Send newsletter

After all the preparations have been done it is time to send a newsletter.

Open the ContentCreator and select “Create Newsletter” from the create action menu.

After filling in the form your newsletter is ready. First it is useful to send a preview to the preview lists defined in the “newsletter_settings” GCA.

Release the newsletter dataset and all linked images
Note: we will not provide this workflow, we recommend to use a workflow already configured in your project
In the workflow menu select “Newsletter send preview”
Optionally you can provide an e-mail address, however an entry in the Universal Messenger with this e-mail address is needed. If you don’t provide an e-mail address it will be sent to the preview lists configured in the GCA.

The Universal Messenger will then receive the request from FirstSpirit to send a newsletter to the preview list. You can follow it in the Universal Messenger GUI under Newsletter->Queue. Once it was sent it will appear under Newsletter->Archive.

All E-mail addresses subscribed to the preview list will receive the newsletter usually within a few minutes.

If you are satisfied with the result you can now send the newsletter to the actual recipients. To determine the recipients for the newsletter re-open the newsletter in FirstSpirit, open the form under “Settings->Recipient lists or segments” and select the lists or segments to which you want to send the newsletter.

Release the newsletter and select “Send newsletter” in the workflow menu. It will then send the newsletter to all recipients subscribed to the selected lists.

Congratulations, you have now sent your first newsletter!