I downloaded and added the simplenews module to make a subscription to news feature on my site and the module works fine, it seems... But I need to make some changes and I can't find the way to do that: on my site there is a specific content type named Story, that represents all the news articles posted on the home page of the site (now there is the simplenews type also), and I planned to use the simplenews module to make all my new added news to send via e-mail to all subscribed users... If I create a new 'Newsletter issue', then subscribed users (actually - me, in the testing phase) can receive the e-mailed news article, but if I create a new Story - then no e-mail I receive.

I found the list of categories defined and there is the Newsletter category which have the 'Newsletter issue' type specified, then I modified and added also the Story type (Newsletter issue, Story), because I supposed that now subscribed users will receive new posted news (Stories) by e-mail. Unfortunately, nothing happened and don't know how to do so that new Stories be sent by e-mail to all subscribed users.

Please help if someone can!

sergiuc

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sutharsan commented
Status: Active » Fixed

Simplenews 5.x only works with content type newsletter, not any other content type.

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sergiuc commented

Ok Sutharsan, thank you for your quick reply, now I have another question: my Drupal version is 5.10. Can I use simplenews v. 6.x ??

I ask that because I finally want to integrate somehow the simplenews module to work with the Story type which is the main content type intended to be sent to all e-mails subscribed.

Thanks!

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sutharsan commented

No, you can't. Any 5.x module is build for Drupal 5.x, 6.x modules require Drupal 6.x.

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sergiuc commented

Erik, one last question : when I create a new 'Newsletter issue' I see for Publishing options first two options are checked - Published and Promoted to front page - that is good to me, I can use that, but even with these first two options checked the Newsletter issue is not really promoted to the front page... :(

Do you know why?

If you know tell me how to correct this (I will change using Stories by using Newsletter issues promoted to front page).

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sutharsan commented

I don't know why. With the Views module you can override the standard front page to be what ever list you like it to be.

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sergiuc commented

Thank you! All works now, I mean that Newsletter issues are promoted now to the front page...

Best regards
Sergiuc

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sergiuc commented

Hi, tell me please, if you have a little minute, how to make the simplenews newsletter subscribtion block to appear (be visible) on other language versions of my site. I started with one language, now I want it on other two languages...

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.