Newsletter

Hi David, thanks for the quick reply.
However, what does it mean for the future of the plugin? Are you going to update it in due time, or will you not be able to modify it recently?
Actually, I'm not able to use it – therefore I need to find a solution soon. Does it make sense to wait and overcome the waiting time with a temp solution, or should I better go for anything new?
Kind regards
Walter

Hi Walter,
we only supported 2 text editors (tinymce and plain text) because we needed some JavaScript to interact with the editor and there was not enough resources to support all editors. Now Moodle removed tinymce and replaced it with tiny (tinymce is a legacy version of tiny). That's the reason you only see plain text because tiny is not supported. The JavaScript applies the CSS file to the editor so that you see how your newsletter looks with the CSS file that you selected.
We would need to rewrite the JavaScript (it is still in YUI instead of ES6) and add support for tiny. As none of our clients uses Moodle 4.2 right now we did not do that yet. There is a todo in the code already:
https://github.com/Wunderbyte-GmbH/moodle-mod_newsletter/blob/c43e34f1a6dcfeafc87db5c12f703f2ecf551505/classes/newsletter.php#L934
That's the JS that has to be rewritten as AMD module:
https://github.com/Wunderbyte-GmbH/moodle-mod_newsletter/blob/c43e34f1a6dcfeafc87db5c12f703f2ecf551505/module.js
Kind regards,
David

After updating to the current version 4.2+, I no longer have any editor menu icons available in the "Newsletter" plugin edit section. It seems tinyMCE and Atto are simply not available anymore for the newsletter editor.
I.e. Atto, or Tiny editor are no longer available. I can only enter plain text.
If I call up an older newsletter, I no longer see the comfortable editor either and the text is currently displayed just in HTML format.
For all other entries and files in Moodle, the editor works normally.
Is this a problem with the plugin running under 4.2?

Dear Sofia, when you add a newsletter to the frontpage you are going to be able to have different subscription options and also you can subscribe cohorts to the newsletter. Also sending issues to a certain cohort is possible. Everything is quite self explaining. Just test it. If you do not choose "Forced subscription" you will have an unsubscribe link at the end of the emails sent for every newsletter issue.
Kind regards,
David

Dear Davide, thank you for the reply.
To make sure I have understood you correctly, I ask a further question.
When it says in the plugin description:
" The features are:
- ...
- Management of subscribed users: Cohort (un)subscription, Ajax user (un)subscription, filtering users
- Auto generated unsubscribe link
- ...."
What is meant?
Kind regards,
Sofia

Dear Sofia, at the moment this is not yet implemented. The unsubscribe link is always at the bottom of the newsletter issue. But it would be easy to implement it. I am happy to merge any code contribution. You can also have a quote for that feature via writing to info at wunderbyte.at
Kind regards,
David

Hi, how is possible to add "Auto generated unsubscribe link" on the content of e-mail?
In any case where I found the setting about the Auto generated unsubscribe link?
Thank you.

Thank you for your reply! I did try that, I just wish the "Read Online' link was only in the email and did not have to be in the online version, since it seems redundant - clicking it online would simply refresh the page.

... the link is a placeholder and will be automatically replaced with the URL to the newsletter.

Hi Michelle, it is possible to link to the web version of the newsletter like this: <a href="news://issueurl/">Read online</a>
What is not possible right now is to have a short version sent out and a long version for online reading. That could be implemented though. We can send you a quote if you are interested in that feature.

Hi David, is it possible to include a link in the newsletter email that links back the the web version? I know I can manually add a link...but is the only option for the email to be the full text of the newsletter with no link back to the web version? My client would like participants to read the newsletter on the site and just get an email stating something along the lines of "a new issue is available here." Hope that makes sense.

Hi Sofia,
what you can do is to upload user via CSV Upload in site administration and add the users to a cohort and subscribe the cohort to the newsletter.
Kind regards,
David

Hi David,
thanks for plugin.
Is it possible to import newsletter subscribers via the csv file?
Best regards,
Sofia

Hi David,
That's great news. Thank you so much.
Best regards,
Tumer

Hi Tumer,
yes, in fact we are working on that feature. We will upload a new version this spring.
Kind regards,
David