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Newsletter and Volunteer Sign Up Forms
April 08, 2008, 11:17:17 am
Hi,

Pretty new to this and need some advice..

I want to create a sign up form for an email newsletter and also want to create a volunteer form.

Do I create groups in CiviCRM and then create a type of membership and create a form

OR

is there a much more obvious simpler method of doing this?

thanks

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Re: Newsletter and Volunteer Sign Up Forms
April 08, 2008, 11:33:23 am
There is a built-in newsletter sign up form that works well but isn't as flexible as profiles are. See:

http://drupal.demo.civicrm.org/civicrm/mailing/subscribe?reset=1&gid=2

Where the gid can be any group you're using as a mailing list.

I've had more success using a profile-based form that adds users to a mailing list group (say, "volunteers"). I don't think you need to create a membership type for what you describe. HTH

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Re: Newsletter and Volunteer Sign Up Forms
April 08, 2008, 02:40:20 pm
Some differences to be aware of between using a Profile and using the Mailing List Subscribe form...
* Mailing List Subscribe form automatically uses double-opt-in behavior (subscriber is sent an email asking them to click a link or reply in order to confirm their subscription.

* With a profile you can BOTH ask someone about the "Group(s)" (i.e. mailing lists) they want to join AND collect other info besides email address. This could include name and address, phone, and custom fields (i.e. perhaps questions about volunteer skills, preferences, etc.). HOWEVER, the "join group" aspect of submitting a profile does NOT do double-opt-in (person is added to the group w/o confirmation). In our next release - 2.1 - the Profile "join group" behavior will include the double-opt-in feature for groups whose "type" is "Mailing List".

You should read about Profiles in the online documentation:
http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Profiles+Admin
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Re: Newsletter and Volunteer Sign Up Forms
April 09, 2008, 01:44:53 am
excellent! thank you both for very helpful posts..

The double opt-in for profiles will be a great improvement.

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Re: Newsletter and Volunteer Sign Up Forms
May 05, 2008, 02:05:16 pm
is there a joomla version of the newsletter sign up form?
Are there instructions somewhere that could help me make one?
This is pretty much a "Do-not-pass-Go" issue.  I need users to be able to register and then receive a confirmation e-mail.  Otherwise I've got to use dada mail
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Re: Newsletter and Volunteer Sign Up Forms
May 05, 2008, 02:26:07 pm
Quote from: Dave Greenberg on April 08, 2008, 02:40:20 pm
* Mailing List Subscribe form automatically uses double-opt-in behavior (subscriber is sent an email asking them to click a link or reply in order to confirm their subscription.

Noting an issue with this I identified, if you have a number of newsletter/elist options available via the Mailing List Subscribe form, it generates an confirm email for each newsletter/list.

It would be better for our purposes if it could generate a single email to cover all the lists someone signs up for at the same time. Possible? Otherwise I will continue to head down the profile route (which I probably need to do anyway).
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Re: Newsletter and Volunteer Sign Up Forms
May 05, 2008, 04:54:40 pm

This is not possible by default and/or config changes

I took a brief look at the code, and it does not seem trivial (i.e. not a 1 line fix) to enable this behavior.

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Re: Newsletter and Volunteer Sign Up Forms
May 05, 2008, 05:04:14 pm
Suspected not  ;) Unfortunately I think it renders what is otherwise a useful page less useful. But also suspect most people will opt for Profile with out the double confirm system in order to get more info about people. pete
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Re: Newsletter and Volunteer Sign Up Forms
May 06, 2008, 03:31:00 am
Quote from: conductorchris on May 05, 2008, 02:05:16 pm
is there a joomla version of the newsletter sign up form?
Are there instructions somewhere that could help me make one?
This is pretty much a "Do-not-pass-Go" issue.  I need users to be able to register and then receive a confirmation e-mail.  Otherwise I've got to use dada mail

I don't think there's a way to do this in 2.0. (In my tests, the built in Mailing List Subscribe form doesn't work in the Joomla front-end - altho this might be an easy change to fix ??). For 2.1, you'll be able to use "Profiles" - and include Mailing List signup as part of the profile - as described here:

http://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-2861
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Re: Newsletter and Volunteer Sign Up Forms
May 06, 2008, 04:24:31 pm
It would be great to have both a) double opt-in, and b) the ability to collect more information from a contact when subscribing.

I don't suppose it's possible to create a stand-alone form using the code from the mailing list subscribe form and then adding additional fields to that form to accomplish b)?

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Re: Newsletter and Volunteer Sign Up Forms
May 07, 2008, 03:24:28 am
I don't think this would work - but not sure...
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