Multiple Newsletters Extension

Ok, my bad. I was expecting to see a new ‘sub tab’ on the communicate page which would allow me to select my template. I understand how this works now, though I think a better implementation would be to introduce a drop down select on the right hand side of the communicate page which allows you to select from:

Template:

• None
• Monthly News … etc

The select could trigger a page redirect ‘onchange’ and warn the user that they will loose any content that they have input. This would be far more intuitive I think, plus if you have lots of templates, you don’t want to have to add loads of tabs to get to them. 😊

That being said, this could well turn into one of the most fantastic extensions to the control panel that I have seen since the ‘Pages’ module. Keep up the good work!

Thanks, I might look into integrating it into the Communicate page, sounds like a good idea.

Some of the people are seeing blank emails from the newsletters. The two people I know of so far use SBC Yahoo for the email. Has there been any problems reported by others? Or is there an update to the newsletter extension?

Hi Rob,

This problem has been reported, if I recall correctly, but is not related to this extension. All the extension does is fill some fields on the Communication page. The actual sending of emails is handled by EE.

Please search the forums for Yahoo mail problems.

Cheers!

I’m getting an error when I try and view the tab I’ve created, have you seen this before?

Notice: Uninitialized string offset: 0 in /home/ki/kir/kirradive.com/public/www/system/extensions/ext.multiple_newsletters.php on line 170

Notice: Undefined index: 1 in /home/ki/kir/kirradive.com/public/www/system/extensions/ext.multiple_newsletters.php on line 172

Notice: Uninitialized string offset: 0 in /home/ki/kir/kirradive.com/public/www/system/extensions/ext.multiple_newsletters.php on line 175
MySQL ERROR:

Error Number: 1064

Description: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '' at line 1

Query: SELECT group_name FROM exp_template_groups WHERE group_id =

Thanks!

I haven’t installed this yet to try it out, but before I spend the time doing that, I’m trying to figure out if this is going to do what I need it to do.

What I need is to send the fields from a SAEF to a mailing list. Does this extension allow that functionality? If not, does anyone know of an extension that does that? I would prefer not to roll my own if I don’t have to…

Thanks!

Sorry, should read the whole thread properly.

I’ve set up a new, restricted access user group and added the tab to reach the newsletters for this group, but the message field is blank for this user group (the subject field is filled in though). It’s filled in correctly for the default admin group. How do I give my new user group access to it too?

Hi Tyssen,

Sounds to me that the new group doesn’t have access to the template you are using for the message field. If the do not have access, the message field will render your 404 template instead, or show nothing at all.

Hope this helps.

I’m having trouble working out how to grant access. I’ve given the user access to:

Can access TEMPLATES page Can administrate template groups and templates Can administrate system utilities Can edit templates in this group: newsletters Can access module: Mailinglist

and the access for the template itself is set to Can View This Page.

Which one have I missed?

Very thorough, you didn’t miss a thing.

The only setting that affects this really is the access for the template itself being set to “Can View This Page” = Yes.

I have tested all possible setting I can think of and don’t see why this won’t work. Try another template, make sure the group can view the template (on the front-end) and check for possible conditionals that could prevent the template from rendering for that group.

example:

{if group_id == 1}...{/if}

I tried another template and same result. The user can see the newsletters template on the front end, but nothing on the Communicate page in the CP. And there’s no conditionals in the tempate, just a bunch of HTML and a single weblog entries tag.

Hmm, this is all I can think of for now.

You could PM me login details to your CP and I’ll take a look, if you feel comfortable about that.

Thanks for the offer. I’ll have to get back to you on that one as I’m doing this work for someone else.