Question Potts On This Day Email – daily family history email module

Hi all,

I’ve released the first public beta of Potts On This Day Email, a custom module for webtrees 2.2.x.

The module sends a daily “On This Day” email showing family events that occurred on the current day, including births, deaths and marriages.

It was built for my own family tree, but I thought it may be useful to others who want to encourage family members to stay connected with their family history.

Features include:

• Daily email of births, deaths and marriages for related individuals
• Optional relationship limit, such as showing only people within a set number of relationship steps
• Birthdays show the person’s age
• Death entries can show age at death and years since death
• Marriage entries can show anniversary details
• Relationship wording included where available
• Subscriber management from the webtrees administration area
• Optional manual recipients
• Scheduler token support for cron jobs
• Basic logging for sent emails
• Public opt-in block for users who want to subscribe

GitHub release: github.com/PottsNet/potts_on_this_day_em...es/tag/v1.0.0-beta.4

Download the release asset named:

Please use the attached release ZIP rather than GitHub’s automatic source ZIP.

Installation:

Extract the ZIP and upload the   folder to:

Then sign in as an administrator, enable the module and configure the settings.

This is a beta release, so feedback, testing and suggestions are very welcome.

Hi Jason,
I'm liking the idea, and have installed on my local site for 'testing' etc..
That site uses Laragon v8.6.1 and as it is minimally setup I doubt I will get emails etc. 

The first issue I have seen is the choice of 'Tree'. I have three and no matter which I choose moving out of that selection box the choice reverts to the first in the list.

Would you be able to include a Breadcrumb on the config page that will get you back to the Control Panel?

In the 'User Block' perhaps the addition of a link to the settings page might be good. That is for Admins only. Along with that IF the Settings page was accessed via this link, there be a link on the settings page to return to that previous point/page.

 

Hi Rick,

Thanks for testing this and for the helpful feedback.

I’ve made these changes in 1.0.0-beta.5:

• The tree selector should now keep the selected tree instead of reverting to the first tree.
• The settings page now has a breadcrumb and Control panel link.
• The My Page block now shows an admin-only settings link.
• If you open settings from that block, the settings page includes a return link back to the previous page.

The latest release is here:
[url] github.com/PottsNet/potts_on_this_day_em...es/tag/v1.0.0-beta.5 [/url]

Please use the attached release ZIP rather than GitHub’s automatic source-code ZIP.

I’d appreciate it if you could try the new beta and let me know whether the tree selector behaves properly on your Laragon setup.

Hey Jason,

Well done on the additions..
I can confirm they ALL work fine on my Local Laragon site.
***EDIT UPDATE***
Clicking on the Control Panel Button and the Breadcrumb link appears not to work. 
Sends me to https://localhost/ALM-wtv226/admin
when it should send me to https://localhost/ALM-wtv226/index.php?route=%2FALM-wtv226%2Fadmin
I cannot get Pretty URLS to work for some dang reason..
*** End EDIT UPDATE***
I'm going to fiddle a bit more then throw it up on the live site to see how we get on with emails and the like..

I do have some further ideas for 'improvement' and will come back to you after I have gone live with the extension module.. <Smile>

Thank You!

Hi Rick,

Thanks for testing that and for the clear explanation.

I think you’ve found a small bug in my Control Panel link. The breadcrumb and button were falling back to `/admin`, which works when Pretty URLs are enabled, but not on installs like your Laragon setup where webtrees needs the `index.php?route=...` format.

I’ve made a fix so that if the module settings page is being accessed using the non-pretty webtrees route format, the Control Panel link will also use the non-pretty format.

I’ll package this as `v1.0.0-beta.6` and upload it shortly.

Thanks again for picking it up. This is exactly the sort of testing that helps make the module more reliable across different webtrees setups.

Jason