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.

[grandeur_69]

did you install the latest update? there was an update last week that fixed that.

[LadyBeth]

Will this be available for and work in 4.0 and is it ready now? If not, when? We LOVE this mod and so do our users.

[grandeur_69]

yes, if no one beats me to it, than yes. As for a timeline, not sure. There are so many mods that we use on all of our forums that still don't work, so we won't be upgrading anytime soon. Until that becomes a pressing matter for us, I won't be taking a hard look at the requirements to upgrade Commbull .... however, my guess is it won't take much, when the time comes because it is pretty independent from vB

[LadyBeth]

Pretty please???? We have THOUSANDS of users, and many of them have come to expect our weekly bulletin, and that is when they click the links and login. It's part of their daily routine as small business owners. Pretty pretty pretty please?????

[grandeur_69]

I understand your need. We have a few hundred thousand users, so trust me, I will get to this sooner rather than later, but we have some higher priorities at this point.

[Eric]

I'm trying to get it to vB4, no promises though, of course. grandeur_69 will very likely beat me to it ;P

[toolblast]

Great product and thanks for making it free. I'm having a problem getting the 'Show info starting from this date' option to work. I set it for Jan 1st 2010 and choose 'yes' for the option below to activate it, yet when I generate my newsletter under 'most replied' threads it shows threads from way back in 2008 which are old but have lots of replies.

Is there a bug?

[cnczone]

Originally Posted by EagleNick

I'm really confused as to why the HTML version of the e-mail includes images such as /images/commbull/arrow_forum.gif when no such image is even included in the download...?

Anyone have a fix for this???

[grandeur_69]

so as not to continue to repeat myself, please read all posts. These images are included in it's own zip file as not everyone wants to use this

[Dabbi]

This is very nice! and with the graphics folder installed it looks pretty good too. Thank you so much for releasing it.

Just one question:
Is there anyway to tweak the basic template permanently though? We'd really prefer to have the unsubscribe link under "Forget Your Password?"

Also... something to consider for any future dev.... It's great that we can write up a basic blurb to send to members and I suppose I can tinker with that area and make it look sort of like what I have in mind but it would be really handy if we could also have a separate area or two for newsletter specific articles to keep it more interesting for the regular members.

Thanks in advance for any help.