Email Integration
Email - both in and out of the CMS - is an important function. It is
particularly helpful if you are building a marketing campaign management tool,
and want to integrate with an external email system - or need to send a piece
of content out as email.
For one-off email messages, you can use the SMTP export configuration to
allow an output.asp template file to publish vie email rather than FTP. In
addition there are API functions to generate and send an email which, along with
a custom template file in the workflow, can be used for any custom
notifications.
For email campaigns, you are probably using a separate system so you can
take advantage of all the features in those systems. CrownPeak CMS
easily integrates with those systems via their email or HTTP API. The
following code sample comes from an implementation where the CMS is used to
create email newsletters. Once the content is entered, it's approved and
put in a proof state where the text and HTML versions are sent to the email
system via a HTTP POST, and the images are published on the live web
server. Once the proof is ready, the newsletter is sent via the external email
system. Then in the CMS, the newsletter is made live so any updates
publish to the web site (where the past newsletters appear), but stop sending to
the email system.
In the code, we are capturing the text and HTML versions of the news from
other templates. For the HTML version, we are specifying a small header
and footer - for the web site, the page is wrapped in the site navigation
HTML. By using template includes, we can encapsulate the HTML in one place
so that updates are
easy.
<% system.startCapture() %>
<html>
<head>
<title>Acme Newsletter</title>
</head>
<body>
<!-- Start Table 1 -->
<table
width="550" border="0" cellspacing="0"
cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td
align="left"
valign="top">
<img
src="http://www.acme.com/images/banner.jpg" width="550"
height="70"></a>
</td>
</tr>
<% system.include "/System/Templates/Newsletter/htmlbody.asp" %>
</body>
</html>
<% strHTML = system.stopCapture() %>
<% system.startCapture() %>
<% system.include "/System/Templates/Newsletter/textbody.asp" %>
<% strTEXT = util.stripHTML(system.stopCapture())
%>
<% system.startCapture() %><?xml version="1.0"
encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<DATASET>
<SITE_ID>912348</SITE_ID>
<MLID>1222678</MLID>
<DATA
type="subject"><%= content.escapeItem("title") %></DATA>
<DATA
type="from-email">Newsletter@acme.com</DATA>
<DATA
type="from-name">Acme Online</DATA>
<DATA
type="message-format">HTML</DATA>
<DATA
type="message-html"><%= util.escapeHTML(strHTML) %></DATA>
<DATA
type="message-text"><%= util.escapeHTML(strTEXT) %></DATA>
<DATA
type="message-AOL"><%= util.escapeHTML(strTEXT) %></DATA>
</DATASET><% strPOST = system.stopCapture() %>type=message&activity=add&input=<%= util.urlencode(strPOST) %>
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