Can someone outline the steps for using Umbraco to publish a Newsletter?
Ideally, what I'd like to do is have a way for someone visiting my Umbraco site to add their email to our mailing list, and then be able to apply that list to a templated HTML Newsletter that could be published from Umbraco.
Can someone explain how to set this up? I don't know where to start.
J
I know of a wiki page that outlines step-by-step on how to create newsletters, but I'm afraid it no longer works for v4. I'm not aware of anyone currently working on a fixed/new v4 version.
Use a 3rd party package (or you own application design), and then create a Parent node called something like "Newletters", and when you save a new item, pass this across to your 3rd party application.
We do it by having an XML output, which is read by the 3rd party application, which informs it when a new item is published so it knows where to grab the HTML from for the newsletter. It works quite well, as it means you can pin down all the email design in Umbraco, and also server a version which is friendly for Plain Text, HTML, iPhone, RSS, etc... :)
Can someone outline the steps for using Umbraco to publish a Newsletter?
Ideally, what I'd like to do is have a way for someone visiting my Umbraco site to add their email to our mailing list, and then be able to apply that list to a templated HTML Newsletter that could be published from Umbraco.
Can someone explain how to set this up? I don't know where to start.
J
Hi,
I know of a wiki page that outlines step-by-step on how to create newsletters, but I'm afraid it no longer works for v4. I'm not aware of anyone currently working on a fixed/new v4 version.
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Umbraco/SamplesandArticles/Creating_Newsletters
Regards,
/Dirk
Hmmm, does that mean that publishing a Newsletter is not viable with Umbraco? Are there any alternative methods?
Use a 3rd party package (or you own application design), and then create a Parent node called something like "Newletters", and when you save a new item, pass this across to your 3rd party application.
We do it by having an XML output, which is read by the 3rd party application, which informs it when a new item is published so it knows where to grab the HTML from for the newsletter. It works quite well, as it means you can pin down all the email design in Umbraco, and also server a version which is friendly for Plain Text, HTML, iPhone, RSS, etc... :)
L
What's the name of this 3rd party package?
If you are using v4 of Umbraco take a look at this blogpost http://www.nibble.be/?p=63
Thank you.
So if you did opt for using a third party to send out the emails. You will need a way to add them to your 3rd party list.
To do this create an action handler that listens for the creation of users
http://umbraco.org/documentation/books/creating-and-using-an-action-handler
Inside this call the 3rd parties api. I've used constant contact and campaign manager. I have some code for Constant contact if you fancy?
It's really easy to implement.
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