NSPro newsletterlist link

Hi again Chris,

So, in your use case, the newsletter list is only accessible to registered users, but the newsletter view feature is still being used.
Right?

If the registered menu item is published, doesn't the link automatically take users to that menu item and request that they log in?
I think that's what it should do, but if it doesn't we can fix it.
 

Christopher, sorry. Perhaps I have not phrased my problem quite well:

• In my case, there are several groups of subscribers that each receive their own newsletters
• None of the subscribers are registred users on the web site
• One group of subscribers must not be able to see / read newslettert addressed to other groups
• There is a button on the (online-)page displaying a single newsletter that leads to a list of ALL newsletters

I had assumed that the changes made in the latest version of NS Pro would resolve this, but it is not. I have put a dsiplay: none: to hide said button, but I still feel that this should be a temporary solution. I suspect I am not the only one that sees this as a problem. My problem is simply hat this button should be an option. For me, it has to never display.

Cheers, Chris
 

Hi Christopher, sorry for the slow response.  I downloaded and installed the new version 3.3.3068 of NSPro and set the  NSPro option "Newsletter List requires Menu Item" to Yes.  and removed my Apache .htaccess rewrite rule for  ~/index.php/component/nspro/newsletterlist

Then when I

1. open a newsletter email
2. click the view the newsletter online
3. click the "Back to newsletter list" from the online view

I get a HTTP 500 "Internal server error" response. Switching on debugging reveals the php exception is thrown from  ~/components/com_nspro/views/nspro/view.html.php (line 75).

For now I have put the Apache rewrite rule back.

I will find some time to do some debugging on this in the next few days.

Joomla 5.3.4
PHP 8.3.25
NSPro  3.3.3068

 

Hi everyone,

Let's try to address some of these issues.

First of all, you can control which individual newsletters appear in the front-end list, by going to the Newsletter Edit page, in the Publishing tab.
Secondly, you can select mailing lists in the newsletter list menu item. Perhaps your front-end list can only show some general newsletters.

Chris, you have the option to disable this list altogether. What you describe is a little ambiguous.
You are saying that each subscriber should see their own newsletters, but they are not logged-in users of the website.
So NS Pro would have to differentiate them by keeping track of them either by a cookie or by the s parameter in the URL.
What happens if someone accesses the list without any of that information? Should he see all, some or none of the newsletters?
What if someone is subscribed to multiple mailing lists? What if they unsubscribe from one mailing list, but then click on the newsletter that they received while they were still subscribed for that mailing list?
Then they will see a list of newsletters, but won't be able to find the newsletter they were looking for.
So, as you can see, this is a rather complicated issue that requires some configuration on your end, depending on your use case and needs.

Craig, you obviously enabled the "Newsletter List requires Menu Item" option, but did not create a menu item. If you create a menu item, the "Back to newsletter list" will automatically take you to that menu item, according to your settings.
If you set that menu item to be accessible only to registered users, Joomla will redirect you to the login page.

If necessary, I can happily add an option to disable the Back link from the newsletter view.
Thanks again!

Hi Christopher,  Many thanks for the response. I did already have an NSPro newsletter list menu item, (in fact that is what my workaround Apache rewrite rule was redirecting to before I removed it to test the new version of NSPro).  Is there any other NSPro option setting I need to make other than the one change I made?

My debugging is showing that the exception is thrown because in view.html.php line 74   $app->input->get('Itemid', 0, 'int') is returning 0 because Itemid is null, and in the database the newsletter list menu item  #_menu.id = 2726. (I suspect that Itemid should have somewhere been set to 2726)

The "backto newsletter list" link in the newsletter viewed online is pointing to ~/index.php/component/nspro/newsletterlist  and if I remove the throwing of an exception the link still displays that link not my menu item.

 

Well, Christopher, it would nor be as complicated as that.
What I meant (and I still think I was unclear in describing my problem, sorry abou that) is the following scenario:
When I send a newsletter, it gets sent to a group of subscribers. There is a link to the online version of this news, as not all my subscribers can or will read in their email clients. That works quite well, because I publish the online version.

But then, the problem is that viewing the newsletter online will have a button at the bottom that says 'Back to the list' or something like that. Clicking that, you will be able to see all published newsletter, including those meant for other groups.

That's what I meant, and that's what I do nor necessarily want to entertain.
I had invisaged that the presence of this button could be made configurable in the back end in 'Advanced Options', but if that's too complicated and I am the only customer with this problem, it's allright.

I have created a template override for newsletterview.php and in it deleted the whole button div. 

Cheers, Chris