Hello. I know the way of making newsletters in FW with the “create email” action. You design, get the html, then copy and paste the code in the sender program.
But… My friend asked me for a website with an determined design and the possibility of change the contents. There is a “news” section with a menu, text, and images. With web yep its possible, but now, he wants to make his own newsletters, using this news section (I mean, he wants to send the news section by mail, as it it compossed and designed in the website). When you enter the web in this section and copy and paste the html code to a sender program it doesnt work. You just can see the text.
Some web-to-mail applications will interpret the HTML from a live Web site. I know MailChimp can do this – you put in the URL of your newsletter in their mail-builder Web application, it goes off and reads the code, and then translates everything into mail-safe content. You might want to investigate that. Then your friend could use WebYep and your design to create an infinity of different unique mailings, and the MailChimp would just read in that content and use it to populate the message.
Walter
On Nov 22, 2011, at 10:05 AM, rakeljuice wrote:
Hello. I know the way of making newsletters in FW with the “create email” action. You design, get the html, then copy and paste the code in the sender program.
I think my only problem is that the image that user introduce via webyep is coded as “img src='/webyep-system/data/8-1-im-myImage-7694.jpg” and not with an absolute link.
I know MailChimp can do this – you put in the URL of your newsletter in their mail-builder Web application, it goes off and reads the code, and then translates everything into mail-safe content. You might want to investigate that.
Hello. He uses another program, Groupmail, but when copy the code, the image url is not absolute, so it is not valid. I dont know if the Chimp one is different or not. Ill try, but if you have a solution for the image url from webyep, please let me know, because it will be easier. Now, I copy the code and modify the url.
Hello. Ive tried with several programs, and ChimpMail as well. The problem is always the same: the image url. It can be solved if you edit the url inside the program, but is there any other way? I suppose not, but I ask just in case…
You could try using the Remote Resources Action, but I doubt that it could “hook” the WebYep URLs the way you need it to. This is really one for Max to fix. If anyone can do it, he can.
Walter
On Nov 22, 2011, at 12:05 PM, rakeljuice wrote:
Hello. Ive tried with several programs, and ChimpMail as well. The problem is always the same: the image url. It can be solved if you edit the url inside the program, but is there any other way? I suppose not, but I ask just in case…
No, it doesnt work. Well, it works exactly the same as Create email action, and this second is easier. And… when you hace both actions in the same site it through a javascript code error and you cant publish.
Max… Im a bit embarrased, always asking for Max… superMax.
Hi Rakel
The answer is not officially but yes its possible, although its quite sneaky and I haven’t tested it using a pc but… so yes its possible.
Ok you will need to create two pages one is a News page that you are going to use for emailing and the other is where you are going to upload all your images.
first you need to construct a blank html 4 page and make sure you have applied the email action to this page (try to keep that page simple in design as it will help)
then insert a richtext item into this page . This is where your client is going to construct his email.
then construct a completely different page and this is where you are going to upload the webyep images
now publish and view via a server
upload your images to the image page
What you need now is to open up the email page in another window so you can see both at the same time and add your text to the email…
7 Now this is the sneaky bit when you are ready to add your image (and this does work on a mac but I haven’t tested it out on a pc)
whilst the richtext item is unlock and the richtext popup is visible, you click and drag the image from the webyep image window and insert it into the richtext popup window… basically you click down and whilst the mouse is still clicked down you drag the mages and place the imnage within the richtext block)
What should happen is image appears into the richtext item. What should also happen is the full address of where that image is being stored should be used within your richtext item. You can check by clicking on the HTML button and looking at th code, but from the test I have done it does work.
Then lock the page up and you should now have a webyep page that contains absolute paths to an image
Finally you can either right clic on the page to view source and copy the html into a Email program or use a program that allows you to specify a web page address.
its not perfect but as long as the pc person can use a browser that allows image to be clicked and dragged then it should work
It can be solved if you edit the url inside the program
Thanks for your help. Really, I prefer this solution. I think is easier. In the mail program, click on the image and just edit the URL adding the domain at first. By the moment, Ill continue on this way.
not sure if this is relevant (or true), but to my experience TinyMCE (as richtext editor) is converting urls to relative ( convert_urls : true ) by default. So you need to switch this in the tinymce_init.php to (convert_urls : false ) to get absolute paths.
Thanks for your opinion, Thomas. As I saw in the rich editor at webYed demo website, you just have the option to link to a previous image in your site, but is doesnt let you upload the image, so the WebYep image item is better because you can upload the image.
