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Eirik Alfstad Johansen
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Tuesday 11 November 2003 6:48:26 am
Hi, I've read several people complaining of the lack of newsletter-like functionality (email to users) inm ezP, so my question is this: Will we be seeing some email distribution functionality in the near future? My reason for asking is to find out whether or not I should start looking into this myself. Thanks in advance ! Sincerely,
Eirik Johansen
Netmaking AS http://www.netmaking.no/
Sincerely,
Eirik Alfstad Johansen
http://www.netmaking.no/
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Bård Farstad
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Tuesday 11 November 2003 7:22:43 am
The notification system is built to handle this. The basis of the notification system is events and handlers. E.g one event is object publishing which can be handled by the subtree handler currently implemented in eZ publish. Another event is time, which is handled by the digest handler. To get a newsletter system you need to create a new event "newsletter publishing" which could be created when you write a newsletter from the admin ( simple implementation could just include subject and body ). This event would then be sent to the notification system. You would need to have a handler for newsletter. This handler could e.g. let users check of different topics of interest. The handler would then compare the user settings and send the newsletter to the users with matching settings. Anyone up for the challenge? The system supports this and it's plugin based. This is also something that we will like to add to eZ publish, mabye we will have this in 3.4 if the interest for it is big. --bård
Documentation: http://ez.no/doc
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Peter Schroeder
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Tuesday 11 November 2003 9:06:18 am
It would be great to put into 3.2.4 version the newsletter functionality. It's truely needed.
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Georg Franz
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Tuesday 11 November 2003 9:44:09 am
Hi, yep - we need a newsletter system too.
Kind regards,
Emil.
Best wishes,
Georg.
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http://www.schicksal.com Horoskop website which uses eZ Publish since 2004
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hannes petursson
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Tuesday 11 November 2003 12:30:46 pm
I would use newsletter functionality. Today I use very powerful newsletter system called www.constantcontact.com, some subset of that functionality would be very nice and much better to have everything in the same system.
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Brendan Pike
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Monday 17 November 2003 8:56:27 pm
It's worth eye balling MailGust to, http://mailgust.phpoutsourcing.com/
I've found it well balanced with some neat features.
www.dbinformatics.com.au
We are always interested in hearing from experienced eZ PHP programmers and eZ template designers interested in contract work.
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Simion Ward
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Monday 01 December 2003 2:39:11 pm
Is there a remote chance that this will be included in 3.4?
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James Ward
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Tuesday 02 December 2003 6:17:20 am
Add my name to the list hoping for this functionality.
working at www.wardnet.com
blogging at www.jamesward.ca
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Paul Borgermans
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Tuesday 02 December 2003 6:39:25 am
The ez crew will develop a more powerful notification handler which may suit this kind of requests, but it will be for us only now (custom built functionality). Why not join this effort by allocating a few hours of your suppport contract for this? Feature-wise, the 3.3 branch is closed, but notification handlers are plugins so it could easily apply for 3.3 (and maybe een 3.2). On the other hand, a simple approach is possible with the current notification handler, provided you organise your news items in categories (folders) and add buttons which let the user add notification for that folder (and select for example also the weekly digest option). -paul
eZ Publish, eZ Find, Solr expert consulting and training
http://twitter.com/paulborgermans
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James Ward
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Tuesday 02 December 2003 7:05:12 am
I think Bård's solution is the most appropriate. People are used to checking off their subscriptions in a single location. The multiple notification button approach would probably be confusing to a lot of users. And as he says it can easily be plugged into existing versions of eZ. This would be a great step towards improving eZ 3's plug-in library.
working at www.wardnet.com
blogging at www.jamesward.ca
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