Newsletter

Will this plugin work on moodle 3.0?

Hi,
you might try to just replace these with search/replace. But I do not know if that is going to work. Use a search tool, that replaces all matches within a directory. On Ubuntu Linux that would be Searchmonkey or you can use an IDE like Eclipse. There might be an updated version until end of the year, but right now, there are other things that have priority.
Kind regards,
David

I was on the process of installing a new moodle site when Moodle 3.0 appeared; and I decided to install it. When looking for the Newsletter module, I became aware that the latest was for Moodle 2.9.
I installed it anyway and hoped for the best. Everything appears to work fine except for "Manage subscriptions". When I tried it, I got:
Coding error detected, it must be fixed by a programmer: Function cohort_get_visible_list() is removed. Please use function cohort_get_available_cohorts() ". "that correctly checks capabilities.
I would like to change it and see what happens. Which file should I edit?
"Subscribe/Unsuscribe" appears to work fine.

Now Works fine with the new update!!! Thanks David!! All the best.

I'm using Moodle 2.9.2+ (Build: 20151023) The last one. And my issue has only a text like "Lorem Ipsum". Only for making tests

Hi Ferran,
thanks for the comment. I will have a look at it now. What moodle version are you using?
Kind regards,
David

Hi David:
I have an error on my cron execution. It says..."Improper use of the newsletter class. Cannot load the newsletter record." I don't know what I have to change in my moodle installation. Any idea??

Hi Bobby,
to send a newsletter: create a new newsletter issue, set the publishing date and make sure cronjob https://docs.moodle.org/29/en/Cron is running. It will be sent on the publishing date.
Best,
David

hi david, settings are not problem, but i dont know how to send newletter

Hi Chardelle,
thank you for the feedback. I did rewrite the code for auto subscription upon add_instance and update instance. Concerning groups: It would be great if you can provide the code for groups and provide it on github, then I could merge it.
I will publish a new release in the following days.
Kind regards,
David

@bobby peru: Documentation will only be available late this year. meanwhile, please just experiment with the settings. most features do not need extra explanation.

Hi all,
can you explain me, how to use the newsletter plugin? i installed a set it, but when i wont to send newsletter, i dont know ho to do it.
thx!
best bobby

No, problem. I have a site with dozens of groups, so a newsletter for each one is unreasonable. I just added some group code similar to forums and it worked great, newsletter went only to chosen group (I added groupid to the newsletter_issues table). I will be waiting for your addition of adding user variables to the content.
A couple of things I noticed testing this in 2.9. There are a couple of notices for deprecated code that need updated. Also, when a newsletter is added with forced, all users are added to the subscriptions with no subscription date. You really should add timesubscribed to the newsletter_subscriptions in the newsletter_add_instance function.
Thanks for sharing!

Hi Chardelle,
no we do not plan that feature. You can already subscribe cohorts to a newsletter, but not course groups. Do you want to subscribe a group or do you want to have some posts to be sent to one group and other posts to another group? In second case I would recommend to use 2 separate newsletter instances. In the first case I could put that on the wishlist.
Best,
David

Hi David,
Do you have any plans to be able to choose a group to send the newsletter too, similar to the news forum?