Support/Comments for DitsNews 0.1-alpha

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fourroses666 Reply #11, 15 years, 8 months ago

There was a message it was planned to send so i guess it will send depending of the cronjob setting.
Would like to see a test which u can send directly.

#edit, newsletter was not send over night.
#edit2 Is my cron set correct? Never used cronjob b4, See attachment!

Evolution user, I like the back-end speed and simplicity

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km88 Reply #12, 15 years, 8 months ago

Quote from: fourroses666 at Jan 15, 2011, 01:37 PM

There was a message it was planned to send so i guess it will send depending of the cronjob setting.
Would like to see a test which u can send directly.

#edit, newsletter was not send over night.
#edit2 Is my cron set correct? Never used cronjob b4, See attachment!

Try to access components/ditsnews/cron/cron.php manually in the browser, practically, a cronjob does the same, only on a given moment in time. I see you use Direct Admin. A ’*’ stands for every minute, hour etc. So when you want to check for newsletters to be send every night at 00:00;

minute - 0
hour - 0
day of month - *
month - *
day of week - *

And for example every day at 14:05

minute - 5
hour - 14
day of month - *
month - *
day of week - *

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km88 Reply #13, 15 years, 8 months ago

Quote from: onepack at Jan 15, 2011, 10:47 AM

Hi KM88,

I would like to know if and how you have been able to successfully send a newsletter.
Did you give the newsletter page a specific name? Did you give the Template a specific name and is the dropdown working to select the newsletter to send out?

Next to that I have the concern that when you adjust the Ditsnews chunks your changes will get lost upon an module update.
I created some custom made chunks but haven’t been able to get those to work yet.

Regards,

OnePack

The issue with the wrong url vanished when I uploaded my site to a live environment. I did’nt gave the newsletter page or template a specific name. I created a template, then a document with the template assigned to it. All the documents with the newsletter template assigned to it appear in my drop down list. I tested this in a live environment, not on my WAMP server. Subscribing through the front end worked both on my WAMP server and live environment.

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onepack Reply #14, 15 years, 8 months ago

Can somebody help me out on the question how they managed to send out a newsletter.
I created a newsletter test template and I created a document with this template assigned.
However, when I want to select this page in the module -> send newsletter nothing comes up. You can see it looks for the document or something but nothing else happens. Am I missing a critical step here?

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km88 Reply #15, 15 years, 8 months ago

Quote from: onepack at Jan 19, 2011, 09:33 AM

Can somebody help me out on the question how they managed to send out a newsletter.
I created a newsletter test template and I created a document with this template assigned.
However, when I want to select this page in the module -> send newsletter nothing comes up. You can see it looks for the document or something but nothing else happens. Am I missing a critical step here?

Go to settings in the ditsnews manager, and set template to the template ID of your newsletter template.

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km88 Reply #16, 15 years, 8 months ago

After lots of testing today, I found some bugs;

1: SOLVED ~~In my ditsnewssignup chunk, I have the following code between the <form> tags;~~

<input type="hidden" name="groups[]" value="subscribers" />

~~If someone signs up for my newsletter, they should be added to the group subscribers (the group is public). But they are not signed up for the group.~~

Edit: I had to specify the subscribergroup ID instead of the name.

2: The placeholders don’t work. Edit: Still doesn’t work

3: Can’t delete/edit items out of the newsletter que/history.

Another tip for people that want to track bounces, signup for Google Analytics and see http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?answer=55518

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onepack Reply #17, 15 years, 8 months ago

Hi KM88,

Thanks for your reply.
Yeah, I did what you suggested. I have set all the settings to what they should be. But I just cannot set or select any value when I try to select a newsletter to send out... I made a newsletter document with the template newsletter and all is set in the settings.

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lithiumlab Reply #18, 15 years, 8 months ago

You need to specify the ID of the group, like this:

<input type="hidden" name="groups[]" value="1" />

Quote from: km88 at Jan 19, 2011, 03:25 PM

After lots of testing today, I found some bugs;

1: In my ditsnewssignup chunk, I have the following code between the <form> tags;
<input type="hidden" name="groups[]" value="subscribers" />
If someone signs up for my newsletter, they should be added to the group subscribers (the group is public). But they are not signed up for the group.

2: The placeholders don’t work.

3: Can’t delete/edit items out of the newsletter que/history.

Another tip for people that want to track bounces, signup for Google Analytics and see http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?answer=55518

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Dimmy Reply #19, 15 years, 8 months ago

have you set the group to be public? you can only subscribe to public groups

Dimmy

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onepack Reply #20, 15 years, 8 months ago

Oh My.... I went back to the resource page and found out that the used template was not the newsletter template... adjusted this and after that I was able to select a newsletter to send out!

I will check this module further now.