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stig posted on "MailBuild Feature Request Thread" in General chat

stig — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:25:58 +1000

Dave wrote:
Vince, rest assured it's a big list with some very nice surprises, all of which will be arriving in the next few months.

I always love it when you say that :)

Dave posted on "News/Alert feature on Mailbuild" in General chat

Dave — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:51:23 +1000

Hey Jim, that's certainly a cool suggestion, thanks for sharing. I'll pass it around the team, but i the mean time, boring old email to the client might have to suffice.

Dave posted on "MailBuild Feature Request Thread" in General chat

Dave — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:46:27 +1000

Vince, rest assured it's a big list with some very nice surprises, all of which will be arriving in the next few months.

Dave posted on "New MailBuild editor - personalisation tags?" in Email design & coding

Dave — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:42:54 +1000

I understand Vince, we'll be revising the editor soon, but have some other more significant updates we want to roll out for MailBuild first. These will definitely help cull the embarrassment ;)

Jason posted on "mailbuild - php - Subscriber.AddWithCustomFields - help?" in API developer community

Jason — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:00:57 +1000

Hi Matt,

We'll be looking at expanding on the MailBuild documentation soon to cover this method call, but in the meantime the resources covering this at campaign monitor should get you going in the right direction. The code will be extremely similar, with just the substitution of the service endpoint and namespace to the MailBuild equivalents required.

If you run into any issues, get in touch with support like you have with this initially, and we'll be more than happy to help.

stig posted on "One Client - Many senders" in General chat

stig — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:24:03 +1000

Without knowing the excact situation of your client, one option might be to send the email to his staff members, and let them use the forward-to-a-friend feature?

They can then use their own name and email, and send to five addresses at a time, with an optional message at the top of the email.

He'll also only have to send it once, and only to a few addresses, so it could save him some money too.

Stig

vince posted on "MailBuild Feature Request Thread" in General chat

vince — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 06:03:39 +1000

I understand your resistance in giving out details of any specific features you will be adding, but would you be so kind as to tell us how many this year please :-)

vince posted on "New MailBuild editor - personalisation tags?" in Email design & coding

vince — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 05:55:21 +1000

Will it be very soon?
I get embarrased when prospects mention others have it :-(

rufusleonard posted on "One Client - Many senders" in General chat

rufusleonard — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:03:18 +1000

I have a client who want to give the ability to its staff to send out a HTML email at Christmas time. Each staff member could login, upload a list of email address (from excel etc) and then send it out to a pre-designed email. The email would be personalized with the name etc. The email would either come from a fixed address or the current users email address.

Is this possible?

Many thanks

Jack

bb_matt posted on "mailbuild - php - Subscriber.AddWithCustomFields - help?" in API developer community

bb_matt — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:33:17 +1000

I've managed to get the Subscriber.Add php sample, subscribeMBPHP5.php, to work correctly, however, I have no idea how to modify it to work with Subscriber.AddWithCustomFields

Code:

//make soap call
    $result = $client->__soapCall(
                                    "Subscriber.AddWithCustomFields",
                                    array(    new SoapVar("xxxxxxxxxx", XSD_STRING, null, null, "ApiKey","http://api.createsend.com/api/"),
                                        new SoapVar("xxxxxxxxxx", XSD_STRING, null, null, "ListID","http://api.createsend.com/api/"),
                                        new SoapVar("mail@mail.com", XSD_STRING, null, null, "Email","http://api.createsend.com/api/"),
                                        new SoapVar("Mat", XSD_STRING, null, null, "Name","http://api.createsend.com/api/"),
                                        new SoapVar("Mr", XSD_STRING, null, null, "title","http://api.createsend.com/api/"),
                                        new SoapVar("Thingy Wotzit", XSD_STRING, null, null, "buildingname","http://api.createsend.com/api/"),
                                        new SoapVar("Wobbleton", XSD_STRING, null, null, "locality","http://api.createsend.com/api/"),
                                        new SoapVar("Newfoundland", XSD_STRING, null, null, "posttown","http://api.createsend.com/api/"),
                                        new SoapVar("BP1232", XSD_STRING, null, null, "postcode","http://api.createsend.com/api/")
                                    )                                        
                                    ,
                                    array(
                                        "soapaction"    => "http://api.createsend.com/api/Subscriber.AddWithCustomFields"
                                    )
                                    
                                );

Basically, everything after

Code:

new SoapVar("Mat", XSD_STRING, null, null, "Name","http://api.createsend.com/api/")

isn't added to my list, as obviously the system doesn't have a clue that these are custom form fields.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Jim posted on "News/Alert feature on Mailbuild" in General chat

Jim — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:09:06 +1000

Just a suggestion - at the moment I use the Mailbuild log-in screen on my own site to post up newly added features, Mailbuild hints and tips, new template availability, etc... BUT it would be great to see this feature added to Mailbuild so that I could send my clients bespoke messages within the system.

For example.

If I add a new template, I want them to see a heading called 'What's new' on their 'Welcome to your account' page and under that I want to be able to add a message saying 'New trilingual templates available' plus a short item. A blog that allows me to publish to one client at a time, or to many at once, would be ideal.

Any thoughts?

Jim

Dave posted on "Multiple lists" in Troubleshooting

Dave — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:55:02 +1000

Afraid not sorry Victor, the subscription landing page can only be set on a list by list basis at this stage. Of course, we'd be happy to make the switch for you. Fire an email through to support with the details and we'll take care of it for you.

victoru posted on "Multiple lists" in Troubleshooting

victoru — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:52:47 +1000

I have client with more than 50 subscriber lists. Recently they wanted to be able to track their unsubscribes in their database. Meaning I'll have to change the unsubscribe redirect URL for each list individually, is there anyway I can set a default redirect URL for all the subscriber lists per client?
Thanks

jamesh posted on "First Time User" in Email design & coding

jamesh — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:39:34 +1000

Thank you!

dpotter posted on "First Time User" in Email design & coding

dpotter — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:36:06 +1000

Hi James,

You definitely want to have a text version. You can use our automatic import to grab the text from your HTML version. The text version is there for email clients that are unable to display HTML emails or those configured to not display them.