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10/27/2010 1:01:45 AM
naveenv2002
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email newsletter

Hi Joe/folks,

Is there a possibility to programmatically create an email newsletter template or populate newsletter content. Kind of the newsletter content has to be populated from the database or alternatively atleast from a rss feed / webservice. Did see business1 and template1 templates with plain html in there but not sure how to get the data from the db into the email newsletter template. A sample code snippet would be great.

Thanks

Nave

10/27/2010 7:21:40 AM
Joe Audette
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Re: email newsletter

It is not currently possible unless you build a custom newsletter solution of some kind.

In general one has to consider the differences between email clients and web browsers. There are lots of things you can do in web page content viewed in a web browser that cannot be done in email. Even styling html cannot be done the same in email and has many limitations. So this does not make it really feasible to integrate web page content in email newsletters easily. Our newsletter feature does not try to do that, it only provides a way to author and send newsletters.

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Joe

10/27/2010 9:26:38 AM
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Re: email newsletter

Thanks Joe for the immediate response. I could alternatively get the data from db and inject as pure html into the newsletter content. while sending. I tried to do this way in a newsletter send event. But not sure if that is the place where I could do it.  I am okay with having a standard template and using it but atleast looking for ability to include pure html into the template while sending. Is it a good idea to write to the standard template using file system object while sending. I really appreciate finding an event to intercept in the sending process so I could inject the pure(acceptable email format) html into the newsletter content (is it letter.content in the letteredit.aspx?).

thanks

Nave

11/19/2010 3:53:33 PM
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Re: email newsletter

Can you provide me some leads/hint as to how I could go ahead with custom newsletter solution. I could get the data and emit it into an html fragment and then if I could get the newsletter pickup this fragment, that could be one way of doing. Let me know your thoughts.

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