Creating nodes, but not sending

Heya, are the entries showing up in the simplenews content admin panel?

This is essentially the crux of the sending mechanism (which is called from a hook_cron)

function simplenews_scheduler_new_edition($sched_nid) {
...

  // trigger it for sending
  $node->send = 1;
  node_save($node);

Probably need to check with the simplenews crew to see if this is a viable way to force a send of a node

Yes, this should work.

Hmmm well it doesnt :( have to keep looking i guess, is there something in the simplenews SQL tables that needs to be tweaked?

please try again with simplenews 1.5 and the latest dev release of this module

let me know how your test with 1.5 goes, works OK here

I wonder if these two lines are causing the problem

  $node = node_build_content($node, FALSE, FALSE);
  
  $content = drupal_render($node->content);

Neither is needed and node_build_content() modifies the node possibly in a way that makes it incompatible with node_save().

the reason why i'm re-rendering the node content is because if you have some dynamic input filter like the insert-view filter, then you need to re-execute that filter when you are creating a new newsletter.

for example, the news letter contains a view of last 10 articles on your site, which is introduced when rendering the node, so this node needs to be re-rendered each time a newsletter edition is created

for example

<h2>Articles since last edition</h2>
[insert_view:myview]

so i'm not sure what todo here, there seems to be an issue with views caching data too..

But the new node is not being render, it is the old/original node. I wonder does simplenews use node_view to render the node (which would be proper)?

I have the same problem, but I noticed that after the first issue of the newsletter (that is correctly sent), the second one (i.e., a day after) is regarding an automatic 'saved node' made by an anonymous user.

So... should it be worthy to give "send newsletter" grant to anonymous user to send it effectively???

Hi again.

I *SOLVED* the problem and the module works great with Insert View integration.

As I stated before, after the creator of the scheduling action (the admin?) left the backend, the node is saved automatically at a prearranged date/hour. This saving task is accomplished by the anonymous user (!). So, to solve immediately the problem, grant "send newsletter" to anonymous, and the newsletter is sent as scheduled.

Maybe... it should be better that the code is a little bit rewritten to avoid this workaround.

Alessandro

Actually the node is saved with a uid of the parent (original newsletter), i've stepped thru this with a debugged as anonymous accessing /cron.php (also double checked that i was logged out) and with my latest tweaks seemed to be fine.

there was a silly bug fetching the simplenews schedule :(

please try again on the new dev release (dec15)