Why is it necessary to create a new content type called "Newsletter", and restrict the great features of the SimpleNews module only to this content type?

My dream is that any content type could be sent to subscribers as Newsletters.

Often it is more interesting to email the node content itself (or even a View?), instead of creating the node and then creating a newsletter saying "please visit this node"...

In the Content types settings, there would be an option such as 'Act as newsletter', and all new node of that type would be emailed to subscribers.

Or it could work similarly to the Send module – which adds a link "send to a friend" at the bottom of the node – adding the link "send as newsletter".

What do you think??

Comments

yngens’s picture

yngens commented

i second this feature request.

underpressure’s picture

underpressure commented

I'm 50/50 on this one.

I like the idea and it seems like a great idea to have this sort of flexibility.

I however, find the current system suitable since I create a newsletter when an a special photo gallery is added. Point being, a newsletter is created to announce a new collection of nodes and not a single one that could also double as a newsletter.

Hmmmm......... however I do have a term called site news that could double as a newsletter as well, which could also be used for announcements.

Just my $0.02

mags310’s picture

mags310 commented

Yes yes, please! My kingdom for this feature.

What if the Newsletter vocabulary terms could be assigned to any type of content and subscribers could sign up to receive only content associated with the terms of their choice.

thepanz’s picture

thepanz commented

+1 for this functionality, maybe instead of using taxonomies you can choose what node-type use as a newsletter and then send it to a users-list.. in that case you can't add a "Hi USERNAME" 'cause tha node is displayed on the site.. it could be nice if you can add a "pre-node" and/or a "post-node" text to be added when sending...

-thePanz-

yngens’s picture

yngens commented

bump. this would be nice feature.

sutharsan’s picture

sutharsan commented

Why bump this issue?

yngens’s picture

yngens commented

Well, because status of the issue set to active, which means anyone can refresh and remind of its existence and actuality. If the maintainers would change to "won't fix" then I wouldn't bother. But now there is still hope, that any Drupal node could be additionally send as a newsletter during submission. This would be really great.

underpressure’s picture

underpressure commented

I'm for it as an OPTION. I certainly would use it.

sutharsan’s picture

sutharsan commented

If someone steps up to write this for 6.x-1.x-dev (and it not a lot of work) I will consider rolling it back onto 5.x.

sutharsan’s picture

sutharsan commented

On second thought, this is already available in 6.x-1.x-dev. Any nodetype which gets assigned the newsletter taxonomy can be used as newsletter.
But still needs to be rolled back to simplenews 5.x.

zet’s picture

zet commented

This should work in 6.x-1.0-beta5 ?
I see that i can select "Content types to be used as newsletter." , but newsletter option don't appear on editing other node types than "Newsletter issue"

sutharsan’s picture

sutharsan commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

No volunteers for backporting to 5.x. Closing the issue. Feel free to re-open of you can supply code.