terminal42/contao-news_newsletter

Allows you to send your news as a newsletter using the Notification Center.

News to Newsletter

You want to send a newsletter every single time a news will be published? Here you go., _(*1)

How-to

Requirements

1. (notification_center)[https://extensions.contao.org/?p=terminal42%2Fnotification_center] installed
2. News module enabled
3. Newsletter module enabled

Configuration

Notification Center

[Manual of the Notification Center (German)][1], _(*2)

Gateway

Setup "Standard email gateway", _(*3)

Notifications

New notification - Type: News newsletter - Default, _(*4)

New message - Choose the gateway you added - Check "Publish message", _(*5)

Manage languages and add new language - Select a language and activate "Fallback" - Simple Tokens: - ##news_## - ##news_archive_## - ##news_headline## - ##news_teaser## - ##news_text## (content elements) - ##news_url##, _(*6)

Newsletter (Contao)

• Add new channel

News

• Add news archive and enable newsletter in the setting
• Choose the newsletter channel and the notification
• Write a new article and do not publish it by check "Publish item"
• Save and close
• In the news overview click on the envelope icon
• A message shows up saying "Newsletter sent successfully!"