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sending new password to ALL members
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Date: 2008/03/31 18:54
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By: djackso1
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Can anyone recommend a way to email all users in the system their username and a new password?
This is for a new installation and its ok to send new/random passwords. My goal is to send a 'welcome to the new system' email, providing the user's the info they need to login to the new system. There are approximately 500 members in the system.
I'm using:
Joomla 1.0.13 and CB 1.1
I appreciate any ideas.
-DJ
Post edited by: djackso1, at: 2008/03/31 18:57
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Re:sending new password to ALL members
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Date: 2008/04/01 07:45
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By: mediaguru
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This would take some work. You'd have to generate the passwords, write them to the DB and then email each individual with the info.
Sounds like a custom component to me.
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Re:sending new password to ALL members
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Date: 2008/07/04 03:51
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By: gerrygerry
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This is exactly what I'm looking for... I have to manually create 900 profiles, and it'd be nice to just have random passwords generated and mass-emailed when the site is officially launched...
Does anyone have any other ideas or information pertaining to this goal?
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Re:sending new password to ALL members
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Date: 2008/07/04 16:20
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By: djackso1
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gerrygerry wrote:
This is exactly what I'm looking for... I have to manually create 900 profiles, and it'd be nice to just have random passwords generated and mass-emailed when the site is officially launched...
Does anyone have any other ideas or information pertaining to this goal?
Hi gerrygerry,
I've come up with a solution - I just finished distributing 500 passwords to members of a new site.
1) I used CB to define the various data fields I wanted for my members.
2)I created a spreadsheet with the actual user data I needed to import including a password field. For the password field, I wrote an excell formula that generated a random password and copied this to the password field for every user. The formula utilized excell's rand function to generate the random password. Here is the actual formula I used - =UPPER(RIGHT(C2,2))&INT(RAND()*255)&LOWER(LEFT(C2,3))
The unique password is formed for each member by concatenating 2 letters from the field in column C + a random number + 3 letters in column C.
3) I then used the 'cbjuice' extension to import the completed spreadsheet into community builder. At this point the data was in the system and all that was left was to distribute the passwords.
4) For distributing the passwords I used phpList. This is an email distribution program that allows you to send personalized emails. I configured an email distribution list in phpList that included these fields - first name, last name, username, password, and of course email address. I then imported the members data into phpList. You can then write one email and send it to all of the members with their personalized information. When composing the email, phpList allows generic tags, like [First Name] and then substitutes the actual unique data for each recipient.
I hope this helps you. It seems like a lot, but once you are familiar with the various tools, you can do all of these steps in a few hours.
Good luck!
-Dave
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Re:sending new password to ALL members
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Date: 2008/07/04 20:07
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By: gerrygerry
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Wow... that's pretty sweet! Thanks so much... I found CB Juice, but I hadn't yet figured out how to distribute the passwords when the site was launched... this is great! You saved me!
I have a new problem now... half the members on our roster don't have an email address in our database...  jerks!
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