SL Freshview Subscribe v1.4.0 : Now fully compatible with Solspace's User module

Hi,

I need to use “no activation required” on an EE site I’m building for certain reasons. I’m trying to figure out a way to ensure that individuals confirm their account – since we need mailing list functionality, anyway, I’m figuring that we can get their email addressed confirmed via mailing list.

I’m wondering about the “mailing list subscription activated upon clicking confirmation link on the confirmation email” functionality.

My question is, WHO sends the confirmation email? EE or CM? Does it HAVE to be one or the other or is it an either/or scenario? The answer will help me make a bunch of important decisions, thanks!

Thanks,

Elise

Hi Elise,

My question is, WHO sends the confirmation email? EE or CM? Does it HAVE to be one or the other or is it an either/or scenario? The answer will help me make a bunch of important decisions, thanks!

The extension is designed to work with the EE member system. This means that email confirmation of membership is handled by EE (assuming you have set up your EE site to require such a thing).

You could setup EE to not require email confirmation of new memberships, and configure CM so that it does, but I’ve never tried that, and have no idea whether it would work. The extension would still do its thing, but I don’t know whether CM still requires email confirmation for subscribers added via their API.

So, the short answer is that EE takes care of the confirmation, not CM. The longer answer is that it may work the other way around, but the only way to find out is to give it a whirl.

Hope that helps.

Cheers, Stephen

Stephen, thanks for sharing this extension and your other awesome extensions.

Lisi, touched a little bit on ‘no activation required’, but wasn’t certain. Does v1.4.0 work only for ‘activation required’, or does it work both ways? (ie. no activation required)

Hi Siebird,

Lisi, touched a little bit on ‘no activation required’, but wasn’t certain. Does v1.4.0 work only for ‘activation required’, or does it work both ways? (ie. no activation required)

The extension works with both EE membership options (activation via email, and no activation required).

The only thing I would suggest is that you don’t have both your EE membership and your CampaignMonitor mailing list(s) setup to require confirmation; it works, but can be a bit confusing for the end-user, being asked to confirm things multiple times from different sources.

Cheers, Stephen

That was quick! Got it working, I didn’t have an ‘id’ set for the select field in my standalone registration. That seemed to do the trick!

Thanks, Austin

Got it working

Good stuff.

Cheers, Stephen

It’s an awesome extension. Is there anything that can be done to make it work with Solspace’s User module when member account activation is mandatory?

Hi Matthew,

Is there anything that can be done to make it work with Solspace’s User module when member account activation is mandatory?

As far as I’m aware, it works with the User module and account activation; I certainly covered this scenario during testing, and it was fine.

The User module implements the same extension hook as the standard EE Member module, so if it works with one, it should work with the other. Have you tried it with the standard EE Member module? Are you seeing any errors?

Stephen

I’ve just tried registering new members using the standard member registration system, and bizarrely it doesn’t work. With the User module enabled, it seems that the only way to register members is via the User register system or via the Control Panel.

My set up has a number of member groups, and a custom profile field in each newly created profile that stores (for the purpose of SL Freshview) what group the user has chosen to join. Once the administrator has approved the account, it should ideally be added to CreateSend. It works when account activiation is automatic, but not when an administrator needs to approve the account.

Is there a way to use this with the Mailing List Module Form rather than a full member registration i.e. email address only rather than username, password etc.?

@matthewbrown

I’ll have another go at recreating this issue. What’s your setup?

@mr_tim

The only way you can customise the registration form to that extent (that I’m aware of) is Solspace’s User module. It has an option to use “email address as username”, which would address the most problematic bit of your query.

Stephen

Hi Stephen, interested to know if this works with the User module with regards to creating an edit profile page? ie: If I have a User Module powered edit profile page with corresponding checkboxes will the changes be pushed to Freshview on update as they are upon registration.

Hi Nathan,

Hi Stephen, interested to know if this works with the User module with regards to creating an edit profile page? ie: If I have a User Module powered edit profile page with corresponding checkboxes will the changes be pushed to Freshview on update as they are upon registration.

Sadly not, as there’s nothing to hook into.

I made a feature request about 9 months ago, and can see you’ve already leant your weight to it, but until EL implement said hook this is going nowhere, unfortunately.

If I recall correctly, I even wrote the code in preparation, but my optimism was clearly unfounded.

Stephen

P.S. I realise you were talking about the User module, but I’m pretty sure that Solspace haven’t implemented their own hook for this… I specifically looked through the code for it a while back, and couldn’t find such a thing.

So would this be possible with the addition of a small hook to the relevant core files? If so I’d be very interested to know more… I’d be quite happy with a small hack if that’s what it’s going to take… 😊