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Programmatically create a scheduled civimail email
December 20, 2011, 10:35:22 am
This may be in the API docs but I can't find it.  I'm using Drupal (6 or 7 -- either one will do) and I want to programmatically schedule a CiviMail email. I don't want to use Drupal's events and triggers because their mail-sending functions are separate from CiviMail.  So using the Civi API, how can I programmatically create an email, using a pre-defined CiviMail template and filling in programmatically all the needed params?
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Re: Programmatically create a scheduled civimail email
December 20, 2011, 10:37:53 am
It would be great if you can explain your use case.

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Re: Programmatically create a scheduled civimail email
December 20, 2011, 10:54:00 am
Here's my use case.  It requires scheduling two emails.
(I know cron and SQL so just assume I've got those running fine.)
1.  An event, say a party or show, is going to occur.  The event data can be a simple field in the database or it could be a full CiviEvent item or a CMS field. I'm flexible as to that.
2.  When the event is created on the system, two emails are automatically scheduled:
      a. Four weeks before the event, a reminder will be sent out to relevant contacts. (I can figure out which contacts are relevant.)
      b. Two weeks after the event, a follow-up message will be sent to the contacts.

I want my content admins to be able to create CiviMail templates for the emails ahead of time, and then my code would choose the appropriate template.

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Re: Programmatically create a scheduled civimail email
December 20, 2011, 08:19:49 pm

You should be able to use this feature in 4.1, which is currently in alpha release:

http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRM/Scheduled+Reminders+for+Events

However we did not have the time/resources to integrate this with CiviMail. Would be great to add CiviMail integration in a future release via an MIH and/or a code contribution

Would be great if you can test this and see how it fits

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Re: Programmatically create a scheduled civimail email
December 21, 2011, 04:17:23 pm
Thank you!  I will  explore that and test.  If I have learnings to share I'll post them here.

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Re: Programmatically create a scheduled civimail email
December 29, 2011, 12:27:53 pm
I've been testing the scheduled reminders in 4.1 alpha2 and so far it's excellent.  I've noticed a couple of small error warnings but I'm not going to post them till I install the new beta and see if they're still there (mainly it was a directory permission issue on install -- saying the directory for sites/default/files was not writable). So thank you, great job, and I'll continue to test, report, and debug.   
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