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 creation of newsletters - 2008/04/24 14:50 hello all,
I have a couple of questions regarding the creation of newsletters:

1. When you use the [article] tag, will the article's image (e.g. {mosimage} also be included in the newsletter?

2. Is it possible to create sections/headers in the newsletter and use the [article] tag, or will in that case all articles be placed together?

3. Is it possible to include separators in between articles (content items)?

4. If the answer to 3 and 4 is 'no' is there an alternative and easy way of including website content/articles in the newsletter?

I'd appreciate any help, thanks a lot,
Alex
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 Re:creation of newsletters - 2008/04/24 23:13 G'day Alex

To answer 1. yes all mosimage tags are processed in the content items.

To answer the rest I will briefly explain the 2 ways of including content

Option 1
If you use the [ITEMS] tag then it will be replaced with all of the content. You have no control over the layout, it is just each content item one after the other.
The content items include a header tag, h2 i believe for the titles and that is it.

Option 2
Using the [ARTICLE]...[/ARTICLE] block you can have more control over the layout of content items.
You cannot just use the [ARTICLE] tag by itself. It requires a closing tag. Furthermore it needs some other tags inside to control what is shown.

An example of a ARTICLE tag block is the following

[ARTICLE]
<h1>[ARTICLE_TITLE]</h1>
[ARTICLE_INTRO]
[ARTICLE_READMORE]
[/ARTICLE]

This is a very simple example but shows some of the tags that can be used
Using the Joomla! editor you would normally just apply the Header 1 style the ARTICLE_TITLE tag.
If you wanted to use something like a hr as the seperator you could add that after the ARTICLE_READMORE nad before the closing /ARTICLE tags.

See the online help in the product for more information about the available tags.
You can also download the Lite version of SM2 Email Marketing and try it out for yourself. It is fully featured, just limited to 1 plugin active at a time and only sends to the first 100 recipients per message. Once you have evaluated the product and wish to use it unrestricted simple purchase a licence and enter the licence key in the SM2 Email Marketing Configuration and it is unlocked and ready to go with nothing extra to download.

Hope this helps
Tony
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Client370

 
 Re:creation of newsletters - 2008/04/24 23:32 Yes, this helps enormously ... I can see the light now. Option 2 seems the way to go for me and I'll install the light version as you suggested to play with the tags.

One more related question, if that's ok:
Is it possible to define the size of the image and the length of the intro in any way?

Thanks very much for the help!
Alex
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 Re:creation of newsletters - 2008/04/25 01:44 G'day Alex

No we do not modify the content in any way. The image will be displayed exactly as it would if it were viewed on the website as the normal content item.
As for the amount of text there is one tag that displays the intro of the content item and another than displays the main text.

Hope this helps
Tony
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Client370

 
 Re:creation of newsletters - 2008/04/25 05:50 All clear, thanks very much again!
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