Love this package and will be buying a license soon when my customer is ready.
My customer is happy to play around when creating the newsletters so is cool about the work around. I know a lot of my clients that would sweat cold fear at the sight of html code though so I wouldn't use this for everyone.
I have created a page type in his normal umbraco content tree which has a couple of multi node pickers and and a couple of text fields. He can select products and news items and put text above each... this outputs a page like this.
Then he has to create his newsletter in newsletter studio. Copy the code from the textfield in the above link into the HTML of the news letter's wysiwyg and finally use the wysiwyg to link up the links.
We tried making the links in the above template but they didn't work.
So the workflow is this.
1) Create the template code inside umbraco/content
2) Paste the template code from the rendered page to the html in newsletter studio
3) link up the hyperlinks inside newletter studio
4) send.
So far he is very happy with the solution and it cuts out a load of stuff needed to create the newsletter for mailchimp.
For the future I would love to see closer integration with umbracos content nodes and some sort of auto twitter link up.
More exposed code for the unsubscribe because my only problem so far is I can't make a landing page for unsubscribe.. after removing them from the newletter I would like it to return here
Your workaround sounds good for customers that has a some experiance with html, but the good news is that in the new version (probably next week) there will be a tinymce feature called "render url content" where any url could be merge into the newsletter. The dialog shows the default site structure (just like a link) and you can choose what ever content you would like to render into the newsletter. This could be the whole letter or just a dynamic part (like a news list or so on).
About the unsubscribe-url there is a propery in the setting-node "Unsubscribe confirmation url". If that is set the user will be redirected to this page when he/she unsubscribes, if not set a generic message will be shown. The unsubscribe link is inserted into the message by using the "add custom field"-dialog.
My Thoughts and my workaround re macros ect...
Love this package and will be buying a license soon when my customer is ready.
My customer is happy to play around when creating the newsletters so is cool about the work around. I know a lot of my clients that would sweat cold fear at the sight of html code though so I wouldn't use this for everyone.
I have created a page type in his normal umbraco content tree which has a couple of multi node pickers and and a couple of text fields. He can select products and news items and put text above each... this outputs a page like this.
http://www.aitkens.co.uk/newsletters/march-newsletter.aspx
Then he has to create his newsletter in newsletter studio. Copy the code from the textfield in the above link into the HTML of the news letter's wysiwyg and finally use the wysiwyg to link up the links.
We tried making the links in the above template but they didn't work.
So the workflow is this.
1) Create the template code inside umbraco/content
2) Paste the template code from the rendered page to the html in newsletter studio
3) link up the hyperlinks inside newletter studio
4) send.
So far he is very happy with the solution and it cuts out a load of stuff needed to create the newsletter for mailchimp.
For the future I would love to see closer integration with umbracos content nodes and some sort of auto twitter link up.
More exposed code for the unsubscribe because my only problem so far is I can't make a landing page for unsubscribe.. after removing them from the newletter I would like it to return here
http://www.aitkens.co.uk/unsubscribe.aspx
But no matter what I put in the unsubscribe link be it
http://www.aitkens.co.uk/unsubscribe.aspx
www.aitkens.co.uk/unsubscribe.aspx
/unsubscribe.aspx
it just stays on the http://www.aitkens.co.uk/umbraco/newsletterstudio/tracking/unsubscribe.aspx page
Keep up the good work looking forward to seeing how this package develops.
Hi!
Thank you very much for posting!
Your workaround sounds good for customers that has a some experiance with html, but the good news is that in the new version (probably next week) there will be a tinymce feature called "render url content" where any url could be merge into the newsletter. The dialog shows the default site structure (just like a link) and you can choose what ever content you would like to render into the newsletter. This could be the whole letter or just a dynamic part (like a news list or so on).
About the unsubscribe-url there is a propery in the setting-node "Unsubscribe confirmation url". If that is set the user will be redirected to this page when he/she unsubscribes, if not set a generic message will be shown. The unsubscribe link is inserted into the message by using the "add custom field"-dialog.
Cheers!
Yeah about that unsubscribe thing...
I used that field in settings with severl different urls from full.. http:// to just /unsubscribe.aspx
It just hangs there it unsubscribes i'e it unticks the newsletter in membeship but there is no message and no redirect.
For now I have just stuck a javascript redirect in the header of the asxc page. Works fine ;) sure it's not meant to be that way but hell :)
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