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Newsletter signup
August 28, 2009, 04:44:18 am
I am looking for some advice on how to setup the following.  Currently contacts in the 'newsletter' group receive a paper newsletter in the mail.  We want to have a page available on the site where people can opt for a newsletter by email instead of by snail mail.  So it seems like I need to do this:

Accurately identify the current contact record
Remove from group 'newsletter'
Add to group 'enewsletter'

I am not sure how to accomplish the first item because in general individuals are assigned to households, and the household receives the newsletter.  The person visiting might be Jim Jones, but Jim Jones is not a member of the 'newsletter' group, the 'Jones Household' is.  If I can't remove the snail mail subscription then they will get both and we have not saved any postage which is the point of the exercise.

The only thing I can think of involves triggering an email to the admin who will have to manually sort it out, but I would rather find an automatic solution if possible.

How would you do this?

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Re: Newsletter signup
August 28, 2009, 09:02:35 am

you can potentially do this by implementing a postProcess hook (note php and potentially SQL experience needed)

Since the person jim jones is not signed up for newsletter directly, you will probably need to introduce your own form element (checkbox) that allows him to sign the household for an email subscription?

will all members of the household get the email? Seems like a fair amount of this can be automated custom profile code. Ping us on irc if u wanna chat about potential choices

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