Re: How to develop a newsletter

If you have some Jahia content to extract and 
reuse it is better in all the cases to use some 
templates as portlets can not access to the Jahia 
API (= another context in the Java world and each 
application, for security reason, is independant 
and can not access to the API of the others).

So I would start with the "generic form" template 
(in order to hardcode your form and store the 
results in a Jahia containerlist so that you will 
have somehwere in Jahia the list of all the 
subscribers). Then I would create (perhaps in 
another template which would manage the 
newsletter you will send) a dynamic filter which 
will get all the container of type XYZ filtered 
by the publication date, reuse the user data 
stored in your form template and use the embedded 
Jahia Quartz scheduler in order to launch some automated scheduling jobs.

Stéphane

At 15:37 24.07.2006, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>We want to develop a newsletter functionnality in our jahia based website :
>- Anyone can subscribe (that means a data management)
>- the newsletter contains some contents froms the website (for instance,
>some news that figures out on the home page)
>- The news email is sent every month
>
>We want to know the best practises for that:
>- do we need to develop a webapp to handle the users or have we better
>to handle them as Jahia content (a container list for instance)
>- What is the better way to re use content in order to put it in a HTML
>email?
>- Can we use a scheduler within the servlet container (Tomcat) ?
>
>If some people have developped such a thing, let me know it !
>
>Thanks a lot,
>
>
>
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