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November 26, 20177 yr Author On 11/23/2017 at 5:19 PM, CheersnGears said: No error to be had, just emails sent with no unsubscribe link, just the tag Hmmm. What do you use for outgoing mail - SMTP/SparkPost/SendGrid/? Also, can you post the contents of your footer here? I mean whatever is actually in the ACP settings. Edited November 26, 20177 yr by HeadStand
November 26, 20177 yr On 11/23/2017 at 4:53 PM, HeadStand said: Unsubscribe from the ACP has been available since the initial version, even back in 3.x. In the ACP, go to the Newsletters screen, then choose "Subscribers" from the menu option on the right. You should see all current subscribers and you can remove anyone on the list. Ah...that's right. I was just looking under the default member section.
November 28, 20177 yr On 11/25/2017 at 9:07 PM, HeadStand said: Hmmm. What do you use for outgoing mail - SMTP/SparkPost/SendGrid/? Also, can you post the contents of your footer here? I mean whatever is actually in the ACP settings. I discovered the issue.. it does not work using the test button, but does work when actually sending through the distribution routine. So it was my lack of understanding of how it was designed rather than an actual error. Edit: I do wish I could format the link to something more pretty Edited November 28, 20177 yr by CheersnGears
November 28, 20177 yr Author 1 hour ago, CheersnGears said: I discovered the issue.. it does not work using the test button, but does work when actually sending through the distribution routine. So it was my lack of understanding of how it was designed rather than an actual error. Edit: I do wish I could format the link to something more pretty Yes, that's true, it won't work with the test button. The reason for this is that the unsubscribe link is tied to an issue (not a newsletter), and the test doesn't actually generate an issue. Or rather, it doesn't SAVE the issue, so the unsubscribe link wouldn't work. For styling, you can always wrap the unsubscribe tag in a <span> with styling. Or you can put a class on the span tag and then add styling to your email template.
November 29, 20177 yr Has anyone used custom IPS ad tag code within a newsletter to insert or sell a banner ad with commerce? I am curious if it would get outputted in the newsletter, but haven't tried it.
November 29, 20177 yr Author 8 hours ago, AlexWebsites said: Has anyone used custom IPS ad tag code within a newsletter to insert or sell a banner ad with commerce? I am curious if it would get outputted in the newsletter, but haven't tried it. Believe it or not, advertising has been on my list for a while and will be the next enhancement.
November 29, 20177 yr 2 hours ago, HeadStand said: Believe it or not, advertising has been on my list for a while and will be the next enhancement. That's good to know. I just tried to use an IPS custom ad tag like {advertisement="newsletter_test"} within the newsletter content and a template, but it doesn't parse that. It would be good to be able to use the IPS tag so that you can incorporate the ad as a product within commerce and sell a newsletter ad placement. However, I don't think you can even use the IPS advertisement tags in default bulk mail.
February 12, 20186 yr PRIVATE CLUB POSTS in DIGEST We've discovered that private posts to private clubs are showing up in the daily digest. Is there a way to keep private clubs from being included in the newsletter? Or is there a way for only the members of the private club to receive those posts in their digest? Thanks!
February 13, 20186 yr Author 23 hours ago, Vegan Gaymer said: PRIVATE CLUB POSTS in DIGEST We've discovered that private posts to private clubs are showing up in the daily digest. Is there a way to keep private clubs from being included in the newsletter? Or is there a way for only the members of the private club to receive those posts in their digest? Thanks! Thank you for bringing this to my attention. At this time I cannot distribute different versions to different members, so I guess the correct approach is to leave out club content completely. I will look into this issue and hopefully have a fix toward the end of this week.
February 16, 20186 yr Is there a way to adjust the logo that gets included with the newsletter? My site logo uses a transparency but that doesn't work out as well in the newsletter.
February 19, 20186 yr Author On 2/15/2018 at 7:03 PM, CheersnGears said: Is there a way to adjust the logo that gets included with the newsletter? My site logo uses a transparency but that doesn't work out as well in the newsletter. Yes. You can create a separate template for your newsletter and it can use any image you want. Templates are managed in the ACP under Community -> Newsletters -> Manage Templates.
February 20, 20186 yr Author A new version has been uploaded to the Marketplace. Changes include: Improvements to the way that Events are displayed in the newsletter (using event dates instead of creation dates) Club content was previously included in newsletters. This issue has been fixed. (Thank you @Vegan Gaymer for reporting this)
February 20, 20186 yr I'm interested in purchasing this? Is everything automated? We currently use SparkPost and have a lot of members, would that cause any issues?
February 20, 20186 yr Author 2 hours ago, David.. said: I'm interested in purchasing this? Is everything automated? We currently use SparkPost and have a lot of members, would that cause any issues? Yes, everything is automated. SparkPost will not present an issue.
February 20, 20186 yr 4 hours ago, David.. said: I'm interested in purchasing this? Is everything automated? We currently use SparkPost and have a lot of members, would that cause any issues? If you haven't purchased already, I highly recommend this app. Great support from @HeadStand
February 21, 20186 yr Hey @HeadStand 1. Can you filter Newsletters to only be sent out to members of a certain club? 2. Can you show club-only content such as club topics, club albums, club events, etc?
February 22, 20186 yr Author 22 hours ago, Joel R said: Hey @HeadStand 1. Can you filter Newsletters to only be sent out to members of a certain club? 2. Can you show club-only content such as club topics, club albums, club events, etc? 1. At the moment, it's only filtered by group. Club is a good idea. 2. No. I've excluded all of that, intentionally. Each newsletter issue is generated once, and the same text is sent to all recipients. Although.... perhaps I should look into allowing Club Administrators to set up their own newsletters. That would be a nice addition.
February 22, 20186 yr 10 hours ago, HeadStand said: 1. At the moment, it's only filtered by group. Club is a good idea. 2. No. I've excluded all of that, intentionally. Each newsletter issue is generated once, and the same text is sent to all recipients. Although.... perhaps I should look into allowing Club Administrators to set up their own newsletters. That would be a nice addition. Yes that's exactly what a member of my community requested when we looked at Clubs together. He would like to set up his own "club newsletter" just for his club content.
February 22, 20186 yr suggestions for future releases an index page eg the url /newsletters/ a simple index page which lists all current and archived newsletters links a subscribe/unsubscribe link on each newsletter page with a check first if they have the essential site admin email option on or off subscriptions when starting a newsletter instead of having a whole group as subscribers, have the option for no subscribers and members needing to opt in eg an opt in option rather than opt out
February 28, 20186 yr On 10/8/2017 at 10:16 AM, AlexWebsites said: I just noticed that if you move a topic and leave in place a topic redirect (for 30 days as IPS gives you the option to), your topic list will include both the old and redirected in the newsletter. Is there a way to prevent this? It looks like duplicate topics when sending out. I removed the redirect link to stop it but this could be an issue if you are moving a lot and leave all the redirects in place. Any fix on this?
March 14, 20186 yr Thanks @HeadStand for adding the sorting by event date to the calendars! Thats awesome, you're awesome! I only have one thing, it seems the "cut-off" field isn't working on the calendar dates - so for example if i have 7 days entered in there, its showing more than the next 7 days of events. Is this supposed to happen or is it a bug?
March 14, 20186 yr Author 6 hours ago, Adam_S said: Thanks @HeadStand for adding the sorting by event date to the calendars! Thats awesome, you're awesome! I only have one thing, it seems the "cut-off" field isn't working on the calendar dates - so for example if i have 7 days entered in there, its showing more than the next 7 days of events. Is this supposed to happen or is it a bug? That sounds like a bug.
March 14, 20186 yr @HeadStand is the topic redirect getting added to the distribution something that can be fixed? If you use the feature IPS has and leave a redirect in place for the 30 days, it makes it into the topic list of the newsletter. They do not get listed in IPS topic blocks by default.
March 15, 20186 yr 9 hours ago, HeadStand said: That sounds like a bug. Ah ok, no worries. Did you need me to email you any info about it to diagnose the bug?
