Want to change layout for Joomla Article entries

toolie

I have migrated my client to AcyMailing 6 from 5, and I'm not at all happy with the email function (was Newsletters). I have had to completely recreate the template my client uses 4 times a week. Also the process of selecting content one by one is either much harder than before or I'm missing some shortcut.

What I need immediately is a way to format the list of Joomla URLs from the site; right now you have paragraph (p) tags that are formatted more like H2 tags. The spacing is far too wide, and I'm seeing double entries for these category-based links:

<tr>
    <td width="100%" valign="top"><p><a name="content-58836"></a>_<a href="http://www.grantcountybeat.com/news/news-articles/58836-tadpole-fire-update-for-july-4-2020" target="_blank">_<strong> </strong></a></p>
        <p> _<a href="http://www.grantcountybeat.com/news/news-articles/58836-tadpole-fire-update-for-july-4-2020" target="_blank"><strong>Tadpole Fire Update for July 4, 2020</strong></a>_</p></td>
</tr>

How can I select the most recent articles from each of 6 categories without having to use the category-based option?
Where is the CSS that controls the size of the URLs? I have found and fixed everything else I want but not the so-called "dynamic content" formatting.

toolie

toolie Help anyone?

jvstratum

Hi,

You can select the most recent articles by setting up an automation for that (Email->Automatic Campaign), add a Joomla article content block and set the minimum number of articles. Each time the automation runs it will look if there are new articles. If not, the mail will not be sent. For this you select the categories, where you also can use CTRL-click to selct multiple categories.

Please niote that in v 6.11 or 6.12 when you go straight to the Automations menu you can't edit your mail. Due to a bug editing the mail will bring you to the template page and you can't set the minimum number of articles in a template. The devs are aware of this and it will be solved in the next release.

What dynamic links do you mean? If oit's things like the view online link, these work with classes like .viewonline. You can use these to address your css.

toolie

jvstratum This answer does not help me; I don't want automated newsletters to be sent. We curate very carefully which news items go out because we post 200 or more stories PER WEEK.

Your current interface for selecting one news story at a time is confusing. I want to hand-select 3 from one category, 4 from another category, but it looks like I have to set up a single content block for every story I hand-select, is that right?

As you see in the photo, I've inserted 1 story on the left, but I have at least 3 more in green on the right that I want to include in that same left-side box under that Category name which I've manually entered. I have 4 more categories for which I want to do the same thing. Why did you take that capability OUT of Acymailing 6?

So if we want to hand-select each story, do we need a separate content box for each story we want to insert?

mihha

Yes you have to select articles "One by one", just as the tab from the select article screen suggests

https://i.imgur.com/ramPuX6.png

toolie

So the answer to my question is Yes, I have to insert a content block for every article I want to add? Yes or No please?

That's nuts, and mostly untenable. The ability to multiply-select articles via Joomla Tags in AcyMailing 5 is a far superior method and about 5 times faster for us. I'm not sure we want to upgrade as a result. When do you plan end-of-life for AcyMailing 5?

mihha

Hi,

the answer is Yes. You can select multiple articles in article "one by one" selection

If you choose Category then you can add multiple articles

You can add multiple article content blocks and for each block select different categories which will be used to fetch articles from

Regards,
Igor