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Newsletter content workflow

Last post 03-23-2009, 11:05 AM by Michael Brain. 3 replies.
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  •  07-22-2008, 2:39 PM 822

    Newsletter content workflow

    The newsletter solution utilises content types, the search web service and sharepoint groups to collate and distribute an enterprise newsletter.
    Using Nintex Workflow, the search web service is called to return all announcments and events that have been created on the portal in the last week, and have been marked as accessible to the entire enterprise.
    Using XSLT, the results are formatted and collated in to an email, which is then sent to users who have subscribed to it's distribution
  •  01-14-2009, 11:13 PM 2170 in reply to 822

    Re: Newsletter content workflow

    Dear Gerald,

    That sounds very interesting. I work at the great beer company, Carlsberg! and we are also looking into Nintex. Do you have any examples, screen dumps / presentations of the newsletter content workflow?

    Thanks a lot in advance!

    Camilla

  •  03-20-2009, 10:19 PM 3002 in reply to 2170

    Re: Newsletter content workflow

    Any further progress on thsi one ?
  •  03-23-2009, 11:05 AM 3014 in reply to 2170

    Re: Newsletter content workflow

    Hi Camilla,

    I had a hand in developing the workflow Gerald desribed, and I have pasted below a screenshot of the workflow design.

    Essentially, the workflow called the search webservice (twice) with a CAML query to return all the news and calendar items that had been created on the site within the required date range (in this case it was a week). An XML query was also used to query some custom XML, which returned the events within the site, which were going to occur in the coming week.

    All of the results of the XML and webservices calls were formatted using XSLT and stored within workflow variables, before being added to the notification email and distributed to subscribers. 

    One of the benefits of using XSLT, was that it allowed us to format the content and present imagery within an email notification (functionality not native to workflow), by placing an image on the intranet and referencing it's URL.

    Unfortunately I dont have any newsletters i can show you, though i'm happy to answer any questions about it.


    Regards,

    Michael

    Workflow designer

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