By mcfilms on

Here's my story (It's sad but true):

Using Simplenews, I have one newsletter and one taxonomy associated with it. If I go to my registration page I see the section titled Newsletters at the very bottom of the registration page (it is BELOW the "Create New Account" button. Below that I see the word "Array" then I have two checkboxes, both for the same newsletter.

How did this happen?

Well let me retrace my steps. When I installed Simplenews, I wanted to subscribe the several hundred existing users to the newsletter. Simplenews does not do this out of the box. However there is, what seemed like the perfect solution. Simplenews_Roles. This module would allow me to mass-subscribe all users. It did this, but it also ground the site to a halt. It seems like every time ANY user had any interaction with their profile, Simplenews_Roles would check and update the status on every single user. This was not good.

But I was able to disable the module and life was good. I got everyone registered to the newsletter. But trouble started to creep in. Simplenews was set to Opt in new registrants automatically. But the Subscribe button was always unchecked on the user page. I did some searching and found that there was a module called "Simplenews on register." Perfect, I foolishly thought, this module will enforce the checkbox.

Well, it does, but it exposes a brand NEW checkbox and the word "array". I'm tempted to just disable Simplenews_On_Register, but then I read this thread about introducing a white screen. http://drupal.org/node/523642

All I wanted is one email newsletter that users would be subscribed to by default and have the option to opt out of. Where did I go wrong?

So now I'm paralyzed with fear. Does anyone have a strategy suggestion? What would you do? I now have several thousand users, some of who are subscribed, some are not. I would like to get them all subscribed, and present one check box on the user profile page, ideally above the "Create New Account" button.

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PS: Sorry for being verbose. I won't cross post this, but I will reference this thread as I open support request issues in the Simplenews sub-module cues.

Oh, and can we change the module name to DifficultNews? Or at least Challengingnews?

Thanks for any advice,

Jerry

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mcfilms commented

So i uninstalled both add-on modules. I now have a single registration check box on the user's profile page. But I cannot, for the life of me, figure out how to make that default to "checked."

It seems I'm not the only one. Several others had this problem. See: http://drupal.org/node/456944

Please, if anyone have any tips on how to do this, including hacking the module, I'd love to hear them.

Thank you,

Jerry

A list of some of the Drupal sites I have designed and/or developed can be viewed at motioncity.com

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benone commented

I have the same question :)
It seems to be obvious to get already registered users subscribed to newsletter in bulk by admin.
Also it could be done by Rules but Simplenews and Rules are not compatible.
I am checking Trigger and Actions now.