Loading...
 
How to use Newsletters

Newsletters User

1.1. Listing newsletters


Clicking the newsletters link in the application menu lists the available newsletters. The user can subscribe to a newsletter by clicking it. If the user has the permission and the newsletter admits it the user can subscribe an email address different than the one he is using on the site, sometimes users with many email accounts want to deliver newsletters to a specific account instead of his main email account.

Once subscribed the user will NOT receive the newsletter until he confirms his subscription. Tiki will send the user email a message asking him to click a link to enable the subscription. This prevents users or admins from spamming users by adding them to the newsletter.

1.2. Sending newsletters

If the admin has granted you permission to send newsletters, you will see an item on your menu like this:

Image

Clicking on Send Newsletters will bring up the newsletter editing page:

Image

The Newsletter Subject Line will appear as the subject of the email that is sent to the subscribers. The Selection Dropdown allows you to choose which newsletter you are going to write and send. The creation screen has both an HTML Edit Area and a Text Edit Area so you can compose both versions of your newsletter at the same time. The HTML Quicktags allow you to quickly add HTML elements without a thorough knowledge of HTML.

When you have finished composing your newsletter, you'll want to use the buttons at the bottom of the editing page. Image

Preview will show you how your newsletter will appear in both HTML and text format. You can use the Save As Draft button to save the newsletter in its current form. If you want to retrieve the draft later and continue editing, you can click the use link on the far right of the Draft list. If you're completely satisfied with the preview, you can click the Send Newsletters button to push the newsletter out to your subscribers.

1.3. Subscribing and unsubscribing


The emails that tiki send to newsletter users to confirm a subscription, welcome a user or say bye bye are in the directory templates/mails, you can edit them as you want.

Once a subscription is confirmed the user will be able to unsubscribe by following a link that is automatically sent when a newsletter is sent to the user.

You can add emails to a Newsletter from a list of emails in a Wiki page, so that the contents of that wiki page, whatever they are at the time, can be used to define emails to which an individual Newsletter Edition is sent. That list can be manually edited (one email per line) or it can be dynamically fetched from a tracker dataset, through the PluginTrackerList and using Pretty Trackers. See more information in Newsletter Admin

1.4. Content templates for newsletters

You can use Content templates to send newsletters. You seem to need to enable CMS (Articles), Wiki, plus "content templates" on both features in order to have the menu item under "Admin > Content templates" (tiki-admin_content_templates.php).

Then, once enabled, you'll have a drop down at newsletter definition to populate the newsletter content based on the template.

That template can be based on the text area content added through tiki-admin_content_templates.php, or it can be added through adding the name of the wiki page which has the content that you want to use as template.

Using content templates you should be able to use pretty tracker templates for sending customized newsletter messages, through the usage of plugins in wiki pages. For instance, you could get the content of a trackerlist plugin, from a pretty tracker template layout, with the last items added to a tracker within a certain time frame. Use case: A Barter network, where users would like to receive in their email information about the new offers and demands added to the network in the last month.

1.5. Sending newsletters with a cron/batch job


As you can create a newsletter edition with modules and wiki plugins, you could wnat to resend this newsletter edition on regular basis. For this you can you a cron job that calls

Copy to clipboard
php tiki-bach_send_newsletter.php editionId=10


Please replace 10 with the editionId of the newsletter edition you want to resend.

The task outputs the list of emails the newsletter was sent to and the link to the log. If you configure the cron job correctly, this output can be sent to an email.

Tips: to activate a cron job see Batch

1.5.1. Automatic feeding of plugins with your custom time frame

Keep in mind that you can base your newsletter on a wiki page which acts as template. Therefore, you can automatically define in that wiki page template the output of a few plugins (such as PluginTrackerList or PluginArticles) to be automatically updated based on a custom period of time.

For instance, if you want to send a monthly newsletter, you can define your plugins with params like in this example (besides whatever other params you need in those plugins):

Copy to clipboard
{ARTICLES(max="-1", periodQuantity="1", periodUnit="month")} {ARTICLES}

alias

Using Newsletters | Newsletters User | NewslettersUser | NewsletterUser


Created by system. Last Modification: Saturday 13 November, 2021 19:53:59 GMT-0000 by drsassafras.

doc.tiki.org

Get Started

Admin Guide User Guide

Keywords

Keywords serve as "hubs" for navigation within the Tiki documentation. They correspond to development keywords (bug reports and feature requests):

Accessibility (WAI and 508)
Accounting
Articles and Submissions
Backlinks
Banners
Batch
BigBlueButton audio/video/chat/screensharing
Blog
Bookmark
Browser Compatibility
Link Cache
Calendar
Category
Chat
Clean URLs
Comments
Communication Center
Compression (gzip)
Contacts (Address Book)
Contact us
Content Templates
Contribution
Cookie
Copyright
Credit
Custom Home and Group Home Page
Date and Time
Debugger Console
Directory of hyperlinks
Documentation link from Tiki to doc.tiki.org (Help System)
Docs
Draw
Dynamic Content
Dynamic Variable
External Authentication
FAQ
Featured links
File Gallery
Forum
Friendship Network (Community)
Gmap Google maps
Groups
Hotword
HTML Page
i18n (Multilingual, l10n)
Image Gallery
Import-Export
Install
Integrator
Interoperability
Inter-User Messages
InterTiki
Kaltura video management
Karma
Live Support
Login
Logs (system & action)
Look and Feel
Mail-in
Map with Mapserver
Menu
Meta Elements
Mobile Tiki and Voice Tiki
Module
MultiTiki
MyTiki
Newsletter
Notepad
Payment
Performance Speed / Load
Permissions
Platform independence (Linux-Apache, Windows/IIS, Mac, BSD)
Polls
Profiles
Profile Manager
Report
Toolbar
Quiz
Rating
Feeds
Score
Search engine optimization
Search
Search and Replace
Security
Semantic links
Shadowbox
Shadow Layers
Share
Shopping cart
Shoutbox
Slideshow
Smiley
Social Networks
Spam protection (Anti-bot CATPCHA)
Spellcheck
Spreadsheet
Stats
Surveys
Tags
Task
Tell a Friend, alert + Social Bookmarking
TikiTests
Theme CSS & Smarty
Tiki Manager
Trackers
Transitions
User Administration including registration and banning
User Files
User Menu
Watch
WebDAV
Webmail
Web Services
Wiki History, page rename, etc
Wiki Syntax
Wiki structure (book and table of content)
Workspace
WSOD
WYSIWYCA
WYSIWYG
XMLRPC

Tiki Newsletter

Delivered fresh to your email inbox!
Newsletter subscribe icon
Don't miss major announcements and other news!
Contribute to Tiki