[SOLVED] Mailer plugin logic for birthday mail
10 years 9 months ago - 10 years 9 months ago #230494
by andor
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[SOLVED] Mailer plugin logic for birthday mail was created by andor
I have used a birthday wishes mailer (see image for setup) for a couple of days and triggered it manually each day, just to see that it worked as it should. It worked really well and our members are really happy for the mail!
Yesterday I set up a cron job for this mailer. Before, however, I changed my own birthday to yesterday's date and ran the cron url to see if it would send a mail to me, despite the fact that I triggered it for the other birthday guys earlier. I got the mail as planned and changed my birthday date again - now to today's date, to be able to confirm that the cron job would do its work this morning.
The others with a birthday got the mail this morning, according to the "Sent mail" log, but I didn't. What may the reason be?
Is it the fact that I already got the mail yesterday, based on the "old birthday date" and if so, what will happen next year for the birthday wishes mail, for all members that got their mail this year?
I guess it's the wording for some of the settings that makes it a bit difficult for me to really understand the logic behind, e.g. "Relative to this date of the plans below" and "Order Date of the order wanting to use this promotion".
Thanks,
Yesterday I set up a cron job for this mailer. Before, however, I changed my own birthday to yesterday's date and ran the cron url to see if it would send a mail to me, despite the fact that I triggered it for the other birthday guys earlier. I got the mail as planned and changed my birthday date again - now to today's date, to be able to confirm that the cron job would do its work this morning.
The others with a birthday got the mail this morning, according to the "Sent mail" log, but I didn't. What may the reason be?
Is it the fact that I already got the mail yesterday, based on the "old birthday date" and if so, what will happen next year for the birthday wishes mail, for all members that got their mail this year?
I guess it's the wording for some of the settings that makes it a bit difficult for me to really understand the logic behind, e.g. "Relative to this date of the plans below" and "Order Date of the order wanting to use this promotion".
Thanks,
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10 years 9 months ago #230519
by andor
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Replied by andor on topic Mailer plugin logic for birthday mail
Thank you so much for your swift replies - not just this one 
I actually followed the instruction in the manual, even though I wondered if it was right. Figures 250-252 in the manual illustrate my initial setup.
So, for a "vanilla" birthday wishes mail, the setup would be:
I actually followed the instruction in the manual, even though I wondered if it was right. Figures 250-252 in the manual illustrate my initial setup.
So, for a "vanilla" birthday wishes mail, the setup would be:
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10 years 9 months ago - 10 years 9 months ago #230548
by andor
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Replied by andor on topic Mailer plugin logic for birthday mail
Same thing happened today - all the others got their mail but not me, as the test person, where I changed the birthday date to today.
As I said earlier, I got my first mail after changing my own date and running the cron url "manually" a couple of days ago.
Is it the fact that it's the second and third mail for the same user?
Maybe a flag being set somewhere?
Strange
As I said earlier, I got my first mail after changing my own date and running the cron url "manually" a couple of days ago.
Is it the fact that it's the second and third mail for the same user?
Maybe a flag being set somewhere?
Strange
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10 years 9 months ago #230550
by nant
We discussed this internally with Beat and this is a summary of status:
Each mailer will only be sent once per matched triggering condition
conditions tab is just an additional condition to the trigger
so in this case, as soon as registration date changes, another mail will be sent
but not if birthday changes after first mail has been sent out
the sent mails table is used for that check
to do the birthdays usecase, or any other CB field (other than registration date), we would need to extend the triggering condition's setting
implementation for handing user table is already there
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So in summary, as things are now you cannot have a single mailer to send every year birthday emails.
To redo your test with same user you would need to manually find and remove the first sent email row from the table.
You cannot have a single mailer for birthdays that is useful for more than one year.
Once solution would be to manually replicate the initial mailer item once a year.
We intend to improve this with CB 2.0 functionality.
Hope this is helpful.
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Replied by nant on topic Mailer plugin logic for birthday mail
andor wrote: Same thing happened today - all the others got their mail but not me, as the test person, where I changed the birthday date to today.
As I said earlier, I got my first mail after changing my own date and running the cron url "manually" a couple of days ago.
Is it the fact that it's the second and third mail for the same user?
Maybe a flag being set somewhere?
Strange
We discussed this internally with Beat and this is a summary of status:
Each mailer will only be sent once per matched triggering condition
conditions tab is just an additional condition to the trigger
so in this case, as soon as registration date changes, another mail will be sent
but not if birthday changes after first mail has been sent out
the sent mails table is used for that check
to do the birthdays usecase, or any other CB field (other than registration date), we would need to extend the triggering condition's setting
implementation for handing user table is already there
--
So in summary, as things are now you cannot have a single mailer to send every year birthday emails.
To redo your test with same user you would need to manually find and remove the first sent email row from the table.
You cannot have a single mailer for birthdays that is useful for more than one year.
Once solution would be to manually replicate the initial mailer item once a year.
We intend to improve this with CB 2.0 functionality.
Hope this is helpful.
--
Nick (nant)
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