I created the categories, enabled the mass contact menu and gave admin permission to email mass contact to all the categories that I created. So why does clicking on the create mass contact link take me to the list of all the content types? I thought would see a form to compose email. What am I missing? Thanks.

Comments

fehin’s picture

fehin commented

Update: I found out the link on the menu goes to http://www.mywebsite.com/node/add/mass_contact and the link on the mass contact settings page goes to http://www.mywebsite.com/mass_contact (this takes me to the form). Has anyone encountered this issue? Why do they point to two different places?

oadaeh’s picture

oadaeh commented

That is the intended behavior.

The first link goes to the add new content page for Mass Contact. You don't normally want to do that manually, and the initial permission setup should keep it from appearing among the general list of Create Content items. It is necessary if you want to save messages.

The second link is the correct link for the normal sending of mass e-mails. Because this module was originally modeled off the Contact module included with core, that link is disabled by default.

During normal use, you will only see those links in their correct context, i.e.: the first one will only show up when you have the correct permission and you are in the Create content area of the site.

FYI, here are all the links that are available and what they do (some of the URLs were split due to length, but they should be construed as a single path):

URL Label Description To have access to this URL,
users must have this permission
/admin/build/mass_contact Mass Contact form The main administrative interface, which defaults to the Category list page below. administer mass contact
/admin/build/mass_contact/list Category list List the currently defined categories. administer mass contact
/admin/build/mass_contact/add Add category Add a new category. administer mass contact
/admin/build/mass_contact/edit/$category_id Edit Mass Contact category (the 'edit' operation in the Category list) Edit an existing category. administer mass contact
/admin/build/mass_contact/delete/$category_id Delete Mass Contact category (the 'delete' operation in the Category list) Delete an existing category. administer mass contact
/admin/build/mass_contact/settings Settings Administrative settings to modify how Mass Contact operates. administer mass contact
/mass_contact Mass Contact The main Mass Contact form for sending messages. send mass contact e-mails
/node/add/mass_contact Mass Contact The form for adding a Mass Contact content item. create mass_contact content
mrtoner’s picture

mrtoner commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)
grux’s picture

grux commented

Don't know if this is still an issue, but I was having problems locating the actual mass e-mail form. I finally found it after a while of searching.

If you go to the settings page, under the first text box titled: "Additional information for Mass Contact form:" there is a small line that says "Information to show on the Mass Contact page." The "Mass Contact page" should be a link to the actual e-mail form.

Hope this helps.

fehin’s picture

fehin commented

Go to menu -> navigation, there are two mass contact links, enable the one that links to the email form and you will see it in your navigation links from then on.

itserich’s picture

itserich commented

Thank you thank you, nearly shot myself. I love Drupal, just need to figure it out.

oadaeh’s picture

oadaeh commented
Title: "Create Mass contact" link takes me to the list of all my content types » Mass Contact menu links (AKA: How to send messages)
Status: Closed (fixed) » Active

In light of the documentation here and the fact that not everyone actually reads the README.txt files (and that only the newer ones have this information), I've decided to leave this open for awhile and to change the title to hopefully make it easier to find for those who need it.

bruiseviolet’s picture

bruiseviolet commented

What's a readme.txt ? =P (completely kidding of course...)

oadaeh’s picture

oadaeh commented
Status: Active » Fixed

#1905404: How exactly do I begin sending emails? has been marked as a duplicate of this issue.

I'm also closing this, since it doesn't seem to matter whether it's open or not.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

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