Missing Newsletter portlet

[Tobias Hofmann, modificado 16 Anos atrás.]

Hi,

in the Release Notes for 4.3.5 there is a newsletter portlet mentioned (LEP-2177).

I can't find this newsletter portlet in my downloaded version of 4.3.5 (tomcat bundle + war file only). Where is it? Where can I find it?

best regards,
Tobias

[Jorge Ferrer, modificado 16 Anos atrás.]

Hi Tobias,

I don't know why JIRA is including that issue in that list, but as you can see it's still open, because it hasn't been implemented yet.

[Jonas Yuan, modificado 14 Anos atrás.]

Hi Jorge,

This (Newsletter portlet) is good feature. It would be nice to add Newsletter portlet in 5.3.

Maybe it would be good to add newsletter features into knowledge base portlet.

http://issues.liferay.com/browse/LEP-2177

Thanks

Jonas Yuan
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The Author of Liferay Books:
Liferay Portal 5.2 Systems Development
Liferay Portal Enterprise Intranets

[Amine Bousta, modificado 14 Anos atrás.]

I second that

Newsletter publishers should be able to :
- manage newsletter entries (as in announcements portlet)
- schedule sending dates (as in announcements portlet)
- manage the mailing list (as in "user group" management, let's suppose a mailing list is a user group in Liferay)
- choose between different html templates dedicated to his community/organization (as in a web template)
- manage an history of newsletters (as in anouncements portlet)

Subscribers should be able to :
- subscribe / unsubscribe (like in "user group" management, "my account" portlet...)
- receive the letter in his own language (impossible for the moment)


I think that a good way to achieve this would be to create a link between the anouncement portlet and the Journal system.

Here's how :
- Liferay admin would prepare a Journal structure called "Newsletter_entry" with subject and body fields and multiple templates linked to it.

- Newsletter writer would write a Newsletter entry with this structure and the template of his choice. He could then localize subject and body fields in any language he wants
- This letter can be approved, tagged, versioned, localized as a classical journal article...

- Newsletter publisher would have an anouncement portlet in his control panel
- He can add/edit an entry like in the current anouncement portlet, excepting that he would have a "journal web content" search container UI that would allow him to select the article made by the newsletter writer (new dev)
- He could then select a scope (like in the current anouncement portlet)
- Preview (like in the current anouncement portlet + new dev)
- Schedule a sending date (like in the current anouncement portlet)
- Then an e-mail containing the article html content would be sent to people in the selected scope (anouncement portlet).
- Plus: each e-mail content would be displayed in a language according to the default language of the user. (new)

So that would be basically like the current anouncement portlet.
Excepting that a link is made to a real journal article and that gives the following benefits :
- multiple languages
- multiple templates
- workflow
- versioning
- tagging
- the ability to display automatically newsletter archives on a web page thanks to the asset publisher portlet
- rich html editor for the body

I would like to know your opinion about that design.
-- Especially Raymond Augé who's the author of the anouncement portlet. --
Would this link to journal be a clever improvement of the anouncement portlet?

[Lisa Simpson, modificado 14 Anos atrás.]

I've added your post to the "Proposals" wiki... You might wanna go vote for it.

[Maarten van Heiningen, modificado 14 Anos atrás.]

Hello,

I am realy in favour of this portlet. If it has a multi language feature, and is able to send html mail it would be great.
A very good list of features Amine.

Maarten

[Maarten van Heiningen, modificado 14 Anos atrás.]

Hi All,

Is the newsletter portlet in the making? If you need it tested, please let me know.

Regards,
Maarten

[Cyprian Gajda, modificado 12 Anos atrás.]

Hi all,

If you are still looking for a newsletter portlet please check this one on at Liferay Community plugins site - Aperte Liferay Newsletter
It's open source portlet of BlueSoft http://bluesoft.net.pl - simple in use.
You can find out more about this portlet at http://bluesoft.net.pl/rnd/blog

I hope you will enjoy it
Cyprian

[Plugins Admin, modificado 12 Anos atrás.]

You could try this one:

http://www.liferay.com/en/downloads/liferay-portal/community-plugins/-/software_catalog/products/11816131

Cheers,

[Tamir Suliman, modificado 13 Anos atrás.]

I think its still under test will check later

[Christophe Cariou, modificado 13 Anos atrás.]

Hi,

our company (Asten) has developed a Newsletter plugin based upon 2 portlet :
1 : Newsletter, only visible for the webmaster.
This portlet is configured (preferences dialog) with :
- an rss feed, coming from an asset publisher.
- the id of a web content display portlet. It will gives the "editorial" of the newsletter.
- the url of the unsubscribe portlet, for the creation of the unsubscribe link.
- a key for crypting
- The name of the usergroup containing the subscriber list
The HTML of the newsletter is made by parsing the rss xml feed, and via content api we extract the abstract of the articles. On the beginning of the mail we add the content of the chooses Editorial article.
We then loop on the usergroup, and send an email at each, including a specific link for the unsubscription, with a crypted parameter containing the emailaddress of the subscriber.

The email sending run on separate thread.
We store the newsletter in the annonucment portlet, but it has limitation : 4000 characters.
Instead, we plan to store the newsletter as a document in the DocumentLibrary

2 : Subscribe/unsubscribe, visible for the guests.
This portlet is configured with :
- a key for un-crypting (the same as the one in the Newsletter portlet)
- The name of the usergroup containing the subscriber list (the same as the one in the Newsletter portlet)
When a user subscribe, he gives his emailaddress and we create an user account (without password) and attach him to the configured newsletter user group.
He unsubscribes from an "in mail" url, calling back this portlet, with his emailadresse as crypted parameter. The user is then deleted.

That works well and cand be extended.

I can't give you the code, but you have here the key principes.

Christophe

[Jose Antonio Carapeto Sierra, modificado 13 Anos atrás.]

Hi Christophe, I'm very interested, could you send?

[Hitoshi Ozawa, modificado 13 Anos atrás.]

Is there a product description page with screen shot in your company page?

[Aleksandar Vasilev, modificado 12 Anos atrás.]

Hi Christophe, I am also very interested.
Could you send any information.

Regards,
Aleksandar

[Philippe Brière, modificado 12 Anos atrás.]

Hi,

http://www.liferay.com/downloads/liferay-portal/community-plugins/-/software_catalog/products/9470519?_98_redirect=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.liferay.com%2Fdownloads%2Fliferay-portal%2Fcommunity-plugins%2F-%2Fsoftware_catalog%2Fproducts%3F_98_keywords%3Dnewsletter%26_98_page%3D1%26_98_type%3D%26_98_tabs1TabsScroll%3D%26_98_itemsPerPage%3D20

Almost 150 downloads on JUL 26th at :
http://code.google.com/p/newsletter-portlet

Principle is quiet simple, using announcement mechanism.

[Leo PRATLONG, modificado 12 Anos atrás.]

Philippe Brière:

Hi,

http://www.liferay.com/downloads/liferay-portal/community-plugins/-/software_catalog/products/9470519?_98_redirect=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.liferay.com%2Fdownloads%2Fliferay-portal%2Fcommunity-plugins%2F-%2Fsoftware_catalog%2Fproducts%3F_98_keywords%3Dnewsletter%26_98_page%3D1%26_98_type%3D%26_98_tabs1TabsScroll%3D%26_98_itemsPerPage%3D20

Almost 150 downloads on JUL 26th at :
http://code.google.com/p/newsletter-portlet

Principle is quiet simple, using announcement mechanism.

Hi,

It seems there are troubles with this portlet. I tried it some weeks ago and I wrote a thread about it in the french section of this forum : http://www.liferay.com/community/forums/-/message_boards/message/9932542
You may say me what I did wrong with it. Thx!

[Philippe Brière, modificado 12 Anos atrás.]

Hi,

Thanks for feedback, will investigate
Edit : war is not ok, will be changed asap, in the meanwile, you may compile from sources : ant build-service war

[Andrii Ishutin, modificado 12 Anos atrás.]

New version of newsletter portlet was uploaded (1.0.1).
Thanks to All for feedback.

[C M, modificado 12 Anos atrás.]

Hi,
thanks, your newsletter portlet :-).
It would be interesting if the portlet could also send mails to guests? What I mean is that it would be useful if every guest could register himself to the newsletters, without being a registered user of the Liferay portal. The guest could insert his email adress into a form and from there on he would recive the newsletter - mails.
Then it would be nice if a guest could also unregister himself from reciving newsletters... :-).

What do you think?

[Jasper Spoor, modificado 12 Anos atrás.]

Rotterdam Community Solutions developed a liferay newsletter portlet that covers pretty much every feature described in the wiki article mentioned above. Please have look at the following url, download and test our opensource portlet and tell us what you think.

http://www.liferay.com/en/downloads/liferay-portal/community-plugins/-/software_catalog/products/11816131

For updates, news announcements and future opensource contributions to Liferay, you can checkout our website at www.rotterdam-cs.com. If you would like to collaborate or be part of our team as a freelance Liferay developer, please send us your resume through the website's contact form.

[Gabriel Bustos Padilla, modificado 11 Anos atrás.]

Hi!

the problem of the portlet of newsletter of the Rotterdam company is that it doesn´t works in Liferay version 6.1.1 GA2 , anybody knows any newsletter portlet that works with this version?

Thanks!!

[Gabriel Bustos Padilla, modificado 10 Anos atrás.]

Hi! I have download it, anybody knows why with this porttel the admin user only can create lists in the root portal? I am not able to create it in whatever portal.

Thanks in advance!

[Bartlomiej Knabel, modificado 10 Anos atrás.]

You can also try this one: https://www.liferay.com/marketplace/-/mp/application/29079881