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What is the easiest way to communicate directly to one group?

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We send out a daily devotion.  How can I set up a page that will select the Devotion Email group and pass this straight into the New Communication page, so we don't have to select the group using the Group Viewer, then scroll all the way to the bottom to select Communication?

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    The best possibility I can come up with offhand, is to use a workflow instead of the actual "communication" page. The workflow would need (at least) two attributes: Group (type: Group) and Body (type: Memo or type: HTML). You can set the appropriate group as the default unless you want to prompt for the group in the first action:

    The first action would be to present a User Entry Form - show and require at least "Body" so the user can type in the newsletter.

    The second action would persist the workflow (you don't want to automatically persist the workflow or it would store every time someone started the form and didn't submit it)

    The third action would send an e-mail: select the group attribute as the "To" option, use something like

    Newsletter for {{ 'Now' | Date:'MMM dd' }}

    for the subject (unless you want to prompt for that in a third attribute of type: text), and set the body to:

    {{ Workflow | Attribute:'Body' }}

    You can select whether to store a history of the communication in the person's profile or not in that third action as well.


    Now, say your Workflow Type ID was 2017, you can link to https://rock.[yourdomain].com/WorkflowEntry/2017 and that will kick off the form and send the email to everyone in the group.

    I know it's not the answer you were looking for, but perhaps this does the trick for you?

    • Ken Roach

      Ken Roach

      Brilliant! Thanks Michael - that's exactly what I need. (I would like to see this option on the main communication page too.)