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Newsletter portlet on liferay 6

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Elisa Bracaloni, modified 14 Years ago.
Newsletter portlet on liferay 6
Junior Member Posts: 43 Join Date: 4/21/11 Recent Posts
Hi,
do you know if there is a portlet newsletter or something similar to liferay 6?
I could not find anything.

Thanks!!
Elisa
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Hitoshi Ozawa, modified 14 Years ago.
RE: Newsletter portlet on liferay 6
Liferay Legend Posts: 7942 Join Date: 3/24/10 Recent Posts
I'm not sure what you mean by "Newsletter" but there is an "Announcement" portlet under "News".
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Elisa Bracaloni, modified 14 Years ago.
RE: Newsletter portlet on liferay 6
Junior Member Posts: 43 Join Date: 4/21/11 Recent Posts
Hitoshi Ozawa:
I'm not sure what you mean by "Newsletter" but there is an "Announcement" portlet under "News".


Hi,
The newsletters are information and news, regularly sent by e-mail to a group of users who have previously registered.
The Announcement portlet not think it's useful for this.

Thanks.
Elisa
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Hitoshi Ozawa, modified 14 Years ago.
RE: Newsletter portlet on liferay 6
Liferay Legend Posts: 7942 Join Date: 3/24/10 Recent Posts
If you want to sent email, then Announcement portlet is not what you need.

As was mentioned, Message Board portlet is a much better alternative.
First, Liferay does not contain a mailing list nor a mail server, so you need to set that up separately.

To setup Message Board to use sent to a mailing list,
1: Control Panel -> Message Boards -> Add Category
2. Enter name of category (e.g. xxx Announcements) and check "Active" under Mailing List
Items to enter mail server information should appear.

Next, go to some page and Add Message Board portlet.
1. Add -> More... -> Collaboration -> Message Board
2. Click on the wrench icon on the upper right hand side of the portlet
3. Select "Configuration"
4. In the General Tab, uncheck all the items
5. Go to the "Emal From" tab and enter sender information
6. Go to "Message Added Email" tab and enter message format
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Elisa Bracaloni, modified 14 Years ago.
RE: Newsletter portlet on liferay 6
Junior Member Posts: 43 Join Date: 4/21/11 Recent Posts
Hitoshi Ozawa:
If you want to sent email, then Announcement portlet is not what you need.

As was mentioned, Message Board portlet is a much better alternative.
First, Liferay does not contain a mailing list nor a mail server, so you need to set that up separately.

To setup Message Board to use sent to a mailing list,
1: Control Panel -> Message Boards -> Add Category
2. Enter name of category (e.g. xxx Announcements) and check "Active" under Mailing List
Items to enter mail server information should appear.

Next, go to some page and Add Message Board portlet.
1. Add -> More... -> Collaboration -> Message Board
2. Click on the wrench icon on the upper right hand side of the portlet
3. Select "Configuration"
4. In the General Tab, uncheck all the items
5. Go to the "Emal From" tab and enter sender information
6. Go to "Message Added Email" tab and enter message format



Thanks a lot.
Elisa
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Aad Nales, modified 14 Years ago.
RE: Newsletter portlet on liferay 6
New Member Posts: 24 Join Date: 1/5/12 Recent Posts
If you are still looking:

http://www.liferay.com/en/downloads/liferay-portal/community-plugins/-/software_catalog/products/11816131
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Arcko Duan, modified 14 Years ago.
RE: Newsletter portlet on liferay 6
Regular Member Posts: 213 Join Date: 10/15/07 Recent Posts
This Forum(Message Board portlet) also could work like a newsletter.
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Elisa Bracaloni, modified 14 Years ago.
RE: Newsletter portlet on liferay 6
Junior Member Posts: 43 Join Date: 4/21/11 Recent Posts
Arcko Duan:
This Forum(Message Board portlet) also could work like a newsletter.



Thank you for your very useful pointers.
But, How do I configure the email in the message boards?
In configuration --> Message Added Email, how do I define the variable [$ $ MAILING_LIST_ADDRESS] and other attributes?

Thanks.
Elisa
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Manuel Hoyos, modified 12 Years ago.
RE: Newsletter portlet on liferay 6
Junior Member Posts: 60 Join Date: 6/11/12 Recent Posts
You can add new variables to the format of the emails or define templates to display the content of the messages posted on the forums? to serve as newsletter?

Thanks!!
Bartłomiej Knabel, modified 12 Years ago.
RE: Newsletter portlet on liferay 6
New Member Posts: 14 Join Date: 9/23/13 Recent Posts
ou can use variables in this newsletter