How to use JINC 0.4

JINC (Joomla! Integrated Newsletter Component) is easy to use and configure. Here you can find some instructions to manage newsletters, messages and subscriptions.

After JINC installation process you will find a new choice in the Components Menù of your Joomla! Administration part as you can see in this screenshot

Using the menù item "Newsletters" you can define your newsletter, but if this is the first time you use JINC you can use the "Load Sample Data" tool to load a sample newsletter and messages.

Next screenshot shows the sample newsletter definition and as you can see you can define

• The newsletter name and description
• The newsletter type: protected, private or public. A protected newsletter can be accessed by every logged user. A private newsletter can be accessed only by user groups listed in the "Access Right" section of the newsletter definition. A public newsletter can accessed by every (also not logged) user. A can can subscribe to a public newsletter using a mail address: at subscription and unsubscription time the user will receive a customizable opt-in message to verify the validity of the mail address.
• Sender name and mail address that is used sending messages of this newsletter
• The welcome message subject and body. The welcome message will be send to the user at subscription time.
• The "Welcome message after user creation" body.  This message will be send to a user when an administrator create the user account and subscribe him to the newsletter using "Create and Subscribe" function. Using this message you can send user account infos to the user (comprised user password just created).
• The newsletter disclaimer. This message will be added to every message of the newsletter and can be used add privacy or legal information.

If the newsletter type is "private" the administrator has to choose also the user groups that can access the newsletter (panel "Access Right"). It the newsletter type is "public" the administrator can customize the opt-in message sent to the user at subscription time (panel "Opt-In").

Now you can send the newsletter message using the "Send" icon in the messages list. Before you can send a preview to yourself using the "Send preview" icon. Moreover you can see the list of users subscribed to every newsletter using the menù item "Subscriber".

Here you can find a public newsletter: note the possibility to insert a mail address for subscription and unsubscription.

If you defined some private and/or protected and /or public newsletter and you want to list for every user a link to the newsletters he can access you can use the mod_jinc_news_access installing and publish it somewhere you Joomla! site.