Status
Related: Webmail, Inter-User Messages
Bugs & Wishes
Open or Pending
Title | LastModif | Resolution Status | Submitted By | Volunteered | Category | Version | Feature | Priority | |
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Group registration in newsletters conflicts with the "Use email as username" feature | 28 Oct 13 | Marc Laporte |
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6.x 7.x 8.x 9.x |
Newsletters User Administration (Registration, Login & Banning) |
8 |
Closed
Title | LastModif | Resolution Status | Submitted By | Volunteered | Category | Version | Feature | Priority | |
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Encoding issue with Newsletter in Tiki15 and maybe additional preference issue | 25 Apr 16 | Fixed or Solved | Torsten Fabricius | rjsmelo |
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15.x 15.x Regression |
Newsletters | 25 | |
User with only the tiki_p_subscribe_newsletters permission doesn't see the Subscribe button | 31 Dec 07 | Geoff Brickell | 25 | ||||||
Special characters in newsletters & email notifications when copy-pasting from Microsoft Word | 13 Oct 21 | Works For Me | Marc Laporte | sylvieg |
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1.9.x |
i18n (Multilingual, l10n, Babelfish) Newsletters Watch (email notifications of changes) |
25 | |
Newsletter: import emails from .csv | 07 Dec 08 | Fix on the Way | Marc Laporte | sylvieg | 25 | ||||
Newsletters do not show the list of emails being sent to | 24 Jan 17 | Fixed or Solved | Xavier de Pedro |
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15.x 15.x Regression 16.x 16.x Regression |
Newsletters | 25 | ||
Missing Permissions assignment feature for Newsletters | 29 Oct 10 | Olaf-Michael Stefanov | Philippe Cloutier | 25 | |||||
Newsletter: more option for the "from" address | 24 Jan 17 | Fixed or Solved | Marc Laporte | sylvieg |
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2.x | Newsletters | 20 | |
newsletter / cron job with content of since_last_visit_new | 11 Oct 21 | Fixed or Solved | Marc Laporte |
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2.x | Newsletters | 20 | ||
Newsletter sends text and html and no way to choose only one | 10 Jan 17 | Fixed or Solved | Xavier de Pedro |
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15.x 15.x Regression 16.x 16.x Regression 17.x 17.x Regression |
Newsletters | 20 | ||
Newsletter: attaching files | 14 Jun 12 | Fixed or Solved | Marc Laporte | sylvieg |
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2.x |
File Gallery (elFinder or standard UI) Newsletters |
20 | |
Per user/group newsletter administration (adding category or object permissions) | 23 Oct 17 | Duplicate | Torsten Fabricius |
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17.x 18.x |
Category Group Newsletters Permission |
18 | ||
HTML newsletter/email output unreliable/distorted | 24 Jan 17 | Out of Date | Peter |
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1.9.x | Newsletters | 15 | ||
Using desktop mail client (ex.: Thunderbird) to reach Tiki contacts, groups or newsletter | 16 Apr 12 | Fixed or Solved | Marc Laporte |
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2.x |
Contact (address book) Group Infrastructure Interaction (with the outside World) New feature (not an enhancement to a current one) Newsletters User Administration (Registration, Login & Banning) Webmail |
10 | ||
Newsletter feature missing in tiki-admin_layout.php | 24 Sep 21 | Fixed or Solved | Marc Laporte |
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Newsletters Theme: Look & feel, Styles, CSS, Theme Control Center |
10 | |||
tiki-send_newsletters.php results in 501 Method Not Implemented | 30 Sep 21 | Invalid | rjlabs | rjlabs |
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Newsletters Templates (Smarty) |
10 | ||
tiki-send_newsletters.php : pagination is broken | 10 Jul 07 | Fix on the Way | Marc Laporte | sylvieg | 5 |
Style adjustments
This is a micro-revamp to replace using the entire active theme stylesheet with a theme-specific newsletter.css file that contains just a subset of CSS rules that are appropriate for a newsletter.
Stylesheet generating process (subject to change)
- There's a theme-specific stylesheet for newsletters - themes/<themename>/css/newsletter.css
- which is generated from a Less file - themes/<themename>/less/newsletter.less
- using values from themes/<themename>/less/bootstrap-variables.less, etc.
- These can override a default file - themes/base_files/css/newsletter.css
- which is compiled from themes/base_files/less/newsletter.less,
- the values for which are defined in themes/base_files/tiki-variables.less.
This will produce an external or embedded stylesheet that styles HTML divs, etc. which doesn't seem to be best practice (see references following), but apparently has been working ok for past Tiki newsletters.
References about HTML email recommendations
Email Standards Project - https://www.email-standards.org/
A complete breakdown of the CSS support for the top 10 most popular mobile, web and desktop email clients on the planet. - https://www.campaignmonitor.com/css/
Using CSS and HTML in Email Newsletters - http://groundwire.org/labs/email_publishing/using_css_and_html_in_email_newsletters/index.html
CSS in HTML Email - http://kb.mailchimp.com/campaigns/ways-to-build/css-in-html-email
A Bulletproof Guide to Using HTML5 and CSS3 in Email - https://litmus.com/blog/a-bulletproof-guide-to-using-html5-and-css3-in-email
Roadmap
Next steps would be to have more of the fancy CRM-like features, like click-through tracking.
Missing features:
- Per user/group newsletter administration based on category permission or on object permission.
It should (shall) be possible for specified groups to provide an own group-newsletter created by a superuser, which then could (shall) be administrated by one or more specified group members / group admins whilst the newsletter admin of one group cannot (shall not) administrate or alter the newsletter(s) of another group.
This could be accomplished by adding to the code the opportunity to categorise newsletters and to add certain admin-permissions like tiki_p_batch_subscribe_email, tiki_p_send_newsletters, tiki_p_subscribe_email, tiki_p_subscribe_newsletters, tiki_p_view_newsletter, tiki_p_list_newsletters to the category permissions (not tiki_p_admin_newsletters)
There should be a distinction between tiki_p_admin_newsletters which includes the permission to create a new newsletter and the now not (yet) existing tiki_p_admin_newsletter which would limit admin permissions to the specific newsletter.
see feature request (wishlist): item6469
- Personalised Newsletter
There are various options to fetch the eMail addresses as list of receipients of newsletters in Tiki, although one important is missing:
There is no standard option to create personalised newsletters, either from a Tracker or from a CSV file.
A very common and important feature for newsletters (despite Tiki doesn't cover that) is the opportunity to send personalised newsletters with personal salutations like "Dear Mr. Doe", "Dear Ms Smith", "Dear Prof. Dr. Nevertheless".
If a newsletter could fetch a limited number of field from a Tracker by using permanent field names - optionally but not necessarily a user tracker - it would be quite easy to create a personalised newsletter.
Additionally it could be considered to either implement an option to self-subscribe to the newsletter via the Tracker - with the problem to handle self-unsibscribe by an unsubscribe link in the sent newsletter or to add oneself to the tracker by the subscription link.
see feature request (wishlist): item6470
doc:Newsletters
Demo
Standards and/or other software
http://tiki.org/tiki-directory_browse.php?parent=34
Other links
Newsletter with text & html patch Has someone tested this?
Templates
- https://github.com/philwareham/responsive-email
- http://zurb.com/playground/responsive-email-templates
- http://htmlemailboilerplate.com/
- https://github.com/mailchimp/Email-Blueprints
- http://mobile.smashingmagazine.com/2011/08/18/from-monitor-to-mobile-optimizing-email-newsletters-with-css/
- https://github.com/seanpowell/Email-Boilerplate