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Newsletter Portlet

I added this as a child page because the functionality was so well laid out.  The original post is here

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?

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These new features would be very usefull... Jacques Scius 20 de octubre de 2009 5:57
I'm another person who can see huge benefits... D B 20 de octubre de 2009 7:42
this is what i'm looking for...Hope it is... Nicola Peluchetti 20 de octubre de 2009 8:55
wow great features. delang j 20 de octubre de 2009 19:55
Really Nice features portlet. Very Usefull... Rameez Mohammed 21 de octubre de 2009 1:04
Very nice design - exactly what I would need. Michael Muecke 5 de noviembre de 2009 7:11
I volunteer to help program this feature. I... M.T.Storm M.T.Storm 25 de noviembre de 2009 16:29
Has somebody already start this development or... Antony GUILLOTEAU 7 de mayo de 2010 2:43
This would be a great addition to the current... Miguel Angel Perez 11 de noviembre de 2010 1:04
is vital :-) Filippo Boatto 11 de noviembre de 2010 1:10
It will be great to have Tamir allamiro 17 de noviembre de 2010 9:26
We started work on such portlet. Current state... Szymon Gołębiewski 6 de enero de 2011 4:11
Good work :) can't wait to see finished one Suresh Nimmakayala 26 de abril de 2011 14:03
Hi, this may help :... Philippe Brière 21 de junio de 2011 11:17
Sorry wrong link :... Philippe Brière 21 de junio de 2011 11:19
This would be a great feature. Scott Palmer 2 de febrero de 2011 17:31
Lately was added an LGPL newsletter portlet to... Cyprian Gajda 20 de octubre de 2011 8:38
You could try this one:... plugins Rithm 20 de diciembre de 2011 6:03
Rotterdam Community Solutions developed a... Jasper Spoor 14 de marzo de 2012 1:46
Wierd when i copied your link and pasted in... Achmed Tyrannus Albab 25 de marzo de 2012 23:25
Jasper, are there any previous configurations... Achmed Tyrannus Albab 26 de marzo de 2012 0:58
In my catalina log: INFO: Server startup in... Achmed Tyrannus Albab 26 de marzo de 2012 1:01
Hi Achmed, Despite that the Update Manager in... Federico Miralles 20 de septiembre de 2012 7:45
Yet another and probably the newsletter: best:... Bartłomiej Knabel 5 de enero de 2014 14:17
We are actually interested in this! We would... Shawn Kaybody 17 de abril de 2014 4:50

These new features would be very usefull...
Publicado el día 20/10/09 5:57.
I'm another person who can see huge benefits from this portlet. I do hope that it sees the light of day!
Publicado el día 20/10/09 7:42.
this is what i'm looking for...Hope it is developed soon
Publicado el día 20/10/09 8:55.
Publicado el día 20/10/09 19:55.
Really Nice features portlet. Very Usefull...
Publicado el día 21/10/09 1:04.
Very nice design - exactly what I would need.
Publicado el día 5/11/09 7:11.
I volunteer to help program this feature. I need it pretty bad snd I hope we can build it together.
Publicado el día 25/11/09 16:29 en respuesta a Michael Muecke.
Has somebody already start this development or similar ?
Publicado el día 7/05/10 2:43.
This would be a great addition to the current set of portlets.

I would also add that an anonymous user (guest) should be able of subscribing to the newsletter without being a registered user of the portal.
Publicado el día 11/11/10 1:04.
Publicado el día 11/11/10 1:10.
It will be great to have
Publicado el día 17/11/10 9:26.
We started work on such portlet. Current state is "it can send emails" emoticon http://liferaycms.wordpress.com/2011/01/06/newsletter-portlet-for-liferay-6-ce/
Publicado el día 6/01/11 4:11 en respuesta a Tamir Suliman.
This would be a great feature.
Publicado el día 2/02/11 17:31.
Good work emoticon can't wait to see finished one
Publicado el día 26/04/11 14:03 en respuesta a Szymon Gołębiewski.
Hi, this may help : http://liferaycms.wordpress.com/2011/01/06/newsletter-portlet-for-liferay-6-ce/
Publicado el día 21/06/11 11:17 en respuesta a Suresh Nimmakayala.
Sorry wrong link : http://www.liferay.com/downloads/liferay-portal/community-plugins/-/software_cat­alog/products?_98_tabs1TabsScroll=&_98_keywords=newsletter&_98_type=
Publicado el día 21/06/11 11:19 en respuesta a Philippe Brière.
Lately was added an LGPL newsletter portlet to liferay community plugins please visit link below. I find that you will enjoy using it emoticon
http://www.liferay.com/downloads/liferay-portal/community-plugins/-/software_cat­alog/products/11134902?_98_redirect=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.liferay.com%2Fdownloads%2Fl­iferay-portal%2Fcommunity-plugins%2F-%2Fsoftware_catalog%2Fmy_products
Publicado el día 20/10/11 8:38.
You could try this one:
http://www.liferay.com/en/downloads/liferay-portal/community-plugins/-/softw­are_catalog/products/11816131
Publicado el día 20/12/11 6:03 en respuesta a Cyprian Gajda.
Rotterdam Community Solutions developed a liferay newsletter portlet that covers pretty much every feature described in the article. 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 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.
Publicado el día 14/03/12 1:46.
Wierd when i copied your link and pasted in Notepad++ it automatically added - in sof-tware. To anyone else just remove the hash and youll get to the link.

http://www.liferay.com/en/downloads/liferay-portal/community-plugins/-/sof­tware­_catalog/products/11816131
Publicado el día 25/03/12 23:25 en respuesta a Jasper Spoor.
Jasper, are there any previous configurations needs to be done before installing the RCS newsletter portlet. I managed to install it via Control Panel but it doesnt show anywhere. In webapps the folder is there. It just doesnt show in Control Panel. Using LF 6.0.5 with RCS Newsletter 2.0.2.
Publicado el día 26/03/12 0:58 en respuesta a Achmed Tyrannus Albab.
In my catalina log:

INFO: Server startup in 35258 ms


Mar 26, 2012 2:59:01 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDirectory
INFO: Deploying web application directory rcs-newsletter-portlet
Mar 26, 2012 2:59:07 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
SEVERE: Error listenerStart
Mar 26, 2012 2:59:07 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
SEVERE: Context [/rcs-newsletter-portlet] startup failed due to previous errors
Publicado el día 26/03/12 1:01 en respuesta a Achmed Tyrannus Albab.
Hi Achmed,

Despite that the Update Manager in Control Panel doesn't show the portlet is still there. So to fix this you should remove newsletter-portlet directory under <liferayHome>/tomcat-x.x.xx/webapps/ and <liferayHome>/tomcat-x.x.xx/work/Catalina/localhost/ and redeploy. If the problem persist please check the pom.xml for some dependencies you've added and try removing one by one and repeat the above process again until you find the problematic one.

Regards!
Publicado el día 20/09/12 7:45 en respuesta a Achmed Tyrannus Albab.
Yet another and probably the newsletter: best: https://www.liferay.com/marketplace/-/mp/application/29079881
Publicado el día 5/01/14 14:17.
We are actually interested in this!

We would need this Features!
Publicado el día 17/04/14 4:50.