Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Commbull (Community Bulletin) 5.1b

Community Bulletin:

This mod grabs all the latest information in your forum (posts, threads, events, birthdays, etc) and puts them into a newsletter to be sent to all your members that subscribe.

This mod has been around a long time and gone through many versions. It has been a paid version for a number of years with great success, but it's time to pass on the reigns.

[edit Feb 03, 2011]
Attempted fix for sending to users that are part of multiple user groups

[installation]
- upload some files
- upload the product.xml
- make 1 mod to the usercp options template
- FULL DETAILS in the README.txt

[note] many people ask why all the images, etc don't show up in the HTML version of what is in your forum. This is because most mail clients strip out the CSS and vbulletin is 99% CSS. I have created an HTML version that is nice and clean, but is forum independent. If you know what you are doing, you can edit this HTML file and build your own newsletter.

[MjrNuT]

Could someone explain the following line in the Settings page and an example?

This string will be added to the end of each link, for referals or other tracking purposes

Thanks very much!!


Additionally, I think this only sends to accounts Primary Usergroup, not secondary. Can anyone confirm this?

[grandeur_69]

that setting means that you can add something like &affilid=35 to all URL's or Google Analytics stuff for newsletter link tracking.

yes, i can confirm that it does NOT send to secondary user groups. It has never been in there, from the earliest versions, so I never thought to put it in in later versions. I've never actually used secondary user groups in my forums

[grandeur_69]

Originally Posted by Taurus1

I can't find anything like that in my config.php file! Damn!

i wish i knew why yours is in debug mode. that is awfully strange. Can you quote the exact line about being in debug mode? All the lines about being in debug, that I could find easily, are like this

if ($vbulletin->debug) { echo '<b style="color:red;">CURRENTLY IN DEBUG MODE.  Emails will NOT be sent</b><br />'; }

, which means that all of vbulletin is set in debug, not just Commbull

[Eric]

I believe to be set in debug, the config file would need:

PHP Code:

$config['Misc']['debug'] = true; 


[grandeur_69]

ah yes. that sounds more familiar

[Dabbi]

Originally Posted by grandeur_69

that setting means that you can add something like &affilid=35 to all URL's or Google Analytics stuff for newsletter link tracking.

This sounds very handy. I have a Google Analytics account but what exactly would I add there to get it to track the action on the links?

Thanks in advance!

[grandeur_69]

<a href="https://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55518" target="_blank">http://www.google.com/support/analyt...n&answer=55518</a>

[Dabbi]

Thank you again for helping me. I truly appreciate your taking the time.

I used Google's tool.. hopefully it works okay. It's a url and quite a bit longer then that little snippet (&affilid=35) you mentioned.

[3DUInc]

Hope to see this for vb4. Looks outstanding and is supported very well

[conspirator]

hey...great addon...anyway to link this to the advanced forum statistics addon?

or

make it put in the stats from the last 30 days (e.g most replied thread in the last 30days, most viewed thread in the last 30 days, etc)? the "Show info starting from this date" feature doesnt seem to be working for thread statistics.