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z3cr0n

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Email Course?
September 14, 2010, 02:21:09 pm
Hello!

I'm considering using CiviCRM in our organization, but wanted to see if what we wanted to do is feasible with CiviCRM.

We have a free, year-long course that people can subscribe to. One email (one part of the course) is sent to them every day, until the end of the class. Different emails are sent out on the same days to different people, because the date a person subscribed determines which email they are receiving. In other words, if I subscribed two days ago, and you subscribed four days ago, today I will receive the 2nd email of the course, while you will receive the fourth email.

Is this possible with CiviCRM?

Thank you!

z3cr0n

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Re: Email Course?
September 14, 2010, 04:23:52 pm
Might be possible but pretty sure it would require non-trivial custom coding to:
* set / update custom fields which tracks an identifier for the last email message sent (i.e. Course Day 4) and date / time sent (or you might track this via Activity records)
* a command-line script which uses the API or BAO methods to trigger the correct emails to be sent - the emails could be stored as "message templates" (one for each day)
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z3cr0n

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Re: Email Course?
September 15, 2010, 01:30:59 pm
Thank you for the reply, Dave! I really appreciate the specific tips.

z3cr0n
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