pseudo-membergroup or mailinglist on the fly filled with the addresses of the members who favourited an entry, send the mail, and delete it. But this is a rather specific scenario so I will probably not implement it unless there is tremndous demand.
Next on the roadmap is the option to choose a regular template to create the body field giving you full control to build your text including relations and plugins and whatnot.
Looks handy. I hide the “preview” button and use nGen’s Publish Tweeks extension to stay on the edit page, would you have a workaround for this scenario seeing that the “Mail this Entry” button is on that “preview” page that is now hidden?
Next on the roadmap is the option to choose a regular template to create the body field giving you full control to build your text including relations and plugins and whatnot.
Awesome. That will turn me into a customer, no question.
Looks handy. I hide the “preview” button and use nGen’s Publish Tweeks extension to stay on the edit page, would you have a workaround for this scenario seeing that the “Mail this Entry” button is on that “preview” page that is now hidden?
Are you using Live Look? Otherwise you can still get to that page from the View-Link in the entry list of the edit menu.
I’m also open for proposals of a different location that makes sense.
Version 1.1 has just been released.
You can now alternatively select a regular EE template to set up the message text. This gives you the full power of EEs template engine, like plugins, relations, custom field types, conditionals and whatever you may conceive to generate an email.
Two extensions that disable Entry Mailing:
Low CP Sitemap Pinger (when using the Sitemap module from Put Your Lights On)
The second one is a huge bummer. I am posting to the Sitemap module’s support thread, but could you please touch base with him as well?
My wife has bought a copy of the Sitemap-Module sometime, I think I can do some testing.
Sitemap pinger confirmed. At least version 1.2 doesn’t play nice with other extensions using that hook.
I’ll contact Ben asking him for a fix.
PM me if you need it beforehand.
Appreciate very much your prompt research. I’m easy.
With Low CP I did not find any conflicts.
Running 1.67, this is my experience:
Low CP (v1.0) displays the ‘mail entry’ button when the post is submitted. However, clicking the button displays a working, but blank Communicate screen (e.g., the saved settings do not display).
When I turn off Low CP and (for instance) click the mail entry button even for the same entry, the Communicate screen displays as expected with settings data available.
Ben just told me that he has updated the Sitemap Pinger extension accordingly.