Sending from the Content Section

Newsletter Studio supports sending Umbraco content as campaigns right from the content section via our Content App-extension. After settings this up editors can create newsletters that are listed on the website and then with a click of a button send this as a campaign using Newsletter Studio.

This would also allow you to restrict access to the Newsletter Studio-section for non administrators and only give editors access to the Content App in the content section.

Setting it up

By default, any content type with the alias "newsletter" will activate the Content App to send from the content section. If you want to show the content app on another content type, just configure this in your web.config by adding an appSetting with the key NewsletterStudio:CampaignContentTypes and set the value to a comma-separated string of Content Type Aliases.

<appSettings>
    ...
    <add key="NewsletterStudio:CampaignContentTypes" value="myContentType,anotherContentType" />
</appSettings>

Configure using code

It's also possible to configure the content type aliases using code during startup, here is an example that uses a IComposer

using Umbraco.Core.Composing;
using Umbraco.Web;

public class AppStart : Umbraco.Core.Composing.IUserComposer
{
    public void Compose(Composition composition)
    {
        NewsletterStudio.Core.Public.NewsletterStudioService.ContentAppDocumentTypeAliases.Add("myDocumentTypeAlias");
    }
}

Configure the template

By default Newsletter Studio will use the selected Template of the content node to render the HTML for the email. Most of the time we probably want to use a custom template to render the HTML for the email. Just create a new template with the same name but append Newsletter in the end.

For example, let's say we have a Content Type called Article with a template called Article. To use a custom template for the email we would add a new template called ArticleNewsletter like this:

We also need to allow this template in the Content Type configuration:

With this setup Newsletter Studio will use the ArticleNewsletter-template to render the HTML for the e-mail.

Permissions

Note that editors need to have the "ContentApp"-permissions for the Workspace, as an administrator you’ll always have access to all Workspaces/Features. This can be configured in Administration -> (Your Workspace) -> Permissions. If there are no permissions configured everyone can access everything.