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JINC 0.6.x - Administration Guide Print E-mail

JINC 0.6.x - Administration Guide

The JINC (Joomla! Integrate Newsletter Compment) is a Joomla! component to manage newsletters that can help Joomla! administrator to communicate with users and guests.

This document describes the activities to administer JINC in order to create newsletters, send messages and manage subscribers. This paper contains also the description of the main functionalities JINC provides to help the administrator to compose messages, to follow the subscription trend, to allow automatic subscription to a newsletter and so on ...

This document refers to JINC version 0.6.

 

Intended audience

The intended audience of this document are Joomla! administrators who wants to communicate with users and guests using one or more newsletters.

 

PDF Version

You can download a PDF version of the present document from here.

 
Last Updated on Friday, 30 April 2010 08:48
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How to Install and Upgrade JINC 0.5 Print E-mail

JINC - How to install and upgrade JINC 0.5

JINC is very simple to install and to use. You can install it using the usual installation tools of Joomla! following these instructions

  1. Backup you Joomla! database and files
  2. Download the JINC 0.5 version from here.
  3. Log in the administration of Joomla!
  4. Click on menù Extensions ->Install/Uninstall
  5. Upgrade and install the files you just downloaded

Now you can access JINC using the menù Components -> Integrated Newsletter and you can manage your newsletters, messages, subscriptions  ecc ...

If you need some sample data to understand how the component works you can use the "Load Sample Data" tool in the "Tools" area.

Upgrade process

The upgrade process is also really simple. First of all, the administrator must backup data on table with prefix jos_jinc_. He must uninstall old version (both the component com_jinc and the module mod_jinc_news_access), install new version and restore old data. The are two important note: the administrator must backup and restore only data from jos_jinc_ tables and not the structure that is recreated by JINC at installation time and the administrator must uninstall also the module mod_jinc_news_access.

Here is the detailed upgrade process.

  1. Export every data, without structure information, for every tables with prefix jos_jinc_ using native MySQL commands or PHPMyAdmin.
  2. Uninstall previous version JINC Component (com_jinc).
  3. Uninstall previous version JINC Module (mod_jinc_news_access).
  4. Install JINC 0.5 following previous instructions.
  5. Restoring data (only data not structure) from point 1.
Last Updated on Tuesday, 29 December 2009 16:37
 
How to Install and Upgrade JINC 0.4 Print E-mail

JINC - How to install and upgrade JINC 0.4

JINC is very simple to install and to use. You can install it using the usual installation tools of Joomla! following these instructions

  1. Backup you Joomla! database and files
  2. Download the JINC 0-4 version from here and extract files com_jinc-0.4.zip and mod_jinc_news_access-0.4.zip.
  3. Log in the administration of Joomla!
  4. Click on menù Extensions ->Install/Uninstall
  5. Upgrade and install the files you just extracted.

Now you can access JINC using the menù Components -> Integrated Newsletter and you can manage your newsletters, messages and subscription.

Upgrade process

The upgrade process is also really simple. First of all, the administrator must backup data on table with prefix jos_jinc_. The he must uninstall old version and install the new one and restore old data. The unique important note is the administrator must backup and restore only data from jos_jinc_ tables and not the structure that is recreated by JINC at installation time.

Here is the detailed upgrade process.

  1. Export every data, without structure information, for every tables with prefix jos_jinc_ using native MySQL commands or PHPMyAdmin.
  2. Install JINC 0.4 following previous instructions.
  3. Restoring data (only data not structure) from point 1.
Last Updated on Thursday, 03 December 2009 15:07
 
How to use JINC 0.4 Print E-mail

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

Screenshot 1

 

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").

 

Screenshot 2

After newsletter creation you can create a message defining only few information
  • Message subject and body.
  • The associated newsletter.
  • The content type that can be "Plain Text" or "HTML"
  • Sending option: "Massive mail" or "Personalized mail". With "Massive mail" only one mail will be send with every newsletter subscriber as Blind Carbon Copy. With "Personalized mail" one mail for one newsletter subscriber will be send. Using "Massive Mail" [USERNAME] and [USERID] tags won't be substituted
Next screenshot shows a sample message definition



A message can include images and an attachment.
At this point you can publish the newsletter on frontpage creating a menù item. Now a user can subscribe to the newsletter as showed by the next screenshot

 

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.

 

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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.

 
Last Updated on Thursday, 03 December 2009 14:54
 
How to Install and Configure JINC 0.3 Print E-mail

JINC - How to install and configure JINC 0.3

JINC is very simple to install and to use. You can install it using the usual installation tools of Joomla! following these instructions

  1. Backup you Joomla! database and files
  2. Download the JINC 0-3 version from here and extract files com_jinc-0.3.zip and mod_jinc_news_access-0.3.zip.
  3. Log in the administration of Joomla!
  4. Click on menù Extensions ->Install/Uninstall
  5. Upgrade and install the files you just extracted.

Now you can access JINC using the menù Components -> Integrated Newsletter and you can manage your newsletters, messages and subscription.

 
Last Updated on Tuesday, 22 September 2009 14:34
 
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