rer.newsletter 0.3.1

New Content-type

• Channel

  • Totally customizable because it is possible to set a header, a footer and CSS styles. This fields allows to uniform template of email that will be sent from one channel.

  • content type that inherit from folder content.

• Message

  • content type that inherit from folder content.

Portlet and Tile

The product provide a portlet and a tile for user subscribe.

Form for user subscribe have two fields: email and reCaptcha, so do not forget to set key for reCaptcha fields. See plone.formwidget.recaptcha for more details.

User Manage

Allows complete management of user.

• Add user from admin setting

• Delete user from admin setting

• Import users directly from CSV file

• Export users directly to CSV file

• Delete a group of user directly from CSV file

• Subscribe users

• Unsubscribe users

Utility for email sending

This product normaly send email through plone mailer, but creating a product which implements the utility IChannelUtility it is possible use another system of mailing-list, like for example mailman.

At the inside of IChannel Utility interface are described all methods that will be implemented and the way that they must responded.

Utility declaration:

<utility
  provides=".channel.IChannelUtility"
  factory=".base.BaseHandler" />

and creates a class that implement utility interface:

@implementer(IChannelUtility)
class BaseHandler(object):
    """ utility class to send channel email with mailer of plone """

Advanced security

New permissions have been added for the management of the Newsletter:

• rer.newsletter: Add Channel

• rer.newsletter: Add Message

• rer.newsletter: Manage Newsletter

• rer.newsletter: Send Newsletter

This permission are assigned to Manager and Site Administrator. Besides it been added a new role Gestore Newsletter which have permissions for all possible operations on newsletter.

Asynchronous sending of email

rer.newsletter supports asyncronous sendout using collective.taskqueue, that it is already installed like a dependency of product.

For support this asyncronous sendout you must add to section instance-settings of your buildout this configuration:

zope-conf-additional =
   %import collective.taskqueue
   <taskqueue>
     queue rer.newsletter.queue
   </taskqueue>
   <taskqueue-server>
     queue rer.newsletter.queue
   </taskqueue-server>

This code adds a queue to which various email submissions are added. See collective.taskqueue for more details.

Cron job

rer.newsletter have a view that can called from a cron job. This view delete all users that not have confirmed subscription to a channel in time.

Inside the settings of the product there is a field that allows you to set validity time of the channel subscription token.

View is:

.../@@delete_expired_users

0.3.1 (2020-03-18)

• Fixed subscribers import in Python3.

• Fixed RichText behavior name in types definition. [daniele]

0.3.0 (2020-03-07)

• Python 3 compatibility. [cekk]

0.2.0 (2019-04-01)

• Fix initializedModal.js to support new functionality in tilesmanagement: anonymous always load a static version of tiles list. [cekk]

0.1.12 (2019-01-30)

• Added shippable collection.

• Fixed template for shippable collection.

• Fixed search object for channel history view. [eikichi18]

• a11y: added role attribute for portalMessage [nzambello]

0.1.11 (2018-09-27)

• Fix ascii encode problem on site name. [eikichi18]

0.1.10 (2018-09-27)

• Added number of removed user on delete_expired_users view.

• Removed layer for delete_expired_users view.

• Fixed view for delete expired users. [eikichi18]

0.1.9 (2018-09-20)

• Fixed modal timeout [eikichi18]

0.1.8 (2018-07-19)

• Added Redis for asynchronous task

• Fixed label of close button on subscription modal

• Added Translatation

• Fixed the way in which it takes the title of the site

• Added content rules for user subscription and unsubscription [eikichi18]

0.1.7 (2018-06-19)

• Fixed buildout [eikichi18]

0.1.6 (2018-06-19)

• Fixed some minor label [eikichi18]

0.1.5 (2018-05-25)

• fixed default profile in upgrade step [eikichi18]

0.1.4 (2018-05-23)

• upgrade step to fix bundle for initializedModal.js [eikichi18]

0.1.3 (2018-05-23)

• Fixed accessibility problem on subscribe/unsubscribe modal for IE. [eikichi18]

0.1.2 (2018-03-15)

• Fixed accessibility and style for subscribe/unsubscribe modal. [eikichi18]

0.1.1 (2018-03-02)

• Fixed doc. [eikichi18]

0.1.0 (2018-03-02)

• Initial release. [eikichi18]