Automatic web archive of email blasts
Our membership would like the ability to see archived e-blasts sent to "All" members. In our membership model, all members are "equal." I could see this further broken down by Group, e.g., members belonging to Board group could view archive message sent to their group; e-blast sent to "all" members could be view by "all" members, etc. Also, having the ability to show messages sent within a certain time period, e.g., messages sent within the last 6 months (rather than messages archived forever).
Even better, have the ability to search e-blast message text by keywords much like the forums. The search results would need to take into account whether the member searching is authorized to see say Board messages. It might be easier to simply offer search for messages sent to "all" members.
I am guessing another function page devoted to e-blast archive viewing/searching would be necessary.
PBGVone
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heyjoe.here commented
I need a way to take my email newsletters, creating on one of your templates, and be able to save it for later printing and / or emailing without the automatic page breaks. It breaks in all the oddest spaces making it almost useless as an archived copy.
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Anonymous commented
Is there a way to save a copy of my newsletter as a pdf, or similar, an have it be an exact copy? When I do so now, it adds a lot of white space, or it removes colors, etc. I often need them for reference, or to mail out to someone who does not or cannot use email.
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Anonymous commented
We do a monthly email template but can not send it to those that are not on our email list. I would like to be able to make the template newsletter into a pdf so we can attach it to our business email.
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Tracie commented
All other email blast services have a "share this email" button that opens a link to the email's own URL. This way people can share the email with others who aren't on the email list -- on FB, for example. This would widen the reach of the email and be a benefit for publicity sake.
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Amy commented
Enable viewing of emails online- for organisation newsletters it would be good to be able to view these online and share with others, as well as sending them to all members.
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Bob Schilmoeller commented
I agree that automatically archiving emails to HTMl in a web page is needed. Many HTML emails I get from organizations have a "Having trouble viewing - click here" link at the top. Would be great to have an option to archive the page and add that link to the emails.
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John Lutter commented
I would also like to see this. Almost every modern email system archives the email in HTML format and archives automatically.
It is a commonly requested feature, and is part of our existing email system.
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Sharon Graham commented
It would be good to have an archive of emails so that our members could see them. We also had this previously with MailChimp.
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[Deleted User] commented
an automatic archive of email newsletters sent out would be fantastic! mailchimp stores a copy on the cloud for you, and also has code that automatically makes a list of the previously sent emails. this would be very good functionality to have.
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Alain commented
The members forum page is just a regular page with a Forum gadget so you can link your previous documents outside of the Forum gadget (using Content gadget and link document http://help.wildapricot.com/display/DOC/Inserting+documents+and+files and files?from=CgYaAw#Insertingdocumentsandfiles-Linkingtodocuments ).
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Sharyn commented
Can you store these in a Members Forum, so new members can access the previous editions
Sharyn
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CDRwebmaster commented
I'd like to vote for this please!
We had web archiving of mass mail at our old site and it was useful for new/potential members to see what happens within our club
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Evgeny Zaritovskiy commented
No, this is the proper place. We've had no progress here, sorry.
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Heart of America Japan America Society commented
We send out bi-monthly newsletters to our members, and would like this feature for archiving purposes as well (preferably in pdf form). Has there been any progress on this feature? The work-around is ok, but I'd be nice to have a built in feature. This discussion is a bit old, would there be a newer place to follow the progress of this feature?
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AdAbility commented
Looking at the date, this was almost a year ago. Has this been developed. Thanks!
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Evgeny Zaritovskiy commented
While this feature is still in our development queue, I can suggest a workaround. It's very easy, actually.
* Once you done with your newsletter template - I mean when you're ready to email it, just click HTML button in the panel and copy everything from there.
* Next, create a new page in your site and while in edit mode, again click HTML and paste everything there, close the dialog.
* Then you will have to remove all macros from the text (as they are for email version only) - delete them or substitute with corresponding text (manually). Do not forget to delete Unsubscribe link in the end and probably copyright footer. Also teaser in the header.
* Save the page.
* Optionally, you can change page settings and specify friendly URL for this particular newsletter.
* Then you can open your ready-to-send newsletter and add the link to the page into email (using standard Add Link feature from editor - select the page you created).
* Email You can create a dedicated page in the site - called Archive - and add all consequent newsletters as subpages. I think this workaround might work well in your case. -
Prakash Laufer commented
I have 4 clients (Infant Massage USA), Economic Democracy Collaborative, Ananda Marga Yoga Teacher Training & The Path of Bliss.
I set up all 4 this year and for all of these organizations the ability to archive email newsletters would be a big plus. IMUSA has already been asking for this as they have used Constant Contact for years!
- Prakash Laufer
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Prakash Laufer commented
I would be very thankful if you could send instructions on how to save a Wild Apricot Email newsletter as a Web page - tedious though it might be - as that is something my clients using WA very much want
Thank you
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Prakash Laufer commented
I currently work with 4 different clients that I have set up Wild Apricot for in 2012.
For all 4 of these organizations the ability to archive newsletters would be a tremendous asset
One of my clients had been sending emails for years with Constant Contact and has stopped and is using just Wild Apricot. However we continue to use Constant Contact simply so we can get access to archived newsletters (at a cost of $5 per month).
We are currently creating PDF newsletters and using Wild Apricot to send email newsletters which have links to the on-line PDF newsletters - as well as using Screen Shots of the Newsletter Logo embedded in WIld Apricot Email.
They would like to be able to use the Email Templates in Wild Apricot to create newsletters - but until there is the ability to archive previous newsletters - save them as web pages, etc - they will continue to create separate PDF newsletters.
I would appreciate knowing about work-arounds for creating web pages or PDFs without the extraneous information - from WA Emails.
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Evgeny Zaritovskiy commented
I was pretty sure this request was in our queue but I did not manage to find this. Now I added it there but I can say that this is not something that we are going to start working on soon. Probably, not earlier than in a year.