HeadStand

It's been uploaded to the marketplace and is currently pending approval.

4.5 version was just pushed to the marketplace, it's pending approval. Keep an eye out.

Who would like to test the updated version? Please PM me.

On 8/21/2020 at 4:49 PM, Blizzard098 said:

Is it possible to remove the rich text box at the bottom? 

Do you mean the actual post? Not at this time.

On 8/21/2020 at 8:55 PM, Jerry Thomas said:

Will this support 4.5 soon?

Yes. I'm a little behind schedule until my kids start school, but I definitely will have a 4.5-compatible version ready soon.

On 8/23/2020 at 9:12 AM, Dads 101 said:

Can I use this in clubs?

It doesn't have any club-specific features. Can you please provide more detail on how you'd like to use it?

The newsletter application is not yet compatible with version 4.5. It's the next one on my list to update, but it will be a couple of days.

On 8/13/2020 at 7:41 AM, sound said:

hi again @HeadStand

just in case missed, am still waiting for a reply to pms detailing possible bugs from march 2020

 

another possible bug

if you delete an issue of a newsletter

then afterwards if you follow any links to the deleted issue rather than give a 404 the app gives an error 500 and reports Error code: 1FNNI/1

thanks

 

 

All will be included in the next update (with 4.5 compatibility).

On 7/9/2020 at 6:43 AM, Sonya* said:

Hi Esther,

I would like to give Social Stream a second chance on my project. 😉 However I am going to upgrade to 4.5 and I need especially Database Records from Pages in the social stream with ability to comment them right in the stream. I have tested Social Stream on 4.5. Everything works as desired except of database records. They are not shown in the stream. The comments to the records are displayed as desired.

My question:

1. Are you going to update Social Stream for 4.5?
2. Will be database records shown in the stream?
3. Can you add display of tags to the content items?

Thank you!

1. Yes, I will be updating Social Stream
2. They should already have been supported (it was previously), so I'll have to take a look at that
3. Yes.

On 5/25/2020 at 3:50 AM, Goza said:

Current version, is it possible to change the order of how it is displayed in the form?

• Editing the set, does have a few locations displays but it only changes after you made the topic.

Not at this time. Everything shows up before the main content area.

On 5/25/2020 at 3:50 AM, Goza said:

Is it possible to add an option to add a label to the main content item? 

• This will confuse some members what to put in the box since almost everything else has a label. 

The content area you're looking at is generated by the IPS code, not by this modification. But you can add a label to that by changing the language string with the key "topic_content".

On 6/6/2020 at 1:32 PM, cdymlr said:

Is it possible to automatically fill a field with data from a member's profile? (ex. have a field called member id and populate it with {$member->member_id} from core_members)

You can, but it's a little annoying. You'd need to know the profile field group ID and the field ID. So it would be something like 

{{$fields = \IPS\Member::loggedIn()->contentProfileFields();}}
{$fields['core_pfieldgroups_1']['core_pfield_1']}

12 hours ago, cdymlr said:

Is there a live demo of this yet?

No. I don't own a site, so I don't have plans right now to have one.

Just now, breatheheavy said:

Darn! Ok thank you. 

Sorry. I would say "maybe in a later version" but I'm so behind schedule these days, I don't want to promise anything that I can't even begin to put on my calendar....

40 minutes ago, breatheheavy said:

Hey @HeadStand, few questions:

• Is it possible to use this for Topics? 
• Is it possible to select which Topics I can publish to Apple News? 

I'd like to use this! But I don't post "Articles" anymore - I use Topics to publish and write news. 

LMK! 🙏 

This has not been integrated with topics.

Just now, breatheheavy said:

Hey there @HeadStand 👋 

Can you help me understand what it means when you say "All styling should be done as inline and/or with styles in the wrapper header."

Also please check this thread I created here - it would mean a lot. I am a little overwhelmed with where to start regarding these email templates! 

 

Email templates are basically HTML pages. So inline styling would be something like this

<p style='color:blue;font-size:11px;'>some text goes here</p>

On 5/4/2020 at 3:46 PM, breatheheavy said:

Interesting. @Mark Round

I purchased the Email Drips application cause I want to fire off a series of how-to emails once someone registers, creates a club, buys a subscription etc. and would love them all to feel branded to my theme. Hence why I stumbled upon this thread 😅

Is it possible to change the background color inside the wrapper? Is there an easy-ish way to stylize these email templates? Including the validation/registration emails? I need to give the emails some major TLC 

 

The wrappers are easily editable. All styling should be done as inline and/or with styles in the wrapper header. This is recommended practice because of the many many email clients that are out there and the fact that a lot of them don't support the same things. Inline styling is usually the safest bet.

This is a really good resource to use if you're building your own wrappers: https://www.campaignmonitor.com/css/

@Mark Round answered your questions perfectly. 🙂 

On 4/13/2020 at 7:48 AM, Unlucky said:

Hi,

Just checking if this app is still being supported and works with latest version of IPS?

Also can anyone share what a topic that has custom fields looks like when it has been posted?

Thanks in advance

Yes, it's still supported and works with the latest version.

17 hours ago, mls@meryton.com said:

 

I have officially solved my own problem and possibly yours, too.

How to get the Info from the Template System app to show up in your Forum Topic Row:

1) AdminCP -> Appearance -> Edit your Theme's html/css </> button.

2) Go to Templates -> forums -> front -> forums -> TopicRow

3) In the TopicRow template, I placed the following content after the second </h4> nestled in with the metadata, as that is where it worked best for me. The span classes are my own, the Template System tags simple:

	<div class="story_ratings_tr">
		{{if $row->templateSetContent()|raw}}
			<span class="storyRating">{$row->templateSetContent()|raw}</span>
		{{endif}} 
	</div>

 

It is not quite the fine level of control at the label and fieldKey level, but good enough for what I needed to do for now.

Perhaps @HeadStand could give tips on how to use the label and fieldKey data in the TopicRow.

 

Glad you were able to figure it out! This is actually the only way to do it - I never was able to implement anything on the topic row level, as I couldn't do it generically and have it work automatically with all content items. It would have required manual template edits.

As for the label and fieldKey.... you can do that as

{$row->template_fieldKey}

So for example, if you have a field with a key "field1", it would be $row->template_field1. You would do the label like

{$row->template_fieldKey_label}

Hope this helps.

On 4/7/2020 at 1:20 AM, Scotty Hutto said:

Back again. Newsletter is running well!  My members love it. 

Currently it appears by default posts are sorted in chronological order; either newest to oldest or oldest to newest. Is it possible to sort by heading, or to group all posts on a topic (thread) together? The only complaints I’ve gotten have been that it’s difficult to follow a topic on a day when we have 40-50 posts. 
 

Thanks,

Scotty

Not without some significant code changes. Unfortunately I can't promise any development at this time - I'm significantly behind schedule with work.

On 3/11/2020 at 10:44 PM, Noble~ said:

Hi Esther, I just purchased your app but im unsure of the templates, i would like to greet members at the beginning and have the Unsubscribing link at the bottom but im not sure where to put the tags to make this work i have tried a few things with no luck, see screen shot

You want to set up your newsletter with a Manual Content piece first. You wouldn't do this in the template, you would do this when you build your newsletter content.

The download includes full documentation for this modification. Please take a look at the "Newsletter Content" section beginning on page 7. If you have further questions, feel free to PM me or post them here.

11 hours ago, Vegan Gaymer said:

I got this error when I tried to publish: 

But since it has not been distributed since December of 2019, I'm not sure what this means.

That would explain all of it. It means you have an old issue that never finished distributing. Maybe it hit an error or something... impossible to tell 2 months later. In the meantime, from the ACP newsletter list, choose "Back Issues" from the menu on the right. The most recent one is probably still pending. Just choose "Close Issue" from the buttons on the right. That should do it. Then you'll be able to manually re-publish.

On my ever-growing to-do list is to automatically close issues that are stuck for more than X days, but since there's a manual workaround I haven't been in a rush. 🤷‍♀️

4 hours ago, Vegan Gaymer said:

There are no errors logged. How do I manually publish? 

From the newsletters screen, click the "Manage Content" button from the menu on the right. There should be an option at the top to Publish. Keep in mind that this will distribute the newsletter to all subscribers.

On 2/17/2020 at 5:59 AM, sound said:

There seems to be an issue with the forum topic posts in the latest release

In the topic post all the links now go through the newsletter app rather than directly to the topic url, as in  the url in the topic now contains the below

/?do=click&key=*|unsubscribe_key|*&issue=*|issue_id|*&src=

causing a fail with the below reported...

Error code: EX1366

This error was probably caused by application Newsletters.
If the issue persists, disable it and contact the author for further assistance.

 

the email newsletter appears to be working ok

 

 

A new version has been pushed to the Marketplace. It contains a fix for this issue.

On 2/21/2020 at 1:12 PM, Vegan Gaymer said:

It's been confirmed that it is not an invision issue. Is there any way we can troubleshoot this? Thanks!

Is there anything in your system logs? Have you tried manually publishing the newsletter to see if any errors come up?

New version uploaded to the marketplace. Changes include:

• Multiple issues with unsubscribe links. Fixed.
• Post before register was not working correctly. Fixed.
• Clicks are now tracked as unique vs total clicks.
• Multiple issues with tracking stats. Fixed.
• Disabled advertisements were included in the newsletter. Fixed.

On 2/15/2020 at 1:07 PM, Vegan Gaymer said:

DAILY DIGESTS NOT SENT FOR MONTHS

I had not taken seriously a few reports in my community about not receiving a daily digest and advised them on how to ensure their settings were correct, but now it is months later and I have a huge stack of support tickets reporting that daily digests are not being received. It has been going on for months, apparently. 

I don't know if this is an issue with this application or something wrong with Invision platform, but I thought I would ask here, first.

What can I do to help troubleshoot this? Thanks!

(note: application is up to date)

troy

Are you sure this is with regard to this application? Daily digests are part of IPS and the notification settings are related to that. If you have a newsletter configured to send out daily, that would be this application. Please confirm.

4 hours ago, wegorz23 said:

I confirm. After fix it works fine, but what about stats? 🙂  Its still not working 😞

I sent you a PM last night...

1 minute ago, AlexWebsites said:

Any ideas what’s wrong with the unsubscribe link output? 

Not yet.

13 hours ago, Joel R said:

SELECT * FROM `newsletters_pending_issues` WHERE newsletter_id=4 AND issue_date <= IS NULL ORDER BY issue_date desc
IPS\Db\Exception: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MariaDB server version for the right syntax to use near 'IS NULL ORDER BY issue_date desc' at line 1 (1064)
#0 /home/nginx/domains/mywebsite.com/public/system/Db/Select.php(373): IPS\_Db->preparedQuery('/*IPS\\newslette...', Array, true)
#1 /home/nginx/domains/mywebsite.com/public/system/Db/Select.php(436): IPS\Db\_Select->runQuery()
#2 /home/nginx/domains/mywebsite.com/public/system/Db/Select.php(355): IPS\Db\_Select->rewind()
#3 /home/nginx/domains/mywebsite.com/public/applications/newsletters/sources/Issue/Pending.php(168): IPS\Db\_Select->first()
#4 /home/nginx/domains/mywebsite.com/public/applications/newsletters/sources/Newsletter/Newsletter.php(991): IPS\newsletters\Issue\_Pending::getPendingIssue(Object(IPS\newsletters\Newsletter))
#5 /home/nginx/domains/mywebsite.com/public/applications/newsletters/tasks/PublishNewsletters.php(65): IPS\newsletters\_Newsletter->publish()
#6 /home/nginx/domains/mywebsite.com/public/system/Task/Task.php(255): IPS\newsletters\tasks\_PublishNewsletters->execute()
#7 /home/nginx/domains/mywebsite.com/public/applications/core/modules/admin/settings/advanced.php(709): IPS\_Task->run()
#8 /home/nginx/domains/mywebsite.com/public/system/Dispatcher/Controller.php(85): IPS\core\modules\admin\settings\_advanced->runTask()
#9 /home/nginx/domains/mywebsite.com/public/applications/core/modules/admin/settings/advanced.php(34): IPS\Dispatcher\_Controller->execute()
#10 /home/nginx/domains/mywebsite.com/public/system/Dispatcher/Dispatcher.php(152): IPS\core\modules\admin\settings\_advanced->execute()
#11 /home/nginx/domains/mywebsite.com/public/a2nimda/index.php(14): IPS\_Dispatcher->run()
#12 {main}

Error in Newsletter @HeadStand

This was fixed in the patch I just pushed the other day....

9 hours ago, AlexWebsites said:

@HeadStand, My unsubscribe links do not work as well for some reason. I'm using *|unsubscribe|* but the link it generates goes to page not found. Any ideas what could cause this? The link that it generates is like

https://www.mysite.com/index.php?app=core&module=system&controller=redirect&url=https://www.mysite.com/index.php?app=core%26module=system%26controller=redirect%26url=https://www.mysite.com/newsletters/unsubscribe/%2526key=*%25257Cunsubscribe_key%######*%26key=ee##############################################################resource=%26email=1%26type=&key=ecdfd###########################################################resource=&email=1&type=

Any ideas?

Looks like it's picking up the redirector from inside the ACP. How are your tasks being triggered - by user activity or by cron job?

Edit: one more thing - is your newsletter scheduled (daily/weekly/etc) or manual?