Newsletter Groups

Back when I installed 1.27 there was a way to create certain groups for newsletters. I had created one just for testing the newsletter before I sent one to subscribers. I am using current version of Zencart now and need to know again how to create a test group for testing the newsletter.

Does anyone know how I can create a group just for testing the newsletter?

Marian

Seamstobesew:

Does anyone know how I can create a group just for testing the newsletter?You don't need a "group". You can choose "Administrator" from the pulldown list, and it'll send the newsletter to the email address of the administrator you're currently logged-in as.

Thanks Dr. Byte, I will give that a try.

What happens when two admins are logged in at the same time? Will both receive a copy?

Marian

I repeat :> DrByte:

it'll send the newsletter to the email address of the administrator you're currently logged-in as.

I understood it the first time, I was merely asking what happens with a 2nd admin logged in.

However, I really would prefer it to work with a 2nd person or even a 3rd so I can test html versus text emails at the same time instead of sending two different emails. It was great when we could make it a group and just send it to that group.

Thank you for your response, I really, do appreciate your help.

Marian

Seamstobesew:

It was great when we could make it a group and just send it to that group.I'm not sure what you're referring to. No functionality has been removed.

How did you "make a group" before?
Who was in it?
How did you get them in it?

Back when I first started adding zencart to client sites, there was a way to make a group of names. Trying to remember, kind of like setting up groups for discounts. You still set the "customers" group in the customer section, made the group under Customers / Group Pricing. You then go to Customers, and change there group to "test pricing group" or whatever name you named the group in group pricing. The problem tho is that I can't get that group to show up on the "please select" in the newsletter list for groups that we can send to, and this is ultimately what I was trying to ask this morning, but just didn't explain it well enough.

This way you can add several email addies to a group for testing the newsletter, have one on html, one on text, if someone has aol, they may agree to let you send them test newsletters (I find aol in particular to have various problems with receiving newsletters) as well a webmaster, and admin can receive test newsletters.

Hope my explanation helps you understand now what I meant earlier.

Thank you for any help you can give in helping me to get this working on a new site I have been working on. I have it working on a current site, but her site was one of my original zencart sites back in 1.26 and 1.27 versions. All my client sites are in current versions of zencart now, so the only thing I need to do at this point is remember how I got it to show up in the newsletter "please select" list.

Marian

Okay, yes, you can insert additional queries in the query_builder table to populate the pulldown menu. You'd have to custom-write your SQL query to pull customer data based on their customer_group_id value.

and that's where'd I'be at a loss, as I've no clue whatsoever of how to do that. Thank you again Dr. Byte, appreciate your help.

Marian

You mean this?
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpost.php?p=112304&postcount=14

which is similar to this:
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=79691

And don't forget about this discussion you had from way back then:
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=32387

I already knew you were amazing Dr. Byte and I was actually looking for some of my old threads, I know there's a way to get to them, but still couldn't find it. I'd knew I had asked previously about this newsletter trick and thank you for helping me find those queries. As always you are one of the best in this forum, I'm truly grateful.

Marian

aw shucks ... thanks

Click on your name in your post above mine. Then click on "find more posts". There's a wealth of history there.