Getting started (compiled newsletters)
Wednesday, 27 February 2008 10:43 | 
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An illustrated guide to getting started with compiled newsletters.
When you have followed the first "Getting started"-guide and made sure that you can actually send the newsletters it is time to continue with creating a compiled newsletter.
- Select a compilation time
Now it is wednesday 9:45 so I set the compilation time to Wednesdays at 10:00. For Joomla 1.0.x the time is server time, so if your server is placed in another country you should take the time difference into account. I also enter a title and an introtext for my compiled newsletters.
- Make sure that "scheduled news scans" are still off
I want to be able to preview my compiled newsletter so I keep this setting.
- Enter some more news articles
I have a few minutes left until 10:00 so I create another news item just like I did in the "Getting started"-guide.
- Preview
The time is not yet 10:00 and the preview at the frontend will show that I have created a news item but the compiled newsletter is still not ready.
- Preview
Now I had a cup of coffee and the time is 10:01. The preview at the frontend shows the compiled newsletter. Since I didn't turn on "scheduled news scans" i can still edit the articles and the newsletter settings until I am satisfied with the result.
As you have seen, newsletters will be compiled when the "Compilation time" is between "Previous news scan"
and now.
For a weekly newsletter it can be illustrated this way:
If you "forget" to send the previous newsletter (Previous news scan not updated) it will be included in the next compilation:
