Smart Newsletter: Using the "Start Publishing" instead of the "Creation date"?

oupoot

Hi,
Using the Smart Newsletter feature in Joomla and love it. The new article notifications are being triggered based on the articles "Creation date" though, is there a way to configure it to select articles using the "Start Publishing" date of an article instead? We tend to preload articles and set their "Start Publishing" date for the future but AcyMailer doesn't seem to look at the "Start Publishing" date of the articles, just their original creation date.

jvstratum

Hi,

I'm a little confused. Smart newsletters belong to version 5, but you have labeled this thread as version 6.

Assuming you use v5 you can solve your issue by creating a custom plugin template. You'll find the documentation here: https://docs.acymailing.com/v/old/integration-plugins/installed-with-acymailing/insert-joomla-articles-in-your-newsletter. Scroll down to the template section and at the bottom of the page you'll also find an example of a custom plugin template.

oupoot

Apologies, bad choice of terminology on my side, I am running version 6 (6.14.1) and I was referring to the Automatic Campaign functionality. I am inserting any new articles into an email and it only sends once there is at least one new article available, am interested if I can get it to look at First Publish date instead of the Creation Date when checking for new articles.

jvstratum

Hi,

In that case I suggest you use the contact form (https://www.acymailing.com/contact/) to post a feature request for this. After all, it makes no sense to mail articles that haven't been published yet.