Re: How to send nice html newsletters?

2010-05-08 Thread Patrick
I would just invoke SendEmailFromScreen, and make a screen that you want to send. On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 3:28 AM, Bruno Busco wrote: > Hi, > I would like to send a nicely shaped HTML newsletter to users subscribed in > a contact list. > How to do this? > Should I define a FTL file? A piece of con

Re: How to send nice html newsletters?

2010-05-08 Thread BJ Freeman
true, the feed back I get is that they have their email client convert emails to txt, mostly for security reasons. so I have a selection for them to select how they want the email sent. so the original is done in HTML but it then converted to text. = BJ Freeman http://bjfr

Re: How to send nice html newsletters?

2010-05-08 Thread Bruno Busco
You are right. HTML mail is not necessary to embed links. But definitively needed to have a nice look. -Bruno 2010/5/8 BJ Freeman > not sure about your email client but mine show the clickable links > without html. > like my signature > > = > BJ Freeman > http://bjfreem

Re: How to send nice html newsletters?

2010-05-08 Thread BJ Freeman
not sure about your email client but mine show the clickable links without html. like my signature = BJ Freeman http://bjfreeman.elance.com Strategic Power Office with Supplier Automation Specialtymarket.com

Re: How to send nice html newsletters?

2010-05-08 Thread Bruno Busco
This is just the application I was looking for. I need to send to users HTML notification mails for events that happen on the server. I want to define a contact list for every event so that I can control who is informed of what by including users in contact lists or not. Emails should be HTML becau

Re: How to send nice html newsletters?

2010-05-08 Thread Bruno Busco
Thank you Chris, Ruth and BJ, I think that this feature would be very appreciated if included in the OOTB applications. As you say it is almost everything already there -Bruno 2010/5/8 BJ Freeman > sounds like a great app ruth. > > = > BJ Freeman > http://bjfreeman.e

Re: How to send nice html newsletters?

2010-05-08 Thread BJ Freeman
sounds like a great app ruth. = BJ Freeman http://bjfreeman.elance.com Strategic Power Office with Supplier Automation Specialtymarket.com Systems Integrator-- Glad to Assis

Re: How to send nice html newsletters?

2010-05-08 Thread BJ Freeman
I extened the ecommerce email configuration. it has all the data needed just have to add service to pull from the data resource and put it together. allowing different data resources to be integrated, provides away for static components as well as ones that change. then created a UI to manage the s

Re: How to send nice html newsletters?

2010-05-08 Thread Ruth Hoffman
Hi Bruno: One more thing, my application lets the mailing list manager view the HTML email as it is being built. So, you can work up your template, view it as the client would see it using the OFBiz webapp I built and then, when the email manger is happy with the Freemarker template, apply it t

Re: How to send nice html newsletters?

2010-05-08 Thread Ruth Hoffman
Hi Bruno: I wrote an application that takes a Freemarker template, based on the mailing list id, merges it with dynamic data and sends it using the basic sendMail service to all the contact mechs associated with the mailing list id. I mostly used existing services. What needed to be done was

Re: How to send nice html newsletters?

2010-05-08 Thread chris snow
I'm not in front of my pc at the moment so take this with a pinch on salt On 8 May 2010 11:00, "Bruno Busco" wrote: Hi Chris, so, at the moment, there is no UI to select a content (or a Birt report) to be sent to a Contact list, right? What would be the best way to extend the OOTB applications t

Re: How to send nice html newsletters?

2010-05-08 Thread Bruno Busco
Hi Chris, so, at the moment, there is no UI to select a content (or a Birt report) to be sent to a Contact list, right? What would be the best way to extend the OOTB applications to add this feature in a general way so that could be submitted back to the trunk? -Bruno 2010/5/8 chris snow > Birt

Re: How to send nice html newsletters?

2010-05-08 Thread chris snow
Birt is one option. On 8 May 2010 09:29, "Bruno Busco" wrote: Hi, I would like to send a nicely shaped HTML newsletter to users subscribed in a contact list. How to do this? Should I define a FTL file? A piece of content? And then how to make the content being sent to the list? Thank you very m

How to send nice html newsletters?

2010-05-08 Thread Bruno Busco
Hi, I would like to send a nicely shaped HTML newsletter to users subscribed in a contact list. How to do this? Should I define a FTL file? A piece of content? And then how to make the content being sent to the list? Thank you very much for any pointer on something already in place OOTB or for any