• Introduction
• Writing Custom Mailing List Member Providers
• Localizing Newsletter
• Getting Newsletter ID

Introduction

This guide is intended for Web and C# developers and administrators who want to extend or localize the Newsletter add-on.

The Newsletter add-on allows users to create mailing lists and create and send newsletters directly from C1 CMS.

For information about using the Newsletter add-on, please refer to the Newsletter User Guide.

In this guide you will learn how to create custom mailing list member providers by integrating them with external databases.

For creating custom member providers, you should be proficient in C#/.NET programming and know the API of a 3^rd-party database application you want to integrate mailing lists with.

Besides, you will learn how to localize Newsletter’s GUI, forms and content elements. For localization tasks, you should have a general idea of how localization works in C1 CMS and know how to edit XML-formatted files.

Before You Start

You should make sure that you have the following prerequisites in place before you start the guide:

• You have installed and configured the latest version of C1 CMS
• You use a test C1 CMS installation that you can experiment with.
• You have installed and configured the latest version of the Newsletter add-on on this test C1 CMS environment.

Important: You should never use the production environment for learning purposes while trying the examples and following the instructions in this guide.