Hi
I've spent the last 5 or 6 days trying to create an e-mail newsletter with E-publish.

I'm using:
Drupal 6.1.7
Epublish 6.x-1.5
Epublish Email 6.x-1.0
Mime Mail 6.x-1.0-alpha6
SMTP Authentication Support 6.x-1.0-beta5

Now, I'm able to produce a newsletter with customized regions, view it in the drupal site with a custom template and send it by e-mail (to only one user at a time).

But this is not enough: I need to create two diferent newsletters and send it to two diferent mailing lists.

My problems are:
1st: e-publish allows me to choose my customized "epublish_layout_zzzz.inc" file, but they dont seem to work... even if they are just renamed versions (with proper modifications) of the original templates. Why?

2nd: When a node is used in an E-publish issue, it "gains " an abstract field (wich i need to use) and a navigation pane in the full node view. how can I remove it?

3rd: When a node is used in an E-publish issue, the breadcrumb of the node is modified, how to avoid it?

4th: I´m using Epublish Email 6.x-1.0 to send the newsletter to one e-mail adress, how can i send it to an entire mailing list?

5th: I need to create a mailing list to each publication, how to acomplish that?

At this point i feel that I've done the biggest part of the hard work, but i'm stuck in the mud wiht the (important) details...

Sorry for my bad english :)

Thanks in advance for your atention and help!

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tobias commented

Hi Marco_cruz,

Congrats on the work you put into this. I'm not sure e-publish is under active development. If it is, or if there is interest in moving the project forward, I'd be glad to help out. I like it but it is clearly in need of more polishing, and I don't know of any active sites using it.

For the moment, I am working with a volunteer to replicate alot of what I was hoping to get out of epublish using views. I send out the newsletter itself via CiviMail, a module of CiviCRM (http://www.civicrm.org) which integrates with Drupal.

Cheers,

Tobias

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marco_cruz commented

Hi tobias

Thanks for your fast reply.

I'm not sure if CiviMail is the answer i need.
The goal is to send each newssletter to is own list of e-mails.
To subscribe a newsletter, there is no need to be registered in the site. Any site visitor just needs to put is own e-mail adress in a form and press "subscribe" to be included in the mailing list.

At the moment this is the major probelm i'm facing.

I think the best aproach is to find a way to hack the Epublish Email 6.x-1.0 module to send the newsletter to a list instead of sigle e-mail adress.

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tobias commented

Hi Marco_cruz,

It's up to you to decide what you need of course, but from what you're saying I think civimail could do it. You can create as many mailing lists as you like which can have their own subscribe forms on your site. No need to join the site to subscribe to groups.

What I find trickier - and what I was hoping epublish would help with - is pulling content from the site on a semi-automatic basis to include in the newsletters.

Cheers,

Tobias

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sdague commented

Point 1 - make sure that you change the $description field at the top if you are making your own additional layouts.

Point 2 - Navigation is provided by theme_epublish_navigation($node, $eid). You can do your own theme version which just outputs nothing.

Point 3 - I think is the same as #2

Points 4 and 5, I'm not sure I understand. Can you explain how you expect to integrate with email? The way I'm currently using epublish_email is emailing out to a mailman managed set of lists.

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sdague commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

closing due to 4 months no response from poster