Smart Newsletters to Automatic campaigns

WimVanGrimbergen

I'am using on Joomla 3 Smart Newsletters on Acmailing 5. Triggered by your mail that support stops I'am trying to get the same way of working with Smart Newsletters configured in Acymailing 9.
I also need to do that as PHP8.2 trows errors with Acymailing 5, causing user management not working anymore. As support on Joomla 3 also discontinue I would like to upgrade Joomla 3 to 4, PHP7.4 to 82 and Acymailing 5 to 9.2.
I managed to upgrade everything however I run against a problem with the Smart Newsletter function of Acymailing 5. The functionality of it by inserting Tags I can not find.
In Acymailing 5 an user can subscribe to a selection of different Smart Newsletters, which is actually for each news letter a different article-category.
The Smart Newsletter creates for each subscribed user a customized mail as soon as a new article is created for the specific Category.
The Smart Newsletter has the Subject: Category News with N° {issuenb}.
De content is automatically created and looks like: {autocontent: |min:1|max:8|featured|order:id,DESC|filter:created|type:intro|link|pict:1}.
Is their a way to achieve the same with Acymailing 9 - Automatic campaign?
Thanks in advance for your attention.
Greetings Wim

jvstratum

hi,

The php issues you have experienced in Joomla 3 are due to the fact that joomla 3 is not compatible with php 8.2. Nevertheless, it's wise to move on to Joomla 4 and Acymailing 9.

When you migrate v5 to v9 your templates and campaigns are migrated as html templates and campaigns. Please note that v9 is al about the new drag & drop editor. As a courtesy a html editor is included in v9, so you can keep using your v5 templates. The html editor is your cms editor and doesn';t contain any special Acymailing features.

If you want to continue to use the html editor you must make use of templates and you need to insert the tags manually. Regarding the tags you need to know that autocontenthas been replaced with autoarticle.

We strongly recommend to get familiar with the new drag & drop editor. That way you will always have the latest features available.

Here's the documentation for the templates and inserting articles in your Automatic Campaigns.:

https://docs.acymailing.com/main-pages/templates/create-a-template

https://docs.acymailing.com/main-pages/campaigns/automatic-campaigns

WimVanGrimbergen

jvstratum
Hi jvstratum,
I managed to create the Automatic Campains, however the mailbox of my users a getting pilled up with mails. The Automatic campaign mails continuesly.
I tried to find the option "Don't send twice the same content", as documented. However I do not find the "Automatic Campain options".
Can you please assist.
Thanks in advance
Wim

jvstratum

Hi,

When editing the Automatic Campaign select the content block that inserts the articles. You'll find the Automatic Campaign Options in the right hand panel scroll all the way down. Make sure you set Only new created to Yes and Min. number of elements to one or higher.

WimVanGrimbergen

Hi jvstratum,
Thanks for your prompt reply, however I do not have the "Automatic campaingn options" underneath the setting of max. number of elements, see screenshot.
Is their probably also another setting where I should take care of.
Can you please assist.
Thanks again for your attention.
Regards,
Wim
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jvstratum

If the option is not available it means you are not editing an Aitomatic Campaign.

WimVanGrimbergen

Hi jvstratum,
Thanks for your prompt reply.
I followed your instructions and managed to find the "Automatic campaingn options" underneath the setting of max. number of elements.
I understand now also why they where not visible at my configuration.
Those "Automatic campaign options" disappear as soon as you change the template for a specific Automatic Campaign.
I was confronted with this behavior due to the fact that I have multiple Automatic Campaigns with different templates using the same way of grabbing content from Joomla Categories.
SO I copied the Automatic Campaign and changed the template. That's where the moment the "Automatic Campaign options" disappear.

Maybe an idea to change this behavior in one of the upcoming updates.
Nevertheless I found now my way arround by copying with the html editor in the mail layout.

Regards,
Wim