product notifications - getting name of product in it?

Hello
my problem in the Product Notification is that after having selected any product, moved them to the right and submitted, the emails are sent and received but no product/s in it. Just the text of the email that says i.e. "this news product/s have been added" or something similar!!!

Any idea ?

Thank you

Mario

Hello
sorry all to ask again about this but I am stuck with it:

In Tools/Newsletter and Product Notifications Manager:
Select Product Notification, selected a couple products, moved them to the right. Hit submit and move to the next page. The emails are sent but no product/s is/are mentioned in the email.

My question: the product/s that I select, moved to the right and submitted "have" to be on the email or not? If yes which one can be my problem? If not why we have to "pass" from that page?

Thank you very much

Mario

Since this hasn't been covered yet, would it be possible to see a screenshot of this problem ?

TheOracle:

Since this hasn't been covered yet, would it be possible to see a screenshot of this problem ?

Thank you for replaying, here are the 3 main screenshots:

photo1: is the page where you select the product and submit
photo2: is the page that appears immediately after
photo 3: is the page with the email succesfly sended.

The email is received but not product inside.

Thank you

Mario

The "product notifications" selection component is ONLY for choosing the audience of recipients.

You are responsible for creating all the content of the newsletter that you send to that audience.
If that means you need to talk about details of the specific product, then you need to do that yourself in your newsletter.

The interface provided currenly only controls "who" gets the emails.

DrByte:

The "product notifications" selection component is ONLY for choosing the audience of recipients.

You are responsible for creating all the content of the newsletter that you send to that audience.
If that means you need to talk about details of the specific product, then you need to do that yourself in your newsletter.

The interface provided currenly only controls "who" gets the emails.

So if I well undestood is unusefull to select the product and submit it.

It is just a "passage" that, at least for now, we can even skip.

Will be in the future that the selected product will appear in the body or subject of the email?

Thank you for replaying
Mario

You have complete control over the subject and body of the email. Simply enter what you desire, and the email will send to the persons who have opted-in to the list of products you select.

DrByte:

You have complete control over the subject and body of the email. Simply enter what you desire, and the email will send to the persons who have opted-in to the list of products you select.

For entering what I desire you mean that I have to write the name of the product right? not to pass from selecting it from those screen that I posted right?

Sorry but sometimes my english is not so perfect to explain what I mean and to understand it !!!!

thank you

Mario

Correct. You control all of the content of the newsletter. That includes the name of the product.

DrByte:

Correct. You control all of the content of the newsletter. That includes the name of the product.

Ok thanks I understood now how does it works and it works fine.
Thank you again.

Mario

DrByte,

Is there way to include the Product Name(s) as a link or thumbnail image(s) as an image link to the Product page...?
This could be very powerful if this was available.
Does anyone know the associated files to review in order to include this info in the out going email message...?

Thanks for your time,
Jim

The newsletter interface can be viewed as simply a place where you supply your pre-written content so that it can be sent to the selected audience.

Since your newsletter content is completely controlled by you, you can easily insert links to your products. Just copy/paste them from your webstore (without the zenid on the URL).
If you're doing HTML-formatted newsletters, you can easily insert standard HTML <IMG> tags to show images as well.
A little brushing up on some basic HTML concepts should be enough to help you add those things.

If you wish to programmatically change all of this, you can play with the files:
/admin/newsletters.php
/admin/product_notification.php
/admin/includes/modules/newsletter/*.php

DrByte,

Thanks for the prompt reply!

I, as well as a few others, have the idea that it would be nice to have the Product Notifications message include a text link, or better yet, an image link using the product thumbnail and include this into the email message. Since the admin is selecting which products from the list to use as criteria for who recieves this message, it would be nice if some Product Info was included in the notification email.
I realize this info can be copy/pasted into the message, but thought this could be streamlined by having the Notification System complete the task automatically/programmatically...

Thanks again,
Jim

I thoroughly agree with the last request as I am used to creating html newsletters selling my products using my old shopping cart system.

The only way I see how to do duplicate this is to create a newsletter category with sub-categories for individual newsletters and add in products within the pages of those newsletters.

Would be nice though to have a blog hooked up to the database and shopping cart.

Beth-Katherine

Would be nice though to have a blog hooked up to the database and shopping cart.

Perhaps this section of the following topic could help you out:
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=36348&highlight=blog&page=2

:wink2:

Kinda getting off topic...
WordPress and Product Notifications are two different features entirely.

I'm guessing that no body has a use for incorporating the selected products into the email message being sent to those that have the products in there notification list...

I have also added this in the Wish List.

Thanks again,
Jim