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In this video, we'll be looking at editing and sending a newsletter.
I've already selected my recipients, and I've loaded a draft
and now what I want to do, is finish up the draft and send it out.
By way of continuing our tour of the interface
I can point out here that we have a button called 'Merge fields'
and I can see here, if we bring up this link
that there comes a popup window with a reference all the merge fields
that are available.
A merge field is just a variable piece of information
that changes depending on the particular subscriber.
So we can for example see that we have a 'name' merge field here
And if we close the popup and look down in our main editing field
We can also see that our newsletter begins with 'Dear {name}'
in curly braces, where {name} will be replace by the actual name
of the subscriber.
And we can edit our draft in exactly the same manner
as if we were to edit a page in Tangora
so we have the possibility of using global typographies
Though I should mention already now that there are certain limitations
Depending on the recipient's mail client.
And there are various other rich-text editing features
including creating links and inserting pictures.
So I could just enter in a bit of dummy text here
As well as adding a picture
And I could also add a link.
This link could, for example, be to a particular news item
on a 'News' page, in our solution.
So now, let's imagine that I'm done with my newsletter
and we're ready to send it out.
At the bottom, we'll see that we have several different options.
We could send the newsletter, if we were finished with it
and sure that it was exactly how we wanted it to be.
But let's leave that as a final step. We could 'Save as' if we wanted
to make changes, and create a copy so we didn't save over
an existing template if we wanted to keep
that template intact, for example.
And we also have the 'Save draft' option.
In this case, we're saving the draft that we already have begun work on
so that will be the appropriate option.
Next, we can see we have a 'Test' feature
And we can send out a test email to an email or emails of our choice
and we'll do that in just a second.
But to round things off, I should just mention
that we have another option here called 'Schedule'
where can actually select a given point of time
out in the future. That is to say a date and a time
where we want to send our newsletter.
But let's get back to testing and sending.
If I were to select 'Test' and type in a couple of emails
separated by a comma
and then hit 'Ok', then I'll receive a test version
of this email. Test mails, however, will not have
any personalized information in them, so I'll see
that if I open the results of this test, that {name} has not been merged.
However, I shoulds mention that if you have
the module 'external users', that you can use a test external user
and in this way, you will be able to see examples of merged information.
I'll show you how to do that in a later video.
But if we finally send our newsletter here
we'll be able to see the result that contains our personalized
merge field information.
So when when I hit send, I have a dialog which ensures
that I have thought through the recipients of the email.
Here we can see the number of recipients
and if I were to hit 'OK', we'll actually be sending
our newsletter out. And we'll do that now.
And let's take a look at the results here.
I have up on screen results in Microsoft Outlook
in Google's gmail and Microsoft's hotmail.
Now, in many mail clients, we will have to actively indicate
that we want to view images and we may notice again some differences
in the way that different mail clients show our emails.
So it's a good thing to try to test on a few systems if you can
and it is also a good idea to have a simple design
where there's room for a few discrepancies.
Alright, as a last order of business I'm going to make sure that we hit
a link to our website, because we'll see how this information
is collected as statistical information that we can access.
In this video we've learned how we can edit and send a newsletter.
Next we'll be looking at what information we have
after the newsletter has been sent.