By whatistocome on

Two questions about the SimpleNews module:

1) How do I restrict it so that you need to be a registed user of my site to be able to subscribe to mailing lists (preferably, unregistered folk will see a message saying "you need to register - register here" type of thing)

2) I figured out how to display the "subscribe to" boxes for each mailing list in the left or right columns, but how can I display those signup boxes as content in the middle column? I have 3 mailing lists and will probably have more so listing each one out in a box on the left or right is cumbersome and not user friendly.

Thanks,
Jason

⋅ Categories: Drupal 4.6.x

Comments

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DriesK commented

1) unfortunately, this is not possible in Simplenews 4.6. In simplenews 4.7, there is a permission 'subscribe to newsletters' in the access control panel (and there are a lot of other extra features in 4.7). I received numerous requests to implement this permission for 4.6 as well, but I have absolutely no time at the moment. However, since it is one of the top feature requests for 4.6, I'll try to do it when I have some spare time, but I can't say when that'll be.

2) this one is easier. You have two options: either provide a link to yourdomain.com/newsletter/subscriptions, or you can incorporate this form in the body of any node by using the following snippet:

simplenews_subscription_manager();
whatistocome’s picture

whatistocome commented

That's a little disheartening about simplenews no longer being updated for 4.6 but it's exciting to hear of all the great things ready for 4.7. I've looked all through this site but can't find information on the timeline for 4.7's launch - can anyone point me the way?

Thanks,
Jason

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sepeck commented

Becuase the answer is, it will be released when it's ready. If you read the various bug fix party announcements you can get a sense of how things are going, but the actual when of release depends on when bug fixes are supplied for existing bugs in the beta's.

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DriesK commented

Simplenews 4.6 (and almost all other contributed modules) will be maintained, even after the 4.7 release. This mean that bugs will be fixed, security issues will be addressed. However, no new features will be added.
That's the way Drupal development works overall: new features in Drupal 4.7 will also not be backported to Drupal 4.6. Drupal, and modules, are released as stable releases with a set of features, and development continues only for new versions. Since Drupal and module development is mostly done on a voluntary basis, and most developers have a separate fulltime job, it is nearly impossible to both implement new features in previous versions of the software, and develop, debug and test new releases. Furthermore, a lot of new features (both in modules and in Drupal) rely on code changes and improvements in Drupal core, which makes it simply impossible to bring those to previous versions. Believe me, I'd really like to spend my time to nothing else than Drupal coding, improve my modules, ... but unfortunately, I've got bills to pay. And I will repeat myself:

since it is one of the top feature requests for 4.6, I'll try to do it when I have some spare time, but I can't say when that'll be.

That's the best I can do for now.